Toyota & Lexus

Alex Buhite's 2nd gen Tacoma has run five 24 Hours of Appalachia endurance rallies on the same JBA upper control arms. In July, nearly everything on the truck broke, except the arms.

We put JBA High Caster upper control arms on our 3-inch-lifted 2nd gen Tacoma. Here's why we chose JBA, what's in the kit, and how the install went.

A lifted GX can look right and still not handle well. If your alignment tech is fighting caster, the front end feels nervous on the highway, or the suspension tops out hard off-road, the weak link is often sitting right above the spindle. Lexus GX upper control arms are not just a supporting part in a lifted setup - they are a geometry correction part, a durability upgrade, and in many cases the difference

A lifted Tundra can look right and still drive wrong. If your front end feels nervous on the highway, tops out over sharp hits, or chews through ball joints after the lift, the weak point usually is not the shock - it is the geometry. That is exactly where tundra upper control arms lifted for real suspension travel earn their keep.

Factory upper control arms were designed around stock ride height,

A Tacoma with a lift and stock upper control arms usually tells on itself fast. You feel it in vague steering, limited droop, uneven tire wear, or that nagging sense the front end is working harder than it should. If you're shopping for the best upper control arms for Tacoma, you're not really buying a cosmetic upgrade - you're correcting geometry, reclaiming articulation, and building a front suspension

Lift a 4Runner an inch or two and the factory front end starts showing its limits fast. Alignment gets tighter, droop gets shorter, and the stock ball joint angle can end up working harder than Toyota ever intended. That is exactly why a 4Runner upper control arm upgrade becomes more than a cosmetic add-on - it is one of the parts that decides whether your lifted rig drives tight and tracks straight