General vehicle thread

[MrPrena]

Saw the silver f type r driving very fast at 120th and Holly area.
Maybe owner of the f type r wanted to show his car was faster than small taco.

[Irving]

Looks like Moog sucks. Pretty much everything in this photo has just under 4,000 miles on it. The lower ball joint boot is already ripped. To be fair to Moog, I was trying to keep up with my buddy angry driving his 4Runner on 37's on a bumpy trail and I also blew out a rear shock. So I don't know if the boot ripping was from that, or even if it was, if that should have happened.

[GilpinGuy]

I've had pretty good luck with Moog stuff. Maybe you got a bum part. Isn't that still under warranty? Still sucks to have to do the work though.

[Irving]

It's more than just one part though. It's the upper and lower ball joints on both sides and the steering linkage on both sides. Even the axle hubs are rusted, but those aren't Moog.

Here is the other, just as rusty side. I suppose as long as the parts do what they are supposed to do, the rust doesn't bother me too much, but I thought the finish would last longer than a few months.

[Grant H.]

Moog has really gone downhill in recent years.

In the 2500/3500 Diesel groups they used to be pretty popular, but they wear out too quickly now, which sucks since the rest of the known good options are $$$.

[TheSparkens]

Just got finished putting a lift on my 2014 Taco. To the alignment shop, it will go now. You have some big-time rust and the joints that link the LCA and the sway control bar look like crap. Who did the work? Did they torque everything?
I worry about doing the lift because you need to have an alignment person that knows how to do the work even though it's not to spec. I did an ICon add a leaf and retained the overload because I tow a trailer. I hope the rear will settle a little. I have firestone airbags but hopefully, the add-a-leaf will help the bags. So both the front and back are at about 2" extra with the back being a little more. I have Bilstein 5100 all around and it rides great.

[Irving]

I did all the work, in this thread, around Feb-Mar. I didn't touch the say bars, so those are 20 years old.

A 2" lift is nothing and any competent alignment shop can handle that. If they tell you that it will cost more or give you any bullshit about custom work, just leave and go elsewhere. I did a 1.5" diff drop, ball joint flip, and lifted something like 1.5-2" and Stan's Alignment on Colfax did the alignment in line 30 min with zero issues. I had the entire axle and all of the suspension out and there was no issue. I replaced everything but the sway bar bushings.

[brutal]

Sounds like Moog is just as bad as Dorman.

I bought some Dorman door wiring for my 04 RAM QC rear doors and the rubber boots and wiring didn't make it 2 years.

[Irving]

So my 4wd has not been activating reliably. I noticed it first happened when I was driving in the snow and wanted to see how snow driving fully locked was. I assumed, without any real knowledge of what was going on, that it was somehow freezing up. I was right. When I pulled the axle earlier this year, I probably didn't put the vent tube back into place correctly, as I found it dangling today. I pulled the cover on the box where the actuator slides the pawl over to engage the driver side front wheel and I found it full of ice.



So that means that the water crossing I did on the one 4wd trip I made probably filled this, and the axle tube, and the front diff, with water. Then dirt has been getting into here during all those hunting trips on dirt roads. It's a big mess.



I pulled it into my heated garage and will let everything melt out for a few days. Now I get to try and flush the entire front axle of all the crap that is probably in there. Harumph.

[TheSparkens]

I did all the work, in this thread, around Feb-Mar. I didn't touch the say bars, so those are 20 years old.

A 2" lift is nothing and any competent alignment shop can handle that. If they tell you that it will cost more or give you any bullshit about custom work, just leave and go elsewhere. I did a 1.5" diff drop, ball joint flip, and lifted something like 1.5-2" and Steve's Alignment on Colfax did the alignment in line 30 min with zero issues. I had the entire axle and all of the suspension out and there was no issue. I replaced everything but the sway bar bushings.

Got it thanks for the reference. I hope they are not to busy and open for business I will look them up.