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

Fair enough

I was just gonna make some out of thicker angle iron

 

Meh I'd disagree. The gusset removes a lot of the deflection that can happen based on the spindles already awkward design. The top basically can act as a big pivot point and with a vertical strength added to both front to back and left to right, it almost boxes the spindle arm 3/4 of the way.

 

I see what you mean, I agree even, just not with the product that's on the market's ability to accomplish that task.

 

Haha understood. I hate TC too only for the fact that their coil bucket gussets are rage inducing when it comes to fit.

 

I had fun changing an alternator on a friends truck with those annoyances in the way. Every usual way that you would orient a tool or your hand was no longer applicable haha. I wish they'd call them UCA gussets though cause they do nothing for the bucket.

 

Oh man my Cadillac alt was hard enough to get in before I had the gussets, hope it doesn't fail anytime soon. And agree, they make the UCA double shear, and gusset the back side of the bucket, but the front of the bucket is typically where it fails. Thankfully I did @eimkeith's top plate gusset at the same time, but I'd like to get a secondary hoop on top of the bucket eventually. I really like @Reh5108's new gussets he designed.

 

Also got mine from mcm

 

Fair enough. I think they're sufficient, but thicker than the 1/8" TC ones couldn't hurt.

It was a whole day getting those to fit right.

I was so happy when my (cough) 2nd gen spindle gussets fit up without any issues.

Eh, I think they help prevent the whole bucket from being pushed inwards. A crossbrace would still be the best IMO. And I don't remember it being bad to change the alternator. The oil filter, however, is now a bigger pain to get to.

 

It wasn't fun to change that caddy alt that Mike has, might be okay on the small OEM one though. We're in agreement on the crossbrace, that would be great, hard to get the clearance though for sure.

 

It might be worth asking him about it.

 

Anytime my friend!

 

Does anyone know if the 3rd gen 4runner ADD CV's have the same green stickers that the tacoma one's have on them to indicate OEM?

 

I want to say yes but not 100% sure

@Kwikvette Did your T4R have the green sticker OEM cvs before you swapped them for the high angle ones?

 

They don't, they have tapered shafts instead, I may have a pic

 

Si señor

 

One of mine did, other one was a parts store variant. Must've been swapped previously then

 

These are OEM runner shafts

 

Maybe some do, maybe that's what toyota supplies as a replacement. I know the tapered shafts are what you get from toyota on a 4runner thats never had a replacement.

 

I thought it was an auto store cv axle...looked like that one you just pictured.

 

They're stamped all over with the TEQ logo and part nums (shafts, joints, boots), they have the properly made outer joint too like toyota does, parts stores usually cheap out and they're not machined to the edges. Maybe you got a chimera haha, or someone put a taco shaft in.