Great White Taco build

hence why im going to someone with a lift and a welder lol i dont wanna do all that in the rocky drive way

 

even in my paved driveway, doesnt look horrible. I need an air compressor again. Oh, and some air tools, and a bigger toolbox

 

fuck it just put a lift in your drive way. HOA can suck it

 

im gonna have to do the uniballs the day they show up lol not looking forward to that.

 

did you get the tool? I forgot and its only been 3 days

 

the tool and uniballs will be in the same package.

 

Unfortunately I did not but my buddy did!

I’ll be back out there this Saturday.

 

fun idea- lets build our own gfc

 

was just reading rip cords page and he said he did it all under 3k https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/diy-gfc-wedge-camper-replica.604686/

 

Careful with this method. You can widen the lca by putting too much pressure. I tried this when I rebuilt mine and none of them popped free like expected.

I took a sawzall and cut off half the bushing.

Bought harbor freight propane torch that hooks to 20 on tank and burned out the bushing until it was firey rubber dust

After that, all that’s left is the sleeve. One one side the sleeve rounds out and forms a lip over the lca. Grind that smooth.

then take a sawzall, cut a slit in the sleeve.
Hammer and pointy chisel and it comes out.

These were my uca but same exact process.

 

did you go with whiteline bushings for you LCA? how do you like them if you did

 

Thank you for the tips! I will definitely ask more when i get into it.

will the stock bottle jack work? Or do i need a pump one? Looks like one more trip to HF before I can start this project

 

I did, they’re meh. If I could do it over I’d go oem bushings for lack of maintenance I.e. greasing them.

I picked up a cheap one from HF. Stock may work

 

how often do you need to grease them?

 

After my second trip out I needed to regrease them. Granted it was very dusty, but still. And youve gotta drop the lca so it’s quite an ordeal

 

oh cant wait

 

@Crom did you need to do this?

 

Yes. I recently performed the first maintenance window on the front end since 2016 rebuild.

My truck is extremely low mileage now, maybe 2,500 year?

Everybody's Window going to be different based on how they use their truck.

Greasing LCA bushings does suck. if I ever have to go in there again I'm probably going to just replace. My time is too valuable to be messing with them.

 

What are you greasing? The bolt inside the bushing?

 

Grease is supposed to go between the poly bushing, and the metal sleeve in the middle. So you have to drop the lca, hammer out the sleeve, clean it up, grease it and put it back in.