I was going about 40mph when this happened this morning.


I called the parts store they delivered me that parts and I changed it beside the road. Thank god I carry tools and got awesome brakes

 

Whhhaaattttt! dang glad your ok man.

Idler arm brace or Total chaos Idler arm FTW


-RONI-

 

I'm switching to SAS in about 3 weeks

 

Did you need a pants change after that? Holy crap. Need to replace mine here at some point before that happens.

 

Mine was 2 months old.

 

Keep your reciepts and busted parts, not sure if toyota will reimburse you. Isn't that related to the steering recall? Worth a few minutes to try asking atleast.

 

Well my parts in the frontend are all MOOG they hold a very good warranty. I didn't have to buy another we just switched it out.

As far as changing pants. Lol. I don't no what was worse me trying to stop of my wife beating the s*** out of me while I was trying to stop. What was scary is I had just got off the interstate and turned onto the main road. I could've only imagined if it broke 2 minutes earlier.

 

I tied mine back together with rope when that happened to me. Then drove the truck ~20 miles back home, at a relatively safe speed of course(no highway travel obviously). Making sure I didn't turn the wheel too sharply while cornering, and cause the whole thing to come unravelled.

I know what you mean about having good brakes(glad I did too). I was only going ~10 mph though. But I was coming down a semi-steep, narrow, single-lane, gravel road about 3000 ft. up the side of a mountain. With a seriously steep drop off on one side, and the mountain on the other. Can you guess which side the truck veered violently towards when the idler arm broke? Not the safe side...that's for sure.

 

I was going to Walmart thank god it's a 3 lanes rode. When my broke I went toward the right. It threw me into a ditch line then onto the bank. There was traffic coming that stopped to see what happened but no one offered to help.

 

I've had that happen before, that's why I always carried a spare idler arm. After bending a few of them I just ponied up and bought a total chaos idler arm. It's expensive but it's piece of mind!

 

wow glad your ok!! this just went on my checklist this weekend

 

Lol mine looks like it had been broke for a lil while then snapped today. It was a freak moment I promise you that