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

I did coils on my wrx twice - one time with the spring compressors from autozone and another with a shops wall mounted compressor. It just feels sketchy with the clamp type from autozone. Can't really describe it other than that.

 

Sold it...

 

No doubt it seems sketchy. The rod will bend, but you aren't anywhere near the maximum tensile strength of those assemblies. As long as you can fit them in your coil, you can save $100 and have new coils put together in 30 minutes or less.

 

I will never again use a compressor for the coils, just do the floor jack method, fast, easy, & def. safer

 

Where is this ???

 

Put it on Craigslist

 

Rio Puerco, just west of Albuquerque NM.

 

Looks like its time fot new axle seals on the rear end. Anything else I should replace while im in there

 

Everything. Seals, brakes, service/replace bell cranks.

 

as far as seals go all i need is the inner axle seal and o-ring, correct?

 

Haha tried that yesterday since I was doing lbjs. Now the shaft nut is stuck with probably 2 threads left. Damn rust.

 

Check the bearings and races too. What o-ring?

 

o-ring talked about in this write up.

 

inner seals, outer seals, o ring, bearings, clips. the bearings are trashed, all the grease has been washed out by the gear lube. rear shoes obviously too. gotta press the bearing/backing plate and abs retainer(if u have abs) and spacers.
if u dont have a press. take out both axles and bring them to someone who does. we charge only an hour per axle. alot cheaper if u do it that way. dont bring it to someone whos never done it. they will mess it up..... i fix small shops mistakes all the time. you have to pay close attention to where the spacers sit....

 

Huh. Learned something new.

 

Night pics to come... Hella 700ff's with 55w 5k HID's from DDM tuning. I am reminded of how much I f'ing hate wiring.

 

Crap, what happens if I check the bearings and they are good?

 

Yup if you're doin the whole hub, it's going to be around 200 with parts an labor.
At least in pretty sure that's what mine was.


Should he just replace that inner seal and see if it's that or are you sure te bearing is toast?

I'm pretty sure I went through the whole bearing replacement and I didn't really need to

 

Went trail riding yesterday. Got more pics in the build

 

Im really hoping the bearing is good because I dont have the spare cash to do it right now. But I will have a spare car available to me all week and my friend has a shop and said he would let me use his press when I asked him months ago when I was inquiring about a rear disc swap.