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f1a
Meh
chain drive whoohoo
Still nuthing for the r f1a
but helzyes bout time SOMEONE DID SOMETHING
My point is more along the line of'
we (yota guys) don't seem super stolked about the chain drive tcase
unless yer name is big mike
But anything to give an option rocks.
The case does look nice, gawd knows we need some support!
This!! Less bearings in there, probably doesn't get as hot as the surface of the sun on the highway, it's quiet, less fluid spewing everywhere. So excited for this product and it's no longer wait for eons for marlin parts, fail gear or mortgage the house for an Atlas as your tcase options.
G52 is the oddball trans that came in 2nd 4runners and some 3rd gen trucks with auto hubs and a 22re. It had a chain drive case.
What do you have in your junk currently?
G58 was the oddball trans with a chain drive case. G52 was the 5spd in front of a forward shift 21 spline gear drive tcase.
G58 was the oddball trans with a chain drive case. G52 was the 5spd in front of a forward shift 21 spline gear drive tcase.
Pretty cool new product with good tcase options
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. G52 makes no sense
And even that is not a super big concern IMO
I have dual cases with a rear lefty. 2.28 front, 4.7 rear all marlin guts, mc07 adapter, marlin 30spline outputs. So the most expensive set of Toyota duals you could have LOL!!! I'm not too worried about breaking it, but nice to have options when parts do fail or get old. Before it was just buy an Atlas and bite the bullet, but in this case this opens up options depending what fails on my junk.What do you have in your junk currently?
You thinking about going this route, and if so, what rear case?
It's kinda tempting to do one in my mild 96 4runner, smart thing would just be to run the stock case, but a 205 would be more awesome and ridiculously overkill
I did that for a few years before I built my lefty. The only reason I ditched the chain case is because the input fretted out and additionally it's somehow shorter than my dong and I lost confidence in it. Full transparency there was some installation error on my part, however I also built the duals in 2008 when there was pretty much zero information on dual case swaps into tacomas unlike today. I have seen some people snap it clean off behind duals, but that's not really the fault of the case itself as it wasn't designed to be stuck on a wobbly crawler coupler. I believe I have read even marlin himself saying the chain drive Tacoma cases are the strongest cases Toyota made, you just can't upgrade the planetaries for lower gears.
I was 17yr old and a dumbass at the time so I'm sure it was giving me signs, but it still worked up until that point!
so now it has a 30 spline front og Longfield rear. I thought about picking up a lefty and slapping it in the 4runner just cause, but they don't make them anymore and I've seen a lot of of wierd failures from an oiling issue? The jeep guys freaked out over chain cases as well when I owned a jeep, with horror stories of cases failing but usually someone was being a complete tard and exploded them. I ran an np231 for almost a year without fluid in it and the only way I found out there wasn't any fluid was when I went to do the SYE and I unbolted the rear half of the case and the front output fell off!!
Lefty: yup inchworm/low range doesn't make them. I have had mine in there since 2010 and have put close to 50k miles on it and it's fine, so that oiling issue may or may not be valid. It does have a funky transfer tube for oil and a custom idler gear. That whole expensive tcase setup is why I did the fj60 front axle flip. I couldn't sell it for enough to even justify building a new pax drop dual setup.Usually happens that way, one piece at a time. I still have mine from my 4runner. Got them pretty well built with a xmember for $1100. Only issue I ever had was twisting the front output about 50* without it failing
I've heard that too, same issue as running a dual gear case lots of miles. I wonder how much antisieze helps.
This unit has a 1 piece shaft that should basically eliminate that. I'd bet a standard chain drive case behind this reduction unit would live a long life and probably be low enough for most people (2.57x2.57)
"its had a leak since I owned it, but I didn't think that much leaked out"
I know for the tacomas stock uses just a trans mount for the manuals and autos. I ran my duals like this for 10yrs, and recently just added a stock rubber mount on the rear most case. So some fabrication would be needed to add a rear most mount to the chain drive stuff.
