Haha, so we took the 3rd member off tonight in preperation for getting the new/used one on Sunday. Anyone guess what we found???





Yup, I sure did a number on it hehe . I'm gonna try and make a necklace with one of the chipped pieces; call it a Gear Tooth Necklace instead of a Shark Tooth Necklace haha

 

Damn. What did you do? Or did that happen because someone set up the gears wrong?

 

How's the gear backlash? I'm betting there's a tonne, and no bearing preload either.

 

looks like a broken set of 4:10's? the factory sets those up perfect. how many miles were on them?

 

wow... breakage and wear on the inner edge of the gears.
someone didn't do their homework.

 

I accelerated "spiritedly"? I can't remember if I popped the clutch or not. My buddy in his Civic said I had a really nice long chirp into 2nd gear though

I have. . .no idea what your talking about lol

They are 4.10's unless someone regeared it, I doubt it though. I'm unsure of exact miles but I think around 250,000.

Unfortunatelly its the 2 pinion 8" rear and so is the replacement I'm getting on Sunday. However, on Monday I'm getting my 4 pinion 3rd member with factory 4.88's and lockrite

 

I think I just drive my truck too hard. I've never seen a rear 3rd out of the truck in person before so I don't know. I'm getting tired of fixing it though so I'm going to start driving a little easier. I've got a bunch of front end/steering stuff I messed to fix as well during mudding. About $2300 worth if Toyota fixed it.

 

nah, that rear end had allot of miles on it. probably got loose (carrier bearing preload back lash etc). if you get one with a good pattern and proper bearing preload, you should be able to be rough with it. i know ive been hard on mine, and there holding up fine.

 

Eh, I dunno. I just can't wait to get my rear 3rd with the 4.88 gears and locker, 4.88 gears up front, and fix my steering. Then I'll be having fun

 

Picked up the rear axle today and got everything on and bolted down and everything, go to connect the driveshaft. . .and the connections for the ds and diff don't work. Mine are for a V6 and the axle was a 4 cyl; same axle code though. Didn't think about this even though I'm pretty sure I knew about it

 

v6 and 4cyl diffs should have the same bolt pattern on the flange as far as I know. If it is different just swap the flanges?

 

Yes, the flange usually has a different pattern.

You can simply drill a new set of holes..
Or you can swap flanges (You need to reset the preload and whatnot I belive..)
Or buy a tripple drilled flange..

 

That should bolt up perfectly. I've done a few of these and the V6's and 4cyl's are interchangeable. Check again to make sure you've got it lined up properly.

 

We were just going to replace the flange on the driveshaft. Would this even work? We just don't want to deal with draining the diff and taking it back out and resetting everything.

And whats a tripple drilled flange? I'll have to check that out. . .

 

They use the same u-joints, jus take the flange from the diff side of your 4 cyl. d-shaft and get a new u-joint, put it together on the V6 shaft and voila!

 

Triple dilled flanges are flanges dilled for every bolt pattern Toyota ever made. 79-83 are different than 84-95. Automatics may be different too.

 

I just got a new u-joint on there last Thursday. And I don't have a 4cyl ds . I'm gonna go pick up a 4cyl flange today and get that on. Truck should be driving by 5 PM tonight

 

Triple Drilled flange:

 

Thanks guys. This would be great it if were for the ds. I want to avoid taking the diff off again and having everything reset after switching to the triple drilled flange.

I've got a V6 diff with factory 4.88's and a lockrite coming in the mail today so I'll be throwing that in my truck come this spring after I buy tires and a 4.88 front (still trying to decide if I want it open or locked ). So it wouldn't make sense to buy a universal diff flange when its only going to be on there for another couple months

 

to change the flange, you don't have to take the diff out or do any adjusting to the internals. just loosen the flange nut, swap flanges, then put the nut back on. just make sure you tighten the nut down to the same spot it was before(so the dent in the nut lines up with the notch in the pinion.)