Parts for your 2013 Toyota Land cruiser-Brake wheel cylinders

2013 Toyota Land Cruiser brake wheel cylinders — are they used on this model?

Short answer: no, the 2013 Toyota Land Cruiser 200 Series doesn’t use brake wheel cylinders. Technical sources for the 200 Series (2013 model year) — including Toyota’s LandCruiser 200 Series specifications, the Toyota Repair Manual (BR: Brake System, Front/Rear Disc Brake sections), and the Toyota Electronic Parts Catalogue for URJ202R/VDJ200R platforms — list ventilated disc brakes front and rear with hydraulic calipers, not drum brakes with wheel cylinders.

Wheel cylinders are a drum-brake component. The 2013 Land Cruiser runs four-wheel disc brakes, so it uses calipers with pistons to clamp pads onto rotors. There’s no hydraulic wheel cylinder anywhere in the service brake system. The only “drum” on this vehicle is the small drum-in-hat parking brake housed inside the rear brake rotor. That parking brake is mechanical (cable-operated) and doesn’t use a wheel cylinder either.

Why Toyota doesn’t fit wheel cylinders to this model comes down to performance and durability. Disc brakes shed heat better under towing, off-road loads and long descents, they self-adjust as pads wear, and they offer more consistent pedal feel. The Land Cruiser’s calipers (multi-piston up front, two-piston at the rear in many trims) provide the clamping force that drum setups would otherwise achieve via wheel cylinders.

• Braking hardware on the 2013 Land Cruiser: ventilated discs front and rear