Urgent... Front Drive Shaft Bushes

[Steadi]

Hi

Still chasing a bad front running gear noise, nobody has been able to pin it down so I'm risking having the wheel bearings changed on Tuesday.

Whilst its all apart I would like to change the drive shaft bushes mentioned in several threads....

Trouble is Toyota dont recognise the part numbers on the thread and when I gave then the details on Andy's Jpeg diagram they say those are the knuckles themselves and cost £300 each!

Has anyone out there got the part numbers for a '97 3 litre Gen 3?

Hoping to have both bearings and bushes fitted on Tuesday, parts will arrive on Monday so theres not much time.

Mike

[AndyLala]

Steadi,

you got a frame number and model number, I'll look it up on the EPC...

andyL

[TonyN]

You can change the bushes later without disturbing the wheel bearings.

Are you sure a 3rd gen is the same as older ones and actually has them?

[Steadi]

Bushes

Wound up speaking to another bloke in the same Toyota parts department and he found them straight away!

Many thanks for your replies.

Had a bad day, garage phoned and asked me to swap tyres around just in case my noise disappears.

Got stuck in only to find that the wheels have 7 faced security nuts. Sods law there is no key with the truck and I had to get them bodged out in the end.... took all day to sort out so instead of enjoying the sunshine I wound up waiting at national tyres.

One bonus was that I managed to get all of my rusty Lodio Drive (is that Japanese for Rodeo drive) hub caps off and dropped them off for polishing and re Chrome plating.

Good job I never needed to change a tyre in the middle of nowhere

Mike