Hollister Hills

Oh shit!

I don't even run a front sway bar; but yeah that grease is all over.

Pressure washer time!

Is it pretty easy swapping a cv axle out for you guys?

 

Ouch, were you able to drive home or did ot have to be towed?

 

Lane is a damn beast. I don't think I would try that even if my rig was capable. I was literally at the edge of my seat. That hill is A LOT steeper looking in person.

 

Ahh, fuck.

That sway bar link bent and separated from the bar.

 

Lol Mike got these pics and my wife thinks they're hilarious; btw thanks for the 'hand' @Taco-Obsessed





Here's the one that's making her crack up

 

A little maguyver moment and drove home safely. The cv was still good. duct tape the boot..

 

@tacoandsons

Here you go bro

https://youtu.be/XHD9GnK-1gs

 

I got some videos of Nelson going through the frame twister but I need to upload to youtube. Will do shortly.

 

Glad to hear. You should get Mike to join this forum. I'm sure he has some great pics too.

 

We've tossed them on discord

 

@Impoy47 after the link bent and then popped off, it must of tore your boot.

 

@tacoandsons

His ascent









Damn near almost got to the top!

 

David and Goliath moment for sure.

 

Oh yeah, it did.. Luckily the cv joint was still intact and I had duct tape to seal it temporarily. Watching Maguyver paid off! The drive home was fine. Only today I was glad driving in traffic. Slow and steady!

 

Nowhere near as bad as @Impoy47 but I did have diff fluid all over from my damn cv axle seal.

Finally had a chance to work on it -



CV axle seal pulled, you can see the clear fluid dripping -



And the CV axle itself -



Last but not least, the mangled cv axle seal after all said and done -



Yes my boots are torn, and they have been for many thousands of miles but they're still good

 

Good that's all it damaged! while you're at it, might as well replace the boots! I checked at autozone and O'Reilly. No luck for boot kit. Time to go to dealership. Heavy duty swaybar links on order. And probably get a spare now to get me by.

 

I've got 3 OEM spare CV axles lol I'll just pull these and replace them as they're lifetime warranty.

With that said, I will reboot the new replacement set with quality boots.

They're 'extended' versions offered for 1st Gen Tacoma's/3rd Gen 4Runner's.

How's your fix going?

And I've got a question; why run a sway bar at all? You limit articulation up front by so much. I deleted my sway bar instantly on both the 4Runner and Tacoma.

 

Waiting on parts and axel shaft spares.
As far as sway bar, you're right. would love to do a quick disconnect for the sway bar or completely disconnect it, specially with the front lockers. Having those front on is great when you need it but man are they powerful. Feels like something is gonna give sooner or later. What I'm dealing with this 3rd gen and probably the newer models the more electrical perks they put on. So if you go way beyond the alignment zone it throws of the zero calibration for VSC and all these stupid fault codes and all these warning lights would pop up. Either I bring it to the dealership and cost me an arm and a leg for them to just clear it or a shop I could trust that would simply clear it for me but no luck with that yet.. I'm hoping to find a 4x4 shop nearby.. I think I found the right OBD2 Scanner to clear all that tho.

 

That's right I remember you were telling me about all that!

Over here our older vehicles were just bolted together, window stickers inscribed in stone, and we roll down our windows manually

 

Ha! I wish I kept my 85' Sr5! Life was so simple back then! But then again I was watching Back to the future and fell in love with that black Taco! Lol