75' Drum Brake Woes and OEM Parts Availability (3 Viewers)

[phishtaco]

FWIW, I ordered a pair of rear wheel cylinders from cruiserteq on Monday afternoon and received them Wednesday afternoon in OH. Price was fair for Japanese made products and shipping was fast. Pretty much a no brainer.

 

[Wildcat Walker]

FWIW, I ordered a pair of rear wheel cylinders from cruiserteq on Monday afternoon and received them Wednesday afternoon in OH. Price was fair for Japanese made products and shipping was fast. Pretty much a no brainer.

How do they compare to the originals? Any pictures?

 

[Jdc1]

How do they compare to the originals? Any pictures?

Anything that @cruiseroutfit /cruiserteq sells will fit the bill.

 

[rlong]

Awhile back I put all new OEM Tokico shocks on my 40. They were about $20 each. I damaged one on the trail and went back to the dealer to get a replacement. The part number had been superseded and the new price was $40. When I opened the package, the original $20 part number was stamped into the shock body, it was identical.

Most economies are based on “market price” as opposed to “cost”. They charge what someone there thinks is the market price; Old Toyota parts prices are not very consistent but should not be expected to be fixed at cost. I am an appraiser, appraised homes for years. Sometimes one of the bigger, nicer, homes in the neighborhood would sell higher than all other sales, and the lender would balk… I eventually started telling them “If no house can ever sell for more than the highest price in the neighborhood, then houses would cost the same as when Lincoln was President”.

 

[charliemeyer007]

How good can a $20 shock be? Well its better than the same unit in a new box at $40. Soon it will be like $10,000 allen wrenches or $50,000 toilet seats. Mr. T must be on the NASA model now.

 

[Wildcat Walker]

Most economies are based on “market price” as opposed to “cost”. They charge what someone there thinks is the market price; Old Toyota parts prices are not very consistent but should not be expected to be fixed at cost. I am an appraiser, appraised homes for years. Sometimes one of the bigger, nicer, homes in the neighborhood would sell higher than all other sales, and the lender would balk… I eventually started telling them “If no house can ever sell for more than the highest price in the neighborhood, then houses would cost the same as when Lincoln was President”.

All I can say is that I wish you assholes would stop paying double and triple what stuff sells for. Yall walk in and complain your parts bill is too low? We ARE the market.

 

[Wildcat Walker]

IMO, it actually isn't hard to justify for many. $375 for an discontinued OEM (Aisin/Advics is OEM) part that will last another 30-40 years (or far more by tossing in a Japanese rebuild kit), is pretty modest imo. Note, we (Cruiser Oufitters) don't have one to sell you, we sold our last OEM/AISIN one last year. If you wouldn't mind sharing who still has the 47201-60030/31 (BMT-060) for $375, I'd love to pick one or two up. That is about what I paid for the last few I bought out of the Middle East after tax, duties and shipping. For those that need a lower cost option, there are a wide variety of aftermarket or used OEM cores available to toss a rebuild kit in.




Supply restriction from Amayama generally means it's a NLA part. I'm assuming they do that to keep search engine optimization? Not sure but that is not a country resricted part, it's discontinued imo. Need all (8) cylinder kits? I'd be happy to give them to you for $70/set of 8. Or, we can get you setup with a full set of (8) Japanese complete new wheel cylinders for $300. We will be setting up sets of (4) and (8) on our CruiserTeq site soon.

Kurt, I took a look at the wheel cylinders on your website, the piston ends do not have the angled self-centering geometry as the originals. I want to retain the self centering functionality so I'll give a rebuild of my OEM cylinders a try. I'll take you up on your offer for the rebuild kit set, those are not posted on your website yet. Do you have any 10psi external residual pressure valves for sing the 80 series master on the 4-wheel drum 40's? Sending you a PM.

 

[Wildcat Walker]

For anyone in the same predicament with the drum brake master cylinder, the Advics BMT-090 and a set of 10 psi residual pressure valves is what you need. The pressure valves install inline and the master is the same 1 inch bore as the original 75' 4 wheel drum master. Made in Japan and only about $76, the SAME price as the original one was before Advics decided to stop making them.