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

its most likely ur lower ball joints.they r under the most stress and a r e prone to wearing. i will have my spare set with me out there... uppers rarely go, but heb they do ur right its bad.... i still havent touched my uppers. i check them often for play, they rfine....

 

uppers shouldn't move much at all.... lowers have a spec.... lift the truck up by the frame. stick a pry bar between the lca and lbj. pry up or down and see if there's alot of give in the ball joint. it should be obvious if ones bad.... uppers are hard kind do the same thing and see if there's play in the joint itself. i think we get about 2 hours to do lowers plus alignment. uppers are trickier cuz they are pressed into the spindle. I'd guess 2 hours a side for uppers? plus alignment

 

How old are the wheel bearings?

 

it shouldnt man. i highly doubt uhave a bad ubj. if u do in fact have bad lowers, they arent too bad to replace. if udont replace them i have spares

 

dude it hppens... plus for a fello tw mate its all good. its alot different if we meet up with a totota on the trail that wont start and somebody mentions im a tech.... if anyone does that im kickin the balls / rant. but dude if u do in fact need them we can use my spares not a huge deal. they r pricy fyi. and i would stick with oem if u can

 

wtf is moogs?

 

Moog makes a quality product.

 

Part # K90255

http://www.fme-cat.com/PartDetailWindow.aspx?brand=MC&pt=Ball%20Joint&PartNumber=K90255&lu=2003%20TOYOTA%20TACOMA%20V6%203.4L%203378CC%205VZFE%20BASE%20MODEL&t=

 

No problem.

Here they are on Amazon:

$25 MOOG K90255 Front Upper Suspension Ball Joint for Toyota Tundra

http://www.amazon.com/Moog-K90255-Front-Upper-Joint/dp/B000C580M8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335919641&sr=8-1

 

XXXX has them on his 2nd gen. He replaced damn near everything up front with Moog stuff.

 

I am got them from rockauto.com or whatever its called.

 

FINALLY!

looks awesome!

ye mine are going out too..

 

Thanks! I'll let you know.

Quite true!!! Here comes the crazy kid with the 2wd e-locked taco on 35s, with 5.29s, 2lo and 1/4" skids ! lololol I should get a crawlbox before I put in the 4wd just for the heck of it!!!

Dude. blocks of wood are you're friend!! haha The only way I can get my truck off the ground using the floorjack is with a 6" worth of wooden blocks. But I usually use the hi-lift since it's 10x faster and easier....

 

i use a car lift now

and yea, just use wood Ben.

 

Well, around 16. Kid's around here are idiot's.

 

Nice.

 

if moog has a good rep give them a shot

 

found this in my tire today when i went to wash it. glad my tires are thick!

 

and that it wasn't a 3 inch nail