They work fine with a single piece, just measure from centre of gearbox output nut to pinion flange nut and get driveshaft place to make one up. Driveshaft hoops are only required if power output of vehicle had increased. As for cert, i dont think its an issue. Early model hiluxs came factory with ...

Next to do was assemble the housing. All new bearings, seals, new rotors, pads, cvs, rebuilt axles, rebuilt calipers, new brass bushes. http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/oo73/crackrnz/DSC01342_zpsnjhgrevf.jpg all parts involved for the rebuild http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/oo73/crackrnz ...

So on the front housing I gusseted the balls with 16mm plate ( my profile gauge really helped out here), trussed the front of the housing with whats left of 75x100 box section and trussed up the 3rd link mount with 8mm plate http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/oo73/crackrnz/DSC01291_zps60ztmftq.jpg ...

Been a couple of years so i should post some more. V8 housing is all trussed and assembled. Made a jig at work to hold it true while i welded it. New bearings and solid spacers for the diffs, front being a high pinion toyota e-locker 4.11 ratio, rear being a v6 surf diff with a detroit locker ...

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I've got pto unit, brand new gears custom machined, fully rebuilt, new Morse cable from Nissan plus spare and levers, maybe two sets. Have pto shaft and brackets, May need bearings but I don't have a winch. Cheers Stephen

Are you still after a rolling donor truck?

If I remember the standard free height for a 1990 spring is around 525mm. Thats what im using in the front of my coiled hilux.

how much for the sump and oil pickup? cheers

If you get a set of springs out of a 1990 80 series they are taller than other year 80 series trucks. I picked up a couple of sets from the wreckers, they are 525mm tall.

yea when we got to it it looked like someone else had a stab at it,thea was a few logs stacked at the bottom and the drop was only just over a meter from ramp to river bed so a couple of drags of the land anchor and the was enough gravel to drive it Hey flexy, did you guys come from the clarke end ...

yea mate that was us,took 5-10minutes with land anchor and we could drive down and probly up again if u were to spend a little more time on it,we were in a hurry as we were towing a fully dead truck threw and it was getting dark and starting to rain but all in all the track was in pretty good nick ...

andrew007 wrote:nice build steve. have you heard about richards accident?
cheers andy

Hey Andy, I havent heard from Richard for a while, whats happened? Your truck going alright still?

For all those gurus out there, if my photos are sized in photbucket at 640 x 480, why are they up the shit when I have just posted them???

Cheers Stephen

Made some progress on the truck. In regard to the lower link placement being above the centreline, if the mounts are built with the extra stresses in mind it shouldnt be a problem. After all the unimogs, volvos and if someone had enough money for the marks adapters portal hub conversion, those axles ...

I usually work on the 75% of lower link equasion, however the Hilux I've just done the rear on only has 35mm difference. Pinion doesnt change angle at all, even when way past the travel the coilovers allow. I don't see any real need to get too hung up on those calculators, I just use them as a ...

im subscribed be interesting to see how it pans out for you i set my arms up at 75% best i could get them as i have some info of getting them between 50 and 80% took some thinking tho. what is you castor like? looks like your pinoin is quite steep. Yea it took some nutting out to get links that ...

Just as long as you are happy with the background and study you have done before you get major dollars and time invested. Not up to me to judge or comment, as long as you are happy with what you have done. Is it prehaps you have concerns about the top link being the same length as the lowers? I ...

Have you done any study at all on setting up a linked suspension set up {ie anti squat, IRC, COG or indeed any of the calc's that aid in setting your performance and handling? (google it) I had mentioned earlier that when the prado front end was under it I ran all the numbers through the 3 link ...

This is getting interesting as tom said "subscribed" Just a note I'd be looking at remounting the shock tabs? so you can move the bottom links further out at the axle..... this will give the truck more oversteer making it more predictable on road Cheers Reece Hey Reece, I have got the links pinched ...

This could get interesting. Subscribed Cheers Tom. Iv got a question for you, when you coiled Andys Hilux for him what was the reason behind adding the swaybar for passing cert? Is it a requirement for coiled vehicles or is it running soft coils so the swaybar aids in onroad handling? I have been ...

is that diff end mount of the control arm sittin low enough compared to the centreline of the diff housing to get enough seperation etc? Because of the tierod behind the axle and without going to hellfire knuckles and arms the lower links are about 1inch above the centreline of the diff. I wanted ...

Another pic showing the layout of the front suspension http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/oo73/crackrnz/P8150087.jpg An 80series front housing is probably more suited as it would give more width on the drivers side but it does work only just. The nut for the lower link only just clears the actuator ...

The links themselves are 40mmx20mm hollow bar with a surf trailing arm bush at the chassis end, with a chromoly 3/4x3/4 teflon lined heim at the diff end. The panhard haas a heim and misaligment spacers at the diff end also witha factory bush at the chassis end. The panhard, draglink and tierod are ...

The panhard mount is a factory V8 landcruiser one ex toyota nz. Looks the part and saves me having to make one. The big advantage is that compared to prado or 80series the panhard is a lot longer as it mounts outside the chassis rails rather than inboard. http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/oo73 ...

Another shot showing the position of the transfercase inbetween the link mounts and also show the greabox crossmember going above the upper link to the chassis. http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/oo73/crackrnz/P8150094.jpg When i originally mocked it all together i had the diff in the same spot as ...

Im using the prado auto and have to make up a custom crossmember to mount it all as the front links are nearly 1100mm long and the links and gearbox the all finish at the same point . Add the the mix the links are mounted inboard of the chassis Iv come up with this way of mounting it. It took 3 ...

Thought i should resurect this thread, been a few years with little progress The plan was to use prado diffs and thats how I mocked the front end up. Got custom springs made, sorted all the mounts out for the 3 link front end and was about to weld everything in, then was given a V8 Landcruiser front ...

hey Jase, any ideas if the hellfire knuckles and arms could be road legal in Nz if the arms supplied were the optioned ones for ball joints not heims? i take it your truck is going to be offroad only? any updates?

Yea Im slowly getting closer to fitting the motor in, have been working on the front suspension first, sorting out all the bits to coil it. Flag and myself went for a look on sunday morning and found they had created a skid site at the start of the Slippery track, before the Precipice track off ...