I got a major increse in control by replacing the old sway bar rubber grommets with the red polyester ones, Now I dont fee like I am going to flip over on exit ramps.

 

Echoing Paul H., definitely soak the nuts with a little penetrant or something beforehand. When I did mine they were rusted to crap and I had to put a 3-foot pipe on a breaker bar to remove them.

 

ditto
the big ole can of PBR goes along way.

 

Thanks for the tips, i'll do much soaking before and clean with a wire brush. I'll look into the Blistiens, but i do like maybe 1 or 2% off road driving and about 98 or 99% on road so i am not sure if i want to go to that extreem, there are other things on this rig that could use replaceing with the money i could save. How about OEMs? anybody know the price for 2 of those suckers?

 

My OE were Tokico.

The Bilsteins are very good for street driving too. They allow for much flatter cornering than the factory shocks and they are dampened in such a way that the rebound is controlled so you get a lot less tire bounce over expansion joints.....this makes for a smoother ride.

Also, when you go with the Bilsteins, you are essentially making you truck a TRD edition.

 

ok this is all good, except for when i hit a bump i get one really really big bump but if i drive over a speed bump it only bounces once, i heard if your shocks are going bad you will get multiple bounces it just feels like there is nothing absorbing the one bounce. Also i need to get an alignment should i do the shocks before or does it not matter?

 

well you dont feel like doin the work you could take it to les-schwabs and have it all done i think i paid $300 for my shocks installed and a alignment is $40-100 ... it dont matter if you do the shocks first wont do any thing to the alignment

 

HAHA i have had many bad experences with Les-Schwabs and now i go to a place called Cal-bare or something in portland very very good at what they do and alignment is all they do. Also its free if they check and don't find anything and if it is out and they fix it (i think it was about 30 or $40) they will check it and realign it for free for the next year.

It's not that i don't feel like doing it, i would love to do it, i it just sounds like some of those bolts might be a pain to get off after about 18 years. but i am deffinetly going to give it a shot.

 

Not if you have the Tacoma Double Cab TRD.... For whatever reason, on the Dub Cabs, Toyota put Tokico's on stock instead of the Billies.... It rides ok, but I'm saving the pennies for some Bills...