TKGN1
Straight White Male
Cool, that's what I am betting on as well. It rides and flexes fine as is but would like to see the hangers with a little more angle.
SAS swap / 01 DC Tacoma
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taco4x4rar
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The springs will settle quite a bit I lost 1.5-2" out of mine. They also sagged pretty bad with the taco lean
TKGN1
Straight White Male
I'm already noticing a little lean as well, might have to do a taco block on one side.
taco4x4rar
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Ride height looks good I'd leave it alone unless it doesn't perform well
thekidcatcher
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Sexy
TKGN1
Straight White Male
Thanks.
I'm ready to take it out on the trails and see how it performs.
Randy
I found out the gear box I received was bad (called you about that), I put one on from Rob (pretty sloppy but worked) and now I'm waiting for TG to send me back a good one. I was getting freakin tired of trying to bleed the system. Took about 10 minutes to bleed the one I got from Rob.
Other than that the swap went pretty smooth with no real issues.
Silverback
Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
Are you still doing 35's Todd?
Looks great BTW.
Looks great BTW.
Boomtacoma01
Tommy want wingy..
Agreed. It will look mean on 35s.
Sent from my SPH-L710
Sent from my SPH-L710
Are you talking about the transmission?
taco4x4rar
Well-Known Member
How did you determine the box was no good? I've got a spare I got from the yard that I don't know the condition of it but don't want to tear it apart for rebuild if I don't have too.
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TKGN1
Straight White Male
Thanks
Yep, I'll probably have those on next week some time. LOL
Just trying to get everything else lined out, gotta put tires on my wife's car also so looking at a large chunk of change for eight tires. Might see if Discount will cut me a deal, hell I've bought probably $12,000 or more worth of tires from them in the past ten years.
Steering gear box.
When I talked to you I couldn't get the steering to do shit, this was after bleeding the system for 2 hours which sucked ass, at best it was 100% manual steer. I disconnected the drag link from the pitman arm and found nothing to be dragging/binding or anything that would cause the steering not to work. My next option was the steering gear box or pump, pump was perfect when I pulled in to do the swap so that left me with the gear box. Rob was replacing his so we pulled his old one and put it on my truck. Determined the box from TG was a POS, not that Rob's box was great, but at least it had power assist. It took 5-10 minutes to bleed the box from Rob and it was a night/day difference, had plenty of slop but with tires on the ground I could turn the wheels at idle lock to lock very easily.
So I sent the "new" one back to TG and now I'm waiting on it, if its not here this week I might just go to Napa and get one with a full warranty and sale the TG one.
taco4x4rar
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Lol Trailgear quality control at its finest. I really need to replace mine its leaking and has s lot of play in it
taco4x4rar
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A point of curiosity I wonder in new steering boxes need to be bench bled
TKGN1
Straight White Male
I was thinking the same thing. Thought about making simple fittings to pressurize or pull vacuum with fluid through the box before installing.
The box I got from Rob had some fluid in it still and was real easy to bleed the system.
F spending hours try to bleed, that sucks.
TKGN1
Straight White Male
I got my "new" box back from TG yesterday. I set it up in a vice and took a squeeze bottle and started filling the gear box with fluid while slightly and slowly rotating the input shaft. It took 1-1/2 bottles of PSF to fill the gear box.
After I installed the gear box I jacked the wheels off the ground, turned the steering wheel lock to lock 20 times, and made sure the fluid was topped in the reservoir. After a 5 minute bleed I set the truck on the ground and started it up, steering was perfect.
I am really surprised how well the truck drives on road, with the exception of body roll, the steering is really good. Not as good as rack and pinion but I feel its good enough that I would feel safe letting my wife drive.