The Golden Triangle (Beaumont, Port Arthur, Nederland)

Does your front bumper have movement on the road mine seems to move. Ima check tomorrow to see if any bolts are loose.

 

Mine does... only when it is on really really bumpy roads.

 

Nope, at least not that I can see

 

Well whenever @Overkill07 goes to your house this week we can try to move it up and tighten the fudge out of it.

 

Mine moves around and the bolts are tight

 

Jake...

 

Beautiful, wiring is what will take me some time to figure out. I'm debating on taking it all out and starting from scratch

 

I agree, my YJ is like that. To do it right is gonna require some serious money, tho...I was debating a Painless harness. However, if you're gonna rely on it, you gotta have good grounds, and that's probably where you'll run into issues with an old truck.

 

They make kits for jeeps but the old Toyota nobody does. I'm looking at a kit from speedway motors. I looks way easier and from what I read painless isn't all that great

 

It's actually the truck body moving in relation to the frame. Since you are sitting in the body of the truck you are moving with the body. That makes the bumper appear to be slightly moving while you are driving.

 

Mind=Blown

But in all seriousness, that makes alot of sense.

 

Yep that's why you do a 1/2" gap between your bumpers and the body, the bumpers will smash in to the body doing some damage.

 

• Do y'all notice a huge improvement over stock pads/rotors? Enough to replace them before the factory ones wear out?
• I have always been told not to buy drilled rotors. Dimpled are okay but not drilled. One for the issue of mud like Oscar said but second because the fully drilled holes cause stress cracks in them.

Saturday unless Chris changes his mind.

^This

 

Saturday evening or all day Sunday is good for me. Also I noticed a little bit of improvement with the Wagner pads and duralast solid rotors, but what really changed my braking as a whole was extended steel lines, made the brake a lot former

 

Recall alert: 2016-2017
Toyota issued a stop-sale of Tacomas. Parts won't be available until mid May-June.
For the "exploding" rear diff issue.

 

Neat. I guess I'll likely be getting a rear end at some point. So far it's been good.

@Overkill07 - Regarding drilled. Yes, you don't want that. Dimpled, perhaps. Slotted are typically good.

I'll throw this out there, however. Buying race parts for a non race vehicle actually can reduce performance. Slotted and dimpled reduce heat, but can trap water and other "normal" driving things like mud and dirt in them. They benefit because they dissipate heat faster during constant hard braking.

We don't typically do that, even with towing. We do long stretches at highway speeds, not full acceleration, hard brake, full accel, hard brake, etc., etc.

In our cases, a solid rotor puts more contact surface to the pad. After having both, I really didn't notice a difference in the rotors. The pads, however, made a difference. Don't get ceramic unless the vehicle specifies for it, see previous explaination regarding race vs street.

 

Oh, read up on this. It's mainly a gasket that is causing some people's rear diff to leak oil, running low, and exploderingfying due to lack of oil. I check mine pretty regularly, I gots no leaks.

 

Not going to lie, you took the words right out of my mouth. I went with regular ol solid rotors from duralast when I swapped mine.

That's good to hear Lee! On a side note, I got a wild hair the other evening and swapped out that needle bearing, not a bad job, little messy took about 2 hours taking my time. I noticed a difference in front end vibes for sure, I'm guessing my truck has always done it so I just lived with it; however its damn smooth now in the lower speeds than before.

 

Jambo solid spacer install crew? We could make money there. In and out in 1 hour

 

I'm in! Could bring the welder too and run repairs for peeps