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

Mine was the whole axle as well. If you don’t have to bust into the third you should be able to get it done in one day no problem. Just spray everything with some deep creep the night before. And buy some extra ubolts ahead of time I had to cut one of mine off with a grinder.

 

Mmmm, mine were absolutely 100 perfect fit, no bending!!
Took 30 minutes to install them!!

 

Comfortable? I want new seats in mine

 

Same. For road trips.

 

I've not seen anyone (at least recently) have trouble with the Wheeler's banjo's. They fit the 13WL's just fine.

I think what you'll hear more is that "Tundra's use a hard line to the caliper" and so people decide to go with the LCE kit that uses a hard line for the last bit to the caliper as well. Personally, I went with the Wheeler's lines (New-to-me tires and Tundra Brake Upgrade), and everything worked great.

 

Ok, another person today having issues below

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/tundra-brake-upgrade-seeking-help.533518/#post-17122665

 

can use all the factory stuff too. just file down and drill the banjo a little. works fine.

 

My seats are LG1 seats and are NOT a suspension seat, they hold you in (hug) like a race care seat.
They are 2" lower than the 4 runner seats that I had in before and give you at least an inch
or more of leg room.

 

Ran into this picture on the gram and thought you guys mite like it.

 

More progress on the sound deadening project today.

IMAG0460 by brettbjorgum, on Flickr

IMAG0461 by brettbjorgum, on Flickr

 

I was at the right place that @Mottotaco posted in his post. But apparently it changed on the Facebook page, and he failed to update it on TacomaWorld. Still pretty upset about the whole thing, it really feels like the first time I’ve been let down by TacomaWorld. But 503Mike the OP of the meetup page reached out and was super cool about the whole thing and apologized and gave me his number for next time.

Anyway,

Did you get your stuff in the mail??

 

This actually sounds to me like an issue with the caliper rather than the bolt that came from Wheeler's. I've seen several calipers (including one yesterday with @Digiratus) where the threading in the caliper wasn't as deep (or otherwise inhibited full penetration) as it should have been. I think this is a result of the reman process that some vendors do on the calipers.

It was interesting because one of his had the problem, and the other didn't. Both were from Napa, which generally has high quality remans.

Also interesting is that the bolts from Wheeler's are actually shorter than many, so there's a higher likelihood that you can get them to fit (that's what we did with Mike's, rather than use the longer bolts he had with his non-Wheeler's SS brake lines)

 

Yeah that's what I was gonna try, I'm thinking I'll make some adjustable shackles. And measure how flat the leaf spring can go, and make the shackles to size.

 

Me too ........... Summer, hurry up summer!

 

I think you sit a hair higher, but not much. Haven’t measured, but the ride feels good.

 

Definitely better than stock. I got the ones with lumbar support and heat. So a big improvement.

 

I had to bend the passenger seat front bracket in order to adjust the rail a little to the rear to line up the holes. Also bent back the seat belt mounts. Aside from that, they work great.

 

All NAPA remans are from Cardone, they are the revuilder for OEM calipers as well. But if they rebuilt a shitty Chinese casting you can run into this issue.

 

Also, all welded now, just gotta put all the leaves in.

 

I had issues with mine. Had to use 3 copper washers.

What's you body type? I'm 6' 1" with narrow waist and pretty broad shoulders.