Benjamn88
New member
Alright, First off I'm NO mechanic! so any opinions on this are appreciated...
This all started the other day when I made a right hand turn, accelerated to about 40mph and the truck started shaking a little bit. The first thing that crossed my mind was it feels like I'm getting a flat tire. My house was right up the street so I got the truck home checked out all the tires, their fine.
The next day I drove to work in the morning, everything felt fine. On my way home that evening the shaking kept coming back and going away through out the 15 mile drive home. Kept getting worse and worse so at this point I'm thinking one of these damn tires is about to come off this truck!! wtf is going on. I got out checked everything over and that was when I realized that steam was coming off of the driver front rotor from the rain and the rotor it self was very hot. Instantly I thought it has to be the caliper seizing up. I'm fully aware this is a very comon issue on our trucks.
Took the truck over to Toyota last night. Me and my buddy looked up underneith and found grease all over the driver front axle also alot of play in the entire axle itself and yes the Caliper has a mad grip on that rotor. I left the truck there so that a master tech can look at her today. My thought at this point (which aint worth much) Some how the entire axle asm is moving in return its forcing the caliper seize up on the rotor... not for the usual reasons that they seize.
SOOO I'm turning to anyone on here willing to read all of this! What in the world do you think is happening here? has anyone on here had or heard of the same type of scenario with any other 4th Gen 4R?
This all started the other day when I made a right hand turn, accelerated to about 40mph and the truck started shaking a little bit. The first thing that crossed my mind was it feels like I'm getting a flat tire. My house was right up the street so I got the truck home checked out all the tires, their fine.
The next day I drove to work in the morning, everything felt fine. On my way home that evening the shaking kept coming back and going away through out the 15 mile drive home. Kept getting worse and worse so at this point I'm thinking one of these damn tires is about to come off this truck!! wtf is going on. I got out checked everything over and that was when I realized that steam was coming off of the driver front rotor from the rain and the rotor it self was very hot. Instantly I thought it has to be the caliper seizing up. I'm fully aware this is a very comon issue on our trucks.
Took the truck over to Toyota last night. Me and my buddy looked up underneith and found grease all over the driver front axle also alot of play in the entire axle itself and yes the Caliper has a mad grip on that rotor. I left the truck there so that a master tech can look at her today. My thought at this point (which aint worth much) Some how the entire axle asm is moving in return its forcing the caliper seize up on the rotor... not for the usual reasons that they seize.
SOOO I'm turning to anyone on here willing to read all of this! What in the world do you think is happening here? has anyone on here had or heard of the same type of scenario with any other 4th Gen 4R?
