HOW-TO Replace Center Bearing on Toyota Tacoma 

Glad you didn’t go and get ripped off lol all those shops and dealerships are the same overpriced. Thanks for watching!!

Skecheyboy Truth! Found the bearing I needed online for 68.00. Thanks again, and subscribed !

Awesome there will be more Tacoma videos to come!!

I figured it was gonna be 700$ I was gonna do some u joints too. This video though, most straight to the point clear automotive how to video I've seen on youtube haha sounds like you're like 17 at the same time. Brought up well obviously. Tell your mom I say happy mother's day Haha.

Ya I guesse it’s been like a few years since I filmed that, better videos to come lol

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Awesome, keep up the maintenance and the truck will be good forever lol. thanks for watching .

Thanks for the comment.

Great idea!!

@@Skecheyboy that’s why they make the drive shaft so modular. Had to do a U joint once too and just pulled the 4 bolts that hold it to the rear diff, and removed just the yoke with the bad U joint. I love these trucks. I think theyre peak technology for what they are and new shit has gone way down hill with all the new electronics, and active fuel management and stuff. Plus even tacomas are pretty large now. It’s nice to have a light truck for a grocery getter/fencing pickup. Can’t think of a better one then a first gen Tacoma.

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can u explain this more, how do we know bearing is seated byu doing this?

@@SandduneStepper These are just the torque specs. They won't tell you that the bearing is seated.

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Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed the video

Sounds like a fun time you had for sure, always an interesting experience with these Toyota trucks

@@Skecheyboy yeah it was interesting. We couldn't find w single video that has the same setup as ours. They all had bolts on both ends. Great job on the content

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grab the driveshaft at the carrier bearing. push up and down. if it moves up and down the bearing is trashed.

I used a good EP (extreme pressure) grease, wheel bearding gease will work good as well.

Factory reset a drive shaft hahaha

Ticking could possibly your u joints, but tipically the centre bearing makes a squalling noise, high pitch kinda sounds.

Hey man, I did not replace the u joints in the double Cardon. I’ve seen older Toyotas with single driveshaft no centre bearing, but if it has a centre bearing usually has the double cardon. I’ve never had to replace one of them, make sure you grease it a lot and it will be fine.

@@Skecheyboy thanks for the reply, ya i think that’s the problem is I wasn’t aware of it and it looks like you have to grease the center ball bearing on the regular im not a mechanic lol but do you know if you can just replace the ball bearing by itself? It seems that’s the only thing with play it’s pretty bad

They tipically only come as a unit with the bearing and the rubber part with the bracket, but they might sell it on rock auto. I’m not sure.

@@Skecheyboy ya i had to buy a whole new drive shaft but at least I know to grease it about every oil change I here is the best to do it

Good catch there thanks for letting me know

What brand are you buying? Some of the cheaper brands have cheap bearings in them, and they don’t last very long. Other thing is when you get them, they only usually have shipping grease in the bearings, make sure to put some extra grease in the bearings before install

@@Skecheyboy i don’t know what brand but cost me like $80 and we did put grease .. the only thing the mechanic didn’t make it before to take it out the bad one ., how can I do it now later today this morning they going to put it back and I’m afraid 😱 they going to mess up again help please how can I do it right ?

@@Skecheyboy hi 👋 I bought those in Napa auto parts they sale good parts ?

I installed mine was a Dorman brand, 1.5 years later no problems, I would try to get a better quality one and it will work.

Go to a drive line shop and get a solid drive line. It eliminates the Carrier bearing and the cardane joint if you have one.

Yes!!

If your able to just leave the front part of the driveshaft on, I don’t see a reason why you couldn’t touqe the nut to spec without it spinning as long as you jam like a wrench in the front u-joint m, because it will probably turn over the engine if you don’t, another thing you could do is put it in a high gear and leave it in 4wd that way your locked in

@@Skecheyboy thanks! i was totally able to do the carrier bearing, and also disassemble, clean and re-lube the slip yoke, with only taking down the center section of the driveshaft. and locking the transfer case worked perfectly to break free, then re-torque, the 24mm nut

Awesome, glad it worked out man!!

@@johnschaefer4129 how did you re-lube the slip yoke?

@@garygogolinski2878 hey IIRC when i dropped the rear section of the driveshaft to do the carrier, i marked the slip yoke so it would go back together the same way. then i just pulled it out, leaving the housing section attached to the rear diff. then i cleaned both halves using brake parts cleaner, and removed the grease fitting. after that i referenced the Timmy the Toolman video, and greased the yoke with the Ford Motorcraft XG8A grease. but don't use too much, cause he ended up blowing out his seal. but a good thing to do no matter what to de-pressurize the newly greased yoke is after reassembly and with the grease fitting (zerk) removed, bounce the rear end up and down to work the yoke so extra grease and air come out. hope this helps

This is covering 95:5-04 Tacoma pre Tacoma’s are similar and 2nd; 3rd gen May be a bit different

@@Skecheyboy I have a 2003 xtra cab. 3.4l 4wd and I was wondering if my truck had the same drive shaft as the one in the video. The reserch I've done has given me to different locations for the carrier bearing. Its either directly underthe cross member or its shifted forward a little and mounted to and extended bracket. When I bought my truck some one fabricated a bracket threat shift my carrier bearing forward and I'm just trying to put the original make of drive shaft back in the truck.

Facts dude

The 24 mm?

How?

What r u talking about

The whole video?

Guesse not..

U must be deaf then