want to hear people's experience with Tom Wood's custom rear drive shaft

I will be going this route if corporate does nothing to fix my issue. I have an ungodly vibration issue that’s getting worse. There’s times it feels like the whole shaft binds up and makes the diff jump.

 

Dudes this thing is tits
Nice and beefy

 

Test drive

 

What's big, black and hard?

 

Test drive done , OMG it's like the truck feels new and tight again. Crazy how sloppy 200k miles feel. What else I can feel is the axle wrap , for sheezy. The axle wrap isn't too bad but it's there . Now to get that RAS suspension system next week . That's the deal breaker for me .

 

Double check your carrier bearing. Maybe even replace it.

 

Wow...200K?
I'm only at 41K...
Just bolted it on; no pinion angle adjustment?

 

Did you truck have driveline vibrations at any point in its life and feel much smoother now?

 

Nah carrier bearing was fine worn but fine . The spline shaft was on its way out . You could feel the slop in the splines when feathering throttle in traffic .

 

Well I took my magnetic angle finder and from back to front it's within 10°. I need to find what degree stock is so I can possibly shim the rear end . Probably need to get a shim kit . What is the stock degrees on shaft anyone know if not I can run to the dealership tomorrow and throw my angle finder on a new Tacoma and find out .

 

No vibrations , just was feeling sloppy and harmonic vibration worn out . Blows me away my stock u-joints had no play in the u-joint caps . The needle bearings in the caps felt pretty good .

 

When I had stock drive shaft out you could grab the yoke by the carrier bearing and grab the rear end side and there was play in the splines .

 

So after some research I'm gonna wait till the road active suspension kit comes and I install. It could be possible that I just need new leaf springs period.

 

I mean if your leaf springs , like mine 200k mi , they could be worn out causing my leafs to have that bad of axle wrap. I do have a 2.5" aal which my leaf spring pack looks fine . But I do have my truck tuned , tb spacer , aftermarket coils, and rear cats deleted . Possibly too much trqs to rear end . Toyota didn't design their leaf packs to absorb aftermarket performance goodies .

 

Tom woods custom driveshafts

 

Need to get your axle wrap figured out first.
The whole video is worth a watch; double cardan starts @ 17:06.

 

Anyone that was debating double cardan pinion angle with me needs to watch that video - just jump to around 4:50

 

I think the only who was debating you was me; the guy who posted the video. I agree with you on the setup of a 1 piece double cardan; the pinion and shaft angle need to be the same after accounting for axle wrap at cruise. The video recommends 2-3 degrees working angle at the pinion during static measurement to account for lift of the pinion during cruising axle wrap.

Where I disagree, is the set up of a 2 piece double cardan, which the video does not reference at all. Unless I'm missing something...