What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

Headlight and Brake Pad Upgrade...

 

Drove in the woods and creek today.

 

No you're fine to leave the tube locked. Just have to unlock the hubs as normal.

 

Would the axels spin all the time with the tube locked? Or does it work that way with manual hub tubes too?

 

If you have manual hubs and the hubs are unlocked nothing spins. Whole point of them.

If you have add hubs then you can not lock the tub permanently. Or the diff will spin all the time. Won't really hurt anything but kinda defeats the point.

Now if you have manual hubs and leave them locked, the diff will again spin all the time. Not really hurting anything again..but not ideal. However I did this as in the winter my hubs would get frozen over and you could never either get it in 4wd or out anyways. Just more rotating mass so your mpg take a hit and your spinning the front diff for no reason kind of adding wear to it (but so what, rear is always working).

If that makes sense.

You don't NEED a manual diff tube for manual hubs.

 

Finally washed it.

 

Oh okay. So if I leave the stock 4Runner vacuum actuated ADD differential as is (just engaged permanently) and the manual hubs unlocked, nothing will spin at all, just to confirm?

I just want to make sure locking the ADD permanently won't have any adverse affect or extra wear or anything.

 

Correct. Lock the tub. Cap off the vacuum tubes. You're good to go to use as manual hubs.

 

Ah, alright. How exactly do I go about locking it? Something about a 'c' clip I think. I couldn't find anything on it.

 

Broke my driver side exterior door handel today.

 

Went back to stock exhaust, capped up deckplate, added Toyota chrome exhaust tip.
Love not having the Flowmaster growl & sucking sound of the deckplate mod. It was fun while it lasted, but now, the quite sound of silence is much more appealing.

 

Hello @BartMaster1234, Just open it up, move the shift fork thingy into 4WD and use a hose clamp to lock it in place like so:

If you have any questions you can pm me or post them here:

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...or-the-1st-gen-tacoma-3rd-gen-4runner.460180/

 

Which rear bumper is that?

 

NWTI/ Northwest Trail Inovations.
They only sell DIY kits.

 

That's a slick bumper.

 

I want one!

 

Thanks! Very tempting... Just wish the had an option for hidden hitch mount... You think you could have made one work?

 

Thank you!
I like the design too. I have their front bumper too. Love the design. If you do get one, Just make sure you have a good welder to do the work. My experience was a nightmare.




http://nwtrailinnovations.com/

 

Thanks! I'd be doing the welding myself haha, I also had a bad experience with a welder so i decided to learn myself. Do you by chance have any pictures of the back of the bumper? Thanks.