2TR-FE Performance Thread

Damn i wonder what the dealer is doing for the 05-11 trucks.. after looking at rockauto it does look like the part numbers are different for 05-11 vs 12+

 

I am wondering if that clevis? or what ever it's called can just be swapped over. That is the only difference I can see from the pictures, and I don't really see why they would even change the part for 12-15. My parts guy even looked at the hard line etc and it all looks the exact same according to him.

 

That might be worth a shot. I bet the only differences are that and the clutch pedal. They might have updated it at some point to remedy the squeaky clutch pedal issue, but thats just a wag

 

I find it insane that for all the stuff wrong with this truck, the clutch pedal doesn't squeak. I mean like cmon.. blown motor, destroyed syncros, ac system destroyed, I had to use 2 hands to pull the cabin air filter out lol, but the clutch pedal doesn't squeak..

 

nice. Have you done any speedo calibrating or anything? Cause I figured with 33s and 5.29s at 65 I’d be around 2800 r’s. But technically I’d be doin an actual 70. And 2800 feels fine on the highway imo. But I can always back it off for better mileage I reckon

 

I swapped mine out, trying to troubleshoot a problem. Ended up adding AN fittings and braided line, to make the task easier. Also has a scar on my wrist, from that stamped metal, that makes it look like the job made me contemplate suicide. Lol

 

Wish me luck lol, I may conscript my buddy to do it. He’s the one that traded me for this truck I saw the FSM says to use a SST for it and I was thinking hmm I wonder why they made a special tool for a basic line, but that makes sense now since it does indeed appear to be in the worst spot possible. Do you remember what size AN fitting you used?

 

-3AN to 10 x1.0 inverted flare, I believe.

A flare nut wrench to break it loose. The a regular wrench to get it the rest of the way. Possibly even the small pair of Kipex parallel pliers. Been a while and don't remember the exact tools used.

 

That helps greatly, thank you!
Those flat Knipex pliers are great for an and brake line fittings my buddy showed me that and I was like damn! I gotta get me a set of them.

 

They have a few lengths. I only have the large set. The small set would be super handy too.

 

Thank you sir. Its a funky color but I dig it.

I do have a speedo calibrator but it doesn't help me as it's calibrated for 4.88s and 33s still. Haha at 40 mph, it's dead on. But by 75 mph, it's 5 mph off. If I set my cruise control, it's usually to 70-72 mph on my speedo which means I'm doing 75-78 according to GPS and other vehicles beside me. And yeah, 2800 at 65 mph is far from ideal. Probably puts you at 3200 at 75. To me, while I'm on the highway, the best powerband from the motor is between 3k and 4500 rpms. So power wise, it feels better when I'm doing 80 mph then 70 mph but I get a few mpg worse and the motor feels like it's working a lot harder. I could be wrong on paper, I'm just going off how my truck drives and sounds.

 

Sorry didn’t see this one, but it’s 3” of body lift. I have like 6” total in the front and 4” in the back

 

Ya I suppose the 5.29s are pretty low just to be running 33s but I guess I went big or went home or somethin lol. I was back n forth on the 4.88 n 5.29 thing and a rep from Yukon made the comment on the phone that my trucks 5th gear ratio was .71 and that I’d be doin 2600 rpm @70mph. So I bought the 5.29s lol. Next morning when I had a break from work and school I did my homework and realized that my 5th gear was .81 lol. I called up ecgs and told em my concerns but they were saying it wasn’t going to be that bad but that they’d return the gears on my dime. Which ultimately I wouldn’t have cared but in the end I liked the idea of being torquey so I just went the 5.29s n said fu&@ it lol. Otherwise I’d have lrobly ordered 4.88

 

The updated toyota part (12+) vs the stock 08 clutch master cylinder:



As you can see the pivot point that rides on the clutch is larger, how ever it seated in fine.


On a side note, I had to take it back to toyota. I spent all day trying to bleed the stupid pos. I didn’t want to tow my shtbox home from work so I put the old one in and it ended up bleeding fine. Hopefully the replacement I get tomorrow will bleed ok. I also got a new slave cylinder since in the middle of the day I thought maybe that was what was wrong.

That was a nasty job trying to get the flare fitting in, I now fully understand why you switched to AN @Torspd

 

That wrist scar is a symbol of how I felt, fighting with that bastard. Lol. Suicidal.

 

Any suggestions of go fast bits for the r155 before I slap this one in? Should hopefully be able to shift into 3rd with out having to double clutch and be able to downshift with out grinding

 

I have lce headers and Magnaflow muffler welded on with axle dump. It’s not raspy and sounds a lot better than a lot of other 2.7 mufflers I’ve heard. As long as you get a quality muffler you should be golden

 

Right on... thats what I might end up doing

 

I could send a few sound clips but I guess file size is too big

 

You can try it. I don't know if you can honestly I know videos have to be from YouTube or something I think