kevindboldt

Hey there, installation of the strut spacers was a major pain in the a$$. The bolt holes on the front spacers weren't even close to lining up so I had to do a lot of !Removed! around to get them installed properly. The rear ones went in OK but I have a lot of squeaks and rattles from back there. Finding someone to do a wheel alignment was difficult because as soon as you're not playing with the factory specs, they want nothing to do with it. Once I found a shop willing to do it, the handling improved dramatically. As far as the Lexus ride is concerned, I drove around on the lift for a few weeks before I got the wheel spacers and off road tires installed. When it was just the lift kit, the ride was pretty close to exactly the same as before. Add the big off road tires and it feels like an F-150 instead of an RX300 but that's to be expected. The strut spacers came from "mother Russia" and shipping took FOREVER... Like 6 months. Probably had a lot to do with the fact that all the COVID stuff had just started so might not be as bad now. If I had it to do over again, I'd have gone with the other lift kit that someone posted earlier in this topic (the blue metal kit). Way more money, but way better quality... Anyhow, here's the link to the strut spacers and wheel spacers. Both are on ebay. Complete Lift Kit 40mm for Lexus RX300 RX330 RX350 RX400H | eBay 4 pc Wheel Spacers 2" 5x4.5 Adapters bolt 12x1.5 5x114.3 Fits LEXUS 5 lug bolt | eBay

After several years of wanting to convert my RX300 into the Lexi-Quad, I finally got to do it. I used 40mm spacers on top of my struts and 2" wheel spacers. Then I replaced the 225/70R16's with a set of Falken Wildpeaks AT tires in 255/70R16. I love the way it looks. I'm having trouble finding any shop that is willing to do a wheel alignment. They say as soon as it's lifted the factory specs are out the window (which I get), but they aren't even willing to simply align the wheels so my tires don't wear out. They want me to tell them how many degrees of camber etc I want. I have no idea... I'm a plumber not a mechanic. What did the rest of you do about wheel alignment? Also, when lifted, did you have to put in shorter sway bar links? My sway bar now hits the frame where it's bent to go around the exhaust system and it's making an awful racket.

I've got 3 RX300's. Two stay on the straight, narrow and paved. The third is my hunting and fishing vehicle. You would not believe where I've taken it. It isn't lifted and it's on factory sized tires but the thing almost never gets stuck. It has 485,000 miles on it and just keeps going. It needs new struts all the way around, so I bought a set of strut spacers to give an extra 40mm lift and 2" wheel spacers and I'll be putting BF Goodrich K2's on it. These are an amazing AWD vehicle and definitely built for and capable of off road use.