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

They look like a slightly metallic butterscotch to me, but hey, to each their own.

 

Yes thanks now I can make some memes for TW lmao

 

Gotcha covered.

 

Lets get them checked and see what the fuck is going on.

 

You can likely add @Squeaky Penguin to this chain of people who are replacing them prematurely, he has an estimated 30K and has play as well

 

These are OEM lbj's right?

 

Yes

 

Shit. Maybe I did good on getting 555 LBJs

 

Dam I thought my ball joints were 2 year ago. By my oil change records January of last year would put them at around 9k miles. There's at least an 1/8" of movement in the joint.

 

What is going on with these?

 

Swapped out my rear axle shafts to 4340 chromoly to replace a bent passenger side shaft and some jacked up seals.

 

same exact design. Same spindle even. No suprsied.

lol wtf. I'll have to check mine. Im going to take my blower off again to re seal the bypass valve.

well at least you can replace yours under warranty then.

 

What did the new shafts cost you? Did they come with wheel bearings and seals?

 

Ever had those days at work where you been there from 4:30p to 10:00am. and you think to yourself why your doing this?
I hate it when my coworkers call in "sick" but hey more money for the truck right?

 

Yep. Saw a Tundra on the side of the Highway 99 coming home from a trip last year. Same side. Long gouge in the asphalt leading up the the truck. Gotta be a little unnerving to have that happen at freeway speeds.

 

Hope he had some clean drawers in the glovebox if it happened on the interstate

 

No kidding. It was kinda in a remote stretch too.

 

After reading all the posts about OEM LBJs going bad so soon, I got nervous about mine and I started digging to see when I replaced mine. It was 2 years ago and about 15k miles, used OEM from Camelback. Hoping to get some free time this week to check mine out. Hoping they're good cause I definitely don't have the extra money to replace them again yet.

 

Will be receiving my lowrange elocker harness and switch. Kinda excited but I'm gonna restrain myself from jumping through the roof.