04 Tacoma turned Buggy

This thing looks fun!

 

Keep it up Josh! It looks great!

 

Taco buggy is getting a big boy diff. Second gen Tundra 9”, cv, and unit bearings.


chopped up the oil pan to make clearance for the diff


old cv vs new

new spindles to hold the tundra unit bearings

this is what started this whole project. nitro gear finally came out with a 5.29 for the 9" clamshell

converted the tundra unit bearing from 5x150 to 6x5.5

 

Also flipped my motor off the the stand and busted my throttle body and intake. If anyone wants to sell me a TB on the cheap that would be rad.

 

Throttle body and intake plenum or just tb?

 

Just TB. I have a few extra intakes, but all the TB I have are the older style not the drive by wire.

 

That's awesome on the big boy diff!

 

Had the tundra ADD shaft shortened 140mm, and heat treated. Couldn’t use the tundra clutch gear, there wasn’t enough meat in the shaft to cut 34 splines. I ended up using the 31 spline gear from a second gen Tacoma.

 

Also finish up the spindles a few weeks ago. Just need to finish the ADD tube, and I’m still waiting on a few little things from Toyota. Shouldn’t be long now.

 

Finally got it finished up. Second gen tundra driveline in a first gen taco chassis.

 

video from this spring at Vandy's offroad

 

Good god.

 

Need 42's for a rock bouncer lol

 

Man it needs em bad! The brake over angle on this thing gets me every time.

 

Finally found the weak link of in the 9" ifs swap, naturally it was the one part i was hoping wouldn't be an issue. To fit the 9" clamshell between the frame i had to shorten the tundra a.d.d. shaft, took like 4 moths to get done between the machining and heat treating, making it the only part in the swap that i couldn't build myself, or easily replace if it failed. Well after some 10 moths of abuse something had to give, unfortunately it was the a.d.d. shaft.


Decided i didn't want to deal with this again and started developing something with a bit more heft. Download fusion360, watched some youtube videos, and cobbled together a decent looking part.




Had my buddy print some test parts so i could verify some stuff




Finally had a the splined end test cut out of 6061 just to make double sure the dimensions were right before spending the money to have it done in cromo.



Final part will be machined from 4340
O.D. of the smallest part of the shaft is 47mm vs 32mm on the modified tundra shaft.



Should be in my hands in a week of so. Still need to find someone to do the heat treating if anyone has any suggestions.

 

Final product. Pretty hefty part! Still trying to find a company that will heat treat it, everyone I’ve called will only do high volume jobs. If anyone has any recommendations I’d sure appreciate it.

 

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Oh my

 

Columbia ish