My truck is an 02 regular cab 4x4 2.7L 5 speed (daily driver). I bought it used a few days ago with 22,313 miles on it. I got my wife in her '00 Celica to give me speed readings over cell phones going down the highway to figure out that when my speedo reads 70mph I'm doing approximately 75mph. The wheels and tires on the truck are P265/70-16 115S on aluminum. The tires are worn considerably further than I would think they should be for the mileage so I am starting to think the previous owner put on the 16s after buying the truck. The incorrect speedometer readings also seem to support this theory(and the truck seems weak compared to other Taco 2.7s with stock wheel/tire combos). I want to keep running ~31" tires, so I suppose I need to drop my gear ratio to 4.10 or 4.56. My door jam says B06A or 8" 3.91 open diff. If I am going to change out my gears I want to look at lockers and limited slip diffs while I'm at it. So, here comes the questions...
From what I have read in the last few days, with my 02 model and its live hub front drivetrain I need to run an electronic locker up front and not an autolocker. I don't want to do a manual hub swab up front mainly because this is a daily driver. For the rear would a limited slip diff. suffice for daily driver duty, or should I go ahead and put a locker in there too so that I can lock both or one of them up when appropriate?
I don't plan on rock crawling or anything, but I would like to have the ability to get out of sticky situations easier by being able to spin all my wheels.
I have been searching for gear and diff. information to see what path I should take, and so far I have had no luck trying to find precisely what I am looking for information-wise. Any thought or direction to tech articles or threads that might be helpful would be appreciated. Thanks,
-Jason
From what I have read in the last few days, with my 02 model and its live hub front drivetrain I need to run an electronic locker up front and not an autolocker. I don't want to do a manual hub swab up front mainly because this is a daily driver. For the rear would a limited slip diff. suffice for daily driver duty, or should I go ahead and put a locker in there too so that I can lock both or one of them up when appropriate?
I don't plan on rock crawling or anything, but I would like to have the ability to get out of sticky situations easier by being able to spin all my wheels.
I have been searching for gear and diff. information to see what path I should take, and so far I have had no luck trying to find precisely what I am looking for information-wise. Any thought or direction to tech articles or threads that might be helpful would be appreciated. Thanks,
-Jason