My 16-year-old picked up a 94 a few months back. Pretty nice little rig. It’s a little beat. It’s been painted, and it has a crap lift, and the Jeep bumper somebody put on the front is a travesty, but it has e-locks, runs like a champ, doesn’t leak or burn a drop of oil, and he only paid $7k for it so…
A few weeks ago we drove up a winding canyon road to go skiing. I noticed my guy seemed to be struggling to keep it on the road. I drove home and could tell something was wrong. We put it on the rack and found 1 FREAKING STUD AND NUT holding the left steering knuckle arm in place, AND IT WAS LOOSE!!! We could have died.
Anyway, the the steering knuckle/birf housing was buggered so we picked up a used one, got new hardware from Toyota, and got birf rebuild kit from CO. Over the last 15 years I’ve got probably 10 or so axle rebuilds under my belt so not a huge deal. Went together smooth, good way for us to spend a Saturday morning, and a good way my son to cut his teeth.
BUT, when we were pulling it apart I noticed the left hub cap was missing. No biggie. Had one in the junk drawer. A day later the cap is missing, and the shaft’s poking out.
A few weeks ago we drove up a winding canyon road to go skiing. I noticed my guy seemed to be struggling to keep it on the road. I drove home and could tell something was wrong. We put it on the rack and found 1 FREAKING STUD AND NUT holding the left steering knuckle arm in place, AND IT WAS LOOSE!!! We could have died.
Anyway, the the steering knuckle/birf housing was buggered so we picked up a used one, got new hardware from Toyota, and got birf rebuild kit from CO. Over the last 15 years I’ve got probably 10 or so axle rebuilds under my belt so not a huge deal. Went together smooth, good way for us to spend a Saturday morning, and a good way my son to cut his teeth.
BUT, when we were pulling it apart I noticed the left hub cap was missing. No biggie. Had one in the junk drawer. A day later the cap is missing, and the shaft’s poking out.
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