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

Realistically the thing that is in my OSK is from when I grenaded my spiders, and is basically used to take the front diffs rotation out of the equation. With the ADD unlocked the passenger side won't spin and the drivers side needs this setup installed:




Theoretically you can use this method to avoid changing an axle that broke IF the axle broke close enough to the hub. The only way I know of to make this is by cutting it though, as I think there are no c clips on this side, everything is pressed together for the big ass bearings on the shaft.

But if you wanted to cut it on the trail to not bother changing a CV it's more difficult than you think. First you need to carry an angle grinder, which most people don't (except my friends do because we are retarded and break stuff). Second you might be able to get in there enough to shorten the shaft but not enough to not get it to hit shit and violently attacking your shocks with a floppy shaft. We learned this on Moab Rim when @HolyHandGrenade snapped his CV and he cut it enough to get the truck to move to a better spot to change it, it flung around at slow speeds. Leaving it on there for high speed use is unwise.

IMG_0306 by Michael Halat, on Flickr
IMG_0305 by Michael Halat, on Flickr
IMG_0308 by Michael Halat, on Flickr

Second gen, but still. So this leaves you at needing to at the very minimum remove the 4 lower bj bolts to get a close enough cut. Well at that point you are half way to a cv change, so just put on your spare. If you don't have a spare, then cutting it can for sure work, but how silly are you for carrying an angle grinder and not a spare cv?

Yeah not sure where you are getting the c clip part from @Blackdawg? There is a c clip but on the tulip. If the boots off the tulip just pulls out of the tulip receiver so no needing to fuck with a c clip. Unless you are talking about on the bearing and cage side, which I still am unsure if there is one there after rebuilding a couple, I just assumed that shit was pressed on there ha.

But yeah this is what's in my OSK in case I ever grenade the front again:

 

Hammers bound

 

Glad to see that truck getting out again!

Went out and played last night in what little snow we got (a little less than a foot) compared to our friends in North Jersey who got 2-3 feet.




These forest roads run right next to Six Flags safari service entrances.

 

Whats the thought behind carrying the shaft that holds the carrier bearing? Have you damaged or seen one damaged before?

 

Honestly I assumed it would help with balancing, swap one whole shaft with the other. Wasn't really ever concerned with it getting damaged though. Probably unnecessary weight

 

The only u joint I’ve ever broke was the one at the output/on the shaft before the carrier bearing. Needless to say I got a second one and carry both parts now. I’ve hit the one after the carrier a bunch and one to the point it it’s bent but never broken a u joint *knock on wood* on the main shaft even on 39s.

 

Oh yeah, that’s also when I realized that I couldn’t hammer the CV out the way I always did it in the garage with the new skid plate on... started carrying the “loop” after that.

And you learned from my mistake. You tried protecting your passenger side CV by keeping it 8’ in the air immediately following that incident

 

Took a pic of the Taco amongst my other beaters. Oh and I drove the taco for the first time in a month last night.

 

One of those doesn’t belong

 

Yeah, but go easy on the Taco, it doesn't know why no one will drive it, it's just happy to be included.

 

Give it to me so it can sit in pieces for 5 years

 

The shitty part is the Bubble will burst one day, and we'll all be screwed. All of us will basically be upside down on our mortgages.

 

But that's great news for me, cause then I can buy

 

only if you want to live in a war zone. My FIL drove me through there back in the early 90's, you couldn't pay me to live there.

 

Oof.. tha 90s. That was its peak worst:

 

You said that like it's gotten any better

 

My ex Wife is from Hobart, so we drove over there one day, since it's the home of Michael Jackson. I was scared just stopping for red lights and shit. There were some really shady looking dudes standing on just about every street corner. the houses were bombed out shambles, junk cars everywhere, like I said it looked like a war zone.

 

I wonder if it looks any worse than Detroit does today. Never been there, but I've seen news footage of literally huge areas of nothing but rubble. Looked like Berlin at the end of WWII.

 

Installed my all pro bumper, Warn 10k eBay lights, and single din head unit. Busy day! Alignment sucked on the all pro.. thank god for die grinders..

Tomorrow it’s getting some 285/75/16 yokohama M/T’s, 16x8 kmc wheels, and ome 3” lift. Gonna be ready for a winter shakedown run next week since it’s -30 here..

 

Jesus they've gone way up since I got mine, that's nuts