Christmas Starts Early

[eddie926]

Finally got the rest of my parts together and am looking at doing my suspension in the next week or two. Woohoo!!



H&R Sports
Tokico HP Blues
TRD RSB
Gen4 bushing brackets
Strut boots
Strut mounts
Bump stops
Upper & lower coil insulators

[bigbird]

nice man have fun with it.

[John5516]

Where did you get all that? And how much did it set you back. The RSB was my next project for my Camry. Thanks for the info!

[eddie926]

Originally Posted by John5516

Where did you get all that? And how much did it set you back. The RSB was my next project for my Camry. Thanks for the info!

Several members here had recommend contacting Reggie over on solaraguy.com, as the RSB was available thru him for $150 shipped.

I contacted him, and as it turns out he's a Toyota parts guy at a dealership about 20 miles from my house. So, I ordered all the parts from him and just picked them up.

rear sway bar brkts (2) $4.88ea
rear sway bar brkt bolts (4) $.54 ea
rear endlinks (2) $61.03 ea
rear endlink nuts (4) $1.06ea
trd rsb (1) $145.00
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subtotal $283.22
total w/tax $304.79

Shipping it to my house would have been another 3%. Paying via PayPal rather than credit card would have been another 3%.

As you can see, the new endlinks were almost as much as the RSB. A lot of people don't replace those apparently. Eyeball96 said he replaced his, so I asked my Toyota mechanic friend about it. He knows how I take care of my cars, and he knows I'm planning to keep it for the long haul, so he recommended that I replace them. Personal choice

Sign up at Solaraguy.com, and PM Reggie. His ID there is NVDIS1.

I won't be installing mine until I get my new springs and struts. Sometime after Christmas

By the way, Reggie is a great guy to work with, and came highly recommended by Milt, Eyeball96, and others. Thanks for the referral guys. I couldn't be happier with the transaction and will be going back to Reggie to get new strut mounts when I get my Tokicos.

[DAMON]

I have worked with reggie a few times as well, super good guy! Going with the endlinks is smart, I had to replace mine because they were blobs of solid rust thanks to michigan winters

smart to do all of your suspension work at once too, nice!

[Venom_5]

gah, $300 ... i guess ill have to do the struts/springs only this winter

[John5516]

Thanks for the info, I was looking into replacing the RSB w/ end links. Unfortunately money is only permitting the RSB for now. Would it be bad if I changed the RSB and waited till I could do the Endlinks and etc a little later? Thanks again!

[eddie926]

Originally Posted by John5516

Thanks for the info, I was looking into replacing the RSB w/ end links. Unfortunately money is only permitting the RSB for now. Would it be bad if I changed the RSB and waited till I could do the Endlinks and etc a little later? Thanks again!

As I said, I've seen several people say that they just kept their original endlinks. If yours are ok, and you don't damage anything taking the stock swaybar out, then it shouldn't be a problem. I just wanted to do it all at the same time to reduce the labor, and to have all new suspension.

[BlueFusion6851]

lol, I thought this was a new topic.... thought to myself 'WTF, christmas 8 months early?' glad to see that you're finishing up on everything

[eddie926]

Originally Posted by BlueFusion6851

lol, I thought this was a new topic.... thought to myself 'WTF, christmas 8 months early?' glad to see that you're finishing up on everything

Yeah, didn't want to start a whole new thread just for an update....

[felonyr301]

Aren't the H&R sport springs suppose to be black and the oe sports is red???

[mario4346]

Originally Posted by eddie926

Finally got the rest of my parts together and am looking at doing my suspension in the next week or two. Woohoo!!



H&R Sports
Tokico HP Blues
TRD RSB
Gen4 bushing brackets
Strut boots
Strut mounts
Bump stops
Upper & lower coil insulators

I just picked up a Gen4 i4 and it needs suspension work bad. I basically plan on doing the same set up you're doing except I wasn't planning on the RSB. I guess I could do that later since my budget might only allow for so many parts at one time. Did you buy everything online separately ? Could you give me some links? Thanks.

[eddie926]

Originally Posted by mario4346

I just picked up a Gen4 i4 and it needs suspension work bad. I basically plan on doing the same set up you're doing except I wasn't planning on the RSB. I guess I could do that later since my budget might only allow for so many parts at one time. Did you buy everything online separately ? Could you give me some links? Thanks.

H&Rs came from TireRack.com
http://tirerack.com

Tokicos came from seller jdmwerks13 on eBay
http://stores.ebay.com/jdmwerks13

RSB and all other misc parts came through Reggie in the parts dept. at Ackerman Toyota in St. Louis. If you want to contact him, sign up on http://www.solaraguy.com/ and PM him. His id there is NVDIS1. He was recommended by Milt and many others on this forum, and was very good to work with.

Otherwise, if you want to buy any of the Toyota OEM parts online without having to make a connection with someone, the cheapest place I found was Toyota of Dallas at http://www.trademotion.com/partlocat...?siteid=214074

I may try to post part numbers at some point for all the stuff I got so other folks can reference them.

[mario4346]

^ Thanks, Part nos. would be great when you get around to it.

[eddie926]

Originally Posted by mario4346

^ Thanks, Part nos. would be great when you get around to it.

Well, I guess the part numbers would likely be different for you since you have a gen4...