What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

Yes brand new ball joints, owner says less than 3k miles of the UCA's on the truck

 

I’d get em if I had the chance.

 

I noticed they use ball joints instead of uniballs like on the Chaos Fab ones. Would it make a huge difference?

 

Probably not something that’ll affect you a lot. I’d check the bushings and stuff too

 

Good luck with routing that stuff.

 

Think I should spring for these, or find a used set of Uniball UCA's?

 

I think they’ll work fine for what you’ll do. Im gonna grab some of those or jba when I can

 

I didn't realize you have to press out the OEM upper ball joints. I thought I didn't have to do that for a looonnnggg time.

You know what, despite how hard it was to remove and re-install the transmission on this truck pressing the upper ball joints still remain the hardest thing I have done on this truck.

 

Thanks

 

Never done it, but I’ll take your word for it.

 

I guess it's easier with the steering knuckles on this truck. I don't know if you were around here on the week before Christmas last year, but I spent 3 days wrestling the steering knuckles to replace the ball joints. I posted updates on this thread. It wasn't fun.

 

Oh I read it, distracted me from where I was at the time.

 

Glad my ramblings on here gave someone some solace. All things aside, I'd totally do another 4WD conversion. I had a lot of fun doing it.

After all, I got to find out what 300,000 mile differential fluid tastes like after trying to remove it from the rusty 4Runner.

Hint: Not very good.

 

I was in Florida, a place the average human would love. I hated every minute.

 

Either way you go you’ll be happy. Uniballs are great but can be noisy if they get/stay dirty for a while. SPCs are what’s going on my truck this summer and I’ve heard great thigs about them as well. Their balljoint set up allows for more articulation than the stock bj so don’t let the word balljoint scare you away

 

www.reddit.com/r/FloridaMan

 

I’m not even gonna click the link, I already know what it’s gonna be.

 

Also they're greasable which is a nice benefit, my SPC's have been great for me for the past couple of years.

Only issue I have is that the old grease gets all over the balljoint boot and spindle over time; when you add more the old stuff has to come out and gets forced out the bottom of the boot. Messy but not too bad to clean up.

 

Thanks again @Digiratus, excited to mount em up and go for a trip!

 

Good to know that those tires will get some good use. Lots of life left in them.

And those amazing wheels, with their amazing history are like a cat. They are on their 4th or 5th life now.