Installing a KDSS Spacer Kit from Treaty Oak Offroad

Here at Exit Offroad, we have been selling the KDSS Spacer kits from Treaty Oak Offroad for several months, and what better way to understand how they work than to actually install a kit here and see what sort of difference and results we get from it??!!!

On Mike’s 5th Gen 4Runner this past weekend, he installed a set of the Treaty Oak Offroad KDSS Spacer kit to the front passenger side and rear both sides. These are machined aluminum blocks that go between the sway bar link and the top of the OE bushing of the sway bar to space the sway bar down. On a regular sway bar setup, you’d simply add longer links, but since the KDSS system uses much much thicker and stronger sway bars and links, as well as a high pressure hydraulic system to raise and lower the sway bars for cornering and stability, it’s best not to mess with those fixed links, and the hydraulic piston side can’t be spaced down any other way anyway!!

This video might go into more detail than most want to see, but with a little bit of maneuvering and figuring things out, this will help you to do the install on your own vehicle faster (hopefully) and also understand why they are a good addition to your vehicle.

As a side note, the same spacers suit 5th Gen 4Runners, Lexus GX460, and Toyota Prado 150’s. They all use the same frame and KDSS system.

Initial driving impressions 2 days after the install are better/flatter cornering, and also when hitting pot holes or uneven parts of the road, it’s not quite as hard of a jolt as it was before. Setting the sway bars into a flatter and more stock configuration helps on regular sway bar systems, and these spacers seem to have done the same thing with KDSS.

Here is the video on the Exit Offroad YouTube Channel: