Found a solid axle toyota completly by accident

[Cory_Thibeau]

hey guys
My parents recently bought a house and piece of land out in the country and i was up over the weekend and my dad took me back a road in behind the house to an old mini campground i guess. (on their property)
There were a bunch of old 80s style abandoned campers and then i looked over in the bushes and i saw a toyota badge.
there is an abandoned solid axle toyota truck. looks like (to me) an 85 or so. the back is a flat back so i cant tell if its a pickup or 4runner.
phone was dead so i didnt get pictures but ill post when i do.

anyway, reason this is in 3rd gen. i have a 1996 4runner 4x4...shot in the dark, might the axle work for mine?

 

[RichardLillard1]

The differential will be on the wrong side. 80's mini trucks were on the passenger and ours go out to the driver side.

 

[SR5Runner97]

SAS swaps for our runners can reach 10k easily. a 500$ axle won't make or break the SAS decision.

 

[xcmtb83]

If you didn't look close enough to determine if it was a truck or a 4Runner how do you know if it even has a front axle?

 

[Cory_Thibeau]

If you didn't look close enough to determine if it was a truck or a 4Runner how do you know if it even has a front axle?

haha. ill get pictures of it and maybe you'll understand. its almost unrecognizable.
i did not realize how expensive it was to SAS but i never really looked into it. guess that wont be happening lol.

maybe ill see if i can get it running and make it a woods buggy

 

[KidVermicious]

The differential will be on the wrong side. 80's mini trucks were on the passenger and ours go out to the driver side.

There's things you can do to address that. T100s with the 3.4 had passenger drop tcases because they still had the old style 7.5" IFS in front. The A340 and R150 transmissions that came behind 3VZE motors also have passenger drop tcases. And then there's various adapters and such from Inchworm and Marlin that let you use a passenger drop gear-drive tcase, and that gets you into doubler and 4.7 tcase options, and if you're going to SAS you really ought to think about gearing way down anyway.

Lots of guys think you have to rock a Waggy 44 or other drivers drop in order to SAS. It's true that a 44 is easy to SAS with, but it's got it's drawbacks too, and you don't HAVE to use it. Lots of options out there.

 

[T4R2014]

Have you ever done a solid axle conversion? It is not a simple bolt-on affair. I would not consider it to be cheap either. You should think about whether or not you really need a solid axle up front as well. One wrong mistake and your 4Runner can end up being a hacked up mess. Once you cut out that IFS there is no going back.