Howzit everyone

That is sweet! Won't be spending that much anytime soon, but really like that setup!

 

Happy holidays to the TW Hawaii brothers. After a week here in Cali and driving my sisters van, I'm ready to go home and drive my truck. Nice Taco in the parking lot at the Residence Inn at Anaheim confirmed this:

 

Anyone want to share their mounting solutions for ditch bracket lights? Specifically I'm trying to figure out the best anti-theft bolt combo or something. Just something other than your standard nut & bolts. Wanna keep itchy fingered people from easily taking these off.

 

I just bought the rigid security nut kit. It was expensive for just the two nuts and key. I believe @luka can chime in on where to pick up a similar set for cheaper. I think I'll actually order some too.

 

Having an issue with my steering…I think. This started maybe a week and half ago. Front wheels made noise when turning at low speed into a driveway. Fast forward, now the squeak or squeal sounds occur when I turn the steering wheel back and forth. Going over bumps (speed bumps), pot holes or anything where the suspension is just going up and down, there's no sound. Anyone have any issues with their steering rack? Mines is a 2015 with 8K miles. Any ideas or experiences would be helpful.

Mahalo.

 

Could be any joint that rotates when you steer. Rod end or uca uniballs or ball joints. LCA ball joint? LCA bushings. Loose cam bolts?

 

Gonna have to investigate it tomorrow. Thanks.

 

I've got the same problem. Come to find out it was my UCA ball joints, good thing it's still under warranty from LR racing. Getting a replacement

 

Well, it's definitely the uniball's on my Camburg UCA's. Bullaculla suggested using some Dry Teflon Oil which worked. Obviously, this is only a temporary fix and so I'll need to replace the uniball's. Any pros or cons of uniball's vs. ball joints? Camburg's come in both style. Wondering if ball joints would be better or last longer from a maintenance perspective. Comments welcome.

Thanks.

 

Its worth going over every nut and bolt on your front end. When @808leo came over to chase down a mystery squeak, we check and changed all kinds of stuff and nothing worked. It ended up being a loose bolt on his swaybar mounts.

 

^^^^^ this....
I'm going thru the exact problem. Changing out things like crazy trying to figure things out

 

Good point. As much investigating I did, of course I didn't go over any of the bolts. I just checked to see if everything was intact and nothing was undone or broken. Sprayed the Teflon Dry Oil on the uniball's while my daughter rotated the wheels left & right. Seemed to disappear as I finished up lubing the uniballs. That being said, I'll have a more thorough look over. Thanks, @bullaculla

 

My camburg UCA does the same thing I just put tri flow once every two weeks and it's good to go.

 

TC FTMFW!!!

 

Ok then...

 

I thought you changed the washers, bushings, and uni-ball already???

 

Yeah, but it's over 3 years old! And washers was worn from being loose. My fault. Now it's nice and smooth and quiet

 

Actually 3 years is pretty good. And the squeak I had, that I thought was from the camburg UCA, was actually from the rear overload rubbing the leaf pack. Hammered it straight and all quiet again.

 

So, I spoke to Anthony from Camburg Engineering directly and his suggestion seemed to have worked pretty good. He instructed me to use WD-40 and completely soak the uniball and clean it out. Literally, pool some WD-40 on the top of the uniball and let it evaporate naturally. This was done this past Monday and I'm happy to report that there hasn't been any squeaks or squeals since. If Tri Flo or Teflon Spray is used, he suggested cleaning out the uniball with WD-40 first. So far so good. Thanks everyone for their advice.

 

Just a couple months in, but camburg ball joints hope not the same problems...