400fanboy

Febest TAB-172 is the other bushing for the knuckle. I'm not sure the year ranges it works on, but I think it's all LS400's.

It's out of production and pretty much unavailable at this point. Which sucks. And the new OEM rear knuckle assembly is rapidly going out of production. One of the two knuckles for my car is out of production already.

demigure

Sad to hear. I was struggling to find any bushing at all for TAB-172. Seems like it's a take pretty much anything we can get at this point kinda deal.
That's why I went with a poly replacement, even though I don't want any poly in this car.

400fanboy

Correction: both knuckles are now out of production. My order was just rejected. Lexuspartsnow has both of them at double the price... well, they say they have both of them. We'll see about that one. They do run a warehouse so their inventories\availabilities are usually correct.

Yeah poly is the last resort. It's at least on one of the least important locations, rather than on the upper control arms where it would matter a lot more. But still.

demigure

You gonna send it at LexusPartsNow?

400fanboy

Yes I already have

demigure

Sweet! Good luck. Keep us posted on how it goes

demigure

Updating here about my springs: I managed to find an ebay seller with all 4 corners complete OEM shock/strut assembly for $200 shipped.
I also went ahead and bought all 4 brand new KYB shocks.

The complete struts from ebay were off a car with 127,000 miles, so I want to run a little experiment:
-Put these complete but used struts on and see how they feel/ride vs my lowering springs and shocks of unknown condition/brand.
-Then, swap the brand new shocks/struts on with the OEM springs and see how that feels.
-Lastly I'm going to complete my whole front/rear suspension refresh. Should be as close to OEM factory fresh as it can be after that.

I'm sure I already know what the winner will be but I'm really excited to try to feel the differences.
Will report back and post it on my YT channel as well.