Raleigh North Carolina and surrounding areas

For you NC peeps, we’ve started a Toyota off-road group for the triangle and surrounding areas. We’ve got Instagram @triangleyotaoffroad, a Facebook group at Triangle Yota Off Road, and a discord as well https://discord.gg/chBGVKDyZT. We’d love to see y’all and get some more people at our meets!

 

Been a while since Ive checked in here hope everyone is doing well. What gear oil for the rear diff is everybody running? Ever since I changed mine last year Ive been dealing with intermittent clutch chatter from the rear diff. I had it sorted after adding a 2nd tube of the LSD additive but its slowly started up again chattering over the last 2 months. I changed the fluid again this past weekend with

$30 Mobil 1 75W-90 Synthetic Gear Lube - 1 Quart (Pack of 2)

Mobil 1 75W-90 synthetic and 2 tubes of whatever the LSD additive is they sell at Advance Auto its like Lube Guard LSD supplement and the issue got worse! I'm ready to try something other than mobil1 and maybe a different LSD additive to see if I can get it right. Might try a 3rd tube of additive as well before I feel like I wasted 3 jugs of Mobil-1.

 

Synthetic lubes tend to be too slippery for some LSD rear ends just as they are for some manual transmissions.
Try going back to a standard good quality gear lube with additives and see what happens.

 

You sir have hit the nail on the head. Smooth as butter on conventional oil. She was not a happy camper on the synthetic THANKS! @Blkvoodoo

 

Well ya learn something every day.

 

The clutches need to grab to be effective, friction modifier can only do so much when the base is slippery to begin with.
Early Toyota transmissions running synthetic oil would suffer gear clash because the juice was too slippery and the synchronizer rings weren’t slowing the gears down fast enough. Going back to regular GL-5 solved the issue. Even using manual trans specific synth lube wasn’t able to cure the issue.
Synthetics aren’t always the better way.

 

whats up man!!! How you doing

 

I been hanging in there glad it seems like things may be finally getting closer to normal again. I don't have to put my mask on to walk out of my office 10 feet to the copy machine anymore. Works been nutz doesnt allow me to mess around on the internet like I used to half of my days. Been doing a lot of fishing pretty much any weekend the weather is halfway decent I've been out at cape lookout trying to get on em. Going after Cobia this weekend. I saw your pallet bar on instagram it was quite impressive.

 

HA HA HA, just another excuse to drink sir..

got me a few fishing rods , but don't know how to fish..
we all want normalcy ...

 

step 1 - buy fishing license
step 2 - put bait on hook
step 3 - send it, and wait
step 4 - enjoy the adult beverages while you wait.....

 

Step 4 is key

 

Ocean humbled the shit out of me. Give me some freshwater and Ill catch fish.. took that big ego to the ocean and havent caught a damn thing besides lizard fish and pin fish. Did step on a flounder a couple months ago, does that count?

 

You haven't caught a sea robin or puffer yet???? Keep the pin fish cut them up get a crab pot and go set it for a few hrs while you fish then you'll get something to eat. When I go down without the kiddo we can go out and get some decent fish. I can show you some tricks for sheepshead.

 

I need to get you and the kiddos on the boat to show me how it’s done. Ocean is baffling for a freshwater guy

 

It's just like freshwater. Look for structure and bottom conditions. Specks love docks, reds love oyster beds. Knock barnacles off the bridge pilings and you create a feeding frenzy of sheepshead. Black drum are like reds, sharks are everywhere. Founder stage at little finger inlets when the tide goes out they feed you gotta bring the bait to them. Reds use a Carolina rig. Specks you can use the same top waters as you do for bass.

 

i know how to do #4, and do it well

 

WTB ubolt flip kit with bump stops if anyone has it for a 2015 Tacoma.

 

Heading to Greensboro next Friday for a job interview. If things work hoping to relocate to NC.

 

Good luck to you. Housing prices here are insane right now.