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

@IDtrucks Any recommendations on what CVs to get and/or where to get them from?

 

OEM are best but if you want to spend less, NAPA are the way to go. Lifetime warranty if they break.

 

Thanks.

 

I agree I rather reinforce my diffs and blow cvs left and right then blow a diff. The rear is a bit different cause the parts there are pretty stout regardless. But it wouldn't hurt me to strengthen the rear cause of the extra weight and what I plan on doing. I'm not into rock climbing and such. But Forrest trails and roads like @turbodb have done lately interest me. I might make my truck over built for that stuff but I might hit some Rocky trails just never know

 

I had some success with Autozones as well, they last 3 years before they broke at an off-road park. So if money is tight you can get by on those but be sure to swap to OEM eventually

 

Yeah I was just mainly focusing on the front and what gets strengthened then leads to a different point of weakness. But yeah chromolybeef that ass up haha

 

Just threw on one of the nicer battery clamps real quick on my lunch break

 

Yea, I plan on it lol my truck needs to get her ass game on

 

Can't go wrong with Napa CVs "hey it broke. Sorry about that have another one for free" lol

 

Pretty much. You have to return the broken one though. I haven't had to do it yet, I have a NAPA spare but still running OEMs on the truck for now.

 

I blew my oem's from to much lift for to long. But my mechanic replaced them with napass CVS so far there solid but I haven't been offroading yet. I need to go lol need to show some jeepies who's boss lol

 

I've blown one OEM axle...but it was a used one I bought off another member. I had it on for 2 weeks and it blew up on it's first trail, so I think it was already compromised (got hosed on that deal). Luckily I had a spare OEM one at the time that's held up since, but one or both of them has had the 'CV death click' going on for awhile now so it's just a matter of time, hence why I always carry my Napa spare with me now.

 

So the new battery clamp may have fixed my voltage spiking issue. The old clamp was in horrid shape and wouldn’t tighten enough so I bent a penny around the terminal and wedges the clamp over the top as a quick temp fix like 1.5 years ago... So I think the connection just got worse over time. After putting on the new terminal my voltage dropped about .5-.75 volts which is good news, hoping for no more spikes

 

Their new ones have the lifetime guarantee, but the reman ones only have like a one or two year.

 

True

 

yea, I got the reboot down pretty quick too

 

Bingo. Napa is the way to go. This must have changed recently...i swear i bought a reman one with a core charge with a lifetime warranty, then i went in and got a new axle with a lifetime warranty and no core charge for $111, and the reman one now only has a 3yr warranty. either way, i have 2 napa shafts in and an oem for backup, and i pinned the receipts to the wall so i can take the blown napa shaft in and get a new one

 

Stoptech lines look pretty nice...

 

It might be three years for the reman ones, I don't remember for sure, but I know it's not lifetime.

 

Just go back in before warranty expires and claim there's a clicking sound coming from it or some legit problem lol