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Wheel bearing, sway bar, and front lift...tips

Discussion in '2nd Gen. Tacomas (2005-2015)' started by Cjb, Oct 27, 2013.

  1. Oct 27, 2013 at 7:50 AM
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    Cjb

    Cjb [OP] Member

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    Rhode Island
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    08 tacoma
    HD leaf packs, mud flap slice and dice,
    It seems I just can't do the work I want on this truck when I spend all my money fixing busted parts. So here's the deal:

    Drivers side wheel bearing: doing it myself, shop around the corner will press it for me, should I go with autozone w.b ($70 in stock) or advance auto (moog $110 in stock)?

    And should I just go ahead and do both? (Approaching 90k)

    I've read some write ups here on tw, any other pitfalls I should look out for?

    Front lift: I've always wanted to lift my truck, but now I need to. I replaced my leafs with an HD set and the rake is killing me, not just aesthetically, but it drives like crap. I'm going 5100s at 1.75 with stock coils, already ordered, anyone suffered cv issues or diff leaks at 1.75 without a diff drop?

    And lastly, sway bar end links: I'm thinking about doing this last. I had no clunk until swapped my leaf packs, I think the rake put additional stress causing them to fail sooner. May sound ridiculous, the clunk started a week after the leaf swap.
    Any problems waiting on this fix?

    Keep in mind I'm not wheeling this rig, it sees a lot of dirt on logging roads but nothing my wife's forester can't handle. I only swapped the leafs for a heavy duty set because I snapped the bullshit stockers and I load this sucker up.
     

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