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

I don’t know if it would make any difference, but does it make the same noise when 4wd is engaged?

 

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Im gonna paint mine red lol, cause I know how much you love color coded parts muhahaha

 

This

 

5100 rears ordered will be here saturday. 96 a pop.
Saturday will be front pads, rear adjustment as im pretty sure I'm stopping on fronts only, parking brake adjustment, and rear shocks. Fun fun fun

 

Be sure and get pics. We like pics. Like, a lot.

 

My 5100 rears will be here today.
You must've also ordered from the link Casey posted. After taxes, I paid $208 for the pair and got free shipping. Wheelers offroad was selling the pair for $210 plus tax with free shipping and 1st gen offroad was selling the pair for $220 plus tax with free shipping. So I'm pretty happy with the approx $17-27 savings.

 

My 5100 rears have lasted 140k miles or so. Had to replace the fronts around 70k for a blown shaft seal. Second front set is around 70k now and still going strong.

 

I was always told to replace shocks every 100k miles

 

Agree. I’m more like 80k myself. But they just aren’t BAD yet. Likely degraded performance, but they keep the rear settled, don’t leak and just aren’t bad yet. Wife’s Jeep GC needed rears (Nivomets) but her fronts still handle great at 150k miles. I could likely tell a difference if I replaced them. Probably should.

 

If you feel a jar from driving over a pothole an inch deep, you'll know they're shot otherwise they'll always look perfectly normal.

 

Agree, they are outside of normal service life and have not failed. New ones would likely ride better, these just don’t ride bad. When my Tundra needed new fronts, the old ones were shot. Drove like a boat and nose dived when braking. It was a handful on the freeway. Outright failure. It’s one of those things when the shocks don’t fail, they just slowly fade away and you don’t notice how bad they have gotten. I’m positive new ones would improve the ride feel in hers. The Tundra still drives pretty great.

 

I think I saw recently that the Toyota Bilsteins lasted like 200k or something. I've also heard of someone never replacing them on a million mile truck. Not sure how true those statement are though.

 

They’ve gotta ride like ass at a million miles. Guess it depends on what kind of duty they see. Probably all highway.

 

That's a great idea, it might be the only variable I haven't tried.

 

I get clunk with or without 4WD engaged.

 

Definitely.

 

I don’t know if this has been mentioned or not but how are your bushings on your rack and on your sway bar? I replaced mine and all my clunking went away (unless I do hit a bump really hard and I get clunk from my shock bushings; theyre blown out). But at low speed I have zero clunking issues.

 

Jesus. That's 33 years for me, unless I loose my work truck.

 

Bushings on the sway bar are new, about 500 miles on them. I'll check the rack bushings again, but those (and the rack itself) only have a little over 3000 miles on them.

 

Then there's people like me that have ran four different types of rear shocks in the last 100k miles...

 

It would take that long to hit 100k?

 

Tell me more. Which ones, why change so many times, which ones you like the best?
I'm still on the 5160's I put on my 4x4 back in 2018. But I do plan to swap em for something else once the truck hits 300k miles (about 50k from now)

 

Damn Des! That shit gets expensive!

I'll probably upgrade my COs since I didn't understand what I was doing and upgraded my rears to Alumas, so I gotta get the fronts to match!

 

3k miles a year.

 

same

 

And you were just bitching about mileage last night...

 

damn they should still be good? Lol