New Mexico Owners BS Thread

I shopped around for a while before regearing and it ended up being cheaper to get the assembled diffs from ECGS and sending my old ones back as cores. All the shops I contacted around ABQ wanted way too much for diff assembly.

 

well boys, i had no idea this option existed until yesterday... i will definitely go that route when the time comes. looks pretty easy

 

One of the many reasons forums are so awesome.

 

How do you know how much to shim and set the backlash?

 

You can purchase an assembled 3rd member with the gears already set to spec that you can just toss in fairly easy and typically return the stock one as a core. Otherwise if you just purchase the gears then it’s probably in most people’s best interest to have a shop install them and set the backlash and all that but it’s hard to find a good shop and kinda expensive.

 

The assembled diffs are already set up, you just swap them out and send your old one back, they even send a return label.

 

here are the assembled gears from ECGS that we are taking about. https://eastcoastgearsupply.com/c-1065072-assembled-3rds-clamshells-05-15-tacoma.html

My understanding is you can reuse the stock e-locker, that correct?

 

Yes that is correct. You keep that external motor from your old diff before you send it back. The new 3rd member has all the internal mechanisms built in to it. There’s just a little trick of aligning the teeth of the motor with the internal mech. There’s a thread around the forum on the specifics of the install.

 

Got my coilovers back from Accutune. Time to get back to off-roading!


I’ve already got a list of trails I want to explore in NM

 

Nice, seems like a pretty good turn around time. Think you'll get everything together and aligned before Saturday? A couple of us were thinking about maybe getting down to Socorro.

 

Oh hell it took me 45 minutes to swap the springs out yesterday. I got this suspension thing down. I’m already good to go. I already had my truck aligned and Accutune didn’t adjust the ride height or anything so no need for an alignment.

But... because my wife’s family always gets Xmas, I am visiting my mom south of tuscon this weekend. Bummer I’m gonna miss the trip. I’ve been wanting to go off-roading in Socorro and elephant butte.

 

How did you swap he springs? I had success once with a rental spring compressor, second time the spring compressor failed on a 650 coil

 

I didn’t. Fuck that man. My spring are 700lbs. I don’t was a die when they rocket off some shitty cheap spring compressor. I sent them in with the springs. Best bet is to take them to some shop with a proper wall mounted spring compressor?

 

Agreed, the new heavy duty tool had more than enough margin (on paper) for a 1000# spring, in practice it failed with a 650....

 

Did this on the 4R in July with EGCS. It's the way to go for sure.

 

starting to look at bumpers and i do like how light the aluminum ones are.

based on the welds of your bumper here, crux, this one is aluminum, ya? what brand?

 

Yep its aluminum by Brute Fore Fab and he does really nice work.

That reminds me that I need to sell a bed cage.... Don't tell the GF I forgot....

 

thanks, i will check him out.

ive been diggin' this C4 plate bumper but its steel so 140 lbs aaaand a 14 week lead time. not sure i want to wait 4 months!
https://c4fabrication.com/collectio...mper-2nd-gen-2005-2015?variant=37524977811647

but ive seen a lot of delayed/backordered parts since i guess everyone is building an apocalypse taco right now

 

Not necessarily, most are just built to order. Imagine storing a few of each bumper for 5 or 6 different vehicles? Takes lots of storage which most companies don't have.

 

yeah good point. i just say that because i was forced to buy nicer lift parts from toytec since the cheaper ones are backordered. nicer for the truck, just not for my wallet

and have you looked at used prices lately for clean tacos <30mi? MSRP on this SR5 was $34,500 so lets all be glad we ALREADY have these
https://www.carmax.com/car/18103457