What did you do with your Tundra or Sequoia this weekend? (2 Viewers)
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Towed our trailer with the SOB rear bumper.
How’d it go?
Transmission temps stayed under 200* until we hit the pass. Averaged 11.5 mpg. Stock gears and 37s. Toyota over engineered these trucks!
Very impressive, we pull a small 22ft Clipper with our 12 Sequoia. Getting on the highway I ended up doing 75 without meaning to.
It’s a lot different than pulling with a gx470 on 35s.
Your truck looks sick dude!
Nice! Thank you
Didn't do anything to the truck. Did a bit of adventuring with the fam around Valdez area. Probably should bring my real camera with. Cell phone is pretty limited in capturing the scale of Alaska adventures. I complain about the the winters - but summers here are hard to beat. (Truck is on the beach in the second pic - kinda hard to spot in a low res photo)
Wow!
Why did you remove the diff drop?
37’s. This 2008 had a Tundra Toytec front with Total Chaos arms and OME springs with too short Bilstein in the rear, which made for an interesting 4” lifted mess of handling that the PO and his shop couldn’t figure out so got it for a steal of $10K.
Swapped in Dobinsons rear springs (if I ever agree to do that job again, something is wrong with me) and shocks that fixed all of that, for some reason also got 4” of lift out of those springs, so 37’s fit pretty easily. We have the Coastal Offroad body mount chop plates but haven’t needed to do it yet for road use, the tires in relation to the body mount are the same as the 35’s on my other ‘08 (long story).
Toyo RT Trail, nice tire, drives great. Starting to think I might want to dual lock and gear this thing. Have to get the no 4lo bit sorted first, my other one has the same issue so that’s annoying af.
Blacked out vs. blinged out.
Swapped in Dobinsons rear springs (if I ever agree to do that job again, something is wrong with me) and shocks that fixed all of that, for some reason also got 4” of lift out of those springs, so 37’s fit pretty easily. We have the Coastal Offroad body mount chop plates but haven’t needed to do it yet for road use, the tires in relation to the body mount are the same as the 35’s on my other ‘08 (long story).
Toyo RT Trail, nice tire, drives great. Starting to think I might want to dual lock and gear this thing. Have to get the no 4lo bit sorted first, my other one has the same issue so that’s annoying af.
Blacked out vs. blinged out.
Just took a drive to enjoy how nice the truck drives with the new wheels/tires. Went up to Powder Mountain to visit my old stomping grounds and to take in the view.
Should have added a
. Looks barely used.Ah, ok. It’s absolutely about the CV boots if you are going to do it. I had a first gen Sequoia where the CV boots tore almost immediately after I lifted it - I also put like another 70K miles on it and nothing happened so the grease stays largely put….but it’s still a thing and “don’t lift so much” isn’t great for what are typically low hanging modern IFS rigs.
I do have a drop on the less lifted one, and I don’t have a drop on the one that got 37’s with the extra 1.5” of lift. Unfortunately that one is not here as my son has it or I’d take comparison pics, but the boot pleats are rubbing so they’ll tear due to that. I do have an RCI skid sitting in the garage to go on this one, the 37’s version already has an RCI skid, and I might pull the drop if I have to also drop the skid.
You aren’t likely to kill the CVs on these second gens since they are 1 ton parts but tearing the boot is likely not free and I prefer how it drives in AWD vs RWD. While it’s nice to say “just run high angle boots”, you have the pull the CV apart to do it so that isn’t cheap. I put those newer NAPA heavy duty CV’s with high angle boots on my other son’s 3rd gen 4Runner and that’s a great solution.
I also have my 80 so I don’t really care about diff clearance here. If I decided to sell the 80 and wheel the tree, I’d probably go back to getting it on 40’s and dealing with whatever came with that. 37’s are a good stock size on these things
Yup just keep it around a 2-3" lift and no need for a diff drop kit.
I've had 2 Nissans and 3 Toyotas, all lifted without diff drop kits and zero torn boots and axle damage.
I've had 2 Nissans and 3 Toyotas, all lifted without diff drop kits and zero torn boots and axle damage.
Finally starting my chrome delete on the Tundra!
