What have you done to your 1st gen Tundra today?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kNsckwa0w0​

 

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Mrs. Mamba (for some strange reason) remembers that the last time I shampooed the entire truck was 2017

I didn't feel that they were dirty since I regularly vacuum, but @Nimitz_ and his carpet cleaner have been in the back of my mind for a week.

 

Silver truck crack-tivities with pops today

 

It doesn't have to be local but is seems the local hardware store might have some spacers, but just haven't found any. Thought maybe someone ran into this and knew "hey Home Depot has these spacers" or something. It can be from anywhere. Have a toytec kit so likely will start by calling them to see if they can just ship me something. Or buy that cheap $17 kit and just use the spacers.

Yeah I thought of that but I do have 3" lift so it might be a good idea for the CVs. I know that and diff drop impact on oil bath of rear bearing etc are all topics of debate, but it's been on there for 100k+ miles.

Maybe when I need to reboot the CVs I'll just pull the diff drop.

 

I was gonna say, when he works on the truck it's cracktivities.

 

Diff drops have been shown to be worthless. I'd remove it.

 

I thought they preserved the CV axles due to minimizing their angles? Or does it prematurely wear out driveshaft components like U-joints?

 

They only give about a degree or 2 of change, but the lower diff and skid plate reduce your ground clearance. I forgot who but somebody posted a vid of it. It's the Asian dude with an FJ and a 2nd gen RCSB.

 

Someone on here measured, IIRC, and the difference in angle was something silly like half a degree.

 

Little teaser. I’ll post more whenever I finish.

 

That seems a little off assuming a 2” drop with a 36” CV axle length. Arctan(2”/36”) = 3.18 degrees at a minimum. If the CV axles were shorter (which they probably are), that angle would increase even more.

Guess I’ll have to check out the video to see what I’m missing here.

 

Went to a client, removed two old mattresses and back to the house. Loaded up some 600 pounds of bagged grass onto the mattresses and tied it all down. THAT FERMINTING GRASS WAS THE MOST FOUL-SMELLING LOAD WE'VE HAD SO FAR.

Off loaded at the local landfill.

 

https://youtu.be/47aat1tc6zw

Have seen this before and thought about removing it. It reviews theories that the drop benefits CV joint and boots, that a spacer drop is really a tilt so may introduce oil bath concerns on pinion bearing, and spacer drop reduces ground clearance.

Some conclusions from the video seem to be:

• Likely slinging oil diminishes concern of oil bath on pinion bearing.
• Extended boots reduce boot wear concerns that diff drop might help.
• Ground clearance loss from tilt and threat to transferring impacts to tcase.
• Preferring arm style drops that gets more tcase drop (but expensive).
• Or just keeping lift to 2" (as I think @shifty` oft says).

Don't think have the original bolts. So either way, will need to get original bolts or replace the lost spacers to be able to remount the skid plate best.

 

The V6 lives another day, and purrrrrrrs like a kitten

 

@des2mtn - is that the AeroClub in San Diego?