I purchased my yota from a guy trying to turn it into a pre runner. He had the front dif/half shafts off and put on aftermarket a arms. Last week I finally got to take it out and as soon as I got to the mud my halfshaft broke. I took it back thinking it was just a bum shaft and got a new one. Spent the past two days getting it ready for the mud tomorrow and took it out tonight to test to make sure everything was working... Flexed out crawling over some bumps and the halfshaft ripped apart, turns out the a arms are extended and I need spacers. Anyone know where I can find some good ones? I have no means of fabbing my own

 

Checked google, jc whitney and fabtech. Nothing yet

 

So it sounds like the axles are to short? If that is the case, you could put T-100 axles in, they are longer...

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Yeah they are too short, my buddy I was with at the time suggested a spacer that goes between the halfshaft and diff. I've got a warranty on the halfshafts I have now so I can take them back whenever they break, so if I can avoid it I'd prefer to keep these ones.

 

Do you know whic kit was used or is it home fabbed.

http://blazeland.us/long-arm-kits/ bottom of the page has some axle part links

 

It's a kit, not sure what he used though

 

No luck on finding any spacers on the above, thanks though.

 

I don't believe there are any spacers for that connection. Are you buying shafts for your application, or t100 shafts for the long travel arms?

If you want, tomorrow I'll get a measurement of the stock lower arms and you can compare it to the length of your extended arms to rule out the possibility of you having the oddball Downey LT kit.

 

I wasn't aware the arms I had were longer until now, so I bought the shafts for my truck. If there is no spacers I might have to look into the t100 shafts

 

snap some pictures of the bracket lift. You may have to have custom shafts made. T-100 shafts are 3" longer.

 

I just want to point out that most of the autoparts stores will accept returns for the "wrong part", you might have to pay a restocking fee but doubt it'll be more than sourceing or custom fabbed spacers. Just clean it all up and shove it back in the original packaging and swap them out for the t100 sized ones, can't hurt much to try.

Pics and measurments would definately be helpful also.

 

I'll measure the a arms and take some pictures, hopefully someone can identify them for me. I'll do it in the afternoon tomorrow, I'd say morning... But I'm pretty drunk.

 

Just a update.. Went out to my truck this morning to find a liquid covering the ground under it... I also pulled my axle apart on my driver side as well as ripping the halfshaft apart on my passenger side. Pictures and measurements incoming

 

Here's some pics. The first pic is the halfshaft, the second is the axle where it seperated

 

Here's some more. Measurments are 18 inches for the bottom arm and 14.5 for the top

 

Last one

 

My lower arm measures about 15" from alignment bolt to ball joint castle nut. Sounds like you need t100 shafts, hopefully they're not actually too long with that custom diff drop(the red crossmember/anchor).

 

That looks like an old total chaos kit. T100 shafts SHOULD work The TC LT kits for that truck are 3.25 extended on each side.

You should just call the guy you got it from and figure out what exactly has been done to the truck.

That cross member kinda reminds me of how someone explained one of the old rancho kits to me but I have never seen one.

Hopefully that is not one of the first TC kits because they had a lot of problems with the torsion bar mounts ripping off the UCA. They fixed it later though.

on the plus side you could throw a coilover in there if you wanted to I think. And you should be able to get 12 or 13" of travel

 

I've tried getting ahold of him to no avail. I'm going to take back the broken one here in a week or so, as to not raise to many eye brows since I just returned it four days ago then try to swap both out for t100 shafts at a different store and just tell them I got the wrong ones. Anyways, I haven't taken it apart yet, saving it for after work this week, but in the second picture you can see the part of the axle the connects to the half shaft separated from the rest and is now leaking gear oil. Am I totally gummy beared or should this be a easy fix?

 

Are you installing the shafts yourself or are you getting the entire t100 unit? The outer CV is a pain to change... stupid internal snap ring...

I Think that whole shaft is held in by a snap ring and that you can just slide it back in.. I have only ever dealt with the short halfshaft on the passenger side though. Im not 100% on how that side is put together

see if you can find a parts diagram with an exploded view

Oh and I would stay away from spacers. I wouldnt mess with changing the pivot location of that inner cv in relation to the A arm brackets.