its cause of numpties who don’t care how things work, only that it looks fancy and new. Discs on HD trucks make sense because they have higher heat capacity, but on a light truck, with light towing and light payload limits? Its crotch stuffing.

I suspect its all down to tires at this point. I couldn’t see what Tacoma they were testing but the one in the C&D article was a TRD off road with the more off road worth tires. The moral of the story is that the “ancient” drums on the tacoma work just fine in the real world, even stacked up against discs. People just…

That’s my stand on them. Sucks to service but you do it less and they perform great on the back of a truck. People need to get over this.

Why’s it absurd? Cause it’s an old technology? So is the beam axle. so are steel frames.

I hate maintaining drum brakes (I have them on the rear of both of my vehicles) but at the end of the day they have a great service life and aparently resist brake fade and warping better. Its not a sports car so I have never been concerned about the brakes

I guess it depends on who’s testing

boo hoo, it stops better than an all disc colorado and the pads last forever. Quitcha bitchin.

They need to bring back the factory clinometer.

There’s a difference between theory and production feasibility.

In theory, yes, an IFS setup should indeed trounce a solid-axle design in every way. But in practice, you’ve got to consider dynamics, overall cost and packaging space—and after you’ve done that, you wind up with a production vehicle that just doesn’t…

David, let me help to illustrate your article. Same truck, same amount of lift, same rock. Before and after of a solid axle swap.

Was looking for the geo cities logo

I’m going to assume you do not work in IT. While this is not an excuse by any means, but having a top notch backup/recovery system requires quite a bit of money. I’ve worked for a county agency for years, that even contained a metropolitan city, and IT money still comes from the bottom of the barrel. It sucks, but it…

240s were ruined the minute Nissan gave it a truck engine.

That’s the weirdest ‘right, front wheel well’ I’ve ever seen......

I like everything but the pedal shortage. So I’m forced to favor something a bit more archaic.

As an airline engineer whose job function is the nacelles (includes thrust reversers) the best response I’ve got is “Maybe?”

Double-clutching (disengaging the clutch, shifting to neutral, engaging the clutch, disengaging the clutch, shifting into gear, engaging the clutch) shouldn’t increase the wear on anything as long as the revs aren’t completely out of whack. You should probably learn how a transmission works before you come off as a…

[citation needed]

Right. But double-clutching when downshifting is not about giving the synchros time to adjust; it’s about using the engine/clutch to bring the layshaft up to the necessary (much higher) speed it must be at in the lower gear, rather than making the synchros do the work.

$40 says Taverish was involved somehow...