PcBuilder's 1996 Tacoma Build

That happen to me to!

 

sorry to hear buddy..make sure you use quality replacement parts....not partsgeek.com stuff.....oem is best ...dont cheap out on stuff like this....keep us posted on the rebuild...glad ur ok man

 

Thanks, I'm just glad I didn't drive 30 miles into town like I planned. I was only about 4 miles form home. Could have been much worse.

 

Exactly what I'm wondering, Odd for something like that to break while driving normal and straight.

 

Man, sorry to see that! Definitely not cool, but you'll have it back up and running again soon I'm sure. Just be glad it didn't happen someplace else like on the freeway!

Yeah, especially since they were replaced not too long ago.

 

Glad youre okay though!

 

Holy damn!!!!!!!!! That sucks man!!!!!!!!

 

Dad asked me if I wanted to find another vehicle to get, drive around, and keep stock. And just work on mine as I go.... Not sure if I want to or not... I'd rather just wait and have mine back!

 

Well, the truck wasn't exactly taken care of by previous owners. Seatbelts don't always lock up with brakes, also the air bags probably don't work either... Not exactly safe, this scared my parents after this. He wants me to get either something like another tacoma or maybe something like an older camaro, but it has to be something completely stock so he know s nobody had done anything to it. Could be nice, but I really just want my truck back as well.

 

get a later model 1st gen?

 

That's the first thing he said. But if I was to get another vehicle I wouldn't mind having something different, unless maybe it was a v6 tacoma...

 

nice build man

 

My dad went and talked to a local four-wheel drive shop, and sometime here soon we're going to replace the upper and lower ball-joints ourselves. Just so we can get the wheel and tire back on, and get it on a trailer. Then we're going to take it to the four-wheel drive shop and let them finish everything else, and check for any other problems so this doesn't happen agian. We don't have time to work on it ourselves, my dad has been working overtime and we just recently started remodeling the kitchen, laundry room, and bathroom. And I've got school, work, and band practice. So unfortunately we have to let somebody else work on it. But hopefully it won't be longer than a couple of weeks until my truck is back! Had the choice of getting something different, but my truck is a part of me now with as much money I've put into it!

 

yeah dude dont get rid of your truck after everything you have done to make it yours.

but what i did was i got a little beater car for 900 bucks. like 30mpg. and drive that to and from work, and my truck when i feel like it

 

We are, but the truck has no air bags, and no telling what the past owners have done to it as well. They didn't treat it to great...

 

Yes. And keep your truck to restore.

 

Subd.

 

We are going to repair my truck and be done with it, don't exactly have a couple thousand to spend on another vehicle right now. New upper and lower ball joints, new tie rod, and new brake line should be in tomorrow. Once we get all of that installed, we're going to take it to the local four-wheel drive shop and have him check and make sure the differential didn't get ripped apart on the inside. And if it's good we're going to have him put in a new cv, and get him to check everything else. So something like this doesn't happen again.

 

I just had my lower ball joint fail in a parking lot, fortunatly much less carnage. Just got in from fixing it, new cv half shaft, upper balljoint was fine, lower the bolts slipped. And the biggie was new break lines.

Can get it done in a dayif your slow and take your time. Save the cash and do it yourself.

 

I have absolutely no time to work on it. My dad is going to have to do the upper and lower ball joints for me, because today is my last day off after school for the next few weeks. And my dad works a lot of over time lately, so I'm lucky he's putting in the ball joints for me. It was just some really bad timing for this to happen, because I used to have at least a day off every week.