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

Play around in Death Valley or the Mojave Road or any number of places with that dirt which is like talcum powder and that shit just gets everywhere. Just up in Oregon in the Newberry Volcanic National Monument and ALL the dirt EVERYwhere is like that...no nook or cranny left undusted.

 

Got my leather kit today time to get the funk out of these limited seats

 

replaced my u-joints today, which turned out to be a major PITA, but should be able to head to california tomorrow without the awful squeaks and vibration.

 

Really beginning to wonder if the tire shop even bled my brakes today. Before I changed the pads and rotors, everything worked fine. I change the pads and rotors, and make the tiny mistake of cracking the bleeder to assist in compressing a stuborn piston. So I bleed it some. Pedal was rock hard and the brakes worked fine. Drove it this morning and the pedal sorta kinda skips just working it while sitting in a parking lot. So, I pay a place that knows me as a previous customer $100 to flush my brakes. Then they tell me I need a master cylinder, as the skipping isnt air related. Also, the pedal is softer after I brought it to them than before I brought it in. Gonna take it to my dealer tomorrow for an eval. Brake fluid was clean for as long as Ive had the truck. No sludge or anything. I have a hunch this tire shop has lost a customer.

 

I feel like you coulda just done it yourself by now haha

 

Work and school come first.

 

Always pretty disappointed with what 100 bucks gets me at the stealership.


CV snap rings
CV bolts
Diff/axle seal
Diff/manual axle tube seal
Diff fill plug
Diff fill crush gasket
Diff drain plug
Diff drain crush gasket

$103.19

 

You done got ripped off.

$51.74

 

Lol... didn't any other option than to go to the local Dealership.

"Local Dealership" and "ripped off" are synonymous.

 

I suppose.

You could've ordered all those parts online on Camelback's website.

 

Try that at a European dealership, you be lucky if you come back out with all your clothes let alone the $100

 

I would have... if gunny would answer his PMs.

I PMed him over a week ago, and I've tagged him in 3 or 4 posts... no response.

 

He's like that, he's a busy guy. But you can still order from their website and it'll be 100x cheaper than a local dealer.

 

If it's dusty it sticks, if it's wet it doesn't get that far.

 

Yep that’s gotta be it.

 

Their parts catalog on their page only goes back to '06. And I didn't have part numbers for everything.

 

Was it dusty

I don’t understand why youre so fixated on this

 

There’s a foam seal between the vent and the plumbing, I’m sure it just got old and broke down.

 

Welp time to move on.

 

I ordered parts for a 96 not even five days ago, you sure you're using it right?