UPDATED - Now with Twin cases and triple sticks "El Taco Diablo" 4x4 swap and B.S.

No clue, they're definitely reasonable though. No one else in the world makes them, Toyota sells those mounting arms as one piece.

I'm sure the ones in there now are fine, but might as well change them since they're off the truck.

 

@BartMaster1234 and @foxrcing07

What's your opinions? Should I paint the spindles (Por15) before or after pressing the wheel bearings back in?

 

I say press the bearings back in first and then paint it. I'd be paranoid of ruining my nice paintjob.

 

Hopefully, since you tagged him, he'll pipe up with a price.

 

Any update on parts collecting for the swap yet?

 

That's the thing... isn't Por15 supposed to be indestructable? lol

 

Sure, but a fresh paint job would be better than one that has gone through a wheel bearing replacement.

 

Just ordering everything to rebuild the CVs now. And will be ordering new wheel bearings.

 

Subd

 

After going through what I did with my torque converter, I recommend you save up the money to buy a new or remanufactured one. Cost me an arm and a leg to have a transmission shop figure that the TC was warped.

 

Ya, I'm 99% sure I'm going to buy a New, lock-up, torque converter.

I'm about 75% sure I'll be buying a reman Transmission rather than one from a salvage yard.

 

Change the axle seals in your front differential too. I'm sure you have that list I keep reposting of all the parts I used.

Rear Main Seal, Transmission Filter, etc. are good ones to get while you're in there.

 

I PM'd @gunny1005 about the CV snap rings, rear main seal, fill and drain crush gaskets, and the assembly you said was missing on the diff. Haven't heard back from him yet. When I do, I'll ask him about axle seals too (good call)

 

Don't forget the locking bolts that go on the end of the CV's. A lot of people forget about those.

You'll want a tube of FIPG too.

 

I'm getting a couple tubes of FIPG any way cause I need to do my valve cover gaskets

 

Ring, Ring who's at the door?? Its the Plastics guy peddling Diff Bushings... (this time)

Whats up buddy! a pair of diff bushings is $63.25 You simply burn the old bushings out of your diff brackets and then lube up the new Diff Bushing with some dish some and squessze the bushings in place until they bottom out in the bracket. No press needed, a large pair of Channel locks will do the job.

In another week or so I will be offering complete diff brackets with my bushings already loaded for your conveince. Once you replace your old diff brackets you simply mail them back to me in the provided packaging and return shipping label. The cost for a complete set of brackets will be $130.00. The complete diff brackets are not listed on the website yet but you can see the full description of the diff bushing on the website toyotabumpstops.com


Por 15 After you press your bearings. Just be sure to tape off the bearing and anything else you don't want coated. POR15 is awesome. Prior to me powder coating all my bump stop bases I was using Por 15. Its tuff stuff for sure.

 

Thanks Brother!

I'll be hitting you up soon on the diff mounts for sure! And thanks for the input on the Por15... between you and Tyler, I think it's settled that no paint till after I press the bearings.

 

So... I requested a price/availability, for some parts, from @gunny1005 a week ago... No answer. (not the first time btw)... So I bit the bullet and went to Modesto (local) Toyota.

Ordered:
CV snap rings
CV end bolts
Both diff/cv seals
Fill plug
Fill plug crush gasket
Drain plug
Drain plug crush gasket
Should be here on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Forgot about the rear diff mounting cushion (circled in pic below). I'll see if they can get it ordered for me, when I pick up the parts I ordered today.

 

Started cleaning some of the parts today.

The hubs were coated with baked on grease.

Ended up taking the manual locks apart. Glad I did. The O ring for the dial face was completely rotted. Need to order a new set.

The dials were pretty worked over. Cleaned them up but ran out of day light. Tomorrow I'll spray the dial and trim ring with a bit of spray paint.

Got everything as clean as I need it. Got rid of the better majority of the old grease. I think this will do for me.

 

My o-rings were rotted too. Here’s your problem, Toyota doesn’t sell it separate from the manual hub. Snap ring too. That’s why I had to buy all new manual hubs.