Just a quick installation on a Sunday afternoon, adding the Timbren Active Offroad rear bump stops to my 2014 5th Gen Toyota 4Runner. Recently on a long trip out west, there were a few times where I bottomed out unexpectedly while fully loaded with all my camping gear, and I new it was silly of me to not have already upgraded from the stock bump stops. Just about 30 minutes is all it took (less time to record the video) and now I’m ready to see how these things perform.
Timbren Active Offroad bump stops provide a more progressive rate of absorption when they make contact with the axle, thus lessening the force and impact that gets sent through the frame when the suspension bottoms out. This in turn helps provide more comfort inside the car, maintains control by not freaking you out when you hear a big hit, and also makes sure that the shocks don’t get to full compression too easily, which could potentially damage the shocks quite rapidly.
Check out the video linked here and let me know if you have any questions about them!!
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.
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!!!
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:
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!!
