What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

Yes, it holds the driveshaft where they meet. Take a look at the rubber bushing that surrounds the shaft. Check for play, grab and move/pull on the driveshaft and see if its sloppy. You could also jack up the back and get someone to listen closely as you slowly accelerate and decelerate.

 

Hmm, so the clutch affects it forsure?

So when the clutch in engaged, you can hear it.
When your in neutral you cant hear it.

What about when your clutch is dissengaged?

 

yea with the clutch engaged and decelerating i squeals bad, disengage to clutch and it goes away..

None of this happens when im accelerating..

 

Yes, so when you put your clutch in, the drive shaft is disengaged from the engine. So less load. That would put less strain on the shaft, making it more quite. Correct?

 

Right..but its under load while accelerating and decelerating..so why would it only squeal when decelerating??

 

Because when you accelerate, your driveshaft gets forced to up. But when you decelerate your driveshaft goes down. Your carrier could be making that noise whenever the drivshaft gets forced down

 

When my carrier bearing went (around Sept) i seem to remember it making noise whenever i was coasting. Sounded like it was rattling around in a way. But when i put load on it, it would stiffen up and sound fine.

 

Hmm okay. Well i will assume that that is the problem them!

Thanks guys

 

I've been thinking about using some bed liner for my truck. What are some good DIY brands?

 

if you have never greased the u joints i would be surprised if they weren't bad.

there are grease zerks on them.

 

Raptor liner.

 

Do they sell it at local auto parts stores?

 

Installed DDM TUNING HIDS. I'm happy with them so far. But I found it weird that non of the parts said DDM and I don't like the cheap ass harness and there was no mounting brackets for the ballasts. So I'll need to get a harness from the retrofit source.

 

X2... forgot about that. theres points on all the connections of the driveshaft

X2

 

Hope not, that would suck to replace i bet.

Herculiner too. that is what I'm gonna get.

 

not bad actually. WAYYY easier than a clutch lol.

 

I've also heard good things about Raptor Liner. I don't think you can get it locally though....

 

True i guess lol guess ill look up how much those cost..

 

Amazon, around $100 for a kit

 

U-joint maintenence is important if you wheel your truck. Take care of your u-joints and they will last a long time. Ignore them, let them dry out and they will fail at he worst time, out on the trail.

Get yourself one of these:



And put one of these in it:



At a minimum, I grease my driveline fittings every oil change (~5K). Sometimes even more often, depending on abuse level.

Pump grease into the fittings until you see/hear grease coming out of the bearing caps on the u-joints.