Switcheroo - 1 Bored Clerk's 2013 Tacoma Build

[1 Bored Clerk]

Did the 3rd member swap this morning. Pretty easy stuff...time consuming but easy. I took about 3 hours to do it and I was taking my time. I also sold some yard tools to a nice lady on Craigslist in that timeframe. Have done some driving around and cooling sessions. Everything feels really good but there is a whine that starts at 31mph indicated on my truck and it gets louder the faster you go. I've only been up to 50mph for a short time. I'll call ECGS and see what they say. My guess is that they'll need to send me a new 3rd member. I'm a bit disappointed in that. Hopefully the front gears don't whine because that's a way bigger job to install!
4.56 gears are crazy low with 32" tires. The truck shifts out of first gear in about 8 feet. Haha. Taller tires are waiting for install.


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[brianjwilson]

Nice! I had a noisy gear set on my f150 and it never changed. Wasn't horrible, but whined at steady speed around 50. No other range, not accelerating or decelerating. All I can say is out a few miles on and keep listening. Talk to them on Monday.

First gear is fairly low stock too. I remember every time I would pull out of a side street onto a main road it would hit second gear before I straightened out. Kind of frustrating if you're gently pulling out and then want to move quickly, it either lags or downshifts back to first and screams. I wish we could change the shift pattern with a tuner and get it to hold 1st just a little longer.
I'm excited to install mine and see how they are. Parts are in my garage at home now.

 

[1 Bored Clerk]

My diff is loud enough that I'm not going to be okay with it. ECGS is a good company and I expect resolution. I'm mostly bummed that I will have to do this twice. As long as I don't have to do the front twice, I think I'll survive. ; )


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[Expedition.Report]

Looking good!

Post up a pic of the front end from a distance!

 

[1 Bored Clerk]

Will do! I may be able to get the winch line on this weekend...then a couple of pics.


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[brianjwilson]

My diff is loud enough that I'm not going to be okay with it. ECGS is a good company and I expect resolution. I'm mostly bummed that I will have to do this twice. As long as I don't have to do the front twice, I think I'll survive. ; )


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That's too bad. Hopefully it gets worked out.
My sister in law said the fat fedex driver slammed the ECGS boxes on the porch when he dropped them off. A few holes in the boxes. Lazy ********. Hopefully I have better luck.

 

[1 Bored Clerk]

Time will tell on my gears. It's impossible to get something that heavy and pointy anywhere in a cardboard box without it looking like it went to war. I wouldn't worry about the shipping.


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[1 Bored Clerk]

Talked to Chase today about my whining 3rd member. We had a nice chat and he said that he would swap me out, no problem. It'll be a few to several weeks due to inability to get the gears he likes to use. No big deal to me.

I'll put a post together with my thoughts on the whole process of swapping in a new 3rd and clamshell along with some links I found useful in a few days.


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[Greenbean]

What the whine from, Ultimately?

Looking great, Love the idea of a hidden winch in the factory bumper!

 

[Scott B.]

That's too bad. Hopefully it gets worked out.
My sister in law said the fat fedex driver slammed the ECGS boxes on the porch when he dropped them off. A few holes in the boxes. Lazy ********. Hopefully I have better luck.

FedEx destroyed the box mine came in, too.

You'd think ECGS would have a better deal with FedEx.

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[1 Bored Clerk]

What the whine from, Ultimately?

Looking great, Love the idea of a hidden winch in the factory bumper!

Short version of what's 'wrong':

ECGS's normal, trusted gear supplier has been out of 4.56 for months and are rebranding a gearset that ECGS doesn't like in the interim. ECGS refuses to buy said gearset so they chose a different brand that they have less experience with. My set is, apparently, the first set with a complaint of noise but he's going to swap me out because he did use a gearset that he is less familiar with. So, I just have to put up with the noise until the proper gears are ready. He'll build me a new 3rd and send it out.

Can't expect more than that from a company. While I'm not excited to swap it out again, it's really isn't that hard and sometimes stuff just isn't right. And, just to ease anyone's concerns, I am ALWAYS the guy that gets the anomaly. My wife says I get the anomalies because I need 'gracefully handling adversity' practice. She also warned that I will continue to get all of the anomalies until I can gracefully handle adversity. So, once I master 'gracefully handling adversity' one of you other poor bastards will get all the busted stuff I would have normally gotten!


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[toyotech]

Short version of what's 'wrong':

ECGS's normal, trusted gear supplier has been out of 4.56 for months and are rebranding a gearset that ECGS doesn't like in the interim. ECGS refuses to buy said gearset so they chose a different brand that they have less experience with. My set is, apparently, the first set with a complaint of noise but he's going to swap me out because he did use a gearset that he is less familiar with. So, I just have to put up with the noise until the proper gears are ready. He'll build me a new 3rd and send it out.

Can't expect more than that from a company. While I'm not excited to swap it out again, it's really isn't that hard and sometimes stuff just isn't right. And, just to ease anyone's concerns, I am ALWAYS the guy that gets the anomaly. My wife says I get the anomalies because I need 'gracefully handling adversity' practice. She also warned that I will continue to get all of the anomalies until I can gracefully handle adversity. So, once I master 'gracefully handling adversity' one of you other poor bastards will get all the busted stuff I would have normally gotten!


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Getting you another diff should be no questions. Now what if you or someone else had to pay someone to install it. Who would flip the bill than


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[1 Bored Clerk]

Not sure. I suppose if you were going to pay someone to do your gears, maybe you'd just have the local shop do everything rather than bringing built diffs in?


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[1 Bored Clerk]

Finally got my winch line on with the factor 55 flatlink! Nice to check that off of the list.

I will say that, having never owned a winch, I am now well aware of how serious these things are. I was really surprised at how burly this 'small' Warn M8000 winch is. Crazy how much pull it had with no effort on its part. Definitely not a toy. To be taken very seriously when in use.


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[brianjwilson]

The bumper and winch look good!

I really want a full aluminum bumper but the "stealthness" of that bumper is definitely cool.