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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Denver, Colorado
Posts: 1,029
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Denver, Colorado
Posts: 1,029
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I was e-mailing with Steve from Sonoran Steel the other day about this and here's his take on it:
"As for the links coming apart, yes I have seen that before. But not how you think. In the year 2000 with the 3rd gen 4Runner Toyota had issues with the welding on the upper rear links. This only happened to model years 2000-2002, in that case the weld on the end tube did not penetrate. In your case the weld did not penetrate the small center rod.
If you look at the breaks they had rust in them prior to coming apart. The small silver areas are where the welding penetrated the center rod, these are the areas that actually held them together. If these were welded correctly, then the bushings would have sheared and split from over twisting. You could clean them up and re-weld by someone who can weld correctly and then side twist and spit the bushings. Toyotas part supplier probably uses a computer welder but the machine/robot seems to be set wrong from time to time lacking penetration and they don't seem to do destruction QA testing.
The upper links came apart because of very poor welding. That is disappointing that they are still having this happen. There is no way a soft poly bushings will hold up to welded steel, the poly will fail first."
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