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

I think you can get a denso on Amazon For like $100 w/Prime. I believe they were the OEM, or maybe it was Koyo? Part #’s vary based on auto or manual trans as well as engine if I remember correctly

 

Seems like they only make ones for Autos, no manual option on their Website

https://densoautoparts.com/find-my-part.aspx#searchResults

 

Yeah I forgot about rockauto, which brand did you get? There's only a handful of manual options

 

*Surprised Pikachu*



Good thing my spare is good!

Oh.

 

Way to be prepare

 

Huh. That spare may look better than the turd gen rims youre on now.

 

I hope your use is extremely temporary as noted on the sticker.

 

Luckily it’s a very very slow leak. I haven’t been driving it and it was at 10 PSI when I checked yesterday. I’m going to Discount Tire to get it plugged and mount the KO2 to the spare turd gen wheel. I was just checking if it would rub my Tundra Brakes.

 

Don’t worry they’re going soon. I just want to get my money’s worth out of the tires before I get a new set.

 

Oh, I thought you were talking about the dry rot looking stuff

 

Lol the tires? They’re only a few years old. DOT Date Code of 3817. 38th Week of 2017. I bought them new.

 

Bah. Sell em. Thats what im doing. Firestone gave me too good a deal to pass on, even if my tires now have 25k-ish left on them.

 

I’ve got bigger fish to fry than the wheels and tires on my truck. I’ll let them run it’s course then sell them. Maybe next year.

 

Yeah, they will physically fit, but then you're left with the AT cooler portion that you don't need.

I went with a manual specific option as I can't fit an AT radiator with my chopped bumper/skids. Got a cheap one off Amazon, can't remember the brand, it was like $85 and it's been working fine for the last couple years.

 

Is that one of the chunked up KO2s I gave you lol

 

Thanks! I'll look into those when the time comes

 

No haha, that’s the ones I’ve had on the truck. I’m getting the new one you gave me mounted on the spare. I’m giving Miguel the chucked up ones for his frame.

 

Trying to fix the random vibration in my front end.
Started tearing into it.


All back together, replaced the roller bearing with an ECGS bushing and new seal while I was in there. Took the hub apart and cleaned, inspected, lubed and reassembled it.
I don't know if I found the issue, but the center ring gear in the hub had old grease and was really tight when I removed it.

 

I have a couple of questions for you guys, just wondering if this was a bad axle seal, pretty sure it is, but thought I'd ask? Also if it is then can I just pull the whole axle assembly out with the wheel cylinder and everything and would that be easier then just replacing the seal?



Another question how do I do the ABS delete, I have the lines from an old parts truck and my master cylinder is different and was wondering if you guys know where the lines go, I have an idea but the line that comes out the top of the master cylinder is confusing me a little bit.

 

Looks like a textbook bad axle seal. Not that difficult from what I remember. The axle shafts come out with four bolts, and the third comes out with 10-ish nuts.