The Lair

I don't know about the rest of you...but I woke up this morning absolutely sick to my stomach! I haven't had the news on much the last few days so I didn't learn of the tragedy yesterday until late last night/early this morning. I felt like I had no choice but to talk to my 8 year old on the way to school about "Run, Hide, Fight" ...it is sickening. Things were not like this when I was a kid. As a lover of firearms and without getting too political, a strong supporter of the second amendment, I can't help but feel in the pit of my stomach...something needs to change...what it is, I have no idea. But things cannot continue to go the way they are in this country. My heart is broken and I feel so helpless...

End rant

 

This stuff was always in the forefront of everyone's thoughts while I was in school. Columbine happened and then we had the DC Sniper to deal with too. I feel like now it is too glorified so these kids with serious issues decide they want to do terrible things.

 

I whipped up a rough draft of all my suspension components torque value for me to check before every trip. I’ll laminate it and use a dry erase marker to make sure I don’t miss anything.

I already forgot calipers on the list, so I’ll do a dry run tomorrow and make corrections as needed.

 

This is a genius idea! I need to do some stuff. 150k maintenance coming up in less than 1k.

 

I even bought a laminating machine just for this! They’re surprisingly inexpensive. Gonna laminate all the things.

 

FTFY

 

Goddamn your MS paint skills are on point.

 

Its a truly undervalued skill set.

 

You win the internet for the day.

 

Just ordered all the engine and gear oil.
6 qts on Amazon of 75w90 Mobil 1 is cheaper than anywhere else I've looked.

 

It's been a hot minute since I've wrenched on a stock truck. Can anyone confirm these socket sizes?

Ones I'm unsure about are

• Tie Rod End
• Lower Shock Bolt
• UCA Balljoint
• LCA Balljoint
• Rear shock, upper mount

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/2nd-gen-diy-maintenance-quick-reference-guide.438945/

EDIT: dang, I don't see the socket sizes.

 

Excellente, thank you.

 

Drat, that didn't have the info I need. I'll just watch an installation video or something to find the size

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...ckets-and-wrenches-for-2nd-gen-tacoma.158302/

 

19mm sounds right for the lower shock iirc.
I want to say the UCA BJ is smaller but I can't remember. I want to swap my spindles out this weekend so maybe I'll remember to let you know.
I want to say the LCA BJ is smaller too but again...
17 sounds right for the rear shock.

 

Ope, someone said 12mm for top nuts on front and rear shocks, but for some reason I want to say 14.

 

I ended up watching some install videos to figure it out.

TRE - 19mm
LCA BJ - 24mm
Rear shock upper - 14mm
Lower coilover - 19mm
UCA BJ - 19mm

 

Nice!

 

Ugh...what a weekend so far. For those of you with kids, know your local poison control number. My 2 year old super glued his eye shut yesterday...after calling our pediatrician and urgent care, they referred us to poison control because they didn't know how to handle it. Apparently even Dr's call poison control if they run into something like this they aren't sure how to handle. The call taker my wife spoke to was outstanding. She was very reassuring and helped us figure out what we needed to do to get the little guy taken care of. Turns out superglueing an eye shut isn't as bad as one might think. They told us to leave it alone and the glue would lose the bond with the skin over time (1-4 days) and his eye would open on its own. We had just taken him to the Dr on Friday because he had goopy eyes and they had given him antibiotic eye drops. They told us to continue to use the eye drops 3x a day. And he shouldn't need any further medical intervention. Today his eye is almost completely open and looks relatively normal considering. He just has a few eye lashes on the upper and lower eyelid that are still bonded near the corner of his eye, so it doesn't quite completely open yet.