RCLT HD 2.75" - Travel Numbers and Notes

Grease them, they shouldn't be making noise!!

 

Never heard of "maintenance grease schedule" for RCV CV's. I would think they would make that more well known of a thing you need to do if it's that important.
Obviously if it's leaking grease every now and then you should top it off and make sure there's enough in there, but I can't imagine you would be needing to replace the grease at a scheduled interval if it's not leaking.

 

Few of those LT kits mentioned...people have successfully RACED on them...more than once even lol. Saying that they're light duty is a flat out lie...to the folks that have never experienced offroad racing it is the most brutal thing you can put a vehicle through. Comparing some of those kits with a kit that's intended to bounce around on big rocks at .1 mph is silly. Yes stuff breaks crawling like tierods and axles but that's usually about it.

 

Sooo by that rationale you don't need to change gear oil in the diff if it's not leaking??....grease breaks down too like any other lubricating agent

 

How often are you pulling your CV’s, pulling the boots, cleaning/replacing grease, and reassembling? That’s a maintenance item I’ve never even thought of.

 

Read up on what you bought.
https://rcvperformance.com/faq#:~:text=Q: How often should I,of the outer stub shaft.

And you don't replace grease, you add grease to them. Like u joints, are you cleaning the grease out of your u joints evreytime you service them, no you are adding grease to them. Yes I know it flings out, but I'm talking popping the caps off.....

 

Once a year, but I also got manual hubs 70% of the time I drive my truck they arnt even spinning. The class 10 car I used to work on here and there, every trip all the cv's get gone thru and repacked...granted that's an extreme situation but still.
Fancy type CV's are expensive, grease is cheap.

Pretty standard workin with 930, 934, etc. Type of joints...lot of stuff wiggling around in there, generates heat. If you think about it, makes sense to service em here and there

 

Yeah exactly. It never crossed my mind until your comment then thought I guess that’s true. The grease is going to eventually breakdown.

I can also say that is definitely not something I would look forward to. I hate packing stuff or really anything with large amounts of grease.

If I had fancy ones I’d for sure take better care of them as well. I only have the factory ones on mine.

 

You got me there, just something I never thought of I guess or really read about anywhere.

Hm didn't see that. Glad I know that now and not like 20k miles down the road with zero maintenance on them.

 

Oh it sucks to service em, makes a mess..short story....my aunt is a vet and does like big animals, horses etc. I have robbed some of those gloves that go up past your elbow to mess with CV's I get the grease everywhere lol

 

The CVs are from RCV and the warranty only applies to their Ultimate Axles. From what I can tell they only honor the warranty if the shaft breaks. If it is twisted and unusable then there is no warranty.

 

I just called RCV to double check that and they said there is no interval you should be changing out that grease in IFS CV axle boots.
I'm not disagreeing with anyone here or saying that it isn't a good idea to do some precautionary servicing here and there, just stating what they told me.

The greasing interval definitely holds true for solid axle RCV's though.

 

Kinda funny there's an interval for solid axle stuff where the CV only sees spin and turning motion, and not the IFS stuff that sees spin, turn, and up,down motion. The joint sees alot more movement in an IFS application...wierd

 

They must figure that the joints on the solid axles are more exposed to the elements than a sealed boot on the ifs cv's totally encapsulated in grease. Not to mention a much higher volume of grease in the boots.

 

Figured that, so that statement about RCLT having an advantage because of the RCVs is moot.
I can buy RCVs for other LT kits and get the same warranty.

 

Welp yeah... There goes that. Again though, idk what kind of torque you'd have to apply to an RCV to break it that wouldn't utterly destroy the front diff.

 

FYI - RCV actually had such a bad run with their 2nd gen Taco axles breaking a few years ago that they stopped production for what seemed like a year or more during a redesign process.

 

Ooof.

 

well it would be hard to not destroy stock tacoma racks in short order with 35's if you wheel. Without a stronger rack you are throwing money away. just my 2cents.... based on real personal experience. TRE's will be toast inner/outer in no time as well from trying to move the entire truck against a rock when its off camber.

I think all of Big Mikes comments need to be considered only in the context of 'rock crawling' as is their claim. If you dont care about rock crawling, then why get the RCLT? OBVIOUSLY other long travel kits DESIGNED for speed will thrive in their specified purpose.

And none of us REALLY know how well the kit will hold up to actual crawling anyway... sure there's videos of BigMike doing stuff but thats just one skilled driver. Crawlers want rigs that can handle whisky throttle at 2am with one eye open. So until i see someone actually abuse this kit on the trail, even though Im "certified" to install it, all of these arguments are moot to begin with.

While Im a big fan of math and agree with such explanations, Ive seen 40 yr old 1st gens with stock axles on 40's do impossible feats given their so call mathematical "limitations" ... lets give some real drivers a chance to thrash this shit for a few years a see exactly what happens.

If someones really beats the hell out of it and doesn't completely destroy it, I would say its a pretty epic improvement to the world of IFS suspension. I've seen top of the line TC LT kits wasted almost all components in just 2 years of aggressive STREET driving ...

so who's gonna give it the skinny at 2am first and see if its worth the hype

 

Exactly. Bring that shit over here and let some folks beat on it properly. Shit box crawlers only. None of these Instagram trucks. Granted Tacoma and crawler is still kind of hilarious to hear in the same sentence.