96 Tacoma Xtra Cab Front End Rebuid

Morning fellas was hoping to get some guidance, i need to rebuild my front end the steering has alot of play and wiggle driving passed 90km, and alot of the components are tired and in need of replacement, so i was looking at replacing all the ball joints (left upper i had already replaced with OEM) tie rod ends, sway bar ends, and new bushing for control arms and sway bars, but do to the cost i cant afford to get all oem and was looking at this kit, https://www.moog-suspension-parts.com/moog-packagedeal042 has anybody had good or bad experience?

 

How is your steering rack? If it’s near death I would replace it with an OEM. It comes with inner TREs as well.


Other than that, moog is hit and miss. You really want oem lower ball joints, but if they’re cost prohibitive then 555 brand are decent.

 

Start off with total Chaos Polyurethane steering rack bushings =30.00

 

excellent thank you @0xDEADBEEF and @1997tacomav6 i had read on the forums that moog wasnt the best, and OEM was the best way to go but didnt know about 555 or chaos polyurethane, i should preface that im not opposed to get the OEMs for the lowers (since this is that chaotic ball joint) for the absolute most critical parts, just the upper alone was close to 300 from Toyota so dont wanna burn through my budget.

 

I’ve had 555 lowers fkr 30k miles now and no issues. My upper bjs I think are moog, as well as uca bushings. Lca bushings are all whiteline