What have you done to your 1st gen Tundra today?

Finally got under mine and have the WE's, I also need to get some WL's for the truck. So far cheapest i've seen from toyota are the remans at $140 ish each at Ourisman Toyota (47750-0C022-84 and 47730-0C022-84). Those are the caliper PN's for the remans (the 84 at the end) for the 2006 Tundra which should have had the WLs.

 

I dont under stand the abbreviations like y'all do. AC WL WE i dont know the short hand that well. And probably not as its a pre August 00 made truck

 

S13WE, 13WL, 14WA etc are casting numbers on the caliper that tell you which ones you have. Look at your calipers and it have one of those numbers on it.

 

used Solo LT kit for $2.5k on FB market right now, just the arms. Would still need extended brakelines, shocks, bumps and straps, so another $3-4k.

 

Someone didn't do their homework.

https://www.tundras.com/threads/so-you-wanna-buy-just-bought-a-1st-gen-tundra-eh.115928/

https://www.tundras.com/threads/13wl-brake-upgrade.44032/

 

Whats the bennifit of upgrading

 

Time to invest in an acetylene torch. This is the way.

 

the same as with anything else. So you can say you did it.

 

Look at my user name and tell me what brand of cars my background is in? Do you think its Toyoda?

 

BIGGER IS BETTER?!

 

Upgrade your brakes? Stop better, more efficient under heavy loads, less chance of overheating and causing earlyneed to replace pads/rotors.
Upgrade to long travel? well.......floating over the bumpy stuff, of course

 

I'm guessing it's VW. Eww.

 

S13WE calipers use as 199mm rotor/ pad combination, 13WL calipers use a 231mm rotor/ pad combination. Basically more surface area to use for braking and more area to absorb heat.

Your username shouldn't affect your ability to search threads that've been beaten to death before

 

Is 14WA the GX upgrade?

 

Internet cool points.

 

https://www.tundras.com/threads/2000-2006-tundra-big-brake-upgrade-kit-14wa-calipers.61231/

 

A simple "yes" would've sufficed

 

Teach a man to fish, Sir

 

Junkyard later-year Sequoias should have the 13WLs.

 

2000 TOYOTA TUNDRA 3.4L V6 Caliper, Rotor & Brake Pad Kit | RockAuto

 

Mmmm theres a powerstop kit there as well. They make some pretty good entry level stuff

 

I personally did not like the Powerstop drilled/slotted pad and rotor combinations, I experienced warping on both my front and rear set within 20k. Running EBC slotted on all four corners and they work much better anyways.

Powerstop also ghosted me when I started asking technical questions since I needed a replacement caliper in the rear. The replacement had a similar but different cast number on the mounting bracket, and the fitment for the mounting bracket was off. Had to take a new caliper and put it on the old bracket from the caliper with a destroyed piston.

Powerstop calipers are fine though, they're essentially reman and repainted OEM calipers.

 

Ya know you're not wrong, but this forums search function is exactly user friendly nor easly accessed. But hey I guess that homework street only goes for "new guys" to Toyotas. You could be the nicest guy in the world, but that comment came off as 1000% a forum elitest. And as well know those are just the coolest guys.

 

It's actually the best search function of any forum I've ever visited. Try searching like this when you are looking for something.



This narrowed it down to 2 results.

 

If you can't figure out the search function on here, the fewer keywords, the better. Also select to only search this forum. If someone gives good advice you like, filter by their username.

Google search helps, also adding site:tundras.com to your search will filter out other websites.

 

I got the powerstop z23 kit for the front, and am still pretty happy with it, but after 10k miles i can see that its eating into my rotors more than expected. The coating on the hub part of the rotor was just paint & started to rust pretty quick, but they werent really expensive, so i cant bitch too much. & after 10k miles i still have chamfers on the pads.

 

If you look on the left side of the caliper it'll say 13WL or 13 WE on there. It'll be on the inside(towards the truck) of the caliper when installed.

This is the kit I went with:



And here's how I did it:

https://www.tundras.com/threads/front-brake-job.41227/

 

And of course the calvary has shown up..... Can't have a low post count guy make vaild points, now can we?

 

I will say, sometimes I ask questions that I probably could just search but as a long time viewer of this forum the brake caliper upgrade has truly been mentioned a million times.

 

I have seen people talking about it, but like I said I didnt understand the abbreviations, make sense now. But im not planning on doing the fronts. Now a rear dosc conversion or an 01 Sequoia rear end conversion/ swap thats what I'm after.