What Have You Done To Your 2nd Gen Tacoma Today?

Looking good, never understood why Toyota doesn't do lighted window switches in the trucks.

 

You probably don’t wanna hear this, but there should be washers on the inside face of the bushings as well. There shoulda been a big pack of washers included. Without them, when you grease the bushings it’ll push the bushing out of the control arm.

Looks like he snapped the pic mid install

 

That body color/wheel color combo looks great.

 

Both videos I watched didn't show additional washers and I didn't see anything in the box, are you sure the JBAs do? Stock ones just had an outside washer.

 

Good point! x2 on the washers near the bushings, I know my old SPC's only had washers on the outer face of the bushing but the new camburg arms I installed not too long ago had outer and inner washers

 

Thanks, need to do a little wheel detailing to get the shine back like it was after powder coat...

 

100% sure, I have them and have installed a few sets. The jbas have gone through slight changes throughout the years so guessing the install video was before he changed it up. I would double check your box and shoot him an email to ask. Oem have rubber bushings and jba poly bushings, so different animals.

 

Figures. Guess I'm redoing them in the freezing rain, this was the last nice day until mid week.

 

Good call, I didn't even notice that.

 

100% positive there should be 5 washers on each UCA, 4 at the UCA bushings and 1 above each spindle and below the ball joints rubber cover.

 

Yes. A washer between the spindle and below the ball joints rubber cover.

 

Yeah, I got two of those. It's the inners I'm missing. I found the bag buried at the very bottom of the box under a bunch of packing material. Silver lining is all of the fender bending is done and I don't need to detach the spindle, just back the big bolt out enough to slide the inners in place. Still gonna suck in the rain.

 

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I have a habit of closely analyzing pictures of peoples installs to look for stuff like that, to help them out.

 

Idk why, but the passenger side was more difficult to remove that bolt than the driver's side was on mine.

 

Mine was too, didn't have to do any prying on the drivers side but the passenger side I bent to crap out of the sheetmetal!

 

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For which part of the job?

 

The inner fender bending to get the bolt out.

 

Sheet metal bending. Specifically for removing the UCA bolts.