{"id":543,"date":"2020-03-04T20:04:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T20:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/?p=543"},"modified":"2020-03-04T20:06:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T20:06:29","slug":"why-you-replace-ball-joints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"Why you replace Ball Joints"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/00M0M_ieEh2XZsVkq_600x450-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/00M0M_ieEh2XZsVkq_600x450-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/00M0M_ieEh2XZsVkq_600x450-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>1996 to 2002 Toyota 4Runners are reliable, reasonably sized, and were the last generation available with a manual transmission. Add in the Toyota tax and they are nearly always priced higher than a 20 year old truck should be.  So while I wasn&#8217;t really looking for a 4Runner, I couldn&#8217;t pass up a deal on an otherwise clean one with a failed ball-joint. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was first listed for $1000, but even with the collapsed suspension I ended up bidding against other buyers and had to go up to $1700. Considering that&#8217;s what I paid for the T100 4 years ago, I&#8217;m considering it a lucky number. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"529\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/balljoint2-1024x529.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/balljoint2-1024x529.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/balljoint2-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/balljoint2-768x397.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/balljoint2-1536x794.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/balljoint2-2048x1058.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/balljoint2-800x413.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Though compared to the headgasket on the T100, it much easier to get back on the road. At a minimum it need new upper and lower balljoints on the passenger side, along with a CV. Considering the rest of the balljoints were just as likely to fall apart, I went through the driver&#8217;s side as well and threw in new tie-rods while I was at it.  Once it was back together I swapped over the tires from the T100 and it&#8217;s now taken over as my commuter.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200202_122932-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200202_122932-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200202_122932-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200202_122932-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200202_122932-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200202_122932-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200202_122932-800x450.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption> 4Runner back on the road with BFG KO2s in 235\/85r16 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1996 to 2002 Toyota 4Runners are reliable, reasonably sized, and were the last generation available with a manual transmission. Add in the Toyota tax and they are nearly always priced higher than a 20 year old truck should be. So while I wasn&#8217;t really looking for a 4Runner, I couldn&#8217;t pass up a deal on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toyota-4runner","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}