PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

Awesome to hear buddy!

 

I'm gonna have my mechanic put in new front shock absorbers after the holidays; My truck rides a hell of a lot better with new rear leaf springs and shock absorbers! I can barely even few the bumps and potholes!

 

Why is that?

 

I mentioned the American flag sticker to the service writer I've been dealing with this whole time, and he honestly seemed even more pissed about it than I did; I told him I wasn't going to pursue it because (A) the sticker was a given to me by a friend who in turn got it in the mail for free, and (B) I was going to remove it anyway because it was starting to look worn out...

 

One of the things I was really worried about was that my aftermarket backup camera would not be hooked up properly, especially considering this was the case back in September 2018 when the same dealer replaced the evaporator core; The tech who worked on the truck came out and fixed the problem himself. Luckily, the backup camera was in perfect working order this time!

 

Glad to see you got it back and are happy. Could sense your excitement through the thread.

 

If so that's gotta be why. Not sure how much height I gained but I'm sure it was something

 

Your truck gained height too?!?!

 

I noticed the difference big time, though part of that could be I had several months away from mine and several different vehicles to drive in that time.

How much cruising around have you done tonight?

 

I'm sure it did but remember mine was all the original suspension whereas yours was not.

 

I don't exactly know why other than I remember seeing it in the Toyota Frame Replacement Technical Instructions document floating around here on TW (https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/anybody-have-a-pdf-of-the-frame-replacement-procedure.611600/). In the end it's still a win-win situation as most of us (if not all?) 4WD/Prerunner folks had ours replaced under the leaf spring TSB/recall.

 

Thanks for the share..just my curiosity wants to know more about it, I had mine done earlier this year.

 

Careful, it can be a slippery slope digging into that document depending on your OCD level.

 

@PennSilverTaco look at page 29 of the file. I'm surmising that's why you got to keep driving yours and I didn't, it has a 10-15mm box and then 16 or above. Mine had one that was 1x2 INCHES so I'm sure that right there caused them to take it from me.

 

Page 29 of what file?

 

He's referring to page 29 of the PDF file contained within that link I shared earlier. Better yet, here's the link taking you straight to the post it's shared in: https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...e-replacement-procedure.611600/#post-20715404

 

So apparently, my truck is slightly higher off the ground now...

 

How much higher? Front or back?

 

X2

 

Back, but...