Calling all Virginians (Tidewater area)

My two penny’s...

Have you tried pulling the rear drive shaft and putting the truck in 4-hi to see if the sound follows? Essentially, driving like a front wheel drive car. If the sound is still there, very possible a trans issue. If said sound goes away.. now you’re looking at possible u-joints or the rear it’s self.

 

Figured I’d drop this in here if any of you beach boys or in-betweener’s want to head up Saturday.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/richmond-va-tw-meet-up-1-18-20.647221/page-2#post-22478593

 

when you say checking the torque. Do you mean torquing all the bolts on the driveshaft?

 

Never pulled the rear driveshaft. Shouldn’t be to hard I’ll def try that out. Once I pull the rear driveshaft do I just put it in 4 hi and shift from r to d a few times to see if it still happens?

 

You can pop it in D and drive around like normal

 

Can do that too.

Just like, Sir Randy said. Taco will have gone from rear wheel drive to front wheel drive in 4hi. Not gonna hurt anything to do. this will help you find/eliminate things on said issue

 

The one time I did this to diagnose a problem I was floored at how smooth the truck drove! I didn’t realize how much my driveshaft vibrated

 

Nice.

 

Spoooottted

 

Sounding off. Just moved to va beach from MD, for school. Here's my truck

 

Also, anyone know a good clean way to run a cb antenna wire out of the cabin and up the the roof to the mag. antenna?

 

Only clean way I could think of is out of the third brake light somehow

or since you have a cap, go out of a grommet in the floor and run it in between the cab and cap.

 

hadnt thought of that, alas, it sounds like more work than a 14 dollar antenna is worth

 

Welcome! I love a standard cab!

 

Selling my fridge if anyone is interested.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/dometic-cfx-40-cover-700.648457/

 

That thing sold quick. Unrelated to the fridge but is that a steel reinforcement plate and cap on your tailgate? if so where can i find plans for that. would love to stiffen up the gate

 

Yeah no kidding. And I got them from mobtown off-road. They sell them

 

Thanks man

 

Doing a meetup at Sly Clyde tomorrow at 11am if anyone is free!

 

Free LEGO event Saturday downtown if anyone has kids and wants to come down. Should be cool to see some of the builds and to build stuff of their own.

https://www.visitnorfolk.com/event/9th-annual-lego-brick-by-brick-shipbuilding-event/7954/