NW WA Meet / BS Thread

No, that's my van, and I only drive it on the weekends when grade school is in session.

 

But i thought you lend it to @twalchlii1 on the weekends for cruising the Tacoma mall?

 

He's been driving it to work every day.

 

I believe 19 is East to West and 17 is North to South

Yeah, and that time some guy on the 4Runner Facebook page posted a picture of you parked at work.

You’ve got a fan.

 

I also had a friend that sent me a pic of your truck, just after I had bought mine and joined here, while you where parked at the 76, "check this guy's truck out" and I simply replied, yeah that's jdam. He said who TF is jdam. I said I dunno but he's on TW too. Lol

 

Any of you guys use Drivelines NW to get your u-joint replaced?
or is it a simple enough job to do yourself. i'm more or less worried about messing up the balance and if i'd need a press or not.
Thanks!

 

Do not go to Drivelines NW. They are the worst. If you are down south go to fleetpride in Tacoma. Much better, quicker, and cheaper.

 

Ive done a bunch with a hammer and socket. I'm sure its a lot easier to drop off your truuk and pick it up a few hours later tho

 

i'm in the Lynnwood, Everett area, They said i'd have to pull the driveline off and even then it would take them 2-4 days.

Used to do Temp work at Fleepride in kirkland before they closed it down.
Didn't know they even touched drivelines.

 

Don't go to them. You can pull your rear driveline yourself easy and drive in 4wd hi. I take my stuff down to tacoma, its a long drive but they'll get it done that day.
Or call Torfab and see if they can do it anytime soon.

 

I know Torfab, totally forgot about them. They are one of my customers and i only work like 5 minutes from them.
We make all their brakelines

 

FWIW last time I called (1.5 months ago) Torfab was booked out 2.5+ months but I know they have been trying to hire additional staff since then.

 

@Goran

As stated, if you know which u-joint is bad - it takes maybe 1-2 hours to remove/replace.
I didn't know which one so I started with the one closest to the 3rd member.
I also marked the original alignment with "Hello Kitty" pink finger nail polish so my driveline wouldn't be out of phase.
I used a socket and a mini sledge.
All of the needle bearings in one of the caps was completely rusted and fell apart when finally apart.
Turns out the grease channel was completely blocked with something.
The affected u-joint post was oval-ed out.

 

I think @twalchlii1 knows a guy that does joints for beer.

 

Anyone know of a shop other than Mule that can weld on BAMF relocation kit with 12” shocks?

 

Those guys rod and customs in Bremerton, Sasquatch motorsports in Marysville might be able to but they usually build buggies.

 

Ok I’ll give them a call tomorrow and see if they can do it. Thanks man

 

I know Those guys is booked out quite a bit. We need more fab shops around here