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Lower Control Arms

Discussion in '2nd Gen. Tacomas (2005-2015)' started by coopcooper, Aug 26, 2019.

  1. Aug 26, 2019 at 2:58 PM
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    coopcooper

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    When looking at some lowers arms, total chaos for one, it says that oe style bushing shock eyes don't work with their shock mount.

    Do 5100s fall into that category? I don't want to drop 1000+ on Lcas to find out my shocks wont work with them.
     
  2. Aug 27, 2019 at 12:52 PM
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    They won't work. You will need a shock or coil over with a spherical bearing bottom end
     
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    Yes this
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    Not true anymore.....

    I just ordered a set of expo LCA’s and this is from Total Chaos themselves:

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    Not that it matters because I’m running shocks with a lower bearing rod end anyway but there are more options now should you want to running a bushing rod end shock.
     
  6. Aug 27, 2019 at 1:03 PM
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    hmmm interesting
     
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    yeah im getting fox coilovers in the future anyways but I just wanted to make sure I didn't screw my self buying lowers that wont work with bushing style shocks
     
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    Yeah I'm on Fox coil overs, but this is definitely interesting info to know
     
  9. Aug 27, 2019 at 1:09 PM
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    True mine are race series so I wasn’t thinking about the expo. Thanks!
     
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    I ended up just going single shock because I didn’t want to run 1.25” wheel spacers but the biggest reason I went for the expo arms was the option to fit a 3.0 shock down the road when my 2.5’s are due for a rebuild.
     
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