Official Tennessee Thread

Where in TN?
I think these guys all do their own.
But they may know shops.

East Coast Gear Supply will ship you preassembled parts and you ship your old one back to them for core.

 

I am in Memphis and am not mechanically inclined enough to touch the gears on my 3rd gen lol. Maybe someday. My wife and I have a tentative road trip planned to Colorado in the spring for fun. I am actually considering getting on the schedule of one of the gear and axle shops out there that does this a lot. We can just get a rental for a day or two and go skiing while its being worked on. That's the plan if I can't find anything nearby.

 

Take nuts/bolts out. Remove stock stuff. Replace with beef. Put nuts/bolts back in.
Don't forget to drain and fill fluids

 

They say 85-140 for all of it I reckon: https://eastcoastgearsupply.com/files/PDF Files/break-in-procedure.pdf

 

Swapping the 3rd is way easier than setting up the gears. If you’ve ever changed a cv axle then you’ve done 90% of the work to swap the front diff from ECGS. Rear is as simple as 4 bolts on either hub, sliding the axles shafts out and then swapping the 3rd.

It’s beyond easy.

 

I ordered mine on the 24th. Called Tuesday just to check timeline and he said they’d ship the week of the 18th.

 

Sounds like a gear swap day in middle TN byob. It would just suck for the break in lol

 

Beyond easy is rotating tires. Swapping diffs is slightly easier than pulling a trans or motor and theres nothing "harder" than that on our trucks. Your overconfidence scares me .....

 

If I put their diffs in my truck, I'd run 75-90. But I'd never do anything to break the warranty on a part on my truck just to make it function better. Who would do such a thing!

 

Eh, I figure play it more to the book this time since I'm getting brand new everything now. Your old set did me fine, it was my driving that broke the 3rd lol!
So no more wally's cheap Supertech going in. They also suggested to use additive iirc, in an email or phone conversation at some point in the past, purely for the sake of the Lock Right.

 

You must really like pulling transmissions and engines! I'd rather pull a third 10 times over before puling a motor or dropping a trans once.

 

Dropping and putting back the transfer case 5 times in a day was enough for me.

 

I don't see a blue power light anywhere on here if it's exposed on the exterior of the case. Wtf



Unless they moved it to the other side?

 

turn the box over in your first pic. When powered, you will see it above the connector.

 

I agree. I said pulling a diff is slightly easier. The rear doesn't count. I'm referring to the front. We're also specifically talking about a 2nd/3rd gen Tacoma. I've never put a stop watch on it before but from start to finish (truck sitting on the ground and driveable), I bet I can swap out my trans as fast, if not faster than my front diff. I don't have to put the truck on jackstands and remove the wheels then reverse that process and I don't have to drain the oil then fill it back up. Just those 2 things alone, time wise, make that front diff take longer. I could be wrong but I've pulled my trans maybe 6 times (3 new clutches and 3 new TOB) and it seems easier every time than the 2 times the front diff has come out. Haha

 

Ha, I forgot that IFS clamshell's suck so much to pull...too used to just yanking regular thirds out of axles.

 

I have to agree here. It was my eff up that I messed up my clutch to trans alignment on the first try. That front diff can eat a bag o dicks.

 

4Runner has a thicker shaft on the bj. You can run 4runner arms on a taco if you reem out the spindle, but not vice versa.

 

That’s fair. Lol. Maybe not easy, but in my mind it seems super straight forward and simplistic.

that said, It’s a day easy and you don’t want to do it alone.

 

Haha yeah I figured that's what you were thinking about.