I got it home pulled it in the garage and started working on it, I literally only did a mile long test drive before I tore it apart! There was some stuff I needed to swap before I sold the truck, and I wanted to get the major tune up stuff done too while I had another truck to drive. First up was to swap the rear third and front diff. I had 4.56 gears and a front ARB locker in the Taco. They got pulled and swapped for the 4.30 gears that came in the Runner.




The rear was a direct swap, the front I had to swap the actuator's out as the taco was electronic controlled, and the Runner is Vacuum controlled.


I also went ahead and installed some new axle seals in the back (they weren't leaking) and installed a set of ADD shafts I had rebuilt a while back as trail spares. They were Green label shafts from a Taco. I had them and knew that the ones on the Runner would probably just start leaking the minute the lift went on anyway.

Some of the other stuff I kept, to give you an idea of where this build is going:
-8" HID KC lights
-Hot water shower heat exchanger
-2 Meter Radio
-Donahoe (Icon) front Coilovers
-Camburg upper Control Arms
-Puma Compressor for locker control and OBA
-and of course this guy..... It'll get fully gone through and installed sometime down the road. Marlin 4.7 "Taco Box".