What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

as far as seals go all i need is the inner axle seal and o-ring, correct?

 

Haha tried that yesterday since I was doing lbjs. Now the shaft nut is stuck with probably 2 threads left. Damn rust.

 

Check the bearings and races too. What o-ring?

 

o-ring talked about in this write up.

 

inner seals, outer seals, o ring, bearings, clips. the bearings are trashed, all the grease has been washed out by the gear lube. rear shoes obviously too. gotta press the bearing/backing plate and abs retainer(if u have abs) and spacers.
if u dont have a press. take out both axles and bring them to someone who does. we charge only an hour per axle. alot cheaper if u do it that way. dont bring it to someone whos never done it. they will mess it up..... i fix small shops mistakes all the time. you have to pay close attention to where the spacers sit....

 

Huh. Learned something new.

 

Night pics to come... Hella 700ff's with 55w 5k HID's from DDM tuning. I am reminded of how much I f'ing hate wiring.

 

Crap, what happens if I check the bearings and they are good?

 

Yup if you're doin the whole hub, it's going to be around 200 with parts an labor.
At least in pretty sure that's what mine was.


Should he just replace that inner seal and see if it's that or are you sure te bearing is toast?

I'm pretty sure I went through the whole bearing replacement and I didn't really need to

 

Went trail riding yesterday. Got more pics in the build

 

Im really hoping the bearing is good because I dont have the spare cash to do it right now. But I will have a spare car available to me all week and my friend has a shop and said he would let me use his press when I asked him months ago when I was inquiring about a rear disc swap.

 

Anyone know how to remove this hose? Is a weird connection

 

Its not wired its a hose. You have to get the little tabs off the clip and pull on it

 

Yeah I just got it off now I can't get this damn check valve out

 

I see you broke that one black part off

 

Got my doug thorley headers in that I found on craigslist. They look awesome! There's one thing throwing me off however. The passenger side header looks like its half way coated in ceramic. Also, the flange looks like it was welded on after they were made or something. The weld doesn't look like the other factory welds. In the hardware kit there is supposed to be a 2 bolt flange that is supposed to be welded to the stock cat to bolt up to the y pipe. This flange is not in the hardware. I am wondering if the previous owner had the supplied flange welded to the passenger side head or something and that's why it looks funny. There should have been a flange on the passenger side header regardless though. The hardware baggy wasn't opened or anything either. Hmmm kinda got me confused. I mean they will work just how they are except I have to get one more additional flange for the cat. Just wondering whats up with these. Here are some pics.

 

Haha yeah to gain some leverage! Got me swapped out. Now waiting for the CEL to come back on

 

Did this yesterday. Much improvement!!

 

After getting the glass fixed on the cap, and installing T4R roof racks with custom crossbars on it, i finally got to mount it back on the truck.
Also got my car seat base installed. Baby should be here anytime now. Woot Woot!

 

Your Taco looks almost identical to mine, and thanks for showing me what it looks like with 33's......