TRD/ Magnuson 4.0 Supercharger Tips, Tricks, and Mods

I highly recommend East Coast Gear Supply. Chase and the crew there are great to work with and they back up their work.

 

They don’t do much for the 5.7 tundra tho...

 

http://www.gearinstalls.com/

get ahold of this guy. he probably the best toyota gear installer ever

 

Yep, agreed. Here’s the write up on mine: http://www.gearinstalls.com/Derek07fjc488.htm

 

Same here. I make my wife text me her mileage and gallons on every fill up... I use an app called "Car Care" to track mileage and maintenance.

 

Is supercharger really worth the money for an offroad vehicle? For my next year project, I was thinking about doing engine performance mods.

 

How much money you got? JK. Like with everything you add, it may bring more smiles at the expense of reliability.

 

....YUP. 3 ton puller claw just snapped off mid-pull. Can’t get the OEM pulley off for the life of me. About broke my thumb when it snapped. Suggestions anyone?

 

Cutting wheel and chisel now

 

Debating using a butane cooking torch to see if I can heat it up just enough for it to pop under preload

 

What have the reliability issues been?

 

or a bigger non broken puller

 

apply heat to the oem pulley. that is what i had to do. try not to heat up the shaft.

 

As long as the S/C coolant system is monitored regularly, no much. The pump can fail and coolant stops circulating, can cause engine damage. Several ways to avoid that. There was a group buy with ~40 of us that all got boosted near the same time. Maybe 2 have reported issues including ones not in the group buy. It was a dealer add on approved by Toyota, so that should give some assurance.
I enjoy the boost every day.
Research what others have done, set a goal and a budget. You're gonna want to do a lot more to the truck after the kit is installed. That may double the price of the kit.

 

the staff was super nice. Gave me a bunch of free stuff too. Thanks @Boozng !! They plan on making a complete replacement hose kit for the SC as well.

 

the hill billy way is to use steering wheel puller and then weld some bolts to the pully thats how I pulled mine off my spare blower the other day

 

haha red rocket

 

Yeah. Got it out. But the head of the hex bolt broke off with it. Now I’m trying to decide how deep I’m about to get into this lol. Drilled a small hole into it and trying to decide if I’m going to go get a screw out kit to remove it. What sucks is that even if I get it out, it’s likely the threads are shot now, ya know? Hmmmmm

 

hilariously I did something similar to this