u/hamonasandwich

At Lake Villa and Avron in Metairie by the lake.

Sounds way better in here. Still have more cleaning up with usb-c and the hdmi cables, and no back cam yet. Happy to no longer have to punch radio to make volume knob work.

Bike was 30 hours old. Appreciate any eyes on this, but possibly gone pecan. He’s filling out a police report as we speak, though I believe this happened 3 days ago.

2007 Tundra 5.7 liter.

January 15 - March 1st truck was in transmission shop for a rebuild. He had it for a month, said it was fixed, and it wasn’t. They had to work on it 2 more weeks. Total $4,700.

Two weeks later, when I got the truck back, the gears shifted well. Though, when I accelerated after braking, or when I’d reach the bottom of an overpass, there was a pretty hard jerk. I’m thinking, this is the transmission, so the shop owner tells me to bring it back in. I leave it there for 3 days. I even saw it on the rack. He tells me it’s the differential, and that it’s quite expensive to fix, and that the truck will be ok to keep driving.

I need my truck for work, so I’ve been driving slow, and hoping that it’s nothing too serious. Today, I decided to get under the truck and see if there’s anything visual, or if driveshaft has any issues. I look at the carrier bearing, and it is worn out completely. Very wiggly. I find it pretty remarkable that the mechanics remove the driveshaft to get the transmission out, and they don’t look at the carrier bearing. Even when I returned the truck to see what the jerk issue was, he tells me it’s the differential. The mechanic says things with such confidence, but I think he’s full of shit.

This jerk was around before I brought it in to the shop back in January. I thought it was part of the transmission problem. The transmission was failing too, since it wouldn’t leave 3rd gear, and it would do other whacky shit, but the bearing problem was there and not an issue after the transmission rebuild.

Is this bad work on their end for not noticing the bad carrier bearing?

Video shows the bang on the crossmember at about 13 seconds in.