Cost Effective Tips to Make your new 2nd Gen last forever

I regularly wash my truck due to CT winters and the salt and chemicals for snow/ice melt, I lube the hinges, keep the paint waxed, shampoo the interior every few years, I also recently applied AMSOIL metal protectant on the undercarriage. It comes in a spray can and applies wet and dries to a light sheen. Nothing sticks to the frame such as mud and salt for example. Cost me $50 for six cans and took me about 2 cans to coat undercarriage, it suppose to last a few years. Good stuff.

 

Hawaii, Florida, Cali just to name a few places that have salt without snow.

 

I can attest to the greasing driveshafts. Mine were not greased when I got the truck brand new. Had one of my rear ujoints begin to squeek after a week or two. That's pretty bad. Didn't need to be replaced, but was in desperate need of grease. Greased them all really well. They last a LONG time if you grease them.

 

I can see that.
What is the best way to grease them (method, product(s))?


Great thread, very useful.

Frame: New to Taco, I just did my first informal frame rinse after snow storm: U shape of frame members trap lots of crud inside the U. Thinking of making/using a small wand to get rinse water in there.

 

On 2nd gens the 4wds have 5 zerks to grease. 3 on the rear driveshaft and 2 on the front.

Prerunners have sealed joints on them so you can't grease them... not sure if you can swap in a greasable joints or if you have to swap in a whole new driveshaft to get greasable joints.

 

Just crawled under my 2014 AC PreRunner and there do not appear to be any grease fittings on the UJ's.

 

The access cab and the double cab shortbed are identical underneath. Same frame and all. They just bolt on a different sized cab and bed.

 

Yep. Like I said in my post above. Prerunners have sealed non greaseable joints. They will last longer than greaseable ones that don't get greased but they won't last as long as greasable ones that are regularly greased. The magic number seems to be around 70k to 80k miles when the Prerunner driveshafts grenade but I'll bet they make a lot of noise before that happens.

 

I've wondered that, good to know. Thanks.

 

one of the best things you can do is oil/undercoat the inside of your panels. easy to do the doors by taking off the door panels but to do the cab corner and rockers you can drill holes in them *one or two 1/2 holes will be fine* then when your done plug the holes with 1/2 inch rubber plugs. and added benefit is by oiling the frame/underside/suspension all the bolts come out very easily after many years.

did this to my last jeep and it was 100% rust free under and inside.. not a spot of rust on any panel

 

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