J.Cole
Red Skull Member
Greetings everyone. I'm building my friends Toyota for him so i figured I would make thread to document it all. It's a 1980 Toyota Pickup 2wd with s stock 20r. He's had the truck for around 13 years or so now and always talked about building it into a crawler. He was able to buy a majority of the parts used as a package deal about a year and a half ago. After that all that was left to get was spring hangers, gears and lockers (axles came with welded 4.10s), axle rebuild kit, shocks, shock hoops, and shackles. This build isn't going to be anything super crazy. The goal is a clean, simple, classic Toyota crawler. The parts list is:
Toyota front axle, 5.29s w/ Detroit, 30 spline chromoly birfs, 6 shooters, trunnion bearing eliminator, ifs hub swap.
Front springs are Trail Gear 3.5" i think? They say Toyota 3500 on them
Toyota ifs width rear axle, 5.29s w/ spool, Trail Gear Longfield chromoly shafts, disc brake swap.
Chevy 63" rear leaf springs
Ruffstuff Chevy 63" spring swap kit
37" Maxxis Creepy Crawlers on 15" allied steel beadlocks
I got the truck pressure washed and into the shop a couple of weeks ago and last week i was able to get the rear suspension all tacked into place.
Toyota front axle, 5.29s w/ Detroit, 30 spline chromoly birfs, 6 shooters, trunnion bearing eliminator, ifs hub swap.
Front springs are Trail Gear 3.5" i think? They say Toyota 3500 on them
Toyota ifs width rear axle, 5.29s w/ spool, Trail Gear Longfield chromoly shafts, disc brake swap.
Chevy 63" rear leaf springs
Ruffstuff Chevy 63" spring swap kit
37" Maxxis Creepy Crawlers on 15" allied steel beadlocks
I got the truck pressure washed and into the shop a couple of weeks ago and last week i was able to get the rear suspension all tacked into place.
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