1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

I've learned to tune much of that out; he means well but think he's just run out of people that'll listen to him

 

@Sperrunner

 

I am actually in Kansas now, southeast corner, a mile or so from Oklahoma border. It's crazy.... Everything is freaking green and lush out here. Totally different from the high mountain desert. I do miss the arid desert but I love it here. I've got 4 little nephews that think I'm the bee's knees and I love showing them the way 'men' do things, jajaja
Life threw me a couple curveballs I wasn't expecting (like it does to most of us) and I wanted out of the city life.... I'm such a wannabe cowboy lol
But I got my own gig going here working for myself with appliance and home repair.
My old boy Tuck made it to 21 years old (I know! I know! That's freaking old!) and then moved on to the other side.
So I rebooted life out here in the sticks and I absolutely love it so far.

 

Lmaoooooo

 

Listen to you, you old timer wannabe....

 

That's awesome man, glad to hear things are going well for you. I remember you were talking about moving before, I think it was TX or somewhere? Sometimes a change of scenery is much needed. My only memories of Kansas are driving around near the MO border where my relatives live, it was pretty much just all flat and yellow lol.

Sorry to hear about Tuck but 21 years is a good long life...we adopted Dex almost a year ago now, he's a good boy even if he can be a handful at times

 

I have it listed for 1500 but the first person who wants it can take it

 

Sounds like Sperunner

 

Glad to hear it! Yeah those fur babies can be a handful.

 

So what's the best place for ordering our lower ball joints nowadays? Toyotapartsdeal a reliable place?

 

I've used them before a couple times. There are some threads on here though that warn people against them, they can be hard to deal with if your order gets messed up somehow...not much in the way of customer service.

McGeorge Toyota has (had?) great prices online but they changed ownership recently and that might have changed.

 

Finally cut out a smaller laptop stand





Other one had the swivel mount offset the wrong way and was too big cause I didn't think to measure actual width of my setup

 

Grassyass, hermano

 

The McGeorge parts site tells me the part number

$204 43330-39556 Toyota Ball Joint - 43330-39556

43330-39556 isn't correct for a 2000 4wd auto 2.7L.... But aren't the 4wd taco ball joints interchangeable for all the first Gen 4wd models?

 

Looks like you're still doing cool stuff, homie

 

has to do with the bolts used between the later models with the boot protectors around the LBJ boots vs the earlier ones that don't have them. The bolts are different. The ball joint assembly itself is the same. I don't recall if the boot protectors started in 2000 or 2001+

 

No way dude, you got me confused for someone else...you've been gone too long

When you left the forum I was still living in Salinas, never having touched a welder or plasma cutter before in my life

 

damn, first we get a Covid epidemic and now there's one for dogs going around (not Covid but some other kind of respiratory disease that they don't have a treatment for currently).

No more doggy day car or dog parks for Dex till this blows over

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...mptoms-states-everything-to-know/71652480007/

 

So if I reuse the same bolts I should be fine as the LBJ is the same? Sounds good. I appreciate you taking the time to answer

 

should be good ime