1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Oak to santa ana

 

Hm that's a little further but not much, interesting it's almost twice as long as Burbank to Sac

 

Ill time it but i saw some where 1 hour 20 min

 

Nah I had my diffs done by ECGS.

The front is in but I need to put the hubs back on and bolt up the MM and DS.

I have a diamond housing for the rear and that'll need new shock tabs and probably leaf spring perches.

 

Oh no another Toyota showed up...


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Trying to get the garage clean enough to shove the old girl away for the season.

 

My names my name here

 

Juanifer?

 

Lucifer

 

thanks, its frickin cold here and don't know how to check suspension other than pushing down on my bed several times to check for bounce, which is doesn't which is good
no heated garage
and since its FREE inspection, i cannot pass that up ever lol
they do battery test
most stuff i can check already, tires and oil level, air filter
cannot check the alignment either without machine

the ball joints and other stuff up front i have no clue if they are shot yet, its probably just the massively bad pavement in my area, offroad i expect some bumps and got some this summer
never thought i would be at a point to go outside of Toyota service and keep my Toyota a Toyota

unless this place's labor rates are near same

 

that sounds nice

 

there isn't really a time or mileage on front suspension parts i was told


some progressive cervical spine problems have bothered me for ages

i have to go to the Dr tomorrow and get an xRay to see if its gotten worse in the past two years
and see how high my blood pressure has gotten to epic levels i bet

 

Ouch.

Back to the truck though, suspension components do wear out over time so you can ignore the "no time/mileage"

Suspension wears slowly over time, and as you drive your vehicle every day, its damn near impossible to tell from the changes until you replace your shocks etc.

If you've got between 50k miles or 5 years give or take, your shocks are due for replacement. Even sooner if you carry loads, or off road. Their damping isn't as effective as it used to be and until they're replaced, you won't tell the difference.

Springs can go a lot longer, but eventually they begin to give up thus causing your truck to sit lower than it used to. It's why people report that they got "a ton of lift" when replacing with after market lift prings.

After lift market springs give you "1-2 inches of height above stock" and people report back with 4-5 inches of increase without realizing how bad their tired out suspension were. Just an example of course.

 

You hope it had major body damage on the rear roof... But something tells me they cut up a perfectly good 62 for no reason.

 

On my commute this morning I was at a stoplight next to a reporter with my truck in the shot. Let’s see if I can spot my truck tonight on the news.

 

i was intending on putting new shocks on the back next year when i get the bed off whether they need them or not
those guys have over 130k miles on them, i probably carried heavier loads with them when it was newish

 

It's funny, I was expecting you (or someone) to say something like "I have over 100k miles on my shocks"....

Shocks don't need to break in order for someone to replace them.

They're a wear item, and their effectiveness to dampen gets worse as time/mileage goes on.

I'm in CA whenever you want to get rid of that truck; it could retire out here hitting all these beautiful, sunny trails we've got out here

I'll even park it at the beach and enjoy a couple of drinks while sitting on the tailgate before I decide to call it a night and sleep under the stars; she'll live a good life.

 

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i will make it all the way down out west on i-80 one of these days if i can cross the state border to CA .... 1700ish miles
all the suspension and ball joints original and its getting close to having to get all new parts!
just was not expecting all this frame work to be done, its very taxing on me
60 here yesterday and 30 out today, cannot work on it outside

 

Finally finished the RTMR. Power all wired up. Replaced stock battery terminals with these milspec terminals - much easier to deal with. 80A breaker for the RTMR and a 100A breaker for the Blue Sea enclosure in the rear of the truck. Roof Rack LED Pods (2 per side including 2 in at the rack rear) wired up and installed. All that's left is to put the rack back on the truck, secure the harness and make the connections to the relays. Then wire up the ditch lights and pods on the bumper.

 

If that body was in nice shape, as it looks like it prolly was, and he did that to it???? Seriously should be criminal. That is one thing I would be on board for with having thought police. That way this stuff would get caught before it ever happens. And hopefully we would just be able to rehab him back into society without locking him up

 

Damn that looks great and clean man! Nice work!