What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

Yep. Don't bother with the energy suspension LCA bushings. I've been happy with my whitelines so far.

Process took a total of 15 hours of wrenching by myself to replace the bushings, ubjs, lbjs, and struts. Not terribly complicated, just time consuming.

 

@Taco me elmo those are beefy!

I think I'm going to save up and put in ome shocks and springs at the same time as my LCA's.

Just leaves figuring out where/how. I might have to have a mechanic do it.

Having them have to cut/burn out the old bushings will be $$ because its time consuming. New lca's might be cheaper

 

You need 4 194s. And yes, that is the part number (WLED-NW5-CBT: Natural White). I got a couple of extra just in case of a dud. You can enter your vehicle on SBL and select instrument panel LED and I think it is the top rated bulb, 360 degrees. You don't want more than like 80 lumens in the dash.

All the other bulbs behind the dash, ash tray, AC are a tiny dealer item (two sizes, skinny and a fatter one). I have never seen an LED for those.

 

Are the OEM bushings natural rubber? Maybe they could be dissolved with a ketone like acetone.

 

Mine were made of old subway sandwiches.

 

That sir, is badass.

 

I have 68k on my km2's with about 95% Highway miles on them.

 

In my opinion the Energy Poly bushings are great. I've been running them for about 5k miles now. Only complaint is that they squeak a little. Thankfully i had an extra set of LCA's laying around so i could put in the new bushings in and just swap out the LCA's when it was time.

 

Thanks pretty bitchen!. I totally need one for mine! (the middle one)

 

I was with u on the opinion of Duratrac ", but when i saw the video / evidence of the cooper maxx " i got sold by the idea of pucture resistance at 20psi.... Check it out
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/show-off-your-cooper-st-maxx.346956/page-64#post-10764648

 

I split my muffler open!!!... ... ...

 

Not sure. I tried burning them, but didn't get very far.

I bought both the Whiteline poly bushings and the ES before I replaced my LCA bushings. I would never recommend the ES because of having to reuse the metal sleeves. Mine were completely destroyed trying to remove them from the arms. Huge PITA avoided by paying a little more in the first place.

 

Take a small drill bit and make series of holes all the way around bushing and use air chisel to drive out.

 

I had never heard of the Whiteline bushings. I checked their website and it looks like they don't make them anymore...

 

According to them they've never made them for a first gen taco, but they do make them for the 3rd gen 4runner. Same LCA.

Part number

$101 W53377A Front Lower Inner Suspension Control Arm Bushing Kit Compatible with 95-04 Tacoma, 4Runner

W53377A

 

Line-x'd my bed finally.

 

What type of liner did you use? Looks good

 

They are made for the other dash lights as well fyi in case. Amazon or ebay once again. And why not leave them if you are just going with warm white?