Replacing Rear drums and hardware.

My rear parking brake cable broke off so I am replacing that and then I got to looking at the rear drums. They are in bad shape, particularly the hardware inside. A lot of rust. Going to check the front pads and rotors while I'm at it. I am looking for parts on brakes but haven't had any luck on a definitive answer.
Front pads and rotors some folks seem to like power stop? https://www.powerstop.com/product/power-stop-z36-brake-kit/

 

Aisin for front calipers, pads & shims, rotors.

Rear drums, OEM is the only thing you’re 100% guaranteed not to have warped straight outta the box. Repack the adjusters, or buy new if teeth are worn, can’t do aftermarket. Springs and hardware you can probably fudge. Wheel cylinders, buy Aisin.

We just had yet another victim of warped-out-the-box big-name-brand drums here in the last 72hrs. Folks just don’t want to listen.

 

I still have to install my new rear brakes shoes and drums. Thank goodness for the recent 25 percent off. Turned out to be $190.92 shipped a pair of OEM drums (thanks to free shipping over $75 and no sales tax from Serra Toyota). Can't get remotely decent aftermarlet for that, especially shipped. I had already got the shoes.

Went on a work trip recently. My local (to Chicago) work buddy picked me up. Was suprised and happy to see he pulled up in a Gen 1 AC. Great truck, but he definitely had shuddering when he was braking on the freeway. He had installed Powerstop. And he is definitely mechanically minded. He'd also installed longtube headers, new seatbelts, redone his suspension, a ton of work. So I'm pretty sure it was not a sloppy install causing the shuddering. Now it wasn't horrible by any means, but you could definitely feel it. That's just a single point of data, but it convinced me to go OEM.

 

Ok I'll go with OEM for the drums and shoes for the rear. Ordering a RAYBESTOSH17343 hardware kit for the rear and aisin wheel cylinders. Local dealer is quoting $360 for two drums and rear brake shoe kit which includes 4 shoes. Does that seem expensive?

 

Probably about $50 higher than you can possibly buy from the same dealer, if you start your order through the Toyota Parts portal for local pickup. You know you can do that if the dealer is part of Toyota Parts Program, right?

If not, I can explain. We have a sticky thread on the topic. NEVER buy parts directly from the counter. They're going to charge you MSRP on everything.

 

Thats how I found the parts. The prices were very similar to Ourisman Toyota too.

 

Weird, usually I find local pickup when ordering through autoparts.toyota.com for local pickup to be at least 10-20% cheaper. I have five dealers near me, two are close to MSRP, the other two are pretty substantial.

For my drums on my '06 AC (which may or may not differ from your '06 DC) part number is 42431-34021 with MSRP of 180.96, i.e. two would cost me around your price quoted, $360.

The highest-discounted dealers in the Atlanta area are World Toyota and Marietta Toyota. World is showing $125.11 on pickup, a massive 34% discount, so roughly $250 for a pair of new drums, before tax.

If you don't live in the state of Alabama, you can get free shipping and no tax on this part from THIS DEALER, but make sure if you order from them, you never order from their Decatur AL store. The Birmingham store is great. Your price on drums would be $254.56 shipped, out the door.

I never buy parts at the counter unless it's something that's less than $10-20. And any time I order parts online, I usually add in a few consumables like oil filters and such because you can usually get them at $2-4/ea, which makes for cheap oil changes, using the exact flow characteristics Toyota designed to work well with their engine.

 

I've had the same experience typically. If I walk into the local stealer to buy over the counter, they typically charge me ~ 20-30% MORE than MSRP!!! I only do that when I have to have it urgently.

 

Over MSRP is my experience too 'over the counter' at the Toyota nearest to me. Granted, it was just some bolts, so the fact that it is less than 5 miles away meant that the extra they charged for the bolts was offset by the minimal fuel and time to get there and back. They also don't participate in the autoparts thing. Let them make their extra 3 bucks on the bolts, that's all they will make from me.

 

I ordered OEM drums and brake shoes, AISIN wheel cylinders, RAYBESTOS hardware kit, and OEM LBJs with 8 nuts. I'll take some pics and post it when I can. Thanks for all the help everyone.