RE-GEAR FAIL!! || The Yota Guy Discovers What Happened With My Improperly Installed Front Gears
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Two years ago I upgraded to 4.88 Nitro gears with my Toyota Tacoma. They were not installed in a reputable shop nor under warrantied work. Right away, I noticed a soft "murring" noise when in four wheel drive, but only when coasting or decelerating. When I asked about it I was told, "The gears just need to broken in."
Over the next year, that "murr" noise continued to grow louder and more apparent. To the point that I did not dare drive in four wheel drive. That's when I had Geoffrey Beers - The Yota Guy - take a look. He immediately discovered a very loose pinion flange with tons of free-play. A rebuild was definitely mandatory. In this video we discover the extent of the damage from improper installation.
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Inexcusable! I've been in the auto repair industry for a few decades now. This was laziness, negligence, flat out "zero F's given" (or some combination of all three).
I'm sorry this happened to you. People like this are what gives my industry a bad name. Hopefully karma catches up with them. Bud glad to see you're back on the road, and better off that before. I can only imagine how much quieter and smoother it runs.
dare we ask who did the original install of those new gears? Would help some of us avoid a similar issue. At least tell us what state the original work was done in
I work for toyota for over 30 years ine thing a lot of tech don't do is to check preload on input shaft after assembly by using a brass punch and tapping in both side of the shaft and them measure preload I have never have a failure using this method
Thanks for the video. Ouchie on the poor carrier 18:05, good thing you brought it to a very knowledgeable tech.
Haha I was watching him point at the ring gear waiting for him to point to the chew marks on the carrier.
And this is often why I hate leaving it to the professionals... because when it goes wrong, you have no idea what they did or did not do... When you F' it up yourself, you normally know where you F'd it up!
You can see why this install failed at 7:32. The pinion seal must be driven back well past flush with the end of the housing as it was done here.
The pinion gear was drifting forward and back and that's the reason the carrier was all chewed up.
Would love to see a parts replaced list. This one mistake caused xx parts to be replaced and cost ??
Did the customer have an solid spacer to replace the crush sleeve or does the front diff not use a crush sleeve?
This is very helpful. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for sharing. Any gear howling/whine sounds after the install?
My front pinion has the same issue I'm hoping I can get away with just doing some new pinions bearings and keep the same gears atleast until I have more money
I was counting, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7.... and he finaly saw it. Ha Ha
Toyota front clamshell differential is harder to setup and very different front the rear, I believe few technicians know how to setup it properly, that's why you see so many has problem switch gears in the front because they were setup incorrectly! And the technican will blame it on Nitro gears instead of their incapability
That's why I charge the big bucks for front clams👍👍👍....... special knowledge and special tools that had to be fabbed up.
at 13:01... that is the inner race bearing.... lost that bearing!!! Hard to keep them intact!!!
You don’t mind me asking, how did you install the new bearing race on the pinion heat it up?
Right off the bat that's bs... only my pinion bearing is bad...
Do u reuse the shim for the pinon gear to bearing from the old one or eliminate it?
what a nightmare, you truthfully cannot trust anyone but yourself now a days. I've had to elarn how to do everything myself, if I can't do it then it won't be done.
I imagine the first installer used a shitty bearing puller, jacked up the bearings, and then reused them. If it was a incorrect set up the ring gear would be so sharp you can't touch them and the bearings would not be clunky. But who know for sure.
Get a wheel cylinder horn wear the old bearings insides and used for
shims setting preload preload
9:50 Damn! That looks a lot worse than the noise I was imagining! Yikes!
Popping Pimple UA-cam < Pulling Ear Wax UA-cam < Repairing Differential Housings UA-cam
Did he need to replace the carrier? Was it still structurally sound?
Carrier was still useable.
Could do without the music but good video.
Thanks for the feedback.
what a waste, death by editing. unwatchable with audio so out of sync.
It's this guy knows what hes doing.....no..
The music isn't bad, but it's too loud
Thanks for the feedback.
Great video, but the music sucks.
Noted. 🤙🏻
100/1000 finer than hair? You have thick hair! 125/1000 = 1/8...
Onley a clueless novice would put together a R&P without the proper preload on the bearings.
I wish the guy didn't explain what he was doing every 39 seconds, video could have been half the length with all the same good info.
Thanks for the feedback. We wanted to create an educational video explaining in detail what was going on and what things to look for in case someone had a similar issue.
@@BadassBrunette ignore this clown named rick. Where’s the rest of the video!! Thanks for posting