MARYLAND TACOMAS

Morning

 

It's possible. But it definitely feels like it's coming from the front drivers side. Idk I'll have to look into it more

 

Morning all. Well after only only three days of driving the 2019 Tacoma, I must say I was wrong. It's not a bad truck at all.

 

Drive till you hear it, hold speed, start making left and right pulls back and forth. You don't need to quite swerve across 3 Lanes, but enough to get the suspension loaded. If there noise comes and goes it's the wheel bearing. Also 80k is about when the wheel bearings go out on these trucks so it's probably the wheel bearing

 

Yeah i'll try that. Thanks man

 

My third gen was fine. It just didn't tow good enough for me.

 

I mean i could have checked it, you should’ve said something!

 

All good, i'll check it this weekend

 

Anyone have any interest in going to the Northeast Tacoma meet up on Sunday? About a 6 hour drive and I'd like to go and would enjoy the company!
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/2019-northeast-new-england-meet-august-18th.607230/

 

A trick that helps with a slide hammer is to use a ratchet strap, come-a-long, on a winch to keep constant, significant, pressure pulling on the tool then just slam the slide hammer home a few times and your done. I've never needed more then 3 or 4 strokes (insert joke here) before the hub and/or bearing came free.
Maybe I've just been lucky though.

 

Morning

 

Looks fun. I would consider it but I told my brother i'd help him with his basement

 

So I took the truck for a drive last night. Pretty sure its a bad wheel bearing. Got up to 40 and did a little swervy swervy, the humming went away when turning right but remained when turning left. Still want to jack the front end up and feel for differences between the two sides, but would this indicate that the passenger side is bad? Since the noise went away when un-loading that side?

 

That sounds right. If the wheel bearings are bad enough you will feel play in them when you jack up the truck and yank the top of the wheel back and forth. I have some experience with bad bearings in trailers and ATV's, but not cars/trucks. Same principle though.

 

Yeah I only needed 3 or 400 strokes so you could say I was “playing with it “

 

6 hour drive one way?

 

yup, should be a nice hike. I enjoy driving and road trips so not worried about it

 

Is it a camping and/or a wheeling meet? I dont mind driving either. Back in 03 I drove to Vegas, got married then drove home. I was driving 12-14 hours a day on that trip. Drove to Texas to pick up my camper, I don't mind driving at all as long as I have some tunes playing and water to sip on.