Taco Tabs Front Alignment Kit

swap the front tires side to side and see what happens.

 

Which tabs are in there now? Looks like you have to do the same thing I did, although mine wasn't pulling in any direction at any time.

 

front neutral. Rear most outward

 

Well, with a positive .7 and a -.7, you could technically go inward on the one side and outward on the other for the camber settings and get those closer to each other.
Not sure how that would change the caster numbers, but you could see how it changes it then play w/ the caster tabs after.

 

Just to throw some more info into this, with those numbers, you probably have a pretty substantial Taco lean. I would get the truck leveled side to side. As for your tires, if they are able to overcome the left direction alignment pull and still pull to the right, that's a very substantial pull caused by the tires. My suggestion to swap the tires side to side was to confirm that the tires are the cause of the right side pull. To me that seems like some pretty junk tires. If leveling out the truck doesn't completely fix the alignment numbers, then we can go from there with cam change suggestions.

 

it does have a little lean. I’ll see about leveling it out and playing with the camber tabs.

 

So I swapped the camber tabs during my ‘lunch break’ from dad duties. Went outboard on driver, inboard on passenger and swapped the front tires. Truck drives straight now. Steering wheel is off, again, but that'll be easy. I’ll get into an alignment here in the next few weeks. only thing i noticed is a slight rub at full lock in reverse, but that's easy with some grinding/pounding later on. Taking possession of a new house this coming week so things are busy.

 

Any solutions for a 3rd gen? @Andy@Poly I just ordered a kit thinking it would work for a 3rd gen, after reading this looks like i'll have to cancel for now. damnit.

 

Looks like these may work for you... http://www.bisonoffroad.com/toyota-tacoma-16-20-4runner-2010-2020-stop-cam-kit/

 

Perfect, Thanks

 

Already got the Marlin LCA brace in a box ready to weld on and now hearing more about these. Perhaps silly question, but would these be compatible, and if so is there even a benefit to both? Dont think there is a benefit, but no harm in asking.

 

Based off of pictures alone, they don’t appear to be compatible together. It’s because of the little tabs on the bottom of this kit that sticks out. It could be shaved off though.

Yes there’s benefit to both. Even with kits like marlin crawler or total chaos, you can still knock yourself out of alignment. This prevents that.

 

I follow you there , but with this kit no need for Marlin (redundant)?

 

Not necessarily. With this and stock tabs, you could theoretically knock the stock tabs flat still. The two kits serve different purposes.

 

Ok, thanks. I'll proceed with my Marlin, and if I still am getting knocked out of alignment after wheeling, I'll investigate adding these (shaving down, etc).

 

There’s another similar product, I think it’s called bison something or other, that locks alignment in place and would work with Marlin. Something to consider.

 

Great, thanks as always.

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/bison-offroad-alignment-stop-cams-giveaway.682647/

 

Yep, those. At a glance they give a little more adjustability than this kit but also aren’t quite as rock solid. Hard for me to say though since I haven’t had them in my hands.

 

Just had these “”Taco Tabs” put on while replacing steering rack and a new set of oem LCA’s with Whiteline bushings. The alignment shop got me to 0 camber 0 toe with 3.4 degrees of caster per side.

i told them to start at max (all the way outboard) for the caster and neutral for the front (camber )

they put the max caster in but said they couldn’t get the neutral camber in ? Said it wouldn’t line the holes up? They used the max outboard for the camber ?

Does this sound right.

I have a BDS 6 inch lift (DB) with fox 2.5 coilovers so technically it should be at stock settings to start.

they used the icon billet UCA’s to dial in the alignment.

does this sound correct? I am confused why they couldn’t get the front (camber) to be neutral an the back (caster ) to be maxed (outboard ) to start