Purpose of differential drops?

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Does Sunday work?

 

I'm ignorant to these parts. I have a BOSS 3/1. Will they work?

 

You're the man bro!!!!!

 

Why thanks Chris! You can get a diff drop like the one I have for like $20 new, I got the guy I got the guy I ordered coil over spacers from to throw it in. So it was free to me and free for a fellow member. Hell, I might even have to help you install it Mark. The only hard part is the nut on the driver side, kinda tight and hard to see. Or that might be my big hands and crappy eyes.

 

Chris, do you think 1 3/16 thick is to much? What about the composite? I'd rather see Mark order toytecs than give a bad part.

 

You might be a whiner but it's nice to have a few of them around to make me look better

 

I've got three couchbuilder shims for above the coil overs I'm not going to use as well. They were $18 each plus shipping. I'm now contemplating dropping the front down a notch. My whiney bitch trucks trac didn't like the big tires. Hell, the tires are gone and she's still acting up. If I do drop the front the nearly new Toytec diff drop will be coming back off. I barely need it now.

 

Yeah, Sun works. I'll pm you.

 

Cool, thanks. Hey, you got any experience with trac issues? Mine immediately started going off as soon as I put 34's on and didn't go away when I put stockers back on. Posted all sorts of stuff about.

 

I was watching your posts and was hoping there would be a solution by now. That happens on all of my fleet trucks intermittently but they are Silverado 2500s. It's something in their software that needs tweaking

 

I have been thinking that it could be something like that. My local mechanic said everything looks fine. I'm going to have@lotsoftoys look at soon. I took the air bags off yesterday, seems to have helped. I'm thinking with one inch shackles, they may have been causing the inside rear tire to lift a little. I either need to get cradles or spacers for them. It doesn't really make sense though. I put them on after the tires and the problem with the trac. Gonna try putting the shackles back to 1.5 Maybe we can trade. I'll help you install the diff drop, you can help me with the shackles. Even though neither requires two guys. And it might actually snow here Friday. Might be to funky to crawl around under a truck.

 

Let's play it by ear and see what happens, but yeah..I'll give a hand.

 

The nittos were 285/70/18 new ones are bfg ko2 285/65 truck is a trd so it came with 275/65. I put the factory wheels that it left the factory with and stock size, grabber at2 that were on it for at least 5K after putting the lift on. Put the nittos on, at first I was thinking something was rubbing. Nope. The only thing I did after the tires was the bags and dropped the shackles down to 1" then I had@lotsoftoys do the zpc and alignment. When I took the bags off yesterday, I noticed that the lower brackets were a little tight against the wheel speed sensor wires. But it didn't look like they had been pinched. It's not throwing any codes. The only thing techstream showed was that the difference in wheel speed is outside of the parameters. That's why the trac goes off. It doesn't make sense that the bags are the issue as they went on after the problem started. Running the tires at lower pressure helps. But that's not a solution. I'll try raising the rear end with the shackles to put some rake back in. Then everything will be exactly the way it was before the tires. That doesn't make sense either, as it only does it when the frt end nose dives. Is it possible that it's a coincidence and there's something wrong with the 6112's and it's diving to much? They are not leaking and feel fine the rest of the time. I've been grasping at straws for a while. That's just the latest not so likely scenario I've come up with!

 

Yikes! Time to make my lunch and get to bed.

 

Chat tomorrow

 

I watched a differential drop install video and they put spacers under the front sway bar as well. Is that necessary? Does toytec sell those? I didn't see them on their site.

Anybody??