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

Woulda taken like 3 minutes last year when I had the class... probably coulda 3d printed it too hahaha.

 

I 100% need a 3d printer haha

 

I would

 

Seconded!

 

Damn, I have concert t-shirts older than you guys!!

 

yes you need to.

You just changed your castor a lot and that'll change everything else.

 

Disagree. While it would probably be smart to get an alignment after installing UCAs, I wouldn't say it's necessary.

All your doing is moving the top of the spindle back to add caster, which is only going to be beneficial, and maybe a slight camber change. Toe will be unaffected. Nothing that will cause bad tire wear or poor handling.

 

I would definitely check camber to see if it's close at least, but that's super easy. Get a straight edge that fits from outside lip to lip on your wheel, put a protractor on it and make sure it's vertical, or very close. Better slightly negative (top of the tire tipped in), than positive.

 

Changing camber or caster usually always affects the toe. If one side of the upper control arm is slightly shorter or longer than the oem arm it will adjust the toe. Not to say it will be significant, but it may be worth a check. Some places check it for free.

 

I agree with you assuming your adjusting those via the LCA cams. I don't believe ucas, aside form LR, are deigned to change camber, and I don't see how moving the top of the spindle back, while keeping the cams stationary, would affect anything else.

 

No, they are not designed to adjust it that way, but I'm just assuming the arms aren't the exact dimensions of the oem arms, which would adjust all three camber, caster and toe. And again it may be so minute it won't matter, but if it is significant it could change the alignment

 

And to answer about the upper arms even being able to change alignment. Take heimed upper control arms for example. They are threaded so you can adjust alignment just like the lower arms, so same concept, but the tubing of the arm is a few hundredths of an inch off from oem.

 

Did you grease the driveline slip after you put it back together?

 

I feel your pain. I'm getting f'n gray hairs.

 

I'm a redhead, I have chrome hairs, does that count...

 

Dam took me awhile to catch up on this thread.
Changed my instrument cluster over to red LED's and replaced warning lights with LED's. Ordered the AC controller LED's last night.

No more orange look.

 

I thought that was only Gingers that had chrome hair....

 

Ginger redhead, it's all the same lol

 

Camburg...and TC...and MCM...and Built right..all put in +2º castor for "lifted applications". That is totally going to affect your camber and toe numbers enough to increase tire wear. You'd be assuming that all of these companies all make their UCAs the same way which im sure they are all slightly different.

Any time you change something up front you should check your alignment IMO.

 

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