How the DJM Kits Lower a 1st Gen Tacoma

Up front, DJM drops the truck 3 inches by repositioning the lower ball joint, then uses new upper control arms designed to bring the alignment back to factory specs, so the tires wear normally instead of scrubbing the edges. At the rear, DJM all steel lowering blocks with new U-bolts drop the axle 3 or 4 inches. The blocks are steel rather than aluminum, for strength under load.

Pick Your Drop

Before You Install

  • Neither complete kit includes ball joints. Reuse good originals or fit new ones while the front end is apart.
  • Plan on an alignment once the kit is in. The upper arms are there to bring it back to factory specs, and an alignment is how you get it there.
  • The Tacoma arrived partway through 1995, so a kit listed for 1995.5 to 2004 covers the whole first generation.
  • Running a 6 lug PreRunner or a 4WD truck? Nothing on this page is listed for it, so talk to us before ordering anything here.

Lowered Trucks Still Get Used

A lowered 1st gen Tacoma is still a pickup, and most of these trucks get driven every day. Lowering changes how the suspension sits, so it is a good time to look at worn bushings, tired shocks and anything in the steering that already had play in it. Those parts are cheaper to replace now than after the new alignment has been set.

Not sure which drop suits your truck, or whether your year and wheel count fit? Contact our tech team. For the rest of the chassis see 1st gen Tacoma suspension and bushings, and everything else for the truck is in the 1995 to 2004 Tacoma catalog.

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