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

I would think that tire size also has a role on how easily you can fret/strip the T-case input shaft too. 33's/34's would put a lot less of a load on the connections versus say 37's.

 

It happend on 33s. It has nothing to do with stress, fretting is two surfaces rubbing against each other like splines.

 

Dang. Well I take back what I said in that case

 

You dont even need a cross member, just run it with the factory trans mount. I did that the entire time I was IFS with my doubler. Worked great!

 

Mine happend almost a year to the day after I installed it, it was most likely installation error on my part. This was 2007/2008 and there was ZERO info on installing these anywhere. Like I said others have had good luck, I lost all confidence after that for mine.

 

Gotcha. If there's anything I've learned from the crawlbox BS thread, it's to use shit loads of anti-seize on splined connections.

 

Yea I found that out after mine blew up and I made it my lifes mission to plaster that info all over the internet.

 

How I’d love to swap a 5 speed into my double cab.

 

Do it! It's really not that hard, mostly just time consuming. @osterhagen has a great swap thread.

 

out of curiosity (forgive me if this has been mentioned somewhere already) what gear ratio are you running?

 

ok, how's the power with 35s and stock gears? i'm running 285s and haven't felt a particular need to re-gear, plus at 80 i'm at almost 3100 RPMs. truck's much happier at 75 and 2800. trying to get this figured out as re-gearing has crossed my mind and in 10 days i'm moving to a state where the actual speed limit is 80.

 

If I could find the proper parts, I totally would. I need to write down the proper parts list and really start looking and collecting. Finding the proper ECU is what I’m expecting to be the hardest part.

 

Parts hunting is never easy. I waited 5 or so years for a decent local deal to pop up, but I was really only looking in here. I ended up just buying an ecu off eBay, wasn't cheap, but worked.

 

Same.

I’m still trying to bribe @osterhagen to road trip to Colorado...

 

What options do you have

 

It’s extremely easy. You don’t need an ECU or wiring harness.

 

So atlas? Thats the tranny right?

Idk...thats why i was asking. Got some cash burning a hole in my pocket

 

Sound like you got your answers, but:

1. My truck came with those little boots. Think it was an 01+ thing. Haven't run them in years and it's been fine.

2. Those old LBJs were shot! It's vertical play you need to be concerned about, and it looks like those had lots.

3. Alignment will look off when you first drop it back on the ground. You should be fine, but if you don't know the last time it was aligned, it couldn't hurt to get one.

I messed up by not buying one of those from Low Range last fall when you could double up on coupons and get them for 25% off.

Going to be watching closely for black friday deals.

 

+ @theesotericone

 

Thanks man, appreciate it.

Yes, lots of vertical play in the joint. Both sides.

I should get an alignment because 1. I don't know when the last one was and 2. I just got new wheels/tires on it.

However I am also going to hopefully be doing the suspension here in a few weeks, so I'm going to need to get one again after that install. I'll spend the money but doing an alignment so close together and paying twice is a swift kick to the nuts.