Long overdue maintenence about to commence!

[Triathlete]

Well with 145,000 on the ODO I figure it is time to kill some long overdue maintenence. The VX has walked through all the abuse I have thrown at it and I want it to continue that way!
All parts will be ordered/bought this week and work will commence after my last race for the season (10/21).
So here is the to do list...
Brake booster
timing belt/water pump
blower resister
E-brake pads
front shocks (bilsteins)
outer rear axle seals
and indy adjustable hd links

then new front shocks, upper and lower ball joints on the wifes truck!

Fun, fun, fun!

[VX crazy]

Good luck Billy! It will be like a new truck!

I need to get the adjustable link too, Greg put one on his and the noise is GONE....now I need it lol. This winter should be interesting.... once it cools down we are pulling the engine and tranny out of my original VX and going to put that engine into my current VX.......slowly but surely......

[Triathlete]

My links have been bent and straightened a time or two or three

[VXorado]

My links have been bent and straightened a time or two or three

Me too, I also need an adjustable set of links to change the u-joint angle. I'm constantly greasing the lower u-joint to stop vibration and I ripped off the grease zerk on my last wheeling trip. Oops, probably need to replace the u-joints now.

Good luck with the maintenance, it will be worth all the time & effort.

[Ldub]

My links have been bent and straightened a time or two or three

Therefore, making them, by their very nature(made of tempered licorice stix), adjustable......

with the -fest...

[Triathlete]

Tore into my drivers side door today and fixed my non functioning door handle...rod had come off. Reattached and all works fine.
Then I removed my rear "two piece" sway bar...that should eliminate a bit of noise.
was going to swap in my new-used front drive shaft, but didn't feel like dropping the cross member to access the rear bolts so I'll save that for another day. Though I did give the new shaft a nice pretty fresh coat of black paint!

[Ldub]

Greg put one on his, and the noise is GONE....

Did he put it on the L, or the R ?...

[VX crazy]

Did he put it on the L, or the R ?...

Top center rear link Larry, if you climbed under your truck ever you would know this.................

[Ldub]

Top center rear link Larry, if you climbed under your truck ever you would know this.................

LOL...

Oh well EXCUSE ME then...

[blacksambo]

Tore into my drivers side door today and fixed my non functioning door handle...rod had come off. Reattached and all works fine.
Then I removed my rear "two piece" sway bar...that should eliminate a bit of noise.
was going to swap in my new-used front drive shaft, but didn't feel like dropping the cross member to access the rear bolts so I'll save that for another day. Though I did give the new shaft a nice pretty fresh coat of black paint!

Did you per cahnce buy that one off of ebay with 101K miles on it?
Thx

[Triathlete]

The shaft I bought some time ago from a salvage yard.

[pbkid]

Good stuff billy, i just got done doing new rear axle seals on my Yota last week. Was really easy until i broke one of the bolts that holds the wheel hub to the axle housing, which of course you can only get from Toyota.
And they told me that i would need a machine shop to press it out?? Nope, not in my garage, nothin a sledge and a good couple blocks couldnt take care of...

i would suggest new rear brakes while you have everything apart, just FYI.

[JoFotoz]

Oh Billy....how are we gonna know where to go....


...if we cant follow your CV ~~ CLICK/GRIND/CLICK!



Jo

[pbkid]

Oh Billy....how are we gonna know where to go....


...if we cant follow your CV ~~ CLICK/GRIND/CLICK!



Jo

Oh dont worry Jo, i didnt see CV axles on that list, i think the visually challenged may still be able to follow billy. Or you can always follow the vx on race slicks, thatll take you straight to billy too.

[Triathlete]

Race slicks? My MTRs have always had plenty of thread.
The CV Jo is refering to is the CV on the front if the front driveshaft, hence, there will be no more noise. I replaced my CV axles long ago.