POS Taco

Definitely on the radar to look for. Were both yours cracked?

 

Yes but not in the same place. It's a little difficult to see but there is a rusty crack there. I forgot to take a photo before adding my gussets.

 

Who doesn’t like new OEM stuff?!!

 

Bought new hardware for the tailgate. Cables and handle.

 

And my trailgear crossmember/skid. Dropping it off for powder coating.

 

Finally swapped out the ADD housing and axle shaft for the non ADD one.

 

So much anti-seize!! Got the new LCA in, with new sleeves and cam bolts.

 

Got my doubler set up

 

I had to grind down the shift fork with the big gear. It wouldn’t slide past the new sumo 4.7:1 gears.

 

Taco crawl box done, ready to go into the Tacoma.

 

I used trail gear for the box, and adaptors, but used sumo gears for the 4.7’s. A little cheaper than marlin, especially getting them to Canada, and in stock, unlike pretty much anything from marlin. And the sumo’s are Japanese cut, and don’t have the jump out of gear issues the trail gear 4.7 have.

 

Looking good! Those LCA bushings were tough to push out at home for me. Ended up bending one, and had to order new ones before bringing them to a shop and have them press in the new ones for me too.

 

I would recommend putting some heavy duty detent springs in the case to prevent popping out of gear on the trail.
I put one in the hi-Lo for the front case & hi-lo in the rear chain case.
I should have also put one in the 2wd & 4wd shifter cause it's popped out of 4 a few times on the trail for me. Although probably not as necessary in the rear case if you're not doing triple sticks I think.

This one for the rf1a case: https://www.yotamasters.com/shop/transfer-case/heavy-duty-shift-detent-spring-bolt/

This one for the chain case: https://www.marlincrawler.com/transfer-case/parts-upgrade/shifter-parts/tacoma-shift-spring
It goes inside of the OEM spring like this

 

It was $10 cheaper to buy a new LCA with new bushings, than it was to buy 2 bushings, so I went that route. Crazy, eh?

 

Funny enough, I was just looking for a spring, as my millwrongs at work lost it, when they tore it down for me! Thanks!

 

No prob! I was missing a bunch of misc components when building up my crawlbox and yotamasters was a great help in sourcing them for me.

 

Ordered up a couple springs. Thanks!

 

And........finally got at this!

 

Cut, cut, cut

 

The 375/65/16, 36x15.5-16” MTZ’s