This is my 2002 Tacoma with 145,000 miles...











Looking for an axle housing right now, but may end up just trying to weld. Not much for toyota parts here in NY.

 

Pictures aren't working on my laptop, might wanna check and recheck to make sure they're good.


Use Photobucket.com and copy/paste the IMG code.

 

How about now?

 

hahaha no. no dice man.

 

no dice.

 

Have my fingers crossed!!! Uploaded the pics on tacomaworld

 

FIREWORKS!!! yeah, that worked!

 

your pics are showing up fine.

when I lived outside of Barfalo, I had to go to Ontario for a tailgate for my '97 Taco...

here is a link to parts sources...I have done business with a ton of them. most will ship.
https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f120...rs-etc-221645/

 

Thanks, I'll have to do some more calling around tomorrow to see if any of those places have a housing

 

Its too bad that from the pictures you can't really get a feeling for the size of the flakes coming off.. not only in diameter, but their thickness also

 

i just cant believe that, 8 years old??? looks like ur whole under carrage is rotted out man. that horrible! is that from just living in NY? insane!!

 

It looks just fine to me.

I would be glad to bring it home.

What you are looking at is the old undercoating flaking off good idea to get all the loose undercoating off as the winter glop gets underneath it and just eats into the metal

I was looking for signs of rust I could not see any !!

Did you post the wrong pictures??

It looks like your normal truck from upstate New York in fact not as bad as some I have seen.

The place you really want to check is the frame right in front of the front spring hangers .

The rear axle housing has to be the thickest hunk of metal on the truck outside of the engine block It would be the last piece of the back end to rust away

By all means if you feel it needs to be replaced then do so.

 

I've actually heard of quite a few reports of this.

trail-gear sells a new rear axle housing that you may want to look into.

 

Dude, you have over 1000 posts, you can't seriously believe what you just said...

This is a common problem. Most of the axle housing is very thick, but it is well known that the diff cover area is thin and very prone to rust (right now between here and t4r.org there are 3-4 threads about axle housings with the diff cover rusted through and leaking)

Keep looking online here and at t4r.org (look for part out's), and salvage yards (especially down south). If you find one, you may be able to get someone on one of the forums to pick it up and ship it to you. I got mine from a guy on t4r.org and he helped me find cheap shipping for it, saved my keyster.

For now you should clean the rust off the entire cover area and JB weld any leaks shut. That should last you a while. Check the link in my sig for what I went through with it, and I am going through it again with a friend's t4r.

Wyoming does have a point about the frame though, it looks like you've got some good rust there too, so be sure take care of that was well. You can replace the axle and diff, but you can't really replace the frame. Make sure you don't have any holes.

And have you checked if your frame falls under the recall? Don't remember the exact years, but it was on tacomas. Search for that too.

 

http://www.automotix.net

That is where i found my new rear axle assembly complete with a E-Locker.. they have great deals, only 691 shipped across the country from Washington State to Massachusetts.

https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f2/r...ite-up-235021/

I have a writeup on the process right now.

 

I wonder if you can get an after-market differential cover of roughly the same size, and just weld it on top of the old one. :wabbit2:

 

I would love to see that. I don't immediately see why you couldn't. That would still be expensive to have it welded professionally though, and if the rest of the housing is rusty too, then it wouldn't be worth it.

 

The housing around the gears should be very thick metal, it's the cover that is thin. The welding job could probably be done by someone not very skilled, as it just needs to be oil tight, not structurally strong.

It should be a more or less permanent solution for under $200 or so.

 

Took a wire wheel to it today and found one small pinhole.. appears to be the only leak.. It was about where this circle is. (This is an old pic prior to cleaning the axle housing)

 

I may attempt to go with the jbweld route and see how long that holds up