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I am sick of breaking cv's, what is involved and what is the cheapest way to do this i want to put a solid front axle in.

kyle1234 wrote:what is the cheapest way

There isnt one. Id start by first searching the interwebs because there are a thousand build threads on it.

Then after that Id look at what axles you want to use. A vitara has a 57.5"wms. Samurais are 52.5 so that rules that option out as they are too narrow. This leaves two options. Building a wider samurai housing (which requires new axles, new axle tubes alignment bars etc etc) or move onto another brand. This now means that you have to also swap the backend. A hilux housing is 55.5" wms which is still narrower than a standard zuk, so it requires an IFS hub swap in order to gain the required width. After you've sorted the front end out, a rear axle swap is now on the cards due to varying ratios and stud patterns between zuks and hiluxes. This requires alot of cutting shit, grinding shit, drilling shit and finally welding shit.After that shit is done its time to move onto small things like brakelines, drifeshafts, springs shocks and more expensive shit.

After the axle swap is done its time to buy new wheels and tyres as the existing ones will be way too small and wrong stud pattern. This requires another 2k or so. And after that you'll probably break hilux cv's again so factor in another $1500 for longfields.

At the end of the day, I would not expect it to be any cheaper than atleast 10k if not more, and that can buy you a whole lotts zuk cv's

Jeeeeeesus, that Chch air agrees with you dosen't it !!!!!

That's so well put

The cheapest way is to get off the gas and fit a lockright to the rear

turoa wrote:

kyle1234 wrote:what is the cheapest way

Well said Tu's, One of the cheapest ways is to sell it and buy something else, or the cheapest way is to use less throttle.

Dr_PC wrote:

turoa wrote:

kyle1234 wrote:what is the cheapest way

Well said Tu's, One of the cheapest ways is to sell it and buy something else, or the cheapest way is to use less throttle.

This is why I got rid of my Escudo and went back to the Samurai, sick of breakin diffs and cv's

Talk to Mike at winch.co.nz. He wich challenges a turboed 1600 Vit and after trashing a few CVs has found a mod that seems to be helping. Unless you have the skills to SAS it yourself, the advice above about selling is on the money

have a look at my thread in the projects in the next few weeks

Could fit a toyota ifs front (cut off the chassis and weld it in or modify the bracketry for the ifs stuff - the toyota ifs diff fits believe it or not). Do a search online for it.

vitara v8 powered solid front axle

very cool coxsy

any more info on it? ie what motor trans has been used?

when i catch up with the owner again i will ask for more info, but thought i'd throw it up here to show it can be done, but its not a road legal truck

mine will be sas'ed in a couple of weeks

when the v6 holden shits itself i will be puttin an injected 304 inits place

I put a v6 diff in my escudo just had to change the crownwheel and pinion so
the ratio was still the same. I found i was snapping the short side spine off in the diff and as soon as i put the new diff in no issues ever again even with 32" simexs and welded front diff.