Topic: tacoma hubs really hard to turn!?!?!?!?!

[Makohon]

dont know much about tacomas but my girl is gettin a tacoma and the hubs are really really hard to turn.... its a 98 standard cab manual with the 4cyl... if that matters.... the truck is really clean so i dont think anything is broken.... my plan is if they need to be taken apart and lubed/cleaned im gonna tell them to deduct however much a shop would charge and do it myself just to save money but i am kinda worried that it may be somthin else and be $hit outta luck if somthin is seriously messed up after i have him deduct the money... ya know what im sayin?? but god damn am i jelouse!!! shes gonna have a 4wd before i even get my truck under way!!! atleast i can wheel it some bit... ill post pics of it soon if the deal goes through.... just let me know what you guys think!!!!  

[WHITE_TRASH]

If they are stiff and have the same resistance ie. no chunky feeling throught the sweep of the dial its just the fact that they havent been turned.   If they are pretty chunky feeling then yea Id pull them apart and check them out.

[Makohon [OP]]

ya there the same to turn... very very hard.... i only got them maybe 1/2-3/4 turned untill i gave up...... so more than likely they need some lubin/takeapart and slap those suckers together and tell the guy to lower the price a bit??

[WHITE_TRASH]

The warn hubs on my old 84 were a biotch to turn no matter what I did to them.  I just kept a pair of pliers in the glovebox.

[red]

sounds like they havent been turned since it came off the production line. just turn them pretty frequently, should ease up alot. cleanen em wouldnt be a bad idea tho.

[dirtman]

mine completely froze up like that and i needed to use pliers to turn them. one day they wouldnt engage and i had to take off the casing and push them in manually. when i got home i tok them apart, lubed emm and put it back together. now they turn better than ever, very easily. so ya just take em apart and lube it up, pretty easy to do.

[unclejpl4x4]

Mine are hard to turn too  or I'm just a wussy  

Just go to your local parts store and go to the counter   and ask for a tube of KY hub jelly.  It's  a bit      but it keeps out the mosture  and your hubs turning freely

[Makohon [OP]]

cool thats what i thought!!    

[Duffil]

I've found that white lithium grease works great to lube the hubs.  If you wheel in water or mud a lot, just use wheel bearing grease; it's a little thicker so the water doesn't get in as easy as with white grease.

[BLACKDOG]

just keep a pair of vise grips in the truck   you'll be fine