NW WA Meet / BS Thread

i blew out front wheel bearings at just over 50k. id reccomend it.

 

I wouldn’t. You can drive ona noisy bearing for a really long time and his aren’t even making trouble yet. Besides those can be had at any parts house and easily swapped in the Napa parking lot or wherever really

 

Has anyone here used steel-it yet? I’m getting ready to fix up my rear bumper and tent rack that I just spray painted a few years back.

 

Still on for this Saturday?

 

Guy who does shocks out of Colorado uses it on shocks when he needs too. Seems to hold up well

https://www.instagram.com/p/CDxBUQlH060/?igshid=8m1nnofud6yk

 

Just added a link to his Instagram above

 

Sending you a PM now

 

Shit I need to do that as well, my kings didn’t hold up well over the years.

 

I used it on my sliders. Other then the price, it’s not bad. It did chip away on areas that see a lot of impact from rocks from the tiers. That being said we’re talking thousands of miles on gravel roads and my rattle can skills are, shall we say, maybe not the best. All in all I’m happy with the product considering prior to Steel It the sliders had regular spray paint on them and within a month weren’t looking the best. I’m planning on repainting them next summer and will probably use Steel It again. Make sure you get enough that you can get at least three to four good coats. I think that’s part of my problem. I only had enough paint for two coats.

 

Nice thanks for the tip. I was thinking of buying the quarts and run it in my sprayer. Just need to make sure it’ll work

 

I have used it on a lot of stuff and quite like it. Have only used it on bare steel though and it held up pretty ok

 

Yeah I’m going to clean everything back to bare steel. Instead of just going over the paint.

 

Yeah I drove for probably another year after mine started making noise. Easily another 10k.

 

I put amsoil trans fluid into the Tacoma I had. The drain plug required a 10 mm Allen socket. I broke the first socket because it was weak, then bought a better one from Napa and ended up putting the front end on ramps for more clearance to fit the socket on a breaker bar with 30" cheater bar. Even at that. I had to crank hard on the cheater bar to get the drain plug to break loose.

I also bought the Harbor freight transfer pump to refill. It worked quite well, and I've used it several times since.

 

My front diff plug was seized and I ended up rounding out the allen socket in it. I fucked with it for like a week and then just sacked up and welded a bolt on it and it came right off. I think the heat made more difference than anything.

 

I couldnt get the fill plug out of a box truck once. The gas tank on this guy was like 6" back from the diff so couldnt really get anything besides a wrench or socket in there. Said screw it and just removed the breather and filled from that. Wasnt going to spend the time to screw around with it. Its the next guys problem Thankfully you cant really overfill a diff (well with an extra 1/4-1/2 quart at least) so just measured what i took out, checked the book for the proper amount and replaced what i took out plus a bit extra

 

Well fuck, why did t i think of this? Just cut out a sliver leaving the face, beat it back and stitch it back up. Don't even need a new plate.


Them Aussies are some pretty fart smellers.

 

That's a baby cmc go big.

 

Yeah I should just do the relocate. I hacked the crap out of it on my old frame and Toyota didn't say a word about it. I wanna make it look some what decent with a new frame.

 

I wouldn’t do that. It’s there to keep your legs from getting crushed by the tires. Trimming it a bit is probably fine and it can still do it’s job if it needs to. Look into the JDFab LCA kit if you need more clearance