Overloaded suspension?

'14 4wd 6spd squired in 03-2020 with 96k.

Truck was lifted with wheel spacers and 265/70/17 Grabber At2 tires when purchased.

Was hauling some firewood back from the local town's organic yard and probably had 1000-1300 lbs of spruce, linden, oak, maple over several trips.

Snapped a pic at home with the spruce. The one log shown with the scale was 88.7lbs and was a medium piece compared to the rest.

What do you guys think?

 

Honestly I would expect the sag to be worse based on the weight being hauled!

Welcome to the world of realizing the Tacoma's rear springs suck. There are many options to mitigate depending on your end use. Popular routes are replace the leaf pack, air bags, or helper springs like SumoSpring, Hellwig, Timbren.

 

Can you do a comparison picture of the truck loaded down and unloaded so we can see the difference? How big is your spacer lift? Tacoma's don't have great rear springs. Air bags are a great option if you do this a lot. Just keep in mind that they don't increase payload, they only help to get rid of the rear sag.

 

Truck is facing up the driveway but I think you get the idea. Unloaded.

Truck felt fine but I was only driving about 3 miles each trip if that.

I don't know how much lift there is since the truck came like this but I'm 6ft tall and I have to wiggle my way in to the truck awkwardly.

 

looks fine to me.

 

Looks fine to me as well. I put 2000lbs in the bed of my DCLB recently (stock leaf springs) and it handled it very well. Front end was a little light due to all the weight in the back but not bad and didn't feel unsafe at all. I think it handled better than when I'd overloaded my '99 F-150 - front end of that got kinda sketchy when I had it overloaded in the rear.

 

Looks ok to me too. If you get a shot of the leaf springs themselves next time that would be the best indicator.

 

They can be deceiving themselves though since they're already flat or nearly bending the opposite way even when unloaded