Carrier bearing bad?? (Vid)

I'm guessing this is where the squeak is coming from in low speeds and possibly the vibration around 50-60? U joints to me seem okay, the one closest to transmission may have a tiny bit of play. I would have thought they would have gone out before my bearing but I did have my driveshaft rebuilt/replaced (can't remember) when truck was wrecked a few years ago. Maybe this was a cheap replacement? Any input helpful

http://youtu.be/53F2IiO5tzA

 

hard to tell from the viewing angle, but it looks too sloppy, it should have no more the 1/4" of movement in it or it needs replacing

 

Yeah sorry about the angle just tried to get a quick vid in before work. But I'm pretty sure its more than 1/4. Think I'm just gonna replace that and all the u joints at the same time. Thanks for the response.

 

the u-joints for the center section are very special bastards you cant get just anywhere. they are ONLY sourced from a specialty bearing shop (cant recall the name) so don't mess with em unless you have to and most people get another drive shaft to fix those instead of replacing them. as for the front and rear u-joints, if they don't have play then its best to leave them alone, that goes for all of them. u-joint failures can happen of course but its not something that fails very often unless it runs out of grease so the ones you have "could" go 500k miles with no issues. just sayin

 

Okay thanks for that I was about to order all 4 under the impression they were all the same but thanks for the info. The diagram on the rock auto website for a few different brands/options had it listed that they were the same but that wasn't specific for the tacoma so I'm just not going to mess with them. I am however going to replace the center bearing and the front most u joint because it does have a small amount of play that could only get worse.

Under the truck today I realized that my truck does have the zerks to grease the joints... I have read a couple of times that prerunners do not have greasable u joints? So for the 30k miles I have put on my truck I have never greased them. Never knew I should be doing this until recently

 

FKG WOW.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx4hTc9jlIc

 

Just grease them up. Do not change them unless they feel ratchety as any aftermarket u joint is crap compared to what toyota stuck in there form the factory. If it wont take grease, hit the zerk with a blast of heat from a map gas torch and then grease it up. If there is one part on your truck to keep greased its that CV assembly on the rear drive-shaft since they are a PITA to find used and even more expensive to find OEM quality parts for.

 

That's a nasty vibration! I have an 05 RC M/T that I need to change the U-Joint on, Toyota is telling me that I need 3 of them but looking under my truck, I only see 2. Is Toyota wrong or am I missing something?

 

Youre in first gen section... but you should have 3 ujoints on the rear shaft, two together up front and one on the rear...

 

As for sourcing the bastartd ujoints for the cardan joint there are atleast a couple threads on here that go into depth on where and how to source them and such...