New England B.S. Thread

Has anyone installed the Hi-Lift jack mounting sytem on their truck?
It's $33.00 on Amazon as compared to the one sold on here for $70ish

 

Update... although I checked the bolts with my 3/8" ratchet, I dropped the skid plate and got after them with a torque wrench last night. I got another turn out of the front LCA bolts until the wrench clicked. Took it for a test drive last night, still making lots of noises during a sharp turn. Drove it to work this morning, quieter than a mouse fart. I'm confused as to why it stopped making noises literally overnight but I'll attribute it to the loose LCA bolt and leave it at that. Going back for an alignment check tomorrow because the bolts were loose and obviously something was shifting. Should be free since they didn't tighten everything down to begin with.

 

I have the one made for our trucks. I am sure you can modify that one to fit in a similar manner.

 

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/2nd-gen-tacomas/17018-lets-see-your-hi-lift-jack.html#post214515

thats what it looks like ..

glad you got it figured out

 

Thanks! For the time being I'm creak, thunk, squeek, bang and tick free


This weekend I have to figure out how to make my auto locks work again...

 

Auto locks ????

 

Yep, the driver door and passenger rear door locks don't work anymore. The rear passenger hasn't worked in a while, the driver door is recent. There's a write up on here to pull the motor, clean it up and reinstall so I'll try that before fronting the couple hundred bucks per door lock.

 

Between my leaf springs, and the rattling coming from the bed, sometimes my truck sounds like it's old. The rattle is something on the drivers side, above the rear tire, inside the wall of the bed. Gotta take it apart to find out what it is.

 

Prob the lighting harness or one of you cubbies is lose. There isnt much back there.

 

Cubby doesn't seem loose, but it did pop out on me once. I'll try to pop it out again and see what's back there.

 

ahhh i see .. i thought we were still talking about lca's

 

I just spent the morning signing up for a FREE welding course through my union also got my continuing education done for my state lic

 

^^^ Nice.

 

Awesome

 

I got a ? for you. I think you said you have a porter cable orbital polisher. Where do you get your pads and which do you buy. So many chooses online between the pads and should I get the hook and loop adapter

 

I got it from this site . I bought one of there package deals . Make sure you get the pad cleaner / conditioner . You can pick and choose your pads . I have a couple of the cutting pads. It have yet to use them I mostly just use the White gray blue red pads .
I use klasse it's a red bottle and klasse gray bottle . Red is a all in one cleaner/ paint sealent . Gray is A high gloss sealant .

The machine is very user friendly and pretty much impossible to fuck your paint up.
Hope this helps .

 

Tx it came with the white pad which I think is for polishing. I have yet to use it but want to try so I will order acouple of differant pads and get after it on my daughters car first

 

Figured out what it was. It was the metal bracket that holds the fender to the bed. One of the bolts was loose, under the composite part of the bed. Plus the to plastic push pins are also a little loose.

 

Nope... on to fixing everything else on my truck


Anyone make it to MOM South for the Victory Demos?!?! I went there to get my bike inspected and ended up staying for an extra hour drooling over the other bikes (and skantly clad women) and took one of the new Victory bikes on a test ride. I'm usually not a cruiser fan but damn those things are smooth! If I could afford it, I would have traded my sport bike on the spot!

 

Mike I just got back from there. I went to but pretty much missed the "GO TOPLESS" day at WC Motorsports. Then went to MOM's on the way back. Nice stuff!