1987 pickup IFS question

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I'm new. Bought a "trail truck" for $500. It's a 1987 Toy pickup that I run off road. The truck doesn't get much mileage, except the fire trails these days. It has 92,xxx on the od and now I have a question.
There is a dust "boot" over the front inner hub. This dust boot is split open. My question is what is the probable outcome if I don't do anything? How much trouble is it to replace this boot and at what cost?

thax for any help and suggestions
OldTruck38

1987 Toyota PU = off-road fun
2005 Toyota 4Runner = daily driver
 
I assume you must be talking about the boot in the CV shaft?

A split in this boot will allow all the grease to get flung out when in 4WD. Besides making a mess under the truck, it will rapidly wear out the CV joint and it will start clacking and making all sorts of nasty noise. Eventually the joint will fall apart or more likely fail on the trail when you try to climb an obstacle.

You can re-boot the CV shafts, Toyota sells a kit that is remarkably inexpensive. But I think you'd be better off just trying to find another complete shaft in a junkyard or from somebody that has recently swapped in a solid axle. Post a Wanted ad in the appropriate section, somebody will have one.

Then start saving your money and collecting parts for a SAS. :D
 
If you have manual hubs it not much of a driving issue. However, you will lose grease leading to excessive wear on the birfield joint. It could fail but I had mine split for years by the previous owner and it was 'wheeled HARD by him, not to mention what I did with it after I put a new boot on. I did swap that joint out when I put the slip yoke shafts in. Good boots, cost less than $10 at auto parts stores but just get the double boot kit from Toyota.
 
Thax for the advice.
Anybody have a PN for that CV boot?

How much of that assembly will I have to take apart to re-install new rubber boot?

OldTruck38

have a say ...
http://www.nohvcc.org/forest/forest.asp
 
Bear80 said:
If you have manual hubs it not much of a driving issue. However, you will lose grease leading to excessive wear on the birfield joint. It could fail but I had mine split for years by the previous owner and it was 'wheeled HARD by him, not to mention what I did with it after I put a new boot on. I did swap that joint out when I put the slip yoke shafts in. Good boots, cost less than $10 at auto parts stores but just get the double boot kit from Toyota.
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There is no birfield.....:confused:
 
OldTruck38 said:
Thax for the advice.
Anybody have a PN for that CV boot?

How much of that assembly will I have to take apart to re-install new rubber boot?

OldTruck38

have a say ...
http://www.nohvcc.org/forest/forest.asp
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Take a look in any repair manual, you have to separate the joint. Meaning cutting the old boot off and smacking the inner star with a brass drift and a bfh because there is a c-clip at the end of axle shaft. A new c-clip will come with the new boot along with some grease. You can use any 3% moly blend grease, just don't go mixing brands/types.
 
Constanant Velosity joint looks the same on a IFS truck as it does on the inside of a birf on a solid axle truck.

only differnce ( for me, any way) is what name applies to what type of suspension it has.

meh.
 
I went through this when I bought my 86 pickup. I tried going the toyota boot replacement kit route but after taking mine arpart and analizing the shaft situation I figured since I did not have a vise or bench to bang on and was outdoors, dirt finds a way to attach itself to it. I took my 36 dollar toyota boot kit back and bought a replacement at the local auto part store with a lifetime warranty for about 80 dollars.

Grease and dirt act as sand paper and will ruin your vc joint if you don't replace the boot......so at the very least replace the boot.
 
2ndGenToyotaFan said:
Why don't we have a big argument about this? :D

I'll insist that they are different (just to get things started here....).

They are copletely different!!!

(your turn)

Hehehehe
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They take different grease.....:D
 
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