1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Perfect. Next question. Should I get U-joints with grease fittings or get sealed ones? Can someone chime in on pros and cons for going both routes?

 

This reminds me I need to grease my u-joints before I go wheeling tomorrow

I don't know if there are any advantages to going with sealed ones but I would stick with greaseable ones personally. Easy enough to do and peace of mind knowing they're greased I guess.

 

Thanks eon_blue. Has someone here done the CB drop? Is it worth it? I only have about 1.75 of lift.

 

I have a preference for grease-able ones, you can flush out any water/dust that may have gotten in with fresh grease, which is nice when my truck sees primarily dirt/mud/snow

 

I had a CB spacer in, was just a couple of 1/2" metal plates that push it down a bit. I ended up removing it, I think the general consensus is that it's better to fix your angles with axle shims as opposed to CB drop spacers.

I took mine out because not long after that I started noticing gear oil slowly seeping out of my pinion seal, dunno if it was the culprit but I removed it anyway.

But if you aren't getting any weird driveline vibes then I wouldn't worry about it.

 

I have one dropped, seems fine.

@eon_blue took his spacers out though.

 

So I got my 13WL calipers from Napa. What’s the likelihood they’ll notice if I bring my Taco calipers back as cores in a couple days?

 

@Frontier Man ... just had a 2oo1 white Taco pop up in salvage yard here ... this time its in town and not out of town
gonna round up me hammer and go pound on some taco frame see what shape its in


anybody need any 2oo1 taco salvage parts?

 

Gotcha. Does anyone know the spicer part number for our U-joints ?

 

You probably dont need it. Or just shim the axle

 

@lucky13don needs some stuff.

 

my experience is they just look in the box to see if it remotely resembles the same kind of part

 

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this yard provides no pics, so i gotta go in blind

 

yeah it was weird, when I removed the CB spacers it immediately fixed that loud PING from the driveshaft I was getting...for about 2 weeks. Then it came back with a vengeance. Not sure what that's about but I think it just means I need to grease the slip yoke by hand, just been too lazy to do it.

 

What is maintenance for 400

 

*insert pics of blown up front diff and rusted out frame*

 

"fucking piece of shit Tacomas"

 

Those are both wear items l

 

I suppose there's more than one way to define a wear item, yes