Wisconsin Tacomas and bad financial advice with vacuum talk

Dumb. And they'll never drive it

 

So I learned something with my drive shaft problems. TW says that at a minimum you should be lubing the fittings every 6k and anytime it sees dirt. I was doing it haphazardly every tire rotation (5k ish) but not the other. The last four years have seen a significant increase in "dirt" and mud and water and clearly I should have been more proactive about lubrication. I will be this time-until I forget... I definitely think we as a group who go on expeditions and such should be doing it more often than not. Two cents for what its worth. Sure is nice to have the truck back as a rear wheel driver. Tight! I had no idea how bad things had gotten...

 

Pack that shit in there.

Ujoints were made to be overgreased.
Edit: was trying to find a decent pic...that streak of brown is around all my ujoints from grease slinging when I get done greasing.

 

Is this the one thing I cant just throw more money at to get done? I thought this was Tacomaworld.com

Thanks for the recommendations! I'll look in to the DIY kits.

 

I'd love to help ya more but to be quite honest, I don't really undercoat my truck.
I'll spray some Fluid Film around occasionally but that's about it.

 

That? That is far to clean. Mine looks the underside of my dads 55 chevy-grease everywhere! Still killed the shaft...

 

Did your mother ever tell you not to be so rough on things?

Idk what grease is 'supposed' to be used....
My last grease purchase for the ujoints I went with the NLGI#2 for farm and heavy equip.

 

I know on the 4Runner certain things call for a lithium-based grease.

I went with lithium-based NLGI #2 for everything because it’s acceptable for the U-joints and slide yoke.

 

I guessed good. lol

I was just looking at my work stash.
Mobilux EP2 and Mobilith SCH460
I use on most bearings and rubbing/moving parts that get greased.
For open gears I use Mobil XHP321 which is a lot heavier.

Mobilux EP2 states its for offroad use, on the pkg.

 

Early in the '17 production run, Toyota switched to non-greaseable joints. The replacements for my backup shaft have zerks.

 

My '16 must've gotten 2nd gen leftovers.

 

yup my 16 had zerks and my 17 did not.

 

What does it say about me if I like the second picture better

 

I use Amsoil Extreme

 

I had a choice from TW's. I chose greaseable.

 

Yup, and when they changed the u-joints, they changed to a different carrier bearing also. Same flanges on the TC and diff, but a 2nd gen shaft won't bolt up to a 3rd gen because of the carrier bearing.

 

I actually looked at that after your response... Now I get it. Ha! SeCondGenBestGen...

 

Rock solid.
This really has been a great set of saw horses for how inexpensive they are.
I remember my old man’s wooden ones.
Solid as all get up but always shuffling them around from shed to garage to lean-to to garage.
And heavy.

 

they'd be lighter if you took all that stuff off them