Shop Time w/T.W. Friends.

Good morning shop crew. Hope it was a great weekend for you, back to the grind now

 

Morning all start of the work week for me. Had all last week off. Hauled the family to Wisconsin to visit an old friend. Beautiful country up there! My buddy even set me up with new work boots! Thorogood, talk about nice. And usa made! now to break them in.

 

Are you the original G?

 

Went to my buddy's last week to cut a fallen tree for fire wood, turns out it's Walnut. So Now I got 4 slugs of walnut, maybe 12-15" in diameter if I had to guess. And a bunch I cut in quarters before I realized what it was. Dunno if its worth anything to anyone or if I can do anything with it. I'm not much of a woodworker.

 

Love my thorogood's, very little break in required. One of the best boots on the market imo.

 

No. This is the original G...

 

I agree, it's the first day wearing them.. but I'm a believer

 

Find a local guy with a woodmizer portable sawmill. Sell it to him. He will love you long time.
The tree ranges from $5- $10 per board foot, although it can cost more depending on other factors. In most cases, your 20-inch tree can fetch you $700- $800. You should be able to get $200-$250 as raw log.

 

Its not that much. By slug, I mean like 10" lengths. I was cutting it up for firewood before I knew what it was.

 

oh. I thought it was 8 feet slugs lol.

 

I'm thinking about making my wife some 1" rounds, and maybe a bowl or something out of one.

 

Yea, I made coasters, bowls, and a few wood toys when I have good scraps. I even made a charred shot glass!

 

Send them to @hiPSI , he’s got specialized wood bowl manufacturing skillz

 

Cutting boards , charcuterie boards?

 

@hiPSI After seeing the hyd fluid and front axle oil, I'm thinking I should do the diffs and transfer case on the taco. Any recommendations for transfer case oil?

Here's the OEM on Amazon



Glad to see they have payment plans!

 

The TXcase uses the same oil as the diffs. I like the AMSOIL 75-90W

https://www.amsoil.com/p/manual-transmission-transaxle-gear-lube-75w-90-mtg/?code=MTGPK-EA

That or Royal Purple https://a.co/d/gqnPRbx

 

Thanks, if 75w90 works that's great.

 

The 3ed gen transfer case specification is for the 75W single grade transfer gear oil.
The use of

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

75W-90 has been hotly debated on the forum.

There are two obvious takeaways here:
1) Toyota did specify that oil, seeing as they have the engineers one can assume it was for a particular reason -- a reason that nobody here has gotten a direct answer from Toyota.
There is however a lot of "...well, I always..."

2) You are also free to use whatever product you please.

If you do some shopping you can get the OEM oil for way less than the AMZ price, usually around $65. The transfer case service will use exactly the 1 liter can.

 

Yeah, I noted the difference in the spec, hence my question. I realize Amazon pricing is sometimes out to lunch, and I surely hope I can find it for less than $225 for a litre, but even half that is shocking. With all the transfer cases in the world, there's gotta be a reasonable alternative.

 

I was able to locate it in the 50-60 range just using google -

$92 TOYOTA 08885-81080 Genuine Toyota Transfer Case Gear Oil LF 75W 1 litre 08885-81080

TOYOTA 08885-81080