1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

I changed the air filter on my DD 1999 camry one day and found a few chicken bones in the airbox WTF!! Our 2015 Camry, that was driven evreyday and kept in a garage had a massive mouse nest under the engine cover as well, popping that thing off is now part of my oil change routine. Funny part is, no rodents in my tacoma that gets driven less than 5000 miles a year these days, must be the smell of gear lube that has soaked into the cab along with evreything under the hood being covered in powersteering fluid.

 

the 35/36 mm depends on whether the nut is factory or aftermarket

 

I guess I haven't run into an aftermarket one that required a 36 yet but at least I have both now just in case lol

 

Just buy the socket and replace it!

 

Inner broke and outer lol. Outer broke when I turned to sharp and inner gave way when I tried to get it on flat ground.

 

wtf were you driving around the parking lot in 4lo or what, lol

 

Mall crawlin'

 

Drive shaft was coming in and had to drive around in 4hi

 

Only the most extreme crawling of malls

 

Oooooh...but you didn't have a rear driveshaft in when the CV broke? weird, guess it was already on it's way out.

Yeah I can see your issue now...if you're only relying on the front driveshaft to get around then you're SOL if you busted a front axle.

not really anything you can do that I can think of except replace it where it is, or get it towed somewhere.

 

Do you have to undo the uca as well? Never done this. Go ahead and make fun of me

 

It's on flat ground now just the one socket I don't have

 

It ain't hard getting the spindle undone to get to where the CV would be. I just feel like you might run into some rusted bolts.

May as well get your LT kit installed since its one of those "you're already there" kind of things

 

Nope, just have to unzip the axle nut then undo the 4 lower ball joint bolts so you can swing the spindle out of the way. Pop the old cv out using a pry bar between the CV and the diff. Put new CV in with C-clip facing down (?) as far as you can by hand.

Thread the axle nut on to the new CV then hammer it in the rest of the way. Put spindle back into place and bolt in the LBJ again. Replace any front diff gear oil that spilled out

axle nut torque is 174 ft/lbs, lbj bolts 59 ft/lbs

 

Like broke broke?

 

Ok, I got to go to O'Reilly's later for the tools. And red loctite for lbj bolts yea?

 

blue unless you want to torch those fuckers next time you need to break them loose lol

 

Yea, swings around like tarzan

 

Lol ok blue it is

 

What size is the bolt for the front diff?