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

Getting the diff out was a bitch and a half. I had to jack up the motor as much as possible to make room for the pinion flange to clear the steering rack and bell housing. For some reason the new diff slid in easily without needing to jack up the motor.

 

It'll still throw codes but not show up visually as a check engine light, you need a code reader

 

Oh you pulled the front diff.. interesting , heavy as hell like the rear no doubt..

 

Pulled the 4.10 and put in a 4.30. Probably 80 pounds at least. Getting the rear mount bolt out of the crossmember was the hard part, then getting the pinion flange through the small gap was fighting me until I jacked up the motor. The ADD hard lines bolt on top of the diff so they are hard to get to, but need to come off to drop the diff. I found that out when I unbolted it and the diff fell on me. I thought I crushed my legs.

 

Wow, that def. sux.. Yeah they got it packed so tight , R&R is a bitch...

 

I don't know if you know of any other TW members near you but if you do, I would ask them, there is a good chance that one might have an Ultragauge or Scangauge and can check codes for you.

 

tightened the alternator belt. Had been squealing for awhile and finally got to it today. Took longer to get the tools out than it did tightening the belt. I love Toyota.

 

Helped change brakes on my cousin's Chevy, his 33's next to my 31's. Sorry for the bad phone pic, normally it takes better ones.

 

I know what you mean, I changed my ac belt in about 5 minutes, and idler pully in about 10.

 

changed my idler on the side of the rode in BFE Georgia during my rode trip

 

Anybody know what size washers i need for a carrier bearing drop?

 

There's no specific size. It's all dependent on your amount of lift.

I ordered one of these. Monte has one and it's worked for him so far.

http://stores.streetacos.com/carrier-bearing-bracket-1-1-2-95-5-04-tacoma-4-lower-rear-lift/

 

Got about 3.5" lift. Probably just gonna stack some washers for now. About .5" or so. What you think?

 

No clue. Like I said, just depends haha

Just try different amounts in 1/4" increments until whatever gets rid of vibes the best.

 

How much is your dropped?

 

None.

Has always had vibes, but just recently got worse due to my carrier bearing going out.

Never was bad enough for me to really care. But since I'm going to have to replace the carrier bearing, I figured I'd get the drop bracket to make the new one last longer.

 

Why not shim the axle?

 

Don't know about his leafs, but my Expo's lined up my angle on the axle perfect.

 

I will probably sometime

 

I've heard the street taco carrier drop can actually make things worse for vibration. It's too much drop for 3"-3.5" of lift. I think even jerry @ BAMF tried to use one and ended up taking it off. Personally I used the skid plate spacers from my toytec diff drop kit and those were literally perfect. The stock bolts were just long enough. I just had to drill out the holes on the spacer a little bigger.

Edit: I do also have 3 degree axle shims from toytec w/ my Dakar leafs. 100% vib free