Totaled or not totaled? What will Happen, my accident thread.

Third pic is of the rear most tab.

 

The pole was in my blind spot and was super short 1 and 2 you sound like you don’t have kids. I’m only 24 but had a perfect record before this. I am only human after all.

 

just a suggestion, but it would be easier to study all aspects of the good side with the tire off and compare to the damaged side

 

Don't waste your time proving yourself to others.. only you know what happened and anyone can have an accident for a myriad of reasons.

You posted for help and some have tried to assist which was the intent of your thread.

Stick to fixing your truck and ignore the rest of the trash posted.

 

my mechanic friend is on the way now! Time to take it apart even more.
I will test what it looks like while steering with both tires off First. I really like this idea. I will post more pics and
Maybe a video. Thankyou!! There will always be haters!

 

Honestly, I really think its just the spindle and then possibly the tie rod and uca.

 

Update after hanging out with my mechanic friend.
Did all of what people said on here to check. All ball joints and UCA and LCA all seem fine.
Looks like I bent my steering knuckle a half inch.
I can get the part in my town for 400 bucks, or wait and get online for 150 with 50-150 dollar shipping. So I am going to get the part in town and drop the 400. Going to get it on tomorrow hopefully. Cross your fingers this is it!

 

Don’t dis dawg, you know nothing about distraction till you have children. I won’t be the last person to tell you that either.

Hopefully this saves you from being a hater about things you can’t understand. Like my accident you didn’t witness.

Your first comment implied to me that no one can make mistakes and you’re
Stupid and ignorant if you do so. Well it’s quite the opposite. You make mistakes to learn. You fail to succeed. That’s life.

Don’t chop us all up and put humans in one big judge mental pot to use for your own self Righteous hate train session. you are the only one that came on here and conducted that train.

You’re probably a good dude idk. Hope you learn something from this awesome site and I must say this fantastic thread all these nice people have responded too. Thankyou for it all!!!!

 

Karma's a bitch, it'll get him!

 

Hopefully karma is a hot bitch.

 

OP: I hope the $400 part is all that is needed to fix you up, good on you for taking the project on yourself.

You got some solid advice from some folks here, good on them too, it is great when our community pulls together to help a member.

 

The steering knuckle, which I assume is actually the outer tie rod end, wouldn’t cause that camber change. There’s more going on than just steering

 

you are right. I’m replacing the whole steering knuckle aka the spindle. Hopefully this is it. Everything else in the area looks okay. Shops keep it in stock here so seems like this happens often enough.

 

it would be wise to remember how most respond with some form of compassion when someone is involved in an accident

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/friend-passed-away.512081/

 

You are absolutely right. Every single person except for this dude replied to
Me with compassion. The cops, insurance, mechanic, tow driver, everyone on here. Dude probably
Just had a bad day.

 

congrats on finding the issue. Pic's helped alot LOL sometimes all you need is to be steered in the right direction. Its only nuts and bolts, nothing too complicated when it comes to this type of fix.

 

a gooooood frame shop can fix it no doubt............

fixing driver side & Not the other not wise

wear on 1 side ........NEW on the other

only a matter of short timing U Will Notice it......................shop attempting to get it right = headache !!)

depends on mileage already & how long U plan on keeping it

replace only what U need both sides

get a shop to do it reasonable

 

Nah he's just an asshole!

 

ROAD DOG you gotta get a new translater whatever you're using is not working very well.