Is brake clunk a way of life with these trucks?

Just pull the e brake before letting off the brake and putting in park. And foot on brake to reverse/drive and release e brake. And it won’t happen.

 

My auto 2nd gen would clunk in reverse.

 

Mine does it too. I’ve learned to live with it!

 

You're explaining the truck falling against the parking pawl when shutting the truck down.

The OP, is talking about the issue of the brakes slapping in the calipers when switching directions, reverse to forward. (driving)

 

Ahh okay I guess I haven’t noticed that. I just assumed that’s what he meant. We talking like backing our of a parking spot and going from reverse to drive?

 

Bingo!

 

I think what aggravated this for me, is I used to park facing downhill after backing up my driveway, now I park facing uphill and back down my driveway while on the brakes. When I reach the street, my pads and shoes are primed for a clunk when I hit the stop sign at the end of my street. Maybe it always did it, but now I notice it every day. Once it clunks once, I’m pretty much good for the rest of the drive.

My wife’s Camry is parked in the same orientation, and subjected to the same forces, but does not clunk, or at least very little.

I can live with it. If I do my brakes I will report back and see if the clunk improved with new pads and shoes.

 

I see what's going on here. Quit running into that stop sign. No more clunk!

 

A lot of these complaints aren't limited to Toyota/Lexus either. Ford had a lot of complaints about the ticking and gear hunting as well. Sometimes those are just characteristics of modern powertrain.

 

Self adjusters in rear drums tighten up the shoes with sudden rearward stops. Unrelated to op noise, thought I'd mention rear drums do tighten up and click/ scrunch sometimes.

 

Grease on the ends of the pads where they would strike the caliper can help.
Pull a pad and look for wear marks on the ends.

 

Thanks for the tip. I’ll check it out.

 

Nope, never experienced brake Clunk on my '18 TRD Sport.
I feel more and more fortunate everyday that I don't have any of the MANY Tacoma issues reported here on a daily basis.
Makes me wonder how many are actually imagined.

 

Yeah....I’m imagining it. Want an interesting thing to imagine.

 

Our Subaru is bad about that. For my Taco, it isn't reverse, but turning the pads slap around in the calipers.

 

There are two pins that go through each set of brake pads. The holes in the pads eventually become worn and they are allowed to move around on the pin, more importantly they are allowed to slide back and forth, at times like when you change the direction of the vehicle from forward to reverse. This makes an audible “clunk”.

I suppose you could grease them, but the damage has already been done and likely won’t fix it for long (if it fixes it at all). Could be worn from lack of original lubrication at the factory, or perhaps the ingress of dust, dirt, mud, or water.

Either way it’s easy enough to diagnose, simply remove the wheel and you should then be able to move the pads around and will hear the *clunk* noise (although quieter since your hands don’t have the force of a multi ton vehicle coming to a stop).

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/solved-front-brake-“clunk”-sound.622811/

 

Great information. Thank you. My truck has its original brakes, so I imagine there is some wear. The truck had 74,000kM (50,000miles) on it. It’s seen lots of grit in its life.

 

Sorry, but no. Those pins only retain the pads. It is the caliper itself that limits fore / aft pad movement. Our calipers are very similar to most motorcycle four piston calipers with top loading pads.