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

Probably the difference is in the plastic compound. Good ridgid plastic is reinforced with glass fibers whereas cheapo is essentially just melted ABS with no thought of inner structure.

 

i knew they did it way too fast. i was in and out in 30 mins.
I'm lifted on 5100 and eibachs stock uper control arms.
whats a stock tacoma specs for caster?

 

I can't remember of the top of my head, maybe 1.8-2.5? I'm not sure, someone else can chime in.

 

Hey Brett what tires are those?

 

Yea i knew something wasn't right after throwing a 3 inch lift on.
The tech at NTB literally only turned a wrench on the truck for 10 mins or less. so i knew something was fishy. Should have trusted my gut. I just didn't know what specs i was looking for. I figured that print out was generic for the Red Green in spec out of spec.

 

Ouch! Your not gonna get good caster at all then.

 

Went to the 4x4 swap meet today at the fairgrounds. Its an annual thing. Lots and lots of stuff there. Some is "another man's junk" but also some really good stuff. Lots of people...





Mostly for heeps but Toyota is well rep'd and even Some Tacoma specific stuff. Picked up these for $40. Brand new.

 

Toyo open country mt 285/75r16! Maybe my next tire!

 

I'm not expecting perfect. any numbers i should be shooting to get close too?

 

I may go with hankook MTs next, not sure yet

 

Finished the lift. Took her to the beach.

 

Looks good Sometimes wish my truck was white

 

The fact that their machine shows negative caster as being in the green is a major red flag... You need to take it back to them and demand they fix it or refund you. A major problem a lot of us go through is finding a shop that is willing to do alignments for trucks with aftermarket lifts on them. Sometimes with a lift you need numbers that are not "factory spec." Places don't want to go out of factory spec because they fear being blamed for damage and tire wear down the road. You can use this to your advantage in this situation, because they did not put you in spec for caster. Go shove your fist up their ass and get a proper alignment bruddah!

 

Towards 2 as always but you're lucky if you get 1! This is mine and that's as much as he could get without messing with my camber and what not in order to get closer to 2

 

Those come in a 295/75r16 too... About a 34 and they look good! Ask @Squeaky Penguin how they perform too!

 

Yep.
Get them siped if you do.

 

10-4 I got the 1 year alignment so i can go back an annoy them as many times as possible.

 

That's the spirit!

 

New pads and rotors!
http://www.autoanything.com/brakes/61A5871A0A0.aspx

 

Yeah that's who I went to first, the 2 tires look a lot alike ha. Not sure if I'll go 295s or 285s