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Originally Posted by MStudt
I like this, but if it were true you won't be asking.
I think pictures would help more than anything. Pictures of the spindles, steering rack, LCA's in place, and UCA's. If you have a custom spindle it had to have come from a 4th Gen 4runner or be 100% custom from the ground up. Obviously, the 4th Gen LCA will mount to the spindle in a different pattern than the 3rd Gen. The steering on a 4th Gen spindle is also in front of the suspension as opposed to behind like the 3rd Gen. That would mean you have a hybrid of sorts between a 4th/3rd Gen. Or, you have a 4th Gen steering rack that you somehow mounted in a 3rd Gen. UCA's are also going to be different, and so are the upper ball joints.
Just did some T4R stalking. Are you also running the JBA 4th Gen UCA's you bought from the forum? If so you have 4th Gen LCA's, 4th Gen UCA's, and custom spindles. With no mention of a 4th Gen steering rack, I'll assume you have a 3rd Gen still. I'm betting you have done a lot more than what you're posting. Did you change the UCA mounts at all? Did you change the LCA mounts at all? What steering rack? Whose spindles? What CV's are you using?
Mike
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That's some mighty fine detective work you did there Mike. And just to put it out there "cuz I can" does not mean "cuz I can do it without any help whatsoever." I'm handy with a welder and know how to turn wrenches but I am definitely not an engineer nor do I have the combined hundreds of years of experience that this community has.
I guess I'll describe this build in a little more detail and start from the top down... you are correct about the uca's. Surprisingly they were fairly easy to mount, I had to add a couple of washers to each side of the inside of the uca to make up for the wider width.
The spindles are a custom blend of 4th and 3rd gen spindles to accommodate the uca mount, lca mount and tie rod mount. I did my absolute best to not make them any longer than the original 3rd gen spindles and to keep the tie rod mount location as close to it's original location as possible, which I'll admit isn't exactly close to where it used to be.
The steering rack is the original 3rd gen rack in its original location, which made mounting the lca's quite a p.i.t.a. Due to the wider width of the lca mounts I had to cut off the original mount locations and relocate them. Because the rack is in the same location that meant sending the front mount location about 2.5" forward from where the 3rd gen lca mount used to be.
I'll definitely take some pictures and load them up at some point today to give you guys a better idea of that mess that I just explained. I should also mention that after turning the tires on the ground and them become not parallel with each other, and I jack it back up, the wheels return to being very close to parallel again.
Any help and ideas you guys have is greatly appreciated and welcomed!