Florida B.S. Thread

Powertrax was extremely annoying. Was worse the slower you were going.

 

powertrax is also a lunchbox type locker and as much as it works fine on the street it's a lot louder out there.

@PMK glad the trutrac is working for ya man!

 

FWIW, oem Tacoma 4wd from another forum. Pretty common based on some reading. I do not have that type diff so maybe it is just abuse. PK

 

regear for all!

 

I saw that thread a while back. Honestly I've witnessed two elockers go bad. One of those people were on their second one. Shoot @DaWillDaBeast had his elocked rear go bad at citrus. They are weaker by design but again it's how you drive. Many people on here have had theirs last a very long time.

 

No experience with having one in my truck. I simply compared options available and price vs intended use. The articles I read indicated it would be noisy in corners or chirp the tires. Then again, your truck is probably one of the few with a Detroit Locker installed, many of the others were street trucks or cars that had complaints.

If I was more focused on off-road the Detroit Locker may have gotten installed.

PK

 

Once mine goes, then its time for SAS

 

for sure, I haven't met anyone else with a detroit in their second gen tacoma, normally I don't hear it but If I'm bored and wanna have fun i can always hit the gas and it will lock and chirp the tires around a corner.

 

Thanks, it has been fine for me. It's first test was a few years ago when we had that meet. Blasting those fire roads and laying the pedal on the mat just saw spray headed rearward from both tires. It also has worked real well in the rain on the street with these less grippy tires.

PK

 

or a stronger rear

 

cause powerball hasn't shat on us yet!

 

There was a lot of focus on the design of the oem gear. Seems a lot of the opinion is the outer edge of the ring gear is beveled too much, and weakens the gear. Some speculate the oem ring gear is also used in other applications that need the clearance or something. Seems aftermarket gears are not beveled and not known to fail.

There is ideas that with fewer ring gear bolts, the diff flexes and that's why they small rear ends snap teeth off.

Hopefully it is not a concern for anyone here.

PK

 

according to @mosquitoTaco and a few others it did on me

 

So I am going with a High Clearance Pelfreybilt bumper for my Turd Gen... Im still not sure how scared I am of cutting it lol.

 

don't be scared!

 

want to save some money and buy a gift card to Pelfreybilt from me? It's $50 so I'll sell for $40

 

Already bought all of it lol. Got a card from Unchained (rick) and that paid the last little bit of it I would honestly rather have someone else cut the bumper, rather than I do it lol.

 

Can't wait to see this lol

 

Im thinking I will be down there 5 March with the bumpers (if they complete them then) so you can come watch if you would like lol. I want to have it completed before the trip to Gulches 18March.