I had the same issue you had when I bought my 99. Top off=spilling all over the ground. Smell of gas every time you stopped an parked. Turned out when the mechanic looked at it the return line was not connected. Just a simple fix for me.
steering shaft to an older style steering box or are you going to try to just adapt your setup? I went to Allpro and got their Borgeson Steering shaft, firewell plate. I ended getting as many pre-made kit parts for my old tacoma and the process went together pretty smooth.
Wheel seal issue??
anyone know of a good DIY writeup?
Does this take a special tool?
Just changed the fluid so I'm thinking with all the fluid in the rear end is the reason i'm seeing this now
if the cv wasn't seated the diff would leak fluid, looks clean to me. cv will spin free or should.
you can drain the front diff and if chunks come out your problem is there but mine had a roar not a rattle for that.
Here are some pics of this wrench-a-thon. Seems we are going to have to stage a valve cover replacement party in Atlanta soon.
Last pic I wanted to emphasize the tubes on top of the diff for a ADD setup, what a nighmare
I was hoping it was a crappy station so I went to a new one and same result, seems to poor off the top of the tank and the filler is on the back on a incline. I only say this because the gas falls down before the rear tire.