What Have You Done To Your 2nd Gen Tacoma Today?

Pretty easy just hold it up so the shaft is hanging and tap it with a ball peen hammer for a minute or two, I just dropped my drive shaft. Change the carrier and reassemble the drive shaft in like 20 minutes

 

Definitely do it right away or your joints will get worn horribly real quick

 

My next question is how well will the two piece drive shaft hold up once I'm running 2.5 time the torque?

 

My 43x and 19 fit just fine

 

I'm replacing all the u-joints at the same time (140K).

 

New spotter mirrors. I got the version with the heating element because I plan to do the mod for this sometime in the future. I figured for an extra $10 it was worth it. These definitely look much cleaner than before.

 

New shoes and wheels on. Pleased with how it turned out. Picture doesn’t do them justice. Now to get ready for a suspension lift.

 

I was just wondering if anyone else also dealt with this frequently. I'm on my second one and it only seemed to last maybe 20k. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the higher than stock gear/tire ratio I'm running which runs the drive shaft at about 400 rpm higher than stock (according to my calculations anyway). Maybe that's burning out the bearing faster? Not sure if you are also running a hire ratio. Wonder if there might be a better bearing replacement that can handle the higher revs.

 

Love mine, simple effective upgrade over the stock mirrors

 

My PK380 fits with plenty of room. Looking up dimensions it appears the Walther is 1in shorter in length than the CZ. You should be able to use the vault with no issue.

 

Yeah I'm at 5:29's I've replaced every year since regearing. I'm pretty sure the best solution if just getting a custom single shaft made with a double cardigan.

 

4.88s here with 35s. Yeah I was afraid of that lol (going to a single shaft). Not real stoked on running a super long drive shaft that will hang down more though. If it's just the rpms cooking the bearing I would think there should be some better bearings out there that could be made to work. Probably not something most people bother looking into though.

 

Did you buy this https://www.tacomalifestyle.com/products/spotter-mirror-for-tacoma?variant=42659777413363 and how difficult was it to hookup the defrost feature? Thanks

 

Yeah but a good aftermarket da can be made far stouter that OEM you would loose a little Clarence mid carriage but I'm usually hitting my rear diff before anything in that area.

 

Indeed, hitting the driveshaft is pretty rare.

 

Met a fellow TW member @Cappy today to take possession of a 3rd gen pro skid plate. Super nice guy.

 

Pleasure meeting @easleycrawler as well. Now let's see a picture of that beast installed.

 

I picked up a chicken coop this morning.

 

Hopefully I'll get time tomorrow and get it installed.

 

Sounds good. Very simple and shouldn't take long at all.