Grronk
Somewhat Retarded
Still waiting on parts, cleaned up the IFS axle and got the leaf perches and some armor welded on. Also painted it silver like all the cool kids are doing now a days
Looks good. Any plans to widen the front now?
Some real fun stuff happened, snapped a rear shaft and twisted the other pretty bad. Broken shaft ate into the 3rd member a bit, now im waiting on new parts. Instead of replacing the rear shafts I decided to go the easy way and just swap out the entire rear axle with a IFS Rear axle from a 1995 V6 4Runner.
Going to build up this V6 third and then keep the 4cyl one as a spare
Not sure if I ever commented on the other site or not.
I fucking love this truck. It's exactly what I think a Yota should be - not too huge or heavy, and somewhat simple. Once you get the axle beefed up it should hopefully stop breaking shit.
That biker has some balls letting you carry his bike out of there after watching you flop it twice
Going to throw in a spool and see how I like it with the hydro assist, after reading a bunch of threads on the other place it seem like there are two camps, one of people who run front spools and like them, and one of people who don't like them up front cause they cant turn sharp enough in the mall parking lot
I don't think I've ever seen a suck down winch on a leafsprung vehicle before. I can see it helping though. Nice job on the brake lines.
Yeah I was debating on if I would actually see any benefit from it before I did it or if it would be a waste of time. I did a bunch of reading up on it over on the old place and saw that Cary from GotPropane ran a suck down on his rig when he had leafs and said it helped, and that was all the confirmation I needed to try it for myself
I'll be curious to see how it works for you.
I've seen front suck-down winches for climbing, but not in the rear for descents. Cool idea. I hate going down steep shit so I absolutely understand the appeal.
I think the standard method for going down big ledges for rigs or buggies built up accordingly is to disengage the rear drive and drag only the rear brakes, that way if the rear does unload and try to come up you can just goose the throttle and bring it back down. That is all them fancy guys that have cutting brakes and t-cases that allow front digs. I am going to look into adding cutting brakes (or at least a hand brake for just the rear axle as I'm spooled) to mine once I get done with the rear 4-link. I think it'll be handy with the manual transmission over trying to use a hand throttle.
I'm with you there. As cool as it would be to swap in a D300+crawl box or an Atlas, sticking with Yota cases makes sense most of the time.
Have to watch out for those chinese transfer case bearings. Will get you every time.
Was the truck sporting a sombrero during some spirited driving?I also managed to finish off the trucks windshield with a tree branch over the weekend, final destination style for extra points