For the few of us here with Double Cabs, I just ordered a Hellwig rear sway bar for my truck. I'm hoping this will improve my handling quite a bit since cornering kinda sucks in our trucks. Anyway, it's supposed to be a straight up bolt-on so I will let you guys know my opinion once it's on.

 

good luck man..and its good to see another board member from around the tampa bay area!

 

How much was it and where did you get it from?

Make sure you post the results and your opinion. I am really interested in what you think. That may have to be the next mod to my doublecab.


By the way, do you have the TRD Off-Road package on your truck? The handling with the Bilsteins is supposed to be better than the regular suspention.

Noel

 

it was $130 and I got it from JC Whitney. tomus1000 yes I do have a TRD DCab, they come with tokicos not bilsteins, only reg. and ext. cab TRD come with bilsteins.

 

HUH? Maybe the Prerunners don't come with the same suspention. Mine has blue and yellow Bilsteins. The same ones that are on my buddie's TRD Tundra? Has anyone else heard this?

 

As far as I know both PreRunner and 4x4 Double Cabs equipped with the TRD Off-Road Package have Tokicos not Bilsteins, like I said before, only regular cabs and ext. cabs have Bilsteins. The Tokicos are also yellow and blue, mine definitely say Tokico on them not Bilstein. Check it out on toyota.com

 

Ok. I'll check it out. Assuming they are Tokicos (same company that makes the six piston calipers on my motorcycle), what is the difference between them and the Bils?

 

I really don't know the difference between them, I'm sure someone around here could tell us more about the specs on them though. That is why I have been leaning toward replacing them with Bils, I personally thing the Tokicos give a pretty rough ride which would hopefully be corrected by swapping shocks.

 

ive never heard of any tacoma having tokicos. i am 100% positive prerunners and 4x4TRD package have bilstein. shocks. just read your shock next time u get a chance

 

Ok, I'm not making this up, at least I dont think, go to TOYOTA TACOMA and look at this page, you will notice at the bottom there are footnotes. #3 footnote under the TRD package, look at this footnore, it says " #3 Xtracab models. Tokico shocks on Double Cab models." And yes I have read my shock before and they do say Tokico.

 

thats odd, ive never heard of them using tokico before. thought they all used bilsteins, mine had bilsteins.

 

was yours a double cab?

 

Did you get the sway bar on there yet?

 

Do you plan on using the sway bar off-road? And if so, have you given any consideration to the effects it will have? I'm not trying to be a jerk, just wanted to make sure you evaluated that.

 

tomus1000, no I have not recieved the sway bar yet, it should be coming in Wednesday afternoo, so I will probably install it Thursday after class or Friday morning.

BajaTaco, no I dont really go off-road too much, it actually performs very good for being 2WD, never gotten stuck yet, I guess the locker helps quite a bit. Anyway, I just want better handling/conrnering around the city, I am not too concerned about off-road performance.

 

Cool - good deal Best of luck with the install!

 

After much anticipation, I did not recieve my sway bar on Wednesday. That's right, once again Fedex has screwed up. Apparently they did not have an apartment # on the address so he(driver) left the package on my front porch(so he says) guessing and hoping it would be the right apartment. Anyway, after I told him the sddress, he confirmed that he had delivered it to the right apartment, but the package was missing. Somebody apparently walked by and stole my package--a Hellwig Anti-Sway bar for a Toyota Tacoma. Boy I bet whoever stole it is pissed, they probably dont even know what it is. So now I have to wait for JC Whitney to send me another one, they said they would send it overnight at Fedex's expense, they were very nice and fast about it, considering it wasn't their fault. So as soon as I get it I will let everyone know.

 

After much anticipation, I did not recieve my sway bar on Wednesday. That's right, once again Fedex has screwed up. Apparently they did not have an apartment # on the address so he(driver) left the package on my front porch(so he says) guessing and hoping it would be the right apartment. Anyway, after I told him the address, he confirmed that he had delivered it to the right apartment, but the package was missing. Somebody apparently walked by and stole my package--a Hellwig Anti-Sway bar for a Toyota Tacoma. Boy I bet whoever stole it is pissed, they probably dont even know what it is. So now I have to wait for JC Whitney to send me another one, they said they would send it overnight at Fedex's expense, they were very nice and fast about it, considering it wasn't their fault. So as soon as I get it I will let everyone know.

 

That sucks! Fed-ex never delivers anything without getting a signiture. This guy must be pretty lazy.

Hey, I wonder if the Fed-ex guy drives a Tacoma...

 

That's right, I finally got my rear swaybar installed. It's AWESOME! After a short drive around my apt. complex I could definetly tell a HUGE difference. It greatly reduces body roll, cornering and hadling are greatly improved, not to mention the truck feels a lot more stable. Another thing I noticed, it improved my ride quality as the rear end is a lot tighter it doesnt bouce around as much. The truck doesnt handle as well as my 2000 Celica GT-S did but it isvery noticeable. I strongly reccomend it to anyone who is looking for better handling and cornering, I think it fits all model tacomas.