re: Educate me on leveling lift kits

There are a lot of different types of kits.

Most will change your factory wheel/suspension geometry. You can get kits that will correct it to a proper geometry post-lift.

The truth is, you need to do a good bit of homework and learn it well enough to do it yourself (even if you don't do it). Join a TRD or tundra forum. Have a few people interact and point you in the correct path.

In the end, even with a perfect kit, bigger lift means bigger tires and wheels usually. Bigger = some parts wearing and tearing sooner than they would have. But that's part of car and truck ownership anyway.

Repairs happen.