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will keep an eye on that ta, hopefully will see plenty of mud. with the solid axle swap and lift and 35s as well its going to feel really weird, but your right, seat time and get used to it. yeah will hopefully put those cheeky trees off from jumping out in front of me, the panel damaging #$&(%!...

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will do, but hopefully kept to a minimum with some plastic sheet. still, land is expensive and we'll never be able to afford our own farm so might need to collect some up to take home for free...

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Crash bandicoot wrote:that some serious mud collecting ability there

you mean in amongst the bars?

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Sorry don't know how to turn photo on my phone.

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sits up even higher without weight on

but will hopefully come down with everything added.

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handy having a tractor.

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catalystracing wrote:8) , looking good.

Cheers bro.

Got a whole weekend spent on rest of bar work and lifted it off. Got a heap of welding to do now.

Photos will have to be one at a time, for some reason all photos in one post show same.

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Crawlerer79 wrote:Do you mean the embedded video doesn't work and you had to use the link

presume the 'embedded videos' are supposed to be in the blank space above the youtube links, if so then nothing there. link to youtube works.

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looks like it was a good day, videos worked fine on youtube.

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looks cool, need some videos of it in action now.

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You did quite a good job

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I've got prado diff but custom mounts at other end which need to go up about 150mm, without measuring it.

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I wonder if the stock 80 series radius arms are longer than the prado ones, could be a cheap option. I'm not 'too' worried about the length, though a bit more would be good. its the angle they rise away from the diff end, keep standard angle at diff but lift chassis end up. do you know if 80 same s...

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Sausager wrote:Do they have to be one piece, or can they be fabricated?

all LVVTA have said is 'they must be as strong or stronger than current arms' so whatever is going to work. some of the manufacturers of these arms say one piece is stronger and welding is weak but they probably just want to sell theirs.

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went and had a look after reading ^^ and looked at drivers side and thought it might work but looked at passengers side and maybe not. the panhard might be in the way when the left wheel goes up, depends on how high the arm sticks up, but will look into it.

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No worries then My LJ71 had it behind but hilux/surf must have it in front yeah heaps of room. surf do up to 1995 (ifs), beam axle were only made 1984-86, and hilux to 1997 then its steering rack behind diff. (someone say if I'm wrong). but mine has prado/hilux diff, 80 series LC steering box and 7...

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Clint wrote:You probably can't angle the arms up very far on the diff like that without them hitting the steering tie rod that sits above them

tie rod is in front of the diff.

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yeah looking awesome, are you going to add tube to the winch bar or cut factory bumper up and fit around what you have made?

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if your going to the effort of custom arms wouldn't it make more sense to incorporate the castor into them than change diff brackets? yes, sorry obviously I wasn't very clear. if I go custom arms then that's what I would do. if I stick with the prado arms then I would change the brackets on diff. j...

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they said replacement arms have to be same strength or stronger than originals, and preferably longer.

also asked about reshaping the brackets that the factory arms bolt into to keep castor right if I keep using them and they happy.

something like that.

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Lchundy wrote:Do you want your truck road legal?

yes that's the plan.

Lchundy wrote:have a talk to your certifier about it first.

might have to, been on LVVTA forum asking but been nearly a year and still no answer.

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yeti wrote:read a old post from this chap ...... viewtopic.php?t=34458

just read it

, don't seem to get many threads like that nowadays. bit frowned upon I suppose.

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