33" w/ 4.56 Gears - Your Experience?

What are your rpms at 65 mph ?

 

I think the 2016 tacomas have the 4.30 gears. I was thinking about finding a wrecked one and grabbing the front diff for the 4.30s and regearing my 8in e locker rear thru ecgs to 4.30s might be a good matching being an auto on 33s

 

My original plan was to go 4.10's but I paid less for new 4.56's with an arb locker than what just the regear would of cost me. After going from 3.73's to 4.56's I don't see the gain from 3.73-4.10 being worth it, but I've never felt like my truck was underpowered off road. Now with the s/c once boost kicks in its tough enough to get the tires to stick

 

I'll have to get the gps out so I can get a accurate number

 

Jeeez maybe I should just buy a topper instead....

This is frustrating.

 

Tell me about it! lol

 

Just buy the built diffs from ECGS, and then pay shop labor rate to swap diffs. ECGS will still warranty them for 5-years. That's the next best thing to self installing.

Very cool. 4.30 would be perfect. Found this thread talking about them.

 

That's the thread I was looking at for the info haha

 

I'm actually frustrated by the $2,375 labor to install cost.

My local custom shop is telling me to do 4.10. These guys all rock crawl as a hobby and run a customs shop.

 

Have to be honest I think the 5 year warranty is great but I have less than 14k miles on my truck. Don't know if I want a rebuilt used diff though.


As for 4.30 gears....WTF? LOL more options??

 

4.88 with 33's, rpms are pretty high but I like to drive slow and keep my MPG's around 16.5 to 17

 

your fine, don't stress about it. The rebuilt diffs are solid and 5 year warranty is what toyota offers either way. Your diff via ecg would most likely have a longer coverage that your truck if your at 20k km per year

 

I talked to two reputable shops in my area which do nothing but gears. None of them I recall would warranty gears beyond 1-year. So the long warranty is really worth something.

Secondly, You could ship your diffs to them, have them setup the gears and ship back to you. That's an option as well.

Yes I said it. 4.30 is back to stock with 33" tires. 4.10 is slighly under, and 4.56 is slightly over geared. But the issue was, nobody made a 4.30 for our front diffs. Just today based on Zeekevin's post above I learned that the 2016 Tacomas have 4.30 in the diffs. I'll have to research to see if they are drop in replacement or not.

 

Lots and lots of options

 

The front should be drop in, the rears we probably have to swap the whole axle housing and figure out a way to wire up the diff locker

 

I liked what you wrote above when you first mentioned the 2016's. Source a 2016 front and use ECGS for the rear 4.30. Let me know if you find out for sure if the fronts are drop in. Thank you.

 

the rebuilt diffs will be just as good as your OEM diffs .. I've ran 4.56 with 33s and 35s now running 4.88 with 35s. I've also ran 4.88s with 33s for a little bit, it wasn't bad at all.

 

My local shop just regeared a 2016. So who knows what happened to those 4.30 gears they must have removed....

 

I'd love some 4.30 gears for 34's. I say 4.10 or stay with 3.73 for 33's