KidVermicious
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Seems dumb to post everything on Yotatech.
Come back to us! They don't love you like we love you.
Come back to us! They don't love you like we love you.
Liveoffroad's '84 build
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liveoffroad
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haha i'll still be on here plenty, ya'll will just have to prove your love by going to the other site to see my build updates 
liveoffroad
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here's a teaser from my latest adventure...
KidVermicious
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dat flex
liveoffroad
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got my sliders on, rollin to moab bright and early :cowboy:
sounds like a rap song
sounds like a rap song
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liveoffroad
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heres a couple for ya
KidVermicious
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Hey waitaminute, aren't you married? :twitch:
liveoffroad
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:hat: shoot i think so.....
Current progress: stretching the rear 2" and clocking the pinion
Current progress: stretching the rear 2" and clocking the pinion
liveoffroad
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got it all back together
KidVermicious
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See, I was gonna take the morning off, and then you gotta post pics of your truck running and wheeling gettin' dirty and shit and now I gotta go out to the cold garage and stare at wiring diagrams some more.
You suck.
You suck.
RiFF RaFF
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Oh come on Kevin. Man up, and getter done! (I say this while mine is still in the shop getting some major work done.....ARGH!)
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liveoffroad
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Kevin- wiring sucks just grab yourself a case of coors and don't leave the garage till that thing is breathing fire!
so my time has been divided lately... i bought a new toy.
and it has one of these:
so my time has been divided lately... i bought a new toy.
and it has one of these:
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KidVermicious
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Coors? Yuck. I forgot you're from West-Kansas-I-Mean-Colorado.
liveoffroad
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liveoffroad
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small update: new front axle and some bling
liveoffroad
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i've been getting bored with "that other site" so i'm gonna update this thread and hang out with you guys more. sound good?
lots happened, as you can see from the pic above. Built an axle: used TG's +3" shafts to make an IFS width axle, then used IFS hubs to gain an additional 3", but used stock offset wheels to bring the tires back in... its roughly the same width i was at before, but without wheel spacers and almost ZERO scrub radius...
Cut off all the mounts and tabs by the knuckle and saved them for later.
Tried the Harbor Freight pipe cutter and it broke after less than 5 minutes, so ended up using a cutoff wheel
Test Fit of the Mayem Metal Works 3" spacer (Widening a front axle the right way. - Pirate4x4.Com : 4x4 and Off-Road Forum)
Clearanced the bottom of the axle. Stole the idea from 4Crawler (4Crawler Offroad Products - High Clearance Kit for Toyota 8" Axles)
Made my own 1/4" slide plate
Before burning it in, i welded some nuts inside for the bottom stud holes, since they will be converted to bolts. This step was probably overkill, but i hate stripped threads!
then:welder:
Also burned in the spacer and ground everything smooth:
Short side knuckle ball welded back on. Set it at 9* of rotation from stock. I'll explain more later.
I cut a 3/16" grove to get a deep weld, then did a 2nd pass
then I moved on to the spring perch. Got it cut off (short side is a real pain since it sits on the side of the diff housing)
and then ground everything smooth:
Then prepped the new spring perches. I've been disappointed with many of the popular spring perches on the market since they sit so high off the axle. I really want to keep this thing as low as possible, so I went with rock-tactics low-profile perches. (New! Low Profile Spring Perches - Pirate4x4.Com : 4x4 and Off-Road Forum) They are cut very well, but require a little welding since they do a relief cut to get the low-pro design
took me a couple hours to get the short side perch in position. Even though i relocated the perch 1.5" toward the short side, I still ran into the same issue as above where the spring perch is mounted on an angle where it rides up on the diff housing. Because of this, i had to cut the perch a little to get it to set level, but all-in-all it wasn't too bad.
red line shows the stock location of the perch. Moved it 1.5" toward the knuckle to account for the spacer
I don't know how guys rotate the knuckles without relocating the spring perches, it would have been much harder if i had to put it back in the stock location since the closer you get to the diff, the housing flattens out on the front and the perch rides up on the diff housing, causing all kinds of crazy angle issues.
Here's how I set the pinion and caster angles: knuckles 9* more than stock, spring perch 6* more than stock (pinion angle). So the difference (3*) will be added to the caster angle. I only did 6* on the pinion angle so that i can run a hp someday if i stumble across one for less than a million dollars.
Side note, these spring perch's sit about 1/16" LOWER than the stock ones! (7/16" lower than the stock short-side perch since it sits 3/8" higher than the long-side one) highly recommend them.
lots happened, as you can see from the pic above. Built an axle: used TG's +3" shafts to make an IFS width axle, then used IFS hubs to gain an additional 3", but used stock offset wheels to bring the tires back in... its roughly the same width i was at before, but without wheel spacers and almost ZERO scrub radius...
Cut off all the mounts and tabs by the knuckle and saved them for later.
Tried the Harbor Freight pipe cutter and it broke after less than 5 minutes, so ended up using a cutoff wheel
Test Fit of the Mayem Metal Works 3" spacer (Widening a front axle the right way. - Pirate4x4.Com : 4x4 and Off-Road Forum)
Clearanced the bottom of the axle. Stole the idea from 4Crawler (4Crawler Offroad Products - High Clearance Kit for Toyota 8" Axles)
Made my own 1/4" slide plate
Before burning it in, i welded some nuts inside for the bottom stud holes, since they will be converted to bolts. This step was probably overkill, but i hate stripped threads!
then:welder:
Also burned in the spacer and ground everything smooth:
Short side knuckle ball welded back on. Set it at 9* of rotation from stock. I'll explain more later.
I cut a 3/16" grove to get a deep weld, then did a 2nd pass
then I moved on to the spring perch. Got it cut off (short side is a real pain since it sits on the side of the diff housing)
and then ground everything smooth:
Then prepped the new spring perches. I've been disappointed with many of the popular spring perches on the market since they sit so high off the axle. I really want to keep this thing as low as possible, so I went with rock-tactics low-profile perches. (New! Low Profile Spring Perches - Pirate4x4.Com : 4x4 and Off-Road Forum) They are cut very well, but require a little welding since they do a relief cut to get the low-pro design
took me a couple hours to get the short side perch in position. Even though i relocated the perch 1.5" toward the short side, I still ran into the same issue as above where the spring perch is mounted on an angle where it rides up on the diff housing. Because of this, i had to cut the perch a little to get it to set level, but all-in-all it wasn't too bad.
red line shows the stock location of the perch. Moved it 1.5" toward the knuckle to account for the spacer
I don't know how guys rotate the knuckles without relocating the spring perches, it would have been much harder if i had to put it back in the stock location since the closer you get to the diff, the housing flattens out on the front and the perch rides up on the diff housing, causing all kinds of crazy angle issues.
Here's how I set the pinion and caster angles: knuckles 9* more than stock, spring perch 6* more than stock (pinion angle). So the difference (3*) will be added to the caster angle. I only did 6* on the pinion angle so that i can run a hp someday if i stumble across one for less than a million dollars.
Side note, these spring perch's sit about 1/16" LOWER than the stock ones! (7/16" lower than the stock short-side perch since it sits 3/8" higher than the long-side one) highly recommend them.
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liveoffroad
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I got the DS knuckle rotated and put on the other spring perch.
Monday i finally got my order from TG so i could finish the axle. Armor time:
made my own long side truss from some 2x2x1/8" i had lying around. not pretty but it works. Its just tacked right now cuz i'm gonna put it on a jig and make sure its straight first
you can see in some of the pictures that i welded some short pieces of 1/8" x 2" angle to fill the gaps between the spring perch and the knuckle-gussets. It was one of those "why not" moments. every inch of this thing is trussed now haha
I also added a fill hole cuz i hate trying to fill these things from the front.
HIGH STEER from 4x4labs:
got the knuckles painted and installed and mocked up the highsteer. looks like everything will clear nicely. I really like the 4x4 labs setup.
I installed on only the top 2 leaves and jacked up the axle to where i estimate it will hit bumpstop, once the other leaves are installed. lots of room, shouldn't have any clearance issues
Tundra brakes:
FROR Taco brake conversion, and i'm running the larger style tundra brakes. here's a comparison of stock SA rotors and calipers vs. tundra:
I'm not too hard on brakes since i have the 5 speed but I figured since i hadn't dumped any money into my brake system yet, i might as well go for the best option out there. i've heard of people warping the taco rotors, so went straight to tundra. I'll be upgrading to a 1" bore master cylinder as well. hopping to test drive this thing tonight!
DONE! I think the "bling" on these wheels might be too much for me, but we'll see if it grows on me. What do you guys think?
Monday i finally got my order from TG so i could finish the axle. Armor time:
made my own long side truss from some 2x2x1/8" i had lying around. not pretty but it works. Its just tacked right now cuz i'm gonna put it on a jig and make sure its straight first
you can see in some of the pictures that i welded some short pieces of 1/8" x 2" angle to fill the gaps between the spring perch and the knuckle-gussets. It was one of those "why not" moments. every inch of this thing is trussed now haha
I also added a fill hole cuz i hate trying to fill these things from the front.
HIGH STEER from 4x4labs:
got the knuckles painted and installed and mocked up the highsteer. looks like everything will clear nicely. I really like the 4x4 labs setup.
I installed on only the top 2 leaves and jacked up the axle to where i estimate it will hit bumpstop, once the other leaves are installed. lots of room, shouldn't have any clearance issues
Tundra brakes:
FROR Taco brake conversion, and i'm running the larger style tundra brakes. here's a comparison of stock SA rotors and calipers vs. tundra:
I'm not too hard on brakes since i have the 5 speed but I figured since i hadn't dumped any money into my brake system yet, i might as well go for the best option out there. i've heard of people warping the taco rotors, so went straight to tundra. I'll be upgrading to a 1" bore master cylinder as well. hopping to test drive this thing tonight!
DONE! I think the "bling" on these wheels might be too much for me, but we'll see if it grows on me. What do you guys think?
