2002 TuRD

I don't use them, but I'm leaving them as they keep stuff from rattling against the back wall when driving around. The jump seat trim is actually held on by 4 bolts, and some hooks, it has practically no clips which is pretty nice actually!
 
I was supposed to go wheeling at Golden mountain last weekend, however they closed the park on Tuesday in advance of the hurricane remnants dumping their forecasted rain and wind over TN. So the group decided we all want to wheel no matter what, let's go to AOP. Well it rained for a total of 10mins at 2am on Friday and that's it, this was the dryest I have ever seen AOP and it was was awesome!! Great time! Broke a tailight, busted a mirror off and got hassled by a TN state trooper for basically nothing on the drive home, overall good weekend!
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Went to hawk pride this weekend, it was awesome as usual, however not without some drama, this will be kind of long. So I haven't touched the truck since AOP, outside of replacing a mirror I broke and a taillight, hell I didn't even unpack it. So I loaded the Tacoma up, and drove it to hawk pride. At my first gas stop, leaving a gas station on 74, I lost my power steering, so I pulled over and saw this:
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Luckly it threaded back in. At that same fuel stop, I noticed some gear lube on my rear leafs, I figured it was venting out of the transfer cases as I was driving it pretty fast, and the cases were being noisy. So I drove through Cherokee and stop in Cleveland TN to get some gear lube. I look at the leafs now and now I have a ton of gear lube back there and some on my tailgate, and it leaking out the pinion seal, damnit. So I decided to press on because I figured I would just fill up the rear diff after ideling through Satan's asshole of traffic aka Chattanooga. So I get through that and fill the diff cuss at the metal shavings coming out of the fill hole at a rest stop, and call the people I'm meeting there to have at least one person satu sober Incase I need to get rescued via trailer LOL. So I'm now driving through AL thinking about what to do, and I decided that I'm putting in a new pinion seal and swapping the rear diff to the front at camp, and putting the front in the rear. So one more stop at a vatozone to pick up fluids and I arrive at the park fine. Set up my tent, and we get to wrenching on a friend's trailer:
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The pinion had like a quarter inch of play, putting pinion bearing and a blown out seal. So we pulled the shims, ran a pattern using mustard as a gear marking compound, and got some preload back only using the solid spacer. So we stabbed the diff in the front, time to drink beer and wheel the next day.
 
So the past few trips I have been in a wheeling funk, meaning I have been picking shit lines, being a general pussy when it comes to obstacles, pulling cable when not needed and bypassing stuff, I shouldn't. It got to the point where not only the people that I wheel with heckling me, randos online started to LOL!! So I went into this trip that I wasn't messing around, and I'm breaking this funk. Now of course there was minimal pictures taken, but a summary: I drove out of a flop by bouncing it off red limiter, took only bonus lines following a friend on stickeys in an XJ, and just tried whatever was in front of me. Well I'm back and feeling good now, and miraculously, no cable was pulled and outside of the carnage fest that was i-40 and rte 74 in NC/TN, no wrenches were turned! Here's a video of me testing out the front diff camp site setup on day 1 of wheeling:

And now it's time to park the truck again until the g2g in December and then do maintenance on it all winter:laughing:

Also my cases were nice and quiet on the drive home, imagine that a pinion flopping around would make lots of drive line noise off throttle LOL
 
That's a good friend to let you spill gear oil all over what looks like pretty new deck boards on his trailer, lol.

Love how you keep driving this thing all over the east coast from park to park and beating the piss out of it along the way. Keep doing the Lord's work brother!
 
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That's a good friend to let you spill gear oil all over what looks like pretty new deck boards on his trailer, lol.

Love how you keep driving this thing all over the east coast from park to park and beating the piss out of it along the way. Keep doing the Lord's work brother!
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He bought that trailer last week and gladly offered it up :laughing:!

Thanks man! The drive to and from the park is most of the adventure LOL
 
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