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

I always just put red loctite on mine and used a torque wrench and didnt worry about it. Red because I used blue once and I randomly found a bolt lose.

 

Thats what I did two years ago and they didnt move at all, butI figure might as well put new ones on. I will definitely still use red loctite.

 

Little more progress being made... camshaft pulley tool arrived last night. So we pulled them today, got the final cover off, removed the cam seals and replaced. Removed water pump, and now @RobertsT4R is out there cleaning everything he can get to with all the covers removed.

 

More progress has been made.

Water pump, thermostat, timing cover #3, cam pulleys, Ider pulley #1 and #2... and hydraulic tensioner are installed (hydraulic tensioner was a pain in the f'n ass, as always)

 

Be sure to twist them wires really, really tight so you know they will hold good.

I use blue but I also mark them with a paint pen so I can see at a glance whether they have moved/loosend. Never have. Third set using this method.

 

Yeah the paint pen method is the best, i finally found all my art supplies from college and went through and marked my bolts. Way easier than torquing em down all over again. I figured drill some holes and add wires like ryan suggested too lol

 

Those LED Floor Lights still working for you? Mine crapped out after about 5 minutes...

 

Installed a light under my hood today. I found an existing hole, above the passenger head light, to put the switch in. Hooked all up to my DIY fuse relay box.

 

Shock therapy with a BFH

 

I put a socket over it and hammered them out, got the new ones in the same way

Dont go too hard on the new bearings of course, a little dry lube on them and they tap right in

 

Only one side, on Kings anyway

 

There's only snap rings on the outside of the bearing on both sides of it

Pull those off then use the socket/hammer method

 

There should be, but the snap rings like to fall apart once you push the bearing way too far.

Press would be the best if you have one.

Both sides on Kings, and every other shock I've worked on.

 

I only had 1


Or only 1 was left I guess maybe

 

Then you were missing one.

 

Allllllrihhty

 

Hard part for me was those stupid snap rings, or maybe it was my shitty HF snap ring pliers that kept exploding apart...either way yeah, hammering was the easy part

 

No, I wouldn't do that.

I'm just not seeing a snap ring on your picture, and saying sometime they fall apart, especially if you've pushed your bearing way past where you should have.

Did you look at the other side? You really only need to take one off to press the bearing out.

 

On my Icons they didn’t use a standard snap ring. It has a spiral retaining ring to hold the bearing. I used a pick set to remove the retaining ring.

 

Now I can see it in his picture