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

FSM?

 

I assumed being lifted needed different numbers or something but if not Ill just refer to that lol

 

2000 FSM Specs

 

As much caster as possible is what I have read. My truck sits a hair over stock and I am really short on caster. Firestone seems to only care about wear angles. One guy told me it wasn't adjustable. Unfortunatly I have their lifetime alignment and I am too cheap to pay somebody else.

 

You want 3° caster, or as close as they can get to that. 0° camber and 0° toe in.
Factory spec is not optimal after a lift.

 

Playing host to a Subaru in need of repair. I'll have it out today.

 

canadiantire wouldnt check my battery because it was still in truck. they assume everyone got a spare battery or another vehicle? I cant even put gas in the damn thing because my gas door is keyed.

 

You can also run some positive camber in an effort to increase caster. It will also help cornering as well, but at the cost of some inside tire wear. I run like 1.5-2° positive camber and it feels awesome, and hasn't presented a problem. Although this would probably show way out of spec according to most alignment shops that only know the difference between red and green on their computer screens.

 

Not sure how that works, but I'll take your word for it.
I want my tires to wear evenly. You guys do what you want.

 

Spent some time out on a private property this weekend with the owners permission.







Learned a lot about driving a 2WD in the sand and driving on sand in general.

 

Where do I find friends like that?

 

Spent the last 7 days with my friend driving 3,000 miles in my taco with 300,000 on the odometer. We went through New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. We hit some of the Trans-America-Trail sections on the way.

The truck did great and purred like a kitten the entire trip. The CVT RTT worked well too.

_Charlie

 

Magnason Does not do a full rebuild anymore on the 1st gen SC, they just replaces bearings and oil.
My SC was rebuilt FULLY by them 2 times with new coated rotors.
Eaton stop making new rotors 2 years ago for 1st gen SC, problem is the new rotors were also coated
and 100 percent perfectly balanced with the rotors turning at 15,000 rpms. So I don't know were replacement rotors can be found and coated with the extreme tolerance that Eaton did.

 

So then who makes the rotors for then blowers?

 

Eaton does but they can't get parts for the grey SC anymore, they stopped making parts for the grey SC

 

So for the grey all you can do is change the rotor wipers now?

 

Not the same rotors? Wow that's surprising.

But you can get a full rebuilt from magneson if you have a 2nd gen blower then.

 

You can get a full rebuild from lots of different companies but if your rotors are worn out then you might have a problem finding new rotors

 

How much does a full r3build run? I have a 2nd Gen SC btw.

 

GTK. Thanks.