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

Can almost read the writing, darn phone pics.

 

IMO using the green stickers to determine if a CV is OEM is problematic. The green stickers come off with age and handling. As Zane mentioned, there are other ways to determine if a CV is OEM or not.

 

Learn something new everyday

 

Especially if you want manual hub shafts haha, those were blue stickered when new. All of my stickers had fallen off though

 

Would the OEM t4r ones be considered weaker than OEM Tacoma ones since they have a tapered shaft? Not sure on the diameter difference between the two

 

Probably, I don't know if the difference is important though, usually the outer joints explode first anyway

 

Good point.
The T4r cv's are the same spline count as ADD tacoma cv's right?

 

Yup

 

Anyone have a suggestion of tranny fluid? I was thinking Toyota ATF WS?

 

Either Valvoline Max life for dexron or Castrol transmax for dexron

 

got new radiator so did pre-inspection of hoses and cleaned my K&N air filter. My coolant hoses look great but i may replace them when I pull it in a month.

 

Mostly back in one piece.
I'm a bit disappointed with Low Range Off-road right now but that's a story for another day

 

Here's where my 6112's are currently sitting. (drivers side)


(passenger side)

 

Not that uncommon really, with the gas tank and all on that drivers side. You sure you're on level ground when measuring?

1" is pretty noticeable though. I remember I had that problem with my Expo springs and was even contemplating putting a small block on that side, but just ended up biting the bullet on new Alcans and that solved that problem.

 

The instructions just tells you to install the drivers side one notch higher than the passenger side to compensate for the taco lean. So I'll do that when I brake it down I just didn't want to hassle with it and that's why I payed Low Range to assemble them for me but that was obviously a mistake and waste of money

 

Haha wow I totally missed the UCAs in there and thought we were talking about the rear. I'm blind.

Yeah if it's the front then you can adjust the coilover for more height. Or just put a small 1/2" spacer in there. Pretty common for some kits to include a small spacer for the taco lean

 

What are the axles with blue wrapping from toyota. Pretty sure i had one on my rig at some point

 

I have wanted the bilstein 6112's for years and that's the only reason I didn't do coilovers. The body on these 6112's are huge and I love the look. I wish I could just throw a spanner wrench on there and adjust the height but it doesn't work like that for these.

I'm probably just hangry



These 5100's are what I took off and I might just put them back on since they were a little taller. That way I can still use my truck as the daily driver it is while I figured everything else out.

 

Blue wrapped Toyota axles are for manual hubs, they won't fit on ADD.

Believe me I tried on accident, lol. Wasn't blue wrapped but the dealer shipped me a manual hub reman axle by mistake, didn't realize it until I went to thread on the axle nut. They don't use an axle nut...

 

Threw a Flowmaster Super 44 on yesterday. Sounds better than expected honestly... no drone in the cab at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX30g4WWkWw