How-to: Tacoma Carrier Bearing Replacement **DETAILED**

what's up guys it's a beautiful rainy day getting dripped on by the truck but we're gonna be covering how to replace a common failure part on the second gen Tacoma which is the carrier bearing for the rear driveshaft there's your doorman part number right there and let's get right into it since I'm gonna be on the lift with both rear wheels off the ground it's gonna be to my benefit to have this in neutral so I can freely spin the drive shaft to get to all the driveshaft bolts all right first step is we indexed our drive shafts I just took a punch and made a mark here and made a mark here I made a mark here and here so when we go to put our drive shaft back on after we replace carrier bearing we can line it up exactly where it was nuts here that hold the drive shaft to the flange on the transfer case and of course we put our transmission in neutral so we could spin the drive shaft to get easy access to all the nuts if you're not using a air gun like I am what you can do is take a pry bar or a screwdriver and wedge it in here to hold this still while you break it loose with the with a wrench as you can imagine this flange is going to be just a little stuck the drive size can be a little stuck to the plants what you can do is take a pry bar like this and just fry until it separates and once that's loose we can leave that just like that until we take the rest of everything else loose all right for the rear of the drive shafts here there's a 14 millimeter bolt with a 14 millimeter nut you may need to put two wrenches together to get enough leverage to deal with it being in neutral the drive shafts going to want to spin you're having trouble breaking it loose you can always put the vehicle back in park so we're going to go ahead and break all four of these loose now that we got our bolts and nuts removed from the rear flange on the drive shaft I've just supported it with an exhaust Jack if you're doing this on the ground you could use a regular Jack or honestly even just kind of let it hang it's just I'm gonna be doing this over my head so I wanted something to kind of hold that after that there's two 14 millimetres bolts that hold the carrier bearing to the frame of the truck and I'm going to remove those and then bring the whole drive shaft assembly down as one piece all right we got our driveshaft all on the workbench here the yoke on the same side as the carrying Barrett carrier bearing which we were replacing you're gonna have some clips on both sides of the u joint here and you're gonna have to remove those just take a pair of pliers and pinch we need something to help pry it up like that and there's going to be one of those on each side so I get my clips out what I like to do is just kind of took a pocket screwdriver and scraped any grease and mud off and I'm just gonna blow all the debris out of both sides all right now that we got our Clips removed next thing we're gonna do is remove the u-joint from this yoke because we have to gain access to this nut here there's a couple ways you could do this you could have rent like a kind of like a ball joint press since most of you probably won't have that at home I'm just going to be doing this with a hammer and assortment of sockets and stuff like that so what you want is a socket that is the circumference of the yoke but big enough to allow this cap to rise up so you're going to support this side of the drive shaft on a vise and have this this is allowed to go down because it's not going to hit anything so next thing we're gonna do is get this cat moving as you can see it's already protruding up out and it's going pretty smoothly so all right you're gonna reach a point where it's gonna stop we can go ahead and stop them there and then we're gonna flip it over and work on the other side I flipped it over now then we're gonna do the same thing [Music] [Applause] you're gonna reach a point where it's gonna you'll be able to remove it from the u-joint all right before we remove our yoke once again I indexed the yoke right here and index the drive shaft there so once we put the new carrier bearing in we can have the yoke oriented exactly how it was when we took it all not for the yoke is fifteen sixteenths and we will remove that next after the nut is removed you may have to take a hammer and very lightly tap on the yoke to get it to start moving there's also a washer that's gonna be under that nut so just set that aside and then from here the yoke just slides off just like that and it is splined and that is also another reason it is important that we indexed our yoke and our drive shaft so we can put it on how it was so this outer piece will actually slide off the bearing itself what we're gonna do is I've looped it up with a little bit of a little bit of silicone lube here from the backside and you can take a screwdriver and get under the bushing and spin it around and pry it off just like that with this part of the carrier bearing removed we have to remove the actual bearing off of here now it is pressed onto the shaft itself so what you're gonna need is a punch or a pen or something of some sort and a hammer and there's a nice lip they got right here on the edge for you and we're gonna have to hammer it out off that way so this is the bearing that you just saw me hammer off of the shaft here next we're gonna really want to clean up these surfaces right here first off because the new part that surface right here is gonna have to press well slide over this you want that nice and clean so it'll go on there easy and then you're also on the new carry very I'm gonna have a seal riding right here so you don't want any dirt or debris there because obviously that'll do damage to your seal at one very important step that actually your doorman replacement fart comes with a piece of paper it tells you to do is we're going to have to put some grease I'm using some heavy-duty synthetic grease and we want to fill this channel up right here not an excessive amount but enough to keep that bearing lubricated over time and we're gonna do that on both sides so we've got this cavity all filled with grease on both sides as you can see here including the channel on this seal on the outside here you want to make sure that's full of grease too because that's gonna be rotten on that on that metal surface that we talked about cleaning earlier next you're gonna want to make sure that this is cleaned as well this will be a surface that the other seal is gonna be riding on so make sure there's no dirt and debris on that shiny surface right there either what I'm doing here is putting a tiny dab of motor oil where this bearing is gonna have to press over on the shaft and this is just gonna help ensure that it slides over there nice and smooth after we leave our surface slide this on by hand as best as we can be sure to have your prongs facing the rear of the vehicle so this is the front of the drive shaft and the rear of the drive shaft is going to be here that's very important because these are gonna have to go around the part of the frame where this bolts to so referring to our index marks we made on a drive shaft and our yoke here go ahead and slide that on there I'm taking a 22 millimeter socket that fits over that and you're just go ahead and take a hammer and tap the yolk and that'll tap the carrier bearing and slide it over to where it needs to be on that's shaft after doing that it looks like it's all the way seated everything feels good so we're gonna take our washer from our nut we're gonna slide that back over we're going to take our nut and start that and then what I'm gonna do is run it up just until it stops and we're going to be torquing that to a hundred in 34 foot-pounds this may be a little difficult to see but right here there's a spot where you can index the nut and that's going to keep it from coming loose so you're just bending down the lip of your nut here and it follows into the groove that's on the third part and it's going to keep your nut from backing off on you after it's torqued so as you see inside of the end cap for the u-joint there is a bunch of little needle rollers make sure all of those are pressed up against the walls like it should be and you can even dab a little bit more grease in there and it'll help keep them put on reassembly here we're gonna start putting the two drive shafts back together I'm actually installing a brand new u joint you don't have to do this if yours is okay mine seemed alright but I already had a new joint in the truck as a spare so I might as well just go ahead and do it I'm putting a little bit of grease here on the inside to keep these needles where they should and what I'm gonna do is get this started just slightly now that I've got my cap started I'm going to make sure i line my shafts up with them indexed correctly I don't have the bottom cap started quite yet you're gonna put the bottom in first rotate the top up and get it started in the cap here now because I have a vise I'm gonna choose this method the base that you're going to drop it into the vise just like that and then once you get it in there you're going to start to press that cap into the yolk [Music] trying to get you guys a better view here but once you get this cap pressed in till it's flush what you can do is to take a socket and of course if you're using a hammer you can do the same thing as the vise is doing I just prefer the vise because I'm not having to do a bunch of beating on the u-joint get that lined up and what we're gonna do after I got the cap into that far I'm using a socket that is smaller than this but the same size as the cap and what I'm gonna do is take the vise and actually over press the cap further than it needs to be in this way and I'll show you why here in a second so now that we have our other cap pressed in most of the way we can take our final cap and actually lift this up so this protrudes a little bit and then what that is going to allow us to do is to get the new cap start it on that shaft where it needs to be so now we're at the point we're back in the vise we're pushing our other cap in so now are you joint it's completely captured in there and it's not going to go anywhere before we push any further on that other cap on the cap that we push down further than it needed to be we're gonna go ahead and put our clip in with our clip in on this side we're gonna take the socket back on that side and the vise and push it until you see that gap closed there and what we're doing is just seating this cap against the clip that you just placed in there so you're gonna feel quite a stop and if you're hammering you'll feel stop - so you're gonna go ahead and stop there and we'll remove the drive shaft out of the vise and then we can put the clip on the other side all right with our cap seated to the clip on the other side we are now free to install our clip on this side now with both of our clips installed we can be sure now that we haven't dropped any needles in the cap on our assembly because if there was a needle dropped in there you wouldn't be able to get these clips on both sides there's just not enough enough clearance um alright that's the new carrier bearing installed went ahead and greased all that you joints and now we're gonna go ahead and put it back in the truck the carrier bearing installed into the truck first thing I did was torque the flanges back to the transfer case in the rear diff these are 65 foot-pounds on those nuts these nuts and bolts are also 65 foot-pounds and of course be sure to have your your indexes lined up as you can see there and then after I had those torqued then I tightened up the carrier bearing bolts themselves which is these two fourteen millimeters and those torque to 27 foot-pounds I've made it this far I appreciate you watching and that's how you install a carrier bearing on a second gen tacoma as always like and subscribe for more i'm always gonna be doing videos like this as my truck needs board repairs so stick around and you'll get to see more and hopefully you learn something and hopefully this helped you be able to replace this at home and save you some money [Music]

Channel: Adv4x4

Views: 186,158

Keywords: Toyota, tacoma, carrier bearing, driveshaft, ujoint, replace, how, to, u joint, 4runner, lexus, landcruiser, overlanding, DIY, Tacomaholic, Tacoma world, mechanic, offroad, trd, 4x4

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Length: 17min 12sec (1032 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 19 2020