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

do u have ucas? if so im willing to bet you could bring that camber more towards the center and increase the caster quite bit. basically u want to get the most cast u can without sacrificing camber too much... i like even tire wear, tires arent cheap. so my camber is perfect, my caster is a touch higher than spec. drives fine.

with a truck like jasons, hell yeah sacrifice camber a bit to get as much caster as u can. when hes haulin ass and flyin over bumps(mtns to me) the more caster keeps his bump steer down and allows him to more accurately feel what the truck is doing.

 

Ive got LR UCAs the biggest problem is no one wants to align lifted trucks around here.

 

Got my dang driver door handle to working right again!!
Picked up a used handle for $20 from a fellow member threw it on no good.
Was about to go buy a new one from toyota or napa but 1st i sprayed it with brake clean and then with some graphite spray worked in in and walla better than the pass. side

Took me 6hrs (on/off) smh LOL

 

thats shitty. with lr ucas, you could get up to 4* caster if u wanted! i doubt u need that much but those being adjustable give u lots of options... around 2-3 is perferred

depends on which ones are maxed out? thats not a bad alignment u have there^

 

i have the plates set to 0, so i could adjust them and then take it back in, but i have good tire wear, and it drives straight right now so im good. and plus my tire is already rubbing on the front of the fender well

 

Took the Tacoma to pick up a Hobart 175 today.

 

ok so since you have diagonal eccentrics both maxed, then yes thats as good as your alingment gets. hard to explain without showing u on a machine, but the front eccentrics move camber/caster >up/up or down/down. the rear eccentrics move camber/caster >up/down or down/up. so when u have opposite sides front and back maxed, then the alingment cant move for the better much before it gets really far away from the other side.

like i said hard to explain. if i was u i would rock it like that for some time. its not a bad alignment. but u may have some tweaked lcas....

see i charge a little more when i have to adjust the lr uca plates. a good alignment tech should know if he needs to adjust the top plates or
not

 

i have lifetime free alignment at tires plus and/or firestone.

 

FYI - the coin holder slides into grooves in the upper portion of the console.

 

yeah im willing to bet u bave one or both tweaked lcas...... i wouldnt replace them until the aingment really gets messed up

 

Thanks, I'll have to check it out, I swiped the coin holder from a truck in the junkyard a few months ago.

 

why are you guys running such little caster? i've always set them up to run about 5-7 degrees at ride height.

 

when u lift the fornt of the truckis there play when pushing and pulling on the lca? also if u look up and in towards the bushings, are there really bad cracks in the rubber?

on a 4wd taco? how r u accomplishing 5-7 degrees of caster?

 

i dont think so at all... ive replaced numerous lcas and alignments came back into spec. and im still confused on how to get 5-7 degrees of caster on a 4x4 taco. i dont see it happening without lr ucas on astock truck n lift. lol which would be stupid... would be hell trying to turn into a parking spot, and tire scrub would be fubar'd. my .02 of course.

 

Just installed a

$52 Hayden 678 Universal Rapid-Cool 9.5” x 11” Add-On Transmission Cooler – Not for Direct Replacement of the OE Cooler

Hayden 678 trans cooler. No leaks but I hope I plumbed it right. Took the hose from the drivers side of the radiator and hooked it up to the top fitting on the Hayden. Ran the hose off the bottom fitting to the metal line on the trans that enters the trans closer to the rear of the truck than the one closer to the front. Did I get this right? 02 double cab V6 with the A340F trans.

 

Put the bumper back on and adjusted the light bar to use it off-road and.....it's a lot brighter than I expected

 

What kind of sub box is that ?