[shadow247]

Originally Posted by Brian757

Haha, its all good. I was just shooting an invite your way. Hopefully I am finished with this thing tonight. I want to get an alignment tomorrow and call it done ya know? My boss said I have dirty hands today
Oh, silly, muckedy, muck, people...

If you get it done, come up this way and I will see if I can hook you up with the Lifetime alignment at Firestone. They buy a lot of parts from us and hooked me up on mine.

[Brian757]

Originally Posted by shadow247

If you get it done, come up this way and I will see if I can hook you up with the Lifetime alignment at Firestone. They buy a lot of parts from us and hooked me up on mine.

I might take you up on that offer. I am roughly 30-45 minutes from Hampton so I am somewhat concerned driving on the interstate with a non-aligned lifted truck. But that is a truly good offer. Let me know if its possible. I am going to end up paying $100 to get aligned at my local Merchants.

[shadow247]

Originally Posted by Brian757

I might take you up on that offer. I am roughly 30-45 minutes from Hampton so I am somewhat concerned driving on the interstate with a non-aligned lifted truck. But that is a truly good offer. Let me know if its possible. I am going to end up paying $100 to get aligned at my local Merchants.

Well I just talked to him and he said he couldn't give me a deal, so you would be paying regular price. It's 179.99 plus 10 in shop fees, so it comes out to 190. The nice part is that you can take it back as many times as you want to get it aligned.

If you go online, you can get an internet price of 169.99. Just go to http://www.firestonecompleteautocare.../alignment.jsp and put in your info.

[Brian757]

@shadow247 : Thank you for looking into it! Thats a great deal. I will let you know.

[Brian757]

Here are some various shots of my truck when i got home.







4Runner Duelly! ...Haha, a bit tacky

[shadow247]

@Brian757 - get yourself some new front swaybar links while you're under there. Buy some 2nd gen rear links. They will level out your sway-bar and make it work better. I dropped my truck back down to 1" over stock and kept the longer links, and it works great, especially on the terrible curvy on-ramps we have around here. You can also run the 2nd gen links in the rear too.

[kevinpt]

Originally Posted by Brian757

Yes. I know of a few places in Chesapeake. Are you in Richmond though?

yes im in richmond but would do short road trips to find a good trail

[Brian757]

So I finally got my UBJ's in. HOLY CHRIST! That was a real PITA!
I ended up having to grind the stud of my old ball joint off and use an air compressed socket wrench to tighten the gear puller to push it off! Holy crap that was hell folks.
Well, 5 beers down and I'm back at it. Any questions, let me have 'em!

Here are some pictures to simmer on:

Here are the gear pullers. I angled the hub to face towards the front so I could put my body into the wrench. It was in there like swim wear.


Air compressed socket wrench going at it:


Putting the "Oh Shit" pin on the new ball joint:


New ball joint on BEFORE I had torqued it down. (I went to 105 Ft./Lbs)


Here is the Ball Joint Press I ended up using:


ANNDDDDD... ITSSS INNN!!:

[shadow247]

Awesome man! Did you do new tie rods too?

[downpour11]

Yeah dude they're a b!tch! My friend and I spend 4 hours on the drivers side before we got it out. Imagine just trying to reboot the damn thing. That reboot write-up posted earlier made it look easy haha! UBJ's can suck it. At least you go that press to work, I got mad and threw the damn thing across the driveway. All in all, you DID save $600 bucks so in the end, all the pain and frustration for the day is still worth it.

[Brian757]

@shadow247 : I went to AdvanceAuto and looked up 3rd gen and 2nd gen sway bar links. They are both either the current length of mine right now or shorter. Seeing as I can change out my sway bar links without needing my car jacked up or hub off, I will do it later. I inspected my tie rods and they seem structurally intact.

@downpour11 : Yeah dude, they were a complete pain in the a$$. Just rebooting would have felt stupid. I would have done so much work just to change the boot. And yes, anyone who assumes UBJ's are easy, be ready for an all day event. And heck yes, $600 bucks to me is...
NEW timing belt, serp, WP, thermostat, and tensioners!
Remember when I was asking whether I should do ball joints or timing belt? NOW I can do both! I feel good

[USCG_ET09]

LOVE LOVE LOVE your runner man!! I surprisingly don't run into a lot of other 02' Runners on here seems to be a lot more of the 96-00. Which brings me to a point i keep going onto threads about changing out the guage cluster lights with LEDs and the bulb numbers i keep getting are off. Would you happen to know exactly what bulbs you used to light the main guage cluster ( Speedometer, tach, and fuel and temp). KCCO

[Brian757]

Originally Posted by USCG_ET09

LOVE LOVE LOVE your runner man!! I surprisingly don't run into a lot of other 02' Runners on here seems to be a lot more of the 96-00. Which brings me to a point i keep going onto threads about changing out the guage cluster lights with LEDs and the bulb numbers i keep getting are off. Would you happen to know exactly what bulbs you used to light the main guage cluster ( Speedometer, tach, and fuel and temp). KCCO

Thank you very much for the compliments.
I did my cluster a long time ago but I distinctly remember using
LED Lights, Bulbs & Accessories - SUPER BRIGHT LEDS for my bulbs and they were wedge bulbs.
I would have to see yours taken apart and show me the bulb and I will know exactly once I see them. I forget though. I know their not damn 194's like EVERYONE was telling me. Our clusters use 3 of one type and then 2 for the blinkers. That is it. Unless you want to change out all of the emergency/info light (CEL, ABS, etc.)
All I need to do is see the bulb and I will send you the link to LED Lights, Bulbs & Accessories - SUPER BRIGHT LEDS and the exact bulb.

Originally Posted by kevinpt

yes im in richmond but would do short road trips to find a good trail

I know people in Pennsylvania and they have really nice trails. Trust me, I would rather go with you to Pennsylvania than go to Chesapeake. To be completely honest, these trails aren't worth your fuel.
Going up North or out West is our best bet. I just like mountains and mountain air. I would truly go with you if you had plans for the mountains. Shoot, I would even go to Roanoke!

[USCG_ET09]

Thanks man!! I know i just friggin ordered the 194s and was very displeased i had this shit all apart and they didn't fit! Even the Sylvania online car lighting master list says that its supposed to be 194's! At least the 74's worked for the ignition and shifter and glove box. Ive got it apart ill snap a pic and see if it jogs your memory! Thanks again man

[Brian757]

Originally Posted by USCG_ET09

Thanks man!! I know i just friggin ordered the 194s and was very displeased i had this shit all apart and they didn't fit! Even the Sylvania online car lighting master list says that its supposed to be 194's! At least the 74's worked for the ignition and shifter and glove box. Ive got it apart ill snap a pic and see if it jogs your memory! Thanks again man

Haha, I did almost the same thing. I used them for the shifter, ignition, and glove box as well! Haha! Thats funny. Those 3 and the rear license plate light are the only 194's on our trucks...