The Frankenstein Build! LT/Expo/Trail rig..and BS

Yea me too. Coulda been bad.

 

Fuck haha. Ok, it's settled. I'll knock that one out before I go.

 

Good

 

Monte, So Imlooking to do my LBJ's to and was talking to an old friend (Toyota tech) whosaid the 1st gen Tundra's used the same LBJ assembly but he thought theball joint itself was a bit stronger after the TSB/Recall (he said initiallythey had the same issues and recall as the Tacoma's did).

I searchedall over and haven’t found anything on this except the Tundra's LBJ recall was about thesame time as the Tacoma’s…

He saidworse comes to worse, the Tundra’s are at least the same and tend to sellcheaper on ebay/etc… (but tend to be more expensive at the dealers). Im going to Toyota this week (either tomorrow or Friday) to look atgetting an alignment and plan on comparing the LBJ assemblies and verify this.

 

I got a pair of Moog with grease fittings (the nice ones, not the cheap version - yes there are two diff quality Moog LBJ's out there) I coated with POR-15. After reading this plan to do OEM I think. PM me if you want them

 

Interesting. I will love to hear your findings on this

 

Dont see much diff

I called the local Toyota Parts and unfortunately he didnt have any on hand. They are different part numbers which makes me wonder what's so different...

1st Gen Tacoma LBJ:








1st Gen Tundra LBJ:

 

Could be tie rod ends. I know 4runnera the hole is smaller. Find out I guess.

Frankenstein is almost done. Just finished welding the bracket back on. If I can get an alignment tomorrow I will be road worthy to finish the trip!

 

Dang that was fast.

 

Didnt fuck around this time. New what had to be done too and more at stake

 

Frank is alive. All appears well. Gonna try and get it aligned tomorrow hopefully

 

ZINNNNGGGG

this is where you are wrong. there are ESB kits that also use lower uniballs and their are race kits all over that use lower uniballs.

also on another note. some times the LBJ faliure is not from the actuall ball joint dislocating but most of the time from those 4 bolts that hold the LBJ to the spindle.
that trac performance lower uniball replacement may work good to prevent the actual ball joint to fail. but those bolts will still bite you in your ass.

just my 2 cents.

 

also i have 4 of these sitting on my desk for sale. 35$ a pop.

 

Damn that was speedy, good to hear indeed.

 

Damn. Work was done.

 

Not really. Like hardly any race kits out there and most are for prerunners and they are usually 4.5-6" over. So the market is tiny for them to begin with.

 

Got me thinking about replacing those lower bolts... I've taken them on and off a few times. Anyone got a good source?

 

Right on. Thx duder. I'll stick with oem

 

Lol

It says 4WD in the title

 

In the fine print:

So you have to have their spindles to use them, but it looks like their spindles only work with 1" uniball UCA's.