Drive Shaft Joint spaces and OME Dakars

So the kit I got from Headstrong came with everything I needed, I noticed it had spacers for the drive shaft joint thing. Ok, no problem. So after getting the truck back from the shop I used to put on the dakars I noticed only after getting home that they didn't use the spacers (as far as I can tell) and I also cannot find said spacers in the box I had the parts in.

So... while I am going to call them Monday and ask them to find my darn spacers I have one important question... Is my tacoma safe to drive? She drives MUCH better with the dakars on and honestly I don't feel any kind of issues while driving. Are the spacers more of a extra cautious thing or ... do I need to hold off on driving until I get them back?

 

Not needed 100% of the time, it is meant to combat driveline vibrations (vibrations constantly felt at certain speeds). If you don't have these vibrations you are good to go. If not try installing it to see if it helps.If that also does not work you have a more complicated solution to follow, finding driveline angles and correcting with shims.

TLDR: You are fine without it, meant to fix driveline vibrations if needed.

 

Didn't use mine either no issues.

 

depends on how high you went in the back, I have 4 inch blocks in the back,I added 3/8 spacers just because I knew the angle had changed, thing with spacers on the center bearing is the drive shaft moves back out of the trans, best thing to do is use a bubble protractor but you need to have the truck on a perfectly level surface, do you need to do this ? Well it helps but in the real world your just tweeking the problem of changing all the high dollar engineering that went into the OEM drive line

 

I think I'll just put them on later today. I don't see any harm in adding them.