I agree, but I'm stumped by the difficulty. Gonna sit on it for a while and see if I can hide the problem otherwise. I do believe it would be the key satisfying change to get it done.
Maybe try angling my air hammer in and thinking about in place replacement strategies. The 100's have an on...
Yeah I did that today. It's about 1/4 or 3/8 inch movement and you can see a crack in the rubber around each bushing open up when extending in either direction. Not like a deep crack or a rotted out look, but a crack nonetheless.
Very inconclusive result. Not great, not terrible.
This may be basic knowledge to some of you, but I'll add my notes here for the public anyway:
FJ Cruisers, 5th Gen 4Runners, the GX 460, and of course the Prado 150 all share this rack design it is mostly the same beast on all of them. It's possible that the 460's V8 packaging makes it the...
I'm an intermediate shade tree mechanic, I'm familiar with most suspension work done from the side of a vehicle, and I managed the valley leak repair, but I've never got into the heavy stuff like moving the transmission or diff.
Cutting bolts is apparently already an accepted practice for...
The 10-12 steering flutter TSB details a rack removal method by removing the front diff and jacking the motor up like you do for the LCA's. There is one first hand report online of a replacement by deflecting the diff and the motor without removing either.
Yeah I better hope it's not rack...
I'm quite sure that I have an excessive movement somewhere, in a ball joint or a control arm or some bushings or a rod end, etc. And probably in multiple of the above.
The experience is like a rattling, not a little rattle but a rattling motion of major weight bearing components.
Alignment...
I went ahead and jumped the gun and ordered some superpro rack bushings.
I've thrown wrong parts at problems before so I'm aware of the pitfalls. But I'm confident no matter what the outcome I'll enjoy having a stiffer rack.
Hopefully at the expense of time and frustration with a hacksaw and...
Reading over some steering rack reports I have a feeling this is going to be the primary culprit. It explains how completely s***ty it's acting. I've encountered little things with little symptoms than can be isolated and this isn't that. It's broad general looseness and steering rack bushings...
Thank you guys.
I will examine the wheel bearings. Ball joints I thought would be a given as part of the LCA. But maybe I need to get more familiar.
That intermediate shaft sounds like exactly what part of my knock is coming from and I'll look into that. It really bugs me even when the rest of...
120k 2014 GX460 all stock.
Over the last 20k miles I have developed what I personally know as "Toyota truck s***ty front end syndrome".
I don't know if there really is a universal syndrome, but I do know that I have observed similar symptoms on various 4runners, Tacomas, and now my GX. It...
Do you check the acid levels? You pop the caps off and top them up with distilled water. It's usually ignored in other climates but the water might be evaporating there.