2005 Bulletproof Taco: 1 Ton SAC

Trailers are for pussies. Big pussies and little pussies. Ingenuity ftw.

 

Ingenuity.... Hey since you broke your front diff and you have a trailer to get home but I don't have a leaf spring because I broke mine can I steal yours? Sound familiar?

 

Seems enterprising to me



...on the same token this:

Would be hard to argue.

 

I broke more shit and wheeled less when i trailed then when i built a street capable wheeler, go trailerless


























Still need to wheel with friends with trailers in case my shit break bad enough that i cant drive it home LOL

 

Sure does. Thank goodness you saved me from pulling one of the most common leaf springs ever made from under some rotting truck in someones yard

Good philosophy for sure

 

Don't worry that day you need a trailer I'll tell you to go fuck yourself.

Build a truck on one tons, don't break much or anything. WIN, unless you get super unfortunate and break a pinion lol

 

And that's why I'm glad i wheel with friends who will hook me up in a dire emergency.

 

He's really a big teddy bear

 

When you gonna link?

 

May be part of the post divorce modifications who knows

 

any updates, I know I am late to the party, but I just spent the last 3 days at work drooling over this build, and then this....... need moar!!!

edited:

BADASS TRUCK!!!

 

Right now I am regearing to 4.88s and adding an arb up front to match the rear. Rears underway now:

 

Nice pink case spreader

 

'Tis a very solid unit indeed

 

WOW, wish I had the know how and the bank acct. oh yeah and 4x4 would be nice! I've debated driving mine a couple more years and then trading it for a TRDOR, that or buy a camry and then look for a 1st gen or a 4R.

Pardon my ignorance, but what is the pink apparatus used for?

 

Pink color fits very nicely!

 

Its a housing spreader, essentially opens up the housing a few thou so you can get the carrier in/out easier, and achieve the proper carrier bearing preload as well.

 

Well got another set-up knocked out last night. I am gonna check the pattern again today, but it looks runable now, but I may increase the pinion depth a couple thou more and check again.

***First off a few words of advice. Remove the axle, its a bitch working uner the dang truck all the time. Dont attempt this without the right tools. Get a proper pinion bearing puller, a proper carrier bearing puller, set-up bearings, housing spreader, calipers, mic, 250 ft*lb capable torque wrench, and a 0-60 in*lb torque wrench before trying this at home.***

All setups are with set-up bearings still installed.

After having the pinion in and out 11 times when Levi was over, we got the pinion preload shims nailed down perfect. Then installed and shimmed the carrier to achieve proper BL, we were ready to check a pattern, lol.

First setup:

Pinion Preload-30 in*lbs
Backlash .006"

Drive Side


Coast Side


Finally got a chance to work on it again so here's Try #2:

Added .005" to pinion shim, reinstalled adjusting pinion preload shims as well
Pinion Preload-35 in*lbs
Backlash .005"

Drive Side


Coast Side


We will see what the gear gods have to say about it, lol.

 

@ZUK lets see what he has to say...

Me and the ginger were talking about this last night and thank god for Toyota drop outs, i helped setup a d30 and d44 under the truck once and it SUCKED. So much easier to jack around with the 3rd on the workbench, kitchen table, in front of the tv where ever..... Plus not having shims on a lot of them is nice.

Good point on the tools, it amazes me when people drop 3k in diffs then refuse to buy the right tools to do this because they are expensive.

Im going to pick up my randy's ring and pinion bearing puller that i bought and let someone borrow 12yrs ago, in preparation to set my 9.5s up.