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

Took my 02 with 228k miles to the dealership for a recall that has been open since 2005 for the ball joint.

 

I'm in Colorado, but my Mom who lives on the Concord/Clayton border says she sees my truck occasionally. Now I think I know who shes talking about...

 

Lol probably, I live in the same area.

 

Thats sexy!

 

It was a really simple mod but I attached my Yeti-Jug holder to the back side of the gentle console.

 

It's wood cutting season again...

 

You have airbags? That’s a lot of wood!

 

I do have airbags.

Normally I stack a few rows of 6' logs on top of the rack, but I forgot my ratchet straps.

 

Holy crap! Go hard or go home! Suddenly I realize I don't have it so bad. Speedy recovery bud.

 

Could someone that understands alignment more in depth than I do let me know what you see in these results?

I have a substantial right pull when going straight down the road, and the shop seems to think something in the front end is off because this is as good as they could get it (camber is a little uneven).
But it's the non adjustable rear numbers that concern me more with the total toe being so far from zero.



I guess what I'm really trying to do is figure out if this pull is front or rear related and go from there

 

I'd lean toward a bent axle housing or maybe leafs with the centering off a bit

 

thanks man. Always could be worse I guess right... same to you, heal up fast and strong!

 

Yeah that what I've feared for awhile. It was like this with my Expos and again with the Alcans so I don't think it's a leaf issue, although I'm going to loosen the ubolts again and try to see if I cant ratchet strap the axle into a better position.

 

What's the normal amount of toe for a rear axle?
Mines -0.56 & -0.57 in the rear. Pretty much even on both sides, but I'd imagine it should be closer to zero.

 

X6 on zip ties. Just did my satochi, my guess was they were stronger than the GOOP. And there are probably another hundred or so scattered around my truck. Little ones, big ones, and a few humongous ones.

 

Found the holy grail at the local pick-a-part today. An intact, and decent looking center console. Need to do a clean up on it, and I'll be putting it up on BST. Thankfully, I also found a heater control to replace mine that I broke while installing new LED bulbs. Also popped a CEL on the way home. I'm sure it is the return of my P420 that hits me about every four or five months. I probably have driven it a couple of thousand miles since the last time. Oh well, disconnect the battery, reset the clock. Life goes on.

 

That looks like a classic ever so slightly bent axle. .25 toe in the left rear will cause it to pull.. and it should be “close” to 0 and even. It’s never perfect, but that far out is pretty rare

 

That thing has to be dog tracking judging by the numbers... but then again. It might not...

 

One step closer to organized camping. 1 of 4 of my frontrunner wolf pack boxes showed up. The others should be here tomorrow.

 

Judging by the numbers seen there the axle should be wanting to go right when your going straight. But alignment racks also are not super accurate in the rear, out old John bean machine sucked. The new hunter rack shows totally different numbers and it made all my cars track best