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

After waiting 3 hours at Walmart on Sunday for them to warranty my tire they told me they couldn’t put it on the truck because the treads a couple 32nds different than the rest of the tires. So today I finally got around to putting the tire on and over half the seeming excessive balancing weights fell off in my hands.
Put the tire anyway, just gonna see how it feels. Take it to a different shop if I need to later.

 

Yeah that's Walmart haha, retards working the tire machine usually. They'll never rotate the tires on the rim to balance

 

I almost went full dude version of Karen on Sunday, sooo annoying

 

True story, they got so many lawsuits for siezed engines and stripped drain bolts that they now do your oil change by siphoning through the dipstick tube.

 

I saw that during the 10 cars that went through before my tire

 

Really makes u appreciate the small things.


Like when someone does the bare minimum of what's asked for in their services

 

you kiddin me ? Since the pandemic half the Bay Area has moved up here, huge housing shortage now, might a well call it EastCal from now on!

 

It doesn't.

 

don't get me started. Just as bad here in MT and Wy..I can't afford to buy a house now

 

lol how the heck is that bad? Thats good for you man haha

housing here jumped 100 grand in a matter of months.

 

how is equity not good?

 

Mine has doubled since '05. 300K to 600k now.

 

Y’all just need to live somewhere less desirable

 

The bad is all of the Federal Republik of Kalifornistan refugees invading free states, driving up housing prices, spreading their political filth and just screwing us all in the end!

 

You could sell it for a whole lot more than you have in it. But wait, you would in turn have to purchase another home at a highly inflated rate. And in the end, you would probably loose...

 

The county tax that I pay to have the privilege to live in my home each year has tripled, yay!!!

 

If you have a ton of equity you can take out additional loans using your equity, aka a line of credit on your equity. This is usually always lower interest than a typically loan. So say you wanted to pay for an Addition to your house. Or a new car. Or whatever.

So yeah. It's definitely not useless.

 

Prerunner huh is different and threaded for a nut that gets torqued from the backside. The plug is just to keep dirt and shit from filling the hub center hole

a big ol bolt and washers with a nut torqued to spec is how I keep bearings together without axles in

 

No. YOu need the CV to hold the wheel bearing together. You wouldn't make it far running that.

Better option is to take an old spare CV and just remove the shaft and just keep the cups in the OSK. That way if something breaks, you just remove the busted shaft, then just put in the ends in the spindle to torque down and hold your bearings together. And the other end into the diff to keep the oil in.

If we had had that in Canada when my diff blew that repair would have taken 30mins instead of 4 hours or whatever.

 

I’d have to get the measurements. Essentially you need something that goes all the way through and can be secured to factory spec to take the place of the axle in bearing.

the other option is someone cutting up a stock axle to make a dummy axle to bolt up.. you just need something you can tighten down that will hold the bearing together. I can’t find my picture right now but I’ll go get one of what I’ve got on my roller