NW WA Meet / BS Thread

I started getting some squeak three months in, but nothing terrible yet and only at slow speeds. As for sag, absolutely none so far, mind you the stage III's are designed for 700-1000# over stock and I have only had a 1/2 ton in there accouple times.

 

So after testing the other day there didn't seem to be wheel play in the rear end when putting it in drive on jack stands. There was however, some locking up on the right/passenger rear tire. It seemed like brakes, but loosened that up and still not free moving like the rear left/driver. Listening for noise it seems that right rear wheel bearing is dry, no noise at the center or on the left-hand side.

I think I can just get away with replacing the wheel bearings as long as the shafts don't come out bent/snapped from when I was rear-ended.

Toyota quoted $1,800 for both sides, some other local shop $360 a side (before tax I think) and still polling for some other quotes. Not feeling like dealing with the press/bringing the axle shaft & bearing to the machine shop, etc. after a few months of constantly working on my truck lol.

Has anyone paid to have the rear wheel bearings replaced? What did you pay and where did you end up going? TIA!

 

ADS have been great for me on the east coast and across the country during winter and summer and all over NW so far no issues.

 

If you only had a buddy that has two axles with 60k on them.

 

Custom Deavers would be best bet.

 

I’ll message you on that. Feeling lazy on doing more big jobs on my truck so close together haha. It looks like other shops are charging about 1000-1100 before tax and a few really low prices (700-800) which seems more fair bud not sure I should trust lol.

It seems like doing myself it’d be a day in the garage and taking the shaft and new bearings to a shop so overall probably loose another weekend on the truck after a few months of being limited with it haha so that’s why I am exploring my options this time around.

 

@Usethe2nd do you still have those yukon shafts kicking around? Asking for a friend....

 

Does you friend have a really heavy right foot?

 

At times.

I found out my rear diff is actually fine, and all the crazy vibration and rumble I was experiencing was just a u-joint. Changed it out this weekend and vibe free from 0-80mph now. Probably the easiest u-joint I've changed yet, I was surprised.

 

Sweet! The one I had upfront went away when I had a shop do my headers last week. It was around 60-70mph. Not a crazy violent vibe but felt like when a tire starts to feather. I know they took apart the steering shaft so I’m wondering if that had something to do with it.

 

nitro? Yep on my tool box at the shop

 

Curious how’d you end up noticing. I had drivelines nw balance my rear shaft after I did my ujoints since I still have vibes but st this point thinking it’s that rear passenger wheel bearing.

 

Like this?

 

Thats not what they're supposed to look like?

 

Ive sadly seen worse

 

You had a shop do it?? Scared of everyone bitching how crappy of a job those spec-u headers were? You got the ARP header studs on at the same time right? How many hours and $ was that at the shop?

I think I developed an exhaust leak (not confirmed but sounds like it when the motor is warmed up) so I’ll probably pull the trigger on those same headers too when I get back up north but likely doing it myself. Not looking forward to it but I’m probably too cheap to pay someone else.

 

We did?! Shitfire! I want a set of those F5’s. I also just got a set of 16” SCS w/33”s on the T4R I’d like to get switched out for 17’s.

 

Kind of a weird one here.. decided to pull the trigger on the T4R. Will fix up the taco to sell, want to keep my 35’s or somehow get the T4R onto 35’s. Currently it has 33” on 16” SCS wheels. I can’t do a 1 for 1 swap as the taco has the big brake kit up front and can’t clear 16’s anymore. I suppose I could swap the whole spindle assembly from truck to truck and then be able to run the 16’s on the taco and get my 17’s onto the T4R.

also should have a decent 07 Taco for sale shortly.. I was going to list it for 10-12k.

 

What year T4R?

 

Yeah right when he posted that his truck was for sale I hit him up to see if he was interested in swapping wheels, he wants to sell as is though. Why don't you just swap out the tires on the 4R with 35s?