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Put the Box on my lift today to reattach the rear bumper lower moulding.........backed into a parking stall and the curb almost ripped it off. Got it back on and looks ok.
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For y'all living in the Rust Belt.......heres a pic of what the bottom of a California car looks like after 18 years of daily use........zero rust!
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I lift my car higher and walk around underneath it to check things out. No leaks, no broken axle boots, no worn out ball joints. Everything looks great for 236,xxx miles. Only thing I see are a couple of cracked rear beam axle bushings. I HATE dealing with these particular bushings at work........
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Toyota requires me to remove the entire axle beam to replace these bushings. Howeverrrr......at my home shop (where corners can be cut) 😁. If anybody's wondering, the easy way to replace these bushings........here's how I do it at my shop after placing the new bushings in a freezer:
1) Lift the car off the ground.
2) Place a jack stand under each of the bushing locations.......me having a hydraulic lift, I use tall jack stands much like the ones you see at a muffler shop which hold up exhaust pipe.
3) Lower the car so the jack stands receive some weight on them.
4) Remove both of the bushing bolts.
5) Lift the car so that it raises up, away from the bushings and you have enough room to work around.
6) Drill out the rubber section of the bushings.
7) With the center of the bushing gone, use a cutting tool to cut across the width of the remaining bushing ring and push the ring out of the axle beam.
8) Heat up the axle beam area where the new bushings will be inserted into it's housing.
9) Grab a new bushings from the freezer and blast it for 20 or 30 seconds with nitrous oxide to make it super cold (shrinks).
10) Place the frozen bushing into its location on the beam.
When the beam and the bushings get to normal temperatures, they become secured to each other, lower the car to install the bushing bolts finger tight.......lower the car onto the ground and finally tighten up the bushing bolts to spec.
Changing these bushings my way at my shop takes less than 30 minutes........changing these bushings Toyota's way at the stealership takes me 2 hours because of the required BS, unnecessary procedure.
For y'all living in the Rust Belt.......heres a pic of what the bottom of a California car looks like after 18 years of daily use........zero rust!
I lift my car higher and walk around underneath it to check things out. No leaks, no broken axle boots, no worn out ball joints. Everything looks great for 236,xxx miles. Only thing I see are a couple of cracked rear beam axle bushings. I HATE dealing with these particular bushings at work........
Toyota requires me to remove the entire axle beam to replace these bushings. Howeverrrr......at my home shop (where corners can be cut) 😁. If anybody's wondering, the easy way to replace these bushings........here's how I do it at my shop after placing the new bushings in a freezer:
1) Lift the car off the ground.
2) Place a jack stand under each of the bushing locations.......me having a hydraulic lift, I use tall jack stands much like the ones you see at a muffler shop which hold up exhaust pipe.
3) Lower the car so the jack stands receive some weight on them.
4) Remove both of the bushing bolts.
5) Lift the car so that it raises up, away from the bushings and you have enough room to work around.
6) Drill out the rubber section of the bushings.
7) With the center of the bushing gone, use a cutting tool to cut across the width of the remaining bushing ring and push the ring out of the axle beam.
8) Heat up the axle beam area where the new bushings will be inserted into it's housing.
9) Grab a new bushings from the freezer and blast it for 20 or 30 seconds with nitrous oxide to make it super cold (shrinks).
10) Place the frozen bushing into its location on the beam.
When the beam and the bushings get to normal temperatures, they become secured to each other, lower the car to install the bushing bolts finger tight.......lower the car onto the ground and finally tighten up the bushing bolts to spec.
Changing these bushings my way at my shop takes less than 30 minutes........changing these bushings Toyota's way at the stealership takes me 2 hours because of the required BS, unnecessary procedure.
