So I go over to a friends tonight to rebuild the front diff and find out the inner splines on the side gears are really bad and have to be replaced. If the night had ended there i might have been alright. As many of you might guess I AM CHEAP. I am proud to say it. I shopped around for new birfield and found Parts plus could get brand new(not rebuilds) birfs with inner axles for about $100 each out of CANADA, only catch was they only make the drivers side(?). So I order two driver side birfs from them and a inner axle for the passenger side from Toyota. No big deal, just pop out the one drivers inner axle and replace with new passenger side one. Well the new inner axle from Toyota doesn't fit into the new birf from CANADA. We think maybe Toyota sent me the wrong inner axle or something. So I go home and pop out the origional inner axle from the worn birf. Identical axle to the new one from Toyota. The CANADIANs have screwed me. They downsized the inner axle at the point it enters the birfield and then shrank the hole the axle goes into on the birfield. Besides the occasional movie that is only funny after long hours with out sleep has anything good come out of Canada as of late. Needless to say I must now take my birfs up to CV Unlimited to be rebuilt and spend twice as much plus I have to order a new inner axle for the drivers side plus the side gears and cross shaft. Needless to say, not too happy right now. Thats all I have to say about that..
p.s. I don't really have a grudge agianst all canadians just the guys making my birfs.
Trent Taylor
p.s. I don't really have a grudge agianst all canadians just the guys making my birfs.
Trent Taylor