TSB - Rear leaf spring noise.

I'm with ya, bro.

 

ARRRGGH. thats public , im gonna edit! At that rate theyll turn me into a salesman ....help!

 

My buddy's 99 Taco squeaks like a creeky old wooden wagon. I've gotten the TSB done, going outside after this post to check the leaf pack bolts. I think the best solution is to grease the contact pad. Looks like toyota puts a nylon pad in there, make sure yours didn't wear out or fall out. You have to really releave pressure from the leaf and grease it with a HD grease, probably something you'd use in a CV joint. That will be the most effective way to fix the problem. but later on it will happen again... need to re-grease. but I'm guessing if you use good grease and spread the leafs apart it'll last at least 10k.

 

my 06 creaks when I just go to sit in it. lol

 

They put my Bolts in correctly. All of them. However they torqued the U-Bolts to 75#/Ft. Spec is 37#. I kept going up in 5# incriments to check. Not sure if I'm happy or not with it... but at least the axle won't come out. 75# sounds more like it to me.

 

I'm assuming the nylon pads are thin?...its like the thing inbetween each of the leaf srpings? the reason i'm saying this is i want to clarify if they're supposed to be pretty thin...if not...then mine are mashed to shit, mine looks a little thicker than a sheet of paper last i looked at them...i'm not a truck guru or anything so i might sound like a moron right now.