MIKEMOKAS

lol, were on the same page now, good luck.

where is your dads place?

Swansen

.... my third member just started leaking to, i didn't realized you had to take apart the rear end to change a gasket, fun times.

iamsuperbleeder

Just over in Orlando; it's maybe an hour from where I'm at right now in Titusville. He told me if I go over there and help him fix his AC on his 99 S10, he'd help me knock this out ( he's one of those old-school mechanics; he can tear apart and build up 350s and 454s all day long, but throw something in front of him with any electronics, and he's like "screw that mess, com'ere boy, help me out with this", lol ), plus I aint seen the ol fart in a while and it'll be cool to go hang out with him for the weekend, now that I can do that with this new job I have.

got all my parts together this afternoon after work and I'll be head'n over there about 8:30 in the mornin!

iamsuperbleeder

well, we have now more leak now!

took me all of about 3.5 hours Sat ( which I would call decent for never have messed with the thing before ) to get the new gasket and axle seals installed

found out one thing though, my bearings... yeah, their shot! as much as I really, really, REALLY didn't want to, I had to keep them in for now, for 2 reasons; 1) payday is at the end of this week so I'm tight on money till then, and 2) it's laybor-day weekend and no machine shops were open to remove and press the bearings on.

but hopefully that's next weekends project considering I don't even have to get under the truck to change those; jack er up, put it on stands, take out the axles and all the brake stuff, have the bearings swapped out, and then the reverse, so that shouldn't take very long at all

but I was surprised at how easy it was. my father, never having messes with too many Toyotas was like "are you sure that's how that works? you take out those 4 bolts, the axle slides out, and remove all them bolts and the hole thing comes off?"

but I did everything by the book, everything's torqued back to spec, the only plan that changed was the gear fluid; I used regular stuff for now, because in a few months time a locker and gears are going in (I'm getting a whole 3rd member from a buddy that I'm gunna have put together with the gears and lock so I can just bolt it right in and keep my original as a spare), and then I'll throw in some good synthetic stuff

and the old fluid looked like chocolate milk... yeah, it's was NASTY looking... I could almost here my diff-gears going "aaahhhhhh" on the test drive after it was done, lol


and sorry, no pics... hands were too dirty...

Matt16

Not with an auto locker. Why not you ask?

Duelertoyota4x4

Cant go wrong with any of the Lucas line of fluids either.

I used their Auto Trans fix fluid in a Chevy Venture tranny that should have left the vehicial on the side of the road waitin for a tow. But I got another 3 months out of the junk tranny buying me enough time to find a different van and sell the Chevy. Im sold lol.

thook

Swansen, it just doesn't seem to be getting any more fun for you, does it? Well, I know the feeling. 'Cept my neverending battles seem to be with my house and outbuildings. Fix one thing, another thing has already broken. I need a tall cliff.

iamsuperbleeder

quick question about the bearing replacement.

is it necesary for all of the brake stuff to come off in order to get the bearings out?

I glanced at the FSM, and by the pictures it looks like everything is removed, but is there any reason why it can't be dont with leaving all the brake parts put together?

I also did a search on the forum for a tutorial, but came up empty-handed, or is there one and I just overlooked it.

I'm gunna knock em out next saturday morning, so I've got plenty of time to read up and it and figure out the right way and easiest way to do it

thanx everyone!

abecedarian

gotta pull it all.

iamsuperbleeder

yay...

ok, that's what I figued

thanx man



I'm definately getting pictures and videos of how much movement these bearings have this time just to show you how bad these things are... gunna have to take pics of the brake setup to make sure I can put everything back together right anywho...

abecedarian

yeah, it seems that backing plate holds the outer bearings in place so... to get them out, it all has to go.

Swansen

yes, its never ending, and i'm sure my rear wheel bearings are in about the same shape that superbleeders are.. But yeah