1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Finished my bearing and related seal and hardware replacement. I'll mount the calipers tomorrow night. I was on a conf call all night for work. I'm calling it a day.

 

what color are those headrest lmao

 

Seems safe to me

 

OSHA will definitely approve

 

The right is a ruined OEM arm. Two swings of a hammer and the inner sleeve bent like that. Left is a Duralast I’ve been swinging a hammer at for over an hour. Think the bearing splitter method is a no go. Unless I had an air hammer (don’t even have a shop compressor rn) to get these inner sleeves bent back to slide in the bearing splitter.

Maybe I’ll try the hacksaw method someone mentioned. Or get some OEM arms off eBay.

 

Interior is grey

 

Seriously... I had no luck at all with the hammer and chisel and the hacksaw was surprisingly effective. If you've got a good saw with a sharp, tight blade (I used a Lennox... like $25 from Lowes), you should be able to prep all four bushings for the splitter in well under an hour. Just mind the blade position or you'll nick the arm itself.

 

The rock auto 50 dollar control arms on my neighbors tundra are like a year old and doing good

 

I will never touch a non-oem control arm ever again. If these were OEM the truck would've been running last weekend lol.

I did determine I'll probably use the floor jack + coil bucket method of swapping the front shocks out. Not sure why people act like that is more dangerous than spring compressors.

 

Spotted on my trip, anyone know what size? Think they'll fit a Taco with a 3" lift?

 

I'm thinking a 8" drop bracket lift and you'll be good.

 

Poor 4runner must have worms

 

Fify

 

Bad springs and a tun of bricks.

 

I think this is referring to the 3.slow

 

ever driven one? 0-30 mph is like 10 seconds.