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

I had ordered special ones from Amazon but they ended up sending me 2nd gen Tacoma rotors...didn't fit with my calipers so I ran down to the local Pep Boys a few blocks from my house and just got the basic Wagners that they had there. They work great as far as I can tell, think they were $65 for the pair.

Amazon just refunded me for the entire kit they sold me so I got the brake pads for free, which was cool.

 

I run power stop rotors and pads, haven’t had a problem and they stop good. The kit they sent was pretty nice too. Really complete

 

Finally placed an order for the OME suspension kit from Wheeler's... Was gonna do LBJs at the same time, but I'd like to hear what happens with those of you who have issues with the oem parts first I think

 

I had my LBJs replaced a little over a year ago through my local Toyota dealership via a warranty I got with my truck when I bought it...they were OEM replacements but not through Camelback (the dealership had them in stock, I presume). I've been beating on them nearly every weekend since then and they've held up great. I'm starting to wonder if maybe Camelback had a bad batch or shipment come in....

 

I've had good luck with duralast rotors and pads in the past. Haven't done them on the Tacoma but I'm about to. Closest to a tacoma was a 98 blazer held up niclni for that

 

Yeah, looks like a bad batch. I'll probably order from Toyota Parts deal, they have the best prices I can find.

Can anyone comfirm these are the two PNs that come with replacement bolts?

$201 43340-39585 Toyota Genuine Parts - Joint Assy, Lwr Ball (43340-39585)

43340-39585

$214 43330-39815 Toyota Genuine Parts - Joint Assy, Lwr Ball (43330-39815)

43330-39815

 

About where Monte has his. Best I've got but I've cranked them down a little on the driver side

 

Yeah mine look closer to what you have there in that photo. Maybe a couple threads more

 

I think mine are around 1''.

 

Caught my rust when Safelite came out to replace the windshield. Wasn’t too bad. The tech was cool, helped me wire brush away the rust and applied a rust inhibitor/encapsulator. No issue since.

 

Wonder how many were in the batch, if that was the issue. I just got new ones a month ago, was going to hold off putting them on until the end of this season. Wonder now if I should do it sooner, for the warranty.

 

I know. We miscalculated. Gonna take care of that soon.

 

Thanks for the recommendations guys seems like autopart rotors will work fine for my needs.

Also I have close to 70k miles on my oem ball joints from camelback with no issue and was going to reorder but might wait on that for a couple months now.

 

That's where I want mine.

 

650

I'll get one. Looking at his pic now I do believe he has more preload than I do.

 

I have 600. We gave it ten turns. Five turns is 1" of lift according to the instructions.

 

You need more antennae.

 

Here's mine;

 

My collar was a little lower than yours out of the box. I assumed they were set to zero lift since these are "OEM replacement."

 

I'd say that's more than "a little lower" haha. Mine are set for about 3/4" of lift on front right now. It gives me very close to a 50/50 up/down travel.