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There's instructions in the manual, but you go through the menu and change it. Pretty cool, purple, blue, green, red etc.

Come out and have a good time, meet some new friends or catch up with old ones. Browns camp ohv in the tillamook forest, or https://facebook.com/events/s/cruisin-the-woods-2025/1083836377052318/

Ha ha yes it did fight all the way. Always happy to help!

Awesome look forward to meeting you, Iit's a great group of people and if you make the monthly meetings you'll get to enjoy the worlds okay-est bbq Nice!

Haven't seen many members on here. Most of us are on the discord channel. Welcome to Portland. The club meets at Busters BBQ in Tigard every 3rd Thursday of the month (which is this Thursday) at 7:00 pm. You can also reach out on instagram or Facebook and to get an invite to the discord.

Canoes look so iconic on top of an 80. I'm finally selling mine

I think I compressed that thing so much it formed a bit of a press fit. Time will tell, I seem to open up these knuckles every 6 months for one thing or another. This time was to install a locker.

Well I found a use for my crappy Amazon puller set. I put some large washers on one end to pull the retainer ring/axle guide, and then stacked the puller sleeves so I could tighten them outside the knuckle, (removing the knuckle would have made this easier) I had to hold the threads on my end...

I have a 91, but the idea is the same. I use an impact screwdriver to break it loose. Less risk of stripping out that head.

As far as I know there is only one gearset for transfer cases, oem low range is 2.49:1 and the reduction gearset takes it to 3.11:1 which is a 25% reduction. I've read on the forums that this is about the same a 4.56 gears in the diffs. The hf2a is a simple thing, gear driven and relatively easy...

I personally would not bother regearing for 33's. That's just me, if you were running 35's or larger I'd regear. I've got 5.29 on 37's and I like em, but mostly for rock crawling and using my gears going downhill instead of braking. The better time/money would be spent regearing your transfer...

I've had issues with these, my short side ring looks like this one now. Found it in the diff housing, so I guess my tack welds didn't hold. Did you end up getting it back in? And if not, how are the seals doing without it?

Probably is now, I'll go check it, wedged a huge rock between the diff and the control arm. Good eye

Whelp, I guess I found the weak spot

I decided to do some diy machining to lighten up my driveshaft using a big rock as my lathe and cutter. Glad I went with the heavy wall driveshaft, no vibes on the drive home. Tom woods makes a great driveshaft, if this was my Tacoma it would be sliced and twisted in two.