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

Welp, had to cut out all four cam adjustment sleeves when doing my LCA bushings. Fun times. That carbide blade worked well Zane, thanks. @Speedytech7



And thanks for this suggestion Brett @Squeaky Penguin

 

Glad you got through em, that's some tough steel

 

Shoot. I shoulda done this

 

I missed something... what's the tap helping with?

 

What size zerk did you tap for?

 

Make sure there's a big enough gap between the two bushing halves for the grease to get to the pivot point. Not sure how much gap you have with those bushings, so you might need to cut a little slot.


And for those asking, you can do this with whitelines too, but you'll need to press the bushing in first and then drill a hole all the way to the center.

 

Leveled the truck and threw on some KO2s this morning. Curious to see how mpg is affected next tank.

 

I aint done nothing to her today but drive her... but as I drove by on the tractor she called my name!!

 

So he can add zerks to the UCA arms to grease the bushings.

I wish I had done that, just replaced my SPC bushings and they are noisy as hell again 2 months later. Worse than before actually

 

those are his LCAs..but still nice to have on both!

 

Thanks. If I had waited another minute I would have figured that out from the "what size zerks" question.

I just installed Whitelines. I hope I don't regret not zerking...

 

I guess I'm not the only one who threw on some K02s today.

 

Thanks dude! Was here years ago when I had my 2nd gen but seems my account was deleted.
I get Back in town end of June, gonna have to plan a trip man.

 

M8 1.0 zerks for greasing the LCAs. I wish I I'd thought to match the size of the zerks on the drive line before I bought these, but whatevs. Curious if anyone knows the drive line size...?

Yeah, I thought of that when I was installing. There's a gap - maybe 3/32nds or so between the bushings when they are inserted, which is nice - gives a good path down to the sleeve. Still, I cut a small relief in the edge of the bushings so that they wouldn't get hung up on the zerk since it pokes through just a little bit on the inside. My suspicion is that I'll have to loosen the cams to relieve pressure on the bushings to get grease in there anyway.

Should I just be using a moly grease on these? That's what it looked like was in the little packs from Strongflex - looks a lot like what I put in the SPC UBJ.

 

I use Black moly grease on everything. Needs to be Lithium based to not deteriorate the Poly is all. Works great and last a long time. Cheap too.

Nothing specials. Just mastercraft shit or something from Oreily's.

 

Yeah, great, thx. I use this Valvoline stuff which is exactly that, and cheap. Was one of the recommended/approved ones from SPC. Actually, I need to buy another one since I just used up a tube on the UCAs.

 

You used a full tube of grease on Your UCA?

 

Mmm hmmm. Lube makes everything better.

I do five pumps each side, every time I change the oil. I change the oil about six times a year. So, ~2 1/4 years for a tube. Doesn't seem too bad.

I use Red-N-Tacky on the drive line, and grease on the same schedule, with ~3 pumps per zerk. Maybe I should just use the same black moly stuff.

 

That makes more sense lol I imagined you using a full tube on install. Though damn that must have been messy.

 

Don't use moly grease on u joints! It's too slippery and causes the needles not to roll as the joint centers move, they just slide and eventually wear the joint centers out. Toyota even says no moly on the joints, only the slip yoke