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[The WEHI]

Change of plan's Looking for advice from people
that have built/owned Crawler style Surf/hilux's

To help me make my bloody mind up.

First Plan was 60series front axle with ifs hubs,Gq safari rear
Dual Transfers with 4.7's in the rear case 3 link front and rear,

Plan Two toyota 8 inch rear(ln130/185/kzj90) hilux front with ifs hubs
4.8's Dual Transfers standard gears RUF and 3 link rear (maybe 3link front)

Both options will be locked front and rear,

Ideas,advice,opinions Wellcome

Cheers Jordan,

[The WEHI]

will be running 37's

[Crash bandicoot]

thought about portal axles?

[derk]

Plan Two toyota 8 inch rear(ln130/185/kzj90) hilux front with ifs hubs
4.8's Dual Transfers standard gears RUF and 3 link rear (maybe 3link front)

will be running 37's

Both options will be locked front and rear,

Ideas,advice,opinions Wellcome

Cheers Jordan,

will be ripping the teeth off a few crownwheels with that combination

don't forget to add some longfield supersets or cromoloys to the wishlist

[rokhound]

run an auto and change the gear ratios to 4.56 max.
The pinion's are too weak on the lower ratio diffs. This is compounded by the ability to clutch dump with a manual.
As stated above, biff 30 spline super sets at the front (and possibly chromos at the rear) axle. Make the driveshaft the weak link, these are easy to get out and repair/weld up when you are out on the rocks.

[Jafa]

Nah forget that auto shite!
4.88's are plenty strong enough, Ive not broken one yet, just build, or get them built properly as per Zuk's site http://www.gearintalls.com
Ive broken a trick 30 spline rear axle, never an r&p, whilst thrashing it on 40's.
Definitely need to put some RCV's in the front,
http://www.rcvperformance.com/categories.aspx?catID=RCVP_TOYOTA_CV_AXLES
These are the people who made the old Longfields before Bobby died and TG bought them out.
Honestly for NZ conditions, I don't know if duals are worth it, 4.7's in one box is all you need I reakon, we do fawk all rock crawling here, I'd use low-low more times sticking the Jalopy on the trailer than out in the bush, that said, it is cool when you need it lol.
Build it lightweight, don't stick millions of horsepower through it and the Toyota drivetrain will be fine.
my 2c

[turoa]

IMO, go patrol axles front and rear. No stupid steering to rip off like on toyota knuckles, bulletproof diffs, strong housings and cheap as. LSD's are cam loaded so work extremely well. Not as good as having lockers but you can add them later easily enough.

Makes it a very cheap and nice, wide axles, and still stronger than if you went out and spent thousands on the piddly little toyota diffs.

In terms of transfercases, to be honest there is very little point to them apart from wank factor. Having had a set of duals, I was always happy with standard low range and used double low for shits and giggles. The next truck I built went to an auto and a single case for ease and packaging.

[The WEHI]

Cheers for the advice and opinions so far guys it really isnt helpfull just giving me more ideas and further away from making my mind up Cheers Fellas

Keep em coming you balls bags have some ideas and the
experience to back them up which is more what im after
rather then someone at some point wrote something on google
thats sounds good on paper but shit on the trails

this truck will not be road legal,

Cheers jordan

[yeti]

http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/ ... 17&t=39854


buy tims ..... there sorted

[The WEHI]

Ive considered it if it had a dirty diesel in it id consider it more but the urge to build is to strong