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

I didn't do anything to it today, but a fellow motorist decided he wanted to play peek a boo with my rear diff.

 

Put an LCE heavy flywheel and upgraded clutch in

 

well the 33's took care of the cv pretty fast

 

Fuuuck

 

Seems to be pretty good. It’s a pretty common setup if you look through the crawl box thread.

 

I think the best you could hope for from a junkyard is a Tundra 3rd member with an LSD. You'd be pretty lucky to actually find one, but I researched this a while back... '00-'06 4wd v6 regular and access cab Tundras had 4.30 gears, and some had a factory-installed (Eaton) or dealer-installed (Kazuma) LSDs. The 3rd member supposedly swaps neatly into Tacoma 8.4" axles.

Source for gear ratios: Source for LSD info: https://www.tundras.com/threads/whats-in-your-rear-end.42904/

 

Gotcha. Yea I couldn't remember if it was the other way around or not.
I have seen some folks modify the housing to get it in there, but yea I would rather just weld on perches and stuff than deal with that.

Didn't know the 1g tundras had that ratio as well. But yea I have a buddy that had a 1g tundra with an "auto LSD" rear. Or at least that's what the button on his dash was. Which I think was just using ABS to help with wheel spin or something like that? I forget. Been a while since I researched it.

 

Finally had time to put my grill

 

Yep, "Auto LSD" is a simulated LSD: What I was talking about is a true, clutch-type LSD. It's always working and wouldn't have a button on the dash.

 

The LSD in the 8.4 was mechanical. 2nd gen tacos had it as well from 05-08 before ATRAC took over for it. Its a true clutch LSD.

 

I believe all LSD 8.4 diffs were 3.93 or 3.73

 

I got a few things done on my project.

• Finished the passenger side with dyna liner
• Got the MLV down
• Gaskets on the shifter base of the crawl box shifter base
• Ran the wiring for my infinity bass link mini
• Cleaned up the wiring

 

Nah I know guys that have found toyota 4.70s with LSDs in tundras.

 

4.70???
Parts diagrams only list 3.93 and 3.73 for the 1st gen tundras. The v6 trucks never came lsd and were 4.10s

 

Saw few dudes in the LT thread back in the day find something like that.

 

Far as I know the tallest gear ever offered factory was 4.56. Now I’m curious

 

yeah let me know. I think I've seen 2 guys with it and remember going WTF? Because 4.70 is a weird ration by itself.

 

I’ll see if i can find anything tomorrow

 

What clutch? The noise on my TOB is making me paranoid so might do it all.

 

LCE pro clutch. It’s a bit stronger than the stock one, but still close to stock pedal feel.
I bought this bundle kit with the heavy flywheel.

https://www.lceperformance.com/3RZ-10-Pro-Clutch-Flywheel-Bundle-Kit-p/1056004.htm