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Exit Offroad is now offering products from THE original airbag company, Firestone!! Firestone invented the airbags!! Firestone Industrial Products is more than an air spring manufacturer. We’re a development partner that offers powerful solutions for almost any vibration problem. We revolutionized transportation when we introduced the Airide™ Air Spring in 1938, and have since expanded our solutions beyond cars to commercial vehicles, farm equipment and industrial applications. As we continue to shape mobility through the development of world-class anti-vibration products and solutions, choose Firestone’s legacy of quality, reliability and innovation.

Exit Offroad is now offering the Firestone Ride-Rite Airbag kits for the extremely popular 2nd and 3rd Gen Toyota Tacoma (2005-2015 and 2016-2021) as well as the Toyota Tundra from 2007 to 2021. These awesome airbags kits are great for those who load up the beds of their truck occasionally and need more than just heavier rated leaf springs to properly support that additional weight and keep the height up in the rear so that it’s not squatting too much.

Exit Offroad has also combined the Firestone Ride-Rite Airbag kits with the Daystar airbag cradle system. This system allows for the lifted vehicle to use these airbags without any restrictions of lift height, also maximizing the wheel travel available in the suspension. The cradle mounts to the leaf spring while the airbag mounts only to the frame, allowing the airbag to move in and out of the cradle as needed with articulation. This is perfect for offroaders who do not want to limit their rear flex, but also need to have airbags to carry such things as campers, toppers/canopies, or just a full bed load of camping gear for a full trip.

In addition to the Tacoma and Tundra options to work with their leaf spring setup, we are now offering suitable Firestone Coil-Rite rear helper air springs that will fit inside your stock or Dobinsons lifted coil springs. For the same reasons that Tacoma and Tundra owners need the additional support, Toyota and Lexus SUV owners with models such as 4Runner, FJ Cruiser, GX470 and GX460 also can tow with their vehicle, and the added tongue weight of the trailer puts a lot of pressure onto the rearmost point of the vehicle, causing the suspension to squat quite a lot in some cases. Adding Firestone Coil-Rite airbags inside your coils will allow these helper air springs to keep the added weight better supported as well as keeping the rear ground clearance up. Helper air springs do just that, they help support the additional weight, and when combined with a set of properly rated Dobinsons rear coil springs to support the majority of the weight, you’ll have the best combination you can get for towing or adding a lot of additional weight whilst supporting it properly.

Be sure to reach out to us here at Exit Offroad if you have any questions if the Firestone and Daystar combo of parts may be right for your build.

Here’s the link to see all of the Firestone options we now offer: https://exitoffroad.com/product-category/firestone/

For a video to show how these are installed into a 4Runner, check out this video here:

https://youtu.be/PNH9GjFz51I

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Exit Offroad is now offering these super high quality Canadian-made bump stop options for popular vehicles.

To begin with, front and rear Active Off-Road Bump Stops for the 2005-2021 Toyota Tacoma and the 2003-2021 Toyota 4Runner, FJ Cruiser (all years), Lexus GX470 and GX460 (all years) are now listed up on the site.

These Active Off-Road Bump Stops have essentially a progressive design to them, unlike the factory bump stops that are pretty much linear, these bumps will progressively absorb the impact of the suspension bottoming out against the axle or front lower control arm. This is especially important for heavily-loaded vehicles, and those going fast offroad who could regularly bottom out, as excessive hits can lead to shock failure if the stock bump stops are not able to absorb and stop the hit quickly enough (usually they can’t).

All of this works hand in hand with your suspension upgrade to help smooth out the full compression hits while offroading, maintaining better control of the vehicle, and also reducing the potential damage to other components.

In addition to their bottoming-out features, the rear bump stops for FJ’s, 4Runners, and GX’s are a suitable length to run with the **575 variety of Dobinsons long travel rear shocks, including Nitro, IMS, and MRA. These shocks have so much additional down travel that their compressed length is too long for stock bumps to engage properly, and longer bump stops must be run with them. That is the main reason we are now offering them with our Dobinsons suspension kits here at Exit Offroad.

Also, for the Tacoma people out there, Timbren’s awesome Active Offroad Bump Stop rear kit also incorporates a slick U-bolt flip kit into their design, so we have now modified the full Tacoma suspension kit to give the option of the regular HD Dobinsons U-bolt kit, or the Timbren kit so that you’re not ordering too many U-bolts. This upgrade kit will gain a lot of clearance under the rear axle where the U-bolts and bottom plate would usually be hanging down, and possibly be getting caught up on obstacles offroad!! So why not go ahead and make the change!!!

Click this link here to see the full list of Timbren products offered by Exit Offroad: https://exitoffroad.com/product-category/timbren

Check out these videos here too, if you’re now sick of reading and would rather watch instead!!

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As of June 1st, 2020, Exit Offroad is a dealer for Dirt King Fabrication products, all American made products out of San Diego, California. Dirt King specializes in super strong upgrades to compliment the full line of Dobinsons Suspension. Super beefy Performance Lower Control arms, multi-option Upper Control Arms, and a range of other gear are all being added to site right now, and also onto all the full suspension kit pages so that you don’t need to leave the one page to add everything you want to your full suspension order. Always smashing your lower control arms into rocks, stumps, ruts and junk while offroad? Time for a massive strength upgrade by adding new arms to your IFS vehicle to be able to handle more abuse and not worry about cracking, bending, or breaking your factory arms.

Check out Dirt King Fabrication in this video:

To get going, we’re starting with adding all of the Dirt King products for the Toyota Tundra 2nd Gen, Toyota Tacoma 2nd and 3rd Gen, Toyota 4Runner 4th and 5th Gen, Toyota FJ Cruiser, Lexus GX470, Lexus GX460, Prado 120, and Prado 150. To keep it all neatly organized, I’ve made a separate page to see all of the Dirt King Products that Exit Offroad offers, follow the link here:

Product Category – Dirt King Fabrication

It’s hard to portray just how great the quality and finish is of these products until you see them in person, but hopefully you’ll appreciate it in the photos attached to each product page. I’m super excited to offer these add-ons to the site!!

Dirt King Performance Lower Control Arms
Dirt King Performance Lower Control Arms
Dirt King Boxed UCA's with Uniballs - FJ Cruiser, 4Runner, GX470, GX460 (Copy)
Dirt King Toyota Tundra Boxed UCA set with Uniballs for 2007-2020
Dirt King Tubular Ball Joint UCA's - FJ Cruiser, 4Runner, GX470, GX460
Dirt King Tundra Tubular Ball Joint UCA's for 2007-2020

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Hey everyone, thanks for reading. Just recently I helped a friend install his new Dobinsons suspension onto his newly acquired 2018 Toyota 4Runner SR5 2×4 model. He wanted to pick up the front end a bit to help level out the vehicle and also to add a better spring rate to the rear, allowing him to support the full vehicle better. His 4Runner has a 3rd row seat that is regularly used to take the full load of 7 people in the SUV.

Before I lose you, this same installation applies to these vehicles:

4th Gen Toyota 4Runner 2003 to 2009

5th Gen Toyota 4Runner 2010 to 2020+

Lexus GX470 2003 to 2009

Lexus GX460 2010 to 2020+

Toyota Prado 120

Toyota Prado 150

Toyota FJ Cruiser (all years)

Now I’ve worked on many different Toyota’s and 4×4’s over the years, and this is a method of installation that goes back to my old Suzuki 4×4 days with Sidekicks, Trackers, Vitara’s and Grand Vitara’s. The absolute easiest method to install the front struts is to swing the lower control arm down and out of the way to easily remove the strut assembly without having to disconnect hardly anything. 2 lower ball joint bolts per side, loosen the lower control arm bolts at the cams, per side, and then undo the strut top 3 nuts and the main lower bolt. This leaves the UCA’s untouched, the sway bar links in place set to factory torque, the brake and ABS lines in place, and all the steering links also untouched. When possible, it is most definitely better to remove the least amount of bolts necessary, because if you put something back together wrong or not tight enough, you can run into other issues later.

In this video I try to describe as clearly as possible what steps it takes to change out the full suspension (front strut assemblies, rear coils and rear shocks) in under 3 hours. Granted there were 3 of us on site, me being the one who knows the steps and guiding the other 2 while being the cameraman, you need to know that the 2 guys doing the majority of the work have never worked on a Toyota or a 4×4 like this before. Plus we ran into a couple of hiccups by not realizing we had to take down the front skid plate at first (the last 2 I worked on already had those removed) and in the rear I forgot to disconnect the sway bar, as the last 2 I worked on had KDSS with a different sway bar system that was already undone and out of the way). Those slight delays probably added maybe 20 minutes, so we would have been done in 2.5 hours from start to finish, with water breaks, a few chats, and taking our time with hand tools. You’re still wondering how this is possible? We ordered the front struts, coils and new top mounts fully pre-assembled. A professional with the correct strut spring compressor can do that job in a matter of minutes, but to do it at home is very time consuming, dangerous, and really not worth the effort when you can just pay to have it done before the parts are shipped to you, and bolt them in like my video shows.

So please check out this video and be sure to hit like on it. So many people these days are doing their own installation at home and so many people get bad advice to disconnect all sorts of things that really aren’t needed, so hopefully if you see someone that needs help, you can share this video and help guide them for a simpler method.