JLee's Build

whats your itinerary for the week?? I'm back in the bay now

 

It looks pretty good and it looks like it belongs.

Nice!

 

Work until 4:00pm and then work on my truck until the wife picks me up.

 

Here is how the T case sits now I gained about 2" of clearance by clocking it.

 

I have a few other things I can sell right now

BEEFED Taco CB drop bracket $60.00 bucks shipped

Bilstein 5150's 10" stroke $100.00 bucks shipped one has the top welded on from being striped out but works just fine.

 

The vision x tantrum kit? Did you wire them up the way they come or did you cut the plugs off and just wire them all to a switch?

 

And for the Crawl box install

Marlin Taco Box with the 4.70 gears




First thing I had to do is pull the T case and remove this coupler. I just tacked a weld in fix it washer and use a bolt to pull it.








Next the new coupler and seal had to go on i didn't get any pictures of that but here is the Crawler mocked up.


Marlin provided all 8.8 hardware I had some 12.9 socket head cap screws in the shop so i upgraded them.




Next thing was to mock up the T case to the clocking plate. I found that the 2 bottom holes would not work one was off set and the other was just a dimple.




So i locked it in the Mill and went to town


Fits like a glove now.


Then i dry fit the T case clocking it as far as i could without hitting the floor i did beat the floor just a little to clear the case.








Then i found this slot was not allowing the T case to go into Hi gear so I pulled everything off and back to the mill it went.


I opened it up just a little and it not shifts smooth as silk.


I got lucky with the Manual trans and the stock shiftier came up through the coin cup





I then took a carbide bit to the center console so i could shift the T case into low.



I also had to flip the shiftier handle to get it to sit right. And the knob only go's on one way I didn't want mt knob on backwards so I took the carbide bit to the shiftier.

Before


After


Now the knob sits the right way again



I still need a boot and extend some of the wires but this install is pretty much done!.

 

Yeah it is and i just wired it up as is and have the control box in the center console.

 

Lookin' good! When's cutting time?

 

I'm planning to cut it out mid week this week

 

I don't know what degree it's clocked to the marlin site says 20 degrees max and I think I'm about there I have about a 1/2" of clearance if it touches I'll beat the floor a little more. i do have the Inchworm clocking ring.

 

Nice build!

 

mine is inchworm too and didnt have to do any modifications to anything

 

Yeah the install went well just those little things it only took about 2 min to mill out. And more will be coming real soon

 

You have an inchworm crawl box though. His is Martin crawler.

 

the actual boxes arent that different. just the internals (if even that since u can get marlin internals from inchworm) its mostly the adapters that are different

 

Really? I though the inch worm crawl box had to be like built into the stock transfer case...least in 1st gens..

 

Inchworms' site has the crawl box for the tacoma that fits from 95 to current

i know for the second gens, they are essentially the same case. I think i read for a while, that inchworm was supplying the cases and marlin the internals.

on marlins site, if u go to the crawlbox section, the actual case looks exactly the same?

http://www.marlincrawler.com/transfer-case/line-ups/tacobox

 

also, from when psu taco got his installed down here, im pretty sure his adapter from the tranny to crawl box was a inchworm, while his clocking ring was marlin. all this tells me the actual case is the same.

correct me if im wrong on you having an inchworm tranny adapter, psu

 

No worries it's going to end up a BS thread anyway wile this swap go's on.

Oh and i forgot to post this i jacked the truck up to my desired ride height of 23" at the frame and here is what it looks like