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NachesPass4x4 · 12-03-2024, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by GhostRing

IMO, changing an Inner rod end is what's going to take forever.
Swapping to poly while under the truck is also a small PITA.
A new, leak-free unit with new guts (depending on your year, even new style guts)
bypasses all that and shouldn't give you any grief for decades.

Count your OTRE threads and it should get you pretty dang close.
A fresh alignment isn't a bad idea though once it's all installed.

Well that makes me feel better. The 4runner is a 2000 and has the old style rack. It only has 150k but the PO neglected the suspension, so I'm doing a lot of work on that. Goal is to be my daily driver.

My understanding is that the rack "should" come centered. Hopefully I can rely on that when reattaching the steering shaft. I will be buying new tires and getting an alignment after the repair, for sure.

thezentree · 12-03-2024, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by NachesPass4x4

Well that makes me feel better. The 4runner is a 2000 and has the old style rack. It only has 150k but the PO neglected the suspension, so I'm doing a lot of work on that. Goal is to be my daily driver.

My understanding is that the rack "should" come centered. Hopefully I can rely on that when reattaching the steering shaft. I will be buying new tires and getting an alignment after the repair, for sure.

I thought you were buying a rack because you didn't want to deal with changing an inner tie rod end lol.

If your bushings are that trashed then yeah you're like 75% of the way to swapping the rack. I ended up having to buy a new rag joint when I did mine because the original one was seized onto the original rack, and the high pressure power steering line was a horrible fight to get off the old rack too. It was a solid 3 day job for me between having to take the pinion mount off the old rack and pull the pressure hose to stick it in a vise and heat it with a torch, and having to go buy a new rag joint. Hopefully yours isn't as much of a fight.

connorms · 12-03-2024, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by NachesPass4x4

So you guys do think it makes sense to change the rack in this situation? I'm second guessing now and it's not to late to cancel the order.

I crawled under there and the big D shaped bushing is fine, the bushing on the vertical bolt is trashed and the one on the horizontal bolt has some cracking but is holding shape. Plus the one bad inner tie rod

If I had to cut the lines it looks like there is only one HP line.
My biggest concern is getting the rack and steering wheel centered right.

I don't think it's a bad idea for you to replace the rack instead of just the inner tie rods. A few years ago my rack was fine, so I only bought inner tie rods to replace. Then a year later my rack started leaking and I've put off replacing it until now. If I had replaced the rack originally I would have saved a few hundred $$ and the headache of having to do it now.

NachesPass4x4 · 12-04-2024, 12:01 AM

Was anyone notified of this sale by Toyota? I've got in on a couple of these sales before after seeing forum posts like this one. Would be nice to get a Email from Toyota.

Spiker Engineering · 12-05-2024, 02:10 PM

I think I read somewhere that all the units sold now are Toyota remanufactured, not new. Is that true? Or are only the ones with the -84 suffix remanufactured, like this one - 44250-35042-84 - Gear Assembly Power Ste - Nucar Toyota of North Attleboro

GhostRing · 12-05-2024, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Spiker Engineering

I think I read somewhere that all the units sold now are Toyota remanufactured, not new. Is that true? [/url]

I 100% assumed my Toyota purchased rack was rebuilt.
Knowing them, you can probably still get brand-new RHD Prado/Surf racks ;)
As long as it was truly rebuilt to their standards, I'm cool with it.

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