Labor Day giveaway contest!

I thought I would have a little bit of fun here for Labor Day, and my upcoming birthday! So I am going to have a contest. For those who need a wheel bearing I want you to post up an imaginative story about your truck, and why your TRUCK deserves a free wheel bearing. Not why YOU deserve one, but why your truck does! Post your story between now and Sunday, midnight central time zone on Sunday. Then Sunday night I will post a poll for the top 5 stories, and all day Monday, Labor Day, I will have the rest of Tacomaworld VOTE who has the best story. The winner will receive a FREE 4WD Wheel bearing assembly for their 2nd Gen Tacoma!!!!

So let's hear those stories! only ONE entry per truck please, and the story must be about YOUR truck, not a friend's.

So everyone have a great Labor Day, and let's have some fun!!!!!



Again, please try to make the story about the TRUCK, not you.

 

Abused, neglected, and ignored. She sits on all fours crawling around. Old reliable. But old reliable has demands, and I am afraid she will stop putting out.

 

Nice start. Remember, this is supposed to be FUN, so be creative in your story telling. Remember, this is about why your TRUCK needs a new bearing for itself, not you need a new bearing for your truck. I hope that I get about 20-30 good stories by Sunday night!

 

My driver was driving through the mall parking lot with these new boats he put on my hubs. I keep hearing them called 20s but man do they feel funny. He stretched me out making me taller to fit his new rubber. Im trying to tell him buy drinking all his gas that I can't get up and go as fast. Its always hotter since them new shoes causing my buddy's, pads and shoes to work their butts off to stop me. Even with all these warnings that my bearings wont last, his 20s will be laughing as he is past because one side fell on its ass.

 

LMAO, love it! Keep em coming guys (and gals!)

 

While driving the badlands of Cajon landing. I Bobby-leonidas stumbled across a shiny white two door steed in need of saving from the dirty old wicked people called the Pre Yoda Sellers.

They love snatching up used steeds and selling them at a crazy price. So I had to do what any regular person/god would do, I jumped onto two guards breaking one of their necks and beating the other one until he gave me the keys. After riding this steed and having a brief titanic moment I brought him back, negotiated his release and started our adventure of the desert game of thrones. We first had to practice and gain knowledge of these white sand walkers and dune warlocks, so my noble Yoda and I traveled to the world of Tacoma, where we found tons of information and people we needed to visit and conquer before our journey.
My noble steed found himself in a battle with the great and all knowing jeff-leesi a slayer of metal dragons who spit fire. My YodA battled all night fighting fire and metal until finally killing khaleesi, jeff-leesis sister. My Yoda earned his armor of steel on both his front and rear.
My Yoda and I were off to battle ORW at slavers lake. This was the most dangerous and hardest choice to make my Yoda would never be the same after this enemy. As we all know he kicked ass and took names and ended up leaving earning his springs for bouncing and shoes for shredding it up.
We were finally about to be on our way to conquer the Sand throne until Yoda started lying down and not sounding so good. I'm afraid he can't battle for his parts and this new resting place terminus is a bit strange, we need to get moving fast to continue our adventure for the battle of Sand thrones.

 

Nice. I am glad I went with this idea. It is entertaining for sure. I had hoped more people would jump on the chance for a free wheel bearing though. Even for a spare.

 

YeAh I don't get why people dont give it a shot.

 

My truck is a daily driver/weekend warrior. He is my faithful companion, a 2008 2wd DCSB Pre-runner. He has great style, Black with a touch of chrome on the outside, grey on the inside. I’m working on getting him upgrades a grill mod, new billies & a light bar. There not on yet, it’s a surprise. I’m collecting all my goodies for him and I plan on installing them on a weekend when I have time.

I compare him to a mainstream athlete. He’s never 100% but he’s always ready. When I say let’s go off-roading and the wife and kids don’t want to go, who still goes and doesn’t complain, my truck! That’s who. He puts up with kids, He pulls my pop up trailer, He hauls my quads and every now and then he helps friends move. What an unselfish Tacoma he is.

I spend much time looking through the TW website and even though I don’t post much, this website has changed my truck and we have benefited. When he gets a little vibration I look it up on the website, Bam! There is the answer. I can’t tell you how much I’ve learned from the gear heads here on TW. From adding D-rings to his bed to changing a full suspension system TW has the answers.

BamaToy1997 you asked for a short story and there it is. Well it’s not much of a story, I guess I could have written about how I rescued him from the deceitful dealership and gave him a home…….. Or about how he chirps every time I push a button on my remote ( he cares)……. Either way he’s my truck and he wants a free wheel bearing.

 

Automatic DQ - 1st gen entry

 

I deserve a new wheel hub assembly because I am abused and neglected by the owner who I have served faithfully since I was new, over 9 years ago. For the first several years things were great, he bought me cool parts, parked me in the garage and gave me regular bath's, I was always so pretty and clean! Now I have car seats stuffed in my back seat and these 2 horrible little people who jam french fries & spill milk all over my once prefect upholstery. He even let the crazy lady he calls "wife" drive me consistently for a few months! That was some scary shit because she is an terrible driver! As if all of that wasn't bad enough, a few years ago he bought another truck that he seems to love more than me. The other truck in his life is much older than I am and is ALWAYS broken while I push on, tirelessly pull his mistress on a trailer like a queen and she gets all the attention, quality time and money. I hope to be worthy of the very generous offer you have made Bamatoy, a new part to make me feel special again! But if not it's OK, you won't catch me pouting about it, I've accepted my life of misery and will keep pushing on mile after mile.

PS - If I don't win.....could you please PM Mr Yotarob-the-traitor and at least tell him to wash me?

 

If this is for a 4wd only? If so then im out.

Prerunner problems!! Haha thought I had a chance

 

In the beginning an engineer created a Tacoma, and the engineer saw that this was good. The lonely Tacoma wheeled through the hills and valleys of Eden till he sat idle due to boredom. The engineer than had an idea to create another Tacoma. So the engineer took a wheel bearing from the 1st gen tacoma and created a 2nd gen Tacoma. Now the Tacomas were partners and frolicked about till the 2nd gen Tacoma messed up. The 1st gen Tacoma was mad, as they had to leave Wheeling Eden. As time passed they drove their separate ways and the 1st gen had wished he could get his missing bearing back. The End

 

that is great!

 

oh MAN these are getting awesome! I love this. What is really funny is how people talk about how well they treat their trucks, but when the TRUCKS start talking, we learn of the abuse and misuse! Hahaha.

 

My truck had one owner from the moment it arrived at the dealership till I was handed the keys at 210k miles. In between those moments it was loved very much by someone. I had originally contacted the owner and got a couple responses but then I didn't hear from him. A couple months later I was contacted by the original owners son to see if I was still interested. The original owner was an older man and knew he was dying soon and put my truck up for sale to help his family. The original owner loved this truck. Garage kept everything done on time cleaned it inside and out every weekend and he did all the work himself. There's a list of things he replaced. Cvs. Cats. Spark plugs. Coil packs. Carrier bearing. Everything it needed it got. I met the owners son and bought it for asking price after hearing its story. He said it drove loudly over 50 mph. Which I didn't go over in the test drive. I drove it home to Charleston from Atlanta and I knew immediately when I got to 40mph that the wheel bearing was gone and needed to be replaced. My truck deserves a new bearing because it's the last thing it needed when the owner that loved it had passed and Im sure the past owner would have replaced it immediately but I haven't been able to yet.

 

I was once a beautiful, confident Japanese gal. After arriving in the States in 2014, the world was mine to conquer. As for him, when he first met me, it was love at first sight for him. The way he touched me, the way he looked at me, I knew I was the one for him. 4 days after taking me home, he took me out on our first big date. Without a word of complaint, I climbed over every rock, crushed every twigs, slid over every sand dunes that was in the way and arrived at the top of a hill where he showed me his kingdom.



In the evening of that very same day, my life was changed forever. 2 idiots fleeing the wrath of local law enforcers rode their American monster directly into our path. I sacrificed every part of my body to save him from all the impacts that followed. He escaped unscathed, but I was not so lucky:



The following week, I was pronounced permanently disabled by the State of Farm. I broke down in oil and cried for a re-evaluation, but nobody heard me, including him; who appeared to be ecstatic at the judgement. That was the last time that I saw him.

As I sit here in this asylum, waiting for every last remaining organs within me to be ripped out and sold to the highest bidder, he has moved on. Someone told me that he has found a new love; a taller white gal from Texas with a fancy Mexican last name and fancy shoes. I feel betrayed and killed once again.



I tried to gather all of my strength to crawl out of this hell and confront him, but I can't. One of my wheel bearings is severely crippled. Every night, I cried my tranny oil out while praying for a divine intervention from the World of Tacoma. If there is a Supreme Being in that world, may He have a spare wheel bearing on his birthday celebration that He can just bestow upon my sad lonely existence. I ask for this gift so I can crawl to him and to his new lover. With BamaToy1997 be my witness, I will rip out her fake nose and tear out the tramp stamp on her ass. Oh that white bitch.



Please, that wheel bearing, is all I ask of you!

 

Oh my God these are all awesome. It is going to be hard to pick the top 5 for the final contest!

 

My owner uses me and abuses me but I Always get him home. Even when it doesn't look good! Every adventure we go on something gets injured... Tie rods, rear diffs, drive shafts, wheels, and countless wheel bearings. I hate letting him down since he has to work on me all the time, and Since he's trying to save for a house and wedding I figured this would be one hell of a present to give him! In fact I drove him and his girlfriend to the proposal spot during a off road meet in Harlan Ky.


How I sit now

I know it's not much of a story but it's hard to type without my driver side wheel bearing