Hi, folks!
I have a new H55f showing up on my garage stoop today, and I'm trying to decide how to deal with the t-case question.
The 60 is no longer my DD, and my budget isn't "as low as I can possibly go" any more, so I'm starting to think I want to check off some high-payoff of 'while I'm in there' boxes. However...
- The case I have now is a 34mm shaft split case. It works fine, but I'm positive it hasn't been rebuilt in all of 250k.
- I eventually want 3:1 or 4:1 low range gears (although the planned H55 and a regear will make it a lot less urgent...)
- I don't have a puller, a press, or a single Toyota SST of any kind (unless you count the factory jack handles, haha)
Easiest option seems to be...pull everything off, clean it up, install on the H55f with new gaskets/seals/hardware/gear oil, and probably mod the linkage so I get 2-Lo. If I do that, finding a 38mm case and rebuilding it with lower gears seems like a pretty good 'next 2 years' kind of a project....but...
If I get the tools, it seems like rebuilding my case before/during installation wouldn't add *that* much work, and it would add a lot of peace of mind...and probably help with selling the case later, if I do go with a 38mm case for the low gears at some future point.
The other issue is that every friggin' thread I can find is incredibly vague about the tools they used/suggest. I really have no idea, specifically, what I need -- just that some sort of puller and some sort of press are somewhere between 'really nice' and 'necessary to not destroy brand new bearings,' but that's hardly a shopping list. Can anybody help out with a 'suggested' tool list beyond the typical wrenches/sockets/drivers/etc. so I can at least see how many hundreds it would add to the project cost?
I have a new H55f showing up on my garage stoop today, and I'm trying to decide how to deal with the t-case question.
The 60 is no longer my DD, and my budget isn't "as low as I can possibly go" any more, so I'm starting to think I want to check off some high-payoff of 'while I'm in there' boxes. However...
- The case I have now is a 34mm shaft split case. It works fine, but I'm positive it hasn't been rebuilt in all of 250k.
- I eventually want 3:1 or 4:1 low range gears (although the planned H55 and a regear will make it a lot less urgent...)
- I don't have a puller, a press, or a single Toyota SST of any kind (unless you count the factory jack handles, haha)
Easiest option seems to be...pull everything off, clean it up, install on the H55f with new gaskets/seals/hardware/gear oil, and probably mod the linkage so I get 2-Lo. If I do that, finding a 38mm case and rebuilding it with lower gears seems like a pretty good 'next 2 years' kind of a project....but...
If I get the tools, it seems like rebuilding my case before/during installation wouldn't add *that* much work, and it would add a lot of peace of mind...and probably help with selling the case later, if I do go with a 38mm case for the low gears at some future point.
The other issue is that every friggin' thread I can find is incredibly vague about the tools they used/suggest. I really have no idea, specifically, what I need -- just that some sort of puller and some sort of press are somewhere between 'really nice' and 'necessary to not destroy brand new bearings,' but that's hardly a shopping list. Can anybody help out with a 'suggested' tool list beyond the typical wrenches/sockets/drivers/etc. so I can at least see how many hundreds it would add to the project cost?