In the time I've known him he has had almost as many trucks as girlfriends and with each one he has talked about doing a build on it
Well he's finally committed to one... a truck that is, a gen1 surf
A gen 1 IFS surf body onto a solid axle chassis with a little De Ranged style
As for me I'm off with a broken back... again
Doctors told me to take a min of 6 weeks off... spent 2 of that driving a truck down Wellytown, spent a week at home... bugger that there is only so long I can do nothing and have you seen mid week afternoon telly 
I needed something to do... a nice easy convalescing project
Since I'm all good standing up or lying down (can be a struggle getting between the two at times tho) Nobber has had to come in to do the heavy lifting and the mechanical stuff that couldn't be lifted to the bench
Set up the chassis on some tall jack stands so I'm all good to engineer, went through the shed and picked out some bits for him (place is on the market so I'm getting rid of alot of stuff, just in case) found some fun bits that I had given up listing on TM, not for lack of interest just sick of dealing with muppet questions
The Original project lemon front diff
Built this yrs ago and ended up parting out almost everything else
Shaved n Braced
Diff head rotated
Diff mounting bolts replaced with M10 button head cap screws
Swivil balls rotated to 3.5degrees of caster
U bolt eliminators
Swopped it to him for a standard housing and a diff
Finished it off with a few bits from my stock a set of high steer arms and a couple of 80 series tie rods I shortened
The springs are rears up front with a drop X member and +75mm extended shackles
After a night on the piss (always a bad combination... enthusiasts, piss and a shed full of shit) I tried to convince him to throw away the tired old 2LT for a recon 5m I've got sitting outback even offered it to him at half what its cost me (he is a good mate) all keen on the night he starts to pull it out along with the dual gearbox's bolted on the back
Next day rings me up "arghhh na... stick with the diesel, but can we do a deal on the boxes "
so if anyone has a box for sale he owes me another one as part of the swop Here they are (I deliberatly moved the 2lt out of the shot as thats just too sad to have in the pic)
We are going to need some drive shafts so if anybody has some toyota DS's they want to part with drop me a line
I've still got to sort the rear X member (hopefully this arvo)
Here it is as it sits
Made up a pair of custom Koon springs from a good late model set and some of a mates spare leaves, had to drill a couple of the leaves to move the pins (this centers the axle
, the extra leaf is to limit axle wrap)Did something a wee bit different with the new spring hangers
I feel its better to weld up into the stronger load bearing sides, also easier for me to weld on as I had less welding when I'm bent over
Nobber had been complaining about the surf fuel tanks hanging down so I solved that
Fitted a rover car fuel tank in the back of the chassis and cleaned off the old fuel tank mounts
I'll get a pic of mounted before he takes it away to drop the body on
Shaved and braced the back axle, so it matched the front
There ya go son your build thread is started you need to post up the bits you've done at home
Cheers Reece
(remember not to add to much coke). Good work on the Surf but you still need to finish the Russian. With the rear brake bias valve are you manually adjusting as try and adjust to suit rather than using the weight distribution . Keep smiling,
