I'd have just stripped the paint then polished the aisins... or painted em to match the truck.

feels good doing it yourself though, doesn't it?

 

I just wanted them to look like originals, if not a little shinier

Yeah, it's good knowing that I can do things like this to my own vehicle and it's works in the end; god only know how much a shop would charge for such a tedious process, let alone a Toyota dealership...

 

Which is why so many of us do our own work. It feels great and saves money. Don't even get me started on the 3800$ timing chain job......

 

I think we should start a paypal account to distribute money to yotatech members that help others. kind of a pay your friends, not the dealer thing.
or maybe a 'tip the tech' account?

j/k

anyhow, you just saved yourself a wad of money, so what's next?

 

All joking aside I wish there were more folks closer to me that could drop by the house with an issue and let me help out. Hell it could be diff changes, valve adjustments, TPS, oil pump etc.... this stuff isn't hard. As long as they pay for the parts I'd do the work just to get some wrench time, and maybe a mug of coffee or two. I hate the fact that "techs" charge an insane amount of money for what I've found to be really easy jobs.

This attitude started years ago when a guy helped me, coached me actually, through a spring over axle conversion on a Scout in exchange for the axles I pulled out. It was a great feeling to do my own work with someone making sure I didn't mess it up.

 

lol you say a shop charging for this let be tell ya

in alldata what 99.999999999999999999999999999% shops use for times and prices well it says its 4.6 hours for both sides only rotors remove and replacement lol not including cutting bearings or repacking nothing just getting the rotors off and back on

now 4.6 times 60-70 bucks an hour wow thats alot lol


just though i would add lol and good job buddy looks real good man real good im going to be doing mine but in black and green to match my ride!!

 

Looks great!... but I have a question,

 

busted

 

You guys didn't know, bleeder dude is a male escort???

 

Hubs look spiffy... and don't worry your secret is safe with us...

 

lmao

it's just some plastic box-like thing I aquired years ago from who knows where, and I keep it on my computer desk and it collects random crap...

 

See, logical, but totally unbelievible excuse

 

What is even more funny is Dan's reply post with the in the background!

 

I really didn't notice that till you said that

 

See, I thought he did that on PURPOSE

 

And yet again a perfectly good thread is going to go down the drain.

 

here, lemme try to get the thread back, lol


What do yall think about that broken stud?

Those do just unscrew out right? If so, that's an easy replacement, as I'm sure I could find a stud the same size to replace it with around town.

It shouldn't harm anything with that one bolt missing for now, you think?

 

i think you are good to go. when you do get around to fixing it, just get some vice grips on it and unscrew it out.

 

ok, that's what I thought, thank man!

 

Hmmm...
Romance... Men...
...sounds like a broken stud to me.

(I cut out the part about finding the same size stud around town)