1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Sorry, can’t help with this but.
Glad to see you stuck around after that tie-down , somebody’s gotta keep these guys riled up. That part about your truck being disrespected had me rollin!

 

Redneck engineering at its finest!

 

I feel like I know someone who would do this

 

@Sperrunner You can rent your van out to productions now.

 

i have an unhealthy attachment to my tacoma (which I admit to needing counseling lol) that i would like to say very few can totally understand and relate, but everybody's situation is different and therefre I cannot say that! in just two short years i will have had this truck for half my life and in the 7 months on TW i am not sure I have encountered anybody else in a near-exact & similar situation except maybe one (but I don't know his age!)

 

Guys face says he about to drop the sickest beat on ya

 

Inlet gets plumbed to the bottom of the rad. Outlet gets plumbed to the top of the rad. You gotta think like a redneck man. They some smart boys. lol

 

Don't know why I opted to go into work today, I think I'm one of maybe 3 people that did

 

Im pricing brakes for my moms car. Holy crap are they cheap compared to what I put on my truck. And its not like Im using cheap stuff either, akebono pads on centric rotors.

 

Easy money comes at a price

 

What do those rotors and pads run? I think the centric rotors and Akebono pads for the taco I spent 80 bucks on Amazon? That right? Shoot I forget now

 

I put brembo blanks on my truck. A whopping $70 per rotor.

All in for a front brake job on the highlander is gonna be $120.

 

When I did my brakes I ordered a kit off Amazon for my 04 and they sent me a kit with rotors that were for a 2nd gen Tacoma. The brake pads went on fine but I had to finish the job so I just went down the street to Pep Boys and all they had were some cheap Wagner rotors. Think they were $40 each. Been like 20k miles since then and no issues

But with the offroad use I don't expect to get maybe more than 50k out of them

 

I only replaced the rotors at 55k because they looked like crap all rusty on the fins and hats. That and I had to beat the hell out of them for them to come off the hubs. The highlander has 0 rust so in theory I could get them turned, but at 165k (first brake job!) I think replacing them will be a better bet.

 

eh yeah with how cheap rotors are in general I think it's better to just buy new ones.

 

Yeah now I think the rotors were 30 a piece and the pads were 35? So probably around a hundred bucks, if you DIY, to get good quality close to oem Toyota front brake job. Anything under 200 bucks is a steal. I think the stealership charges around 450 for all new rotors and pads and labor.

 

I couldve gone with the $30-$40 rotors but I wanted the brembos cause theyre powdercoated on the hats and fins. I think it was @zero4 who told me to buy akebono pads for an earlier first gen as it would save me $15 over pads for my 04, only difference being the position of the squealer.

 

You’re over estimating them, they literally stuck a Home Depot bucket where the water gets sucked in haha.

 

That’s how I felt ordering stuff for the Civic. Everything is dirt cheap. Hell I only paid $45 for a brand new master cylinder. The front and rear brakes together with drums, pads, rotors, wheel cylinders, and hardware only cost $60. And they were Centric branded.