NW WA Meet / BS Thread

I’m sitting outside the store completely dumbfounded. Like the meme where the dude just stares and blinks. I guess I’ll just shit can my front driveshaft and get a new one or maybe get the one piece 4wd shaft.

 

I really don't think that the universals are different for the front shaft. That would be very un-Toyota-like. On my Taco, the fronts have zerks, but the rear shaft does not. Sometime in 2019, I think they went to sealed all around. I think it is the same part for fit though.

Check the Spicer catalog? IMHO, I'd go with sealed and add a bit more grease when installing them, esp on the front shaft.

 

@Shadowhunter The unies on the front drive shaft are different than the rear, but you can definitly get just the joints.... I have one for the front in my spares box... from Arlington Napa I could check the part number for you after work

 

You might want to pull it out and make sure it’s not a wood block with directions on how to dispose of the front shaft.

 

They are different. Front:

$16 Spicer 5-153X U-Joint Kit 1310 Series (OSR)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000CKN762?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER#aw-udpv3-customer-reviews_feature_div

rear:

$31 Spicer 5-1330-1X U-Joint Kit

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00DOI8BDS?smid=A30XU5Y510T9EB#aw-udpv3-customer-reviews_feature_div

Spicer is an OEM supplier. Exact same parts that came stock on my 2007 TRD OR 4x4. All greasable like they should be.

 

Did you look around for the "punked" hidden cameras? Or was it Johnny Knoxville at the NAPA counter?

Either that, or someone is trying to make their monthly quotas for commissions?

 

Thanks! Bad guess on my part and sorta surprised.

That should help @Shadowhunter though.

 

Edited my post as I had front and rear switched. The fronts can be a bit annoying to get a grease gun onto but at least the shaft spins freely

 

Yeah. The front can be a small pain, but I was helping someone with a 2nd Gen on the rears. Having to coast it back and forth was more time consuming. I suppose jacking the diff would have eliminated that?

In the end, attempting to clean up the squeeze out after getting it to come out of all four cups is by far my least favorite. Not sure about the 2nd Gens, but the 3rd Gen crossover pipe is double walled, so the grease will not cook off, just stank.


BTW, this thing is pretty killer: I think the actual Lock-n-Lube has a slightly smaller tip on it, but the HF one fits in there for me.

 

He even went and got the ”Guy from the back”. I didn’t want to argue with them or waste anymore time. I just paid for my shit and left.

 

Lol, I never clean that up. Extra rust protection.

 

I couldn't deal with that, but I am going to WoolWax it this year. I can't believe that we switched to friggin' salt.

 

Yeah I’ve already been using that. Much better than fluid film!

Hardly matters what they slather on the roads. It’s all corrosive and poisonous AF. Plus the salty air around here really is worse than the occasional road salts. Tho I hear the freaks in Seattle dump it all over the place at the first hint of jacket weather

 

Great to hear.


I've had no corrosion issues on this side, even when riding all winter long. The urea stuff wasn't bad at all, IMHO.

You are right, though. They don't know how to manage the stuff. Like last winter, they dumped salt in the rain. It washed off. Duh! Then, I was having fun on the ice once that rain froze. Idiots!

Sand and urea solution was better. The sand at least stuck around once the rain came.

In the end with the other dolts on the road, they should just do nothing. Let it up to us to cut through it or not for a couple days and just shut the damn busses down.

 

When you say “we” what area and what was used before? Magnesium ch

i agree but people already can’t drive. You can thank the insurance lobby for this garbage. I wonder how economical it really is to prevent x amount of collisions at the expense of sending all road going equipment into an early rust death?

Funny how King County/Seattle and other Pugwt Sound counties think they’re so green, yet they slather the roads with salt or sand or magnesium chloride, and it all kills what salmon is left

 

I thought is was the state as a whole, but it might just be the King, Sno Co, and Pierce area? I don't know for sure, but I do not like it. Haha!



Yeah! Look at the vehicles and equipment in the mid-west. Rusted to nothing. That said, WADoT has too deep of pockets. They over-outfit and auction equipment off at a grossly early age. It touches a nerve.

You are 100% correct. It's 100% superficial green. Hell, if there would be a different take on things if trash wasn't taken to eastern WA. It's so broken, yet somehow the idiots in Seattle keep voting in the money grabbers that let bums live wherever they throw down a stolen tent.

You're kinda plucking at all my sore spots.

 

I can confirm they salt Hwy 20. The salt bin is just up the road from me and the elk have one hell of a trail into it.

 

Is that a recent change? I know the pile at Highways 9 and 2 interchange looked different.

 

Couple years now. It’s big chunky salt. Looks almost like pea gravel when they put it down. They used to spray deicer on the road or just the bridge decks if they were icy. I don’t notice salt further west though but from Concrete east definitely has big crunchy salt and sand. The highway climbs up a little higher from the river for a ways then drops back down so it’s probably a little colder in those areas. Once it gets to Rockport it’s a different animal with the weather. The cold kinda gets trapped in there and comes off the Cascades.