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A friend of mine has a project going on at the moment and he has diffs which he knows only a little about. The only thing he knows is that they're cruiser diffs.

If anyone can ID these, then I can get onto looking for brakes for him. Photos are of front and rear diffs, and he has cut mounts, etc off them and out others on there, but I'm sure someone here will still know!

Cheers

Those photos haven't come out quite right. What size should I be posting them?

Judging by the photo of the brake hose, it looks like an early Land cruiser, 11mm pipe nuts.

can you give us a pic of the cast housing the diff head resides in, the casting pattern will be more of a clue then the axle tubes.

I've updated the photos so they appear properly. I can get photos of the diff head housing next week

They are 80-84 FJ40 housings, fully floater in the rear use to have handbrake on the diff but has been removed. Front diff has been converted to disc brakes using early hilux gear. You can tell by the brake hose and backing plate setup. But the diff heads are out of a later model cruiser. The rear head looks like an 80 series one with the different shape pinion flange and and the stronger finned housing. The front head looks like a 70 series.

ClassicCruiserSpares wrote:They are 80-84 FJ40 housings, fully floater in the rear use to have handbrake on the diff but has been removed. Front diff has been converted to disc brakes using early hilux gear. You can tell by the brake hose and backing plate setup. But the diff heads are out of a later model cruiser. The rear head looks like an 80 series one with the different shape pinion flange and and the stronger finned housing. The front head looks like a 70 series.

Epic response!

ClassicCruiserSpares wrote:They are 80-84 FJ40 housings, fully floater in the rear use to have handbrake on the diff but has been removed. Front diff has been converted to disc brakes using early hilux gear. You can tell by the brake hose and backing plate setup. But the diff heads are out of a later model cruiser. The rear head looks like an 80 series one with the different shape pinion flange and and the stronger finned housing. The front head looks like a 70 series.

Blow me down! You're a legend! Thanks mate.

So I'm looking for early hilux calipers? Any clues on year? And I presume the FJ40s had drums on the back. So if he wants to run rear brakes, what disc setup fits nicely?

The rotor that goes with that early backing plate is a 13mm solid rotor and they came out 79-88 hilux then changed to the later 20mm vented rotor after 88. Both calipers look similar but the gap were the rotor sits is different. Have you got solid rotors?
Yea they were drums on the back but can be changed to discs easily using Subaru front calipers or mr2 calipers, both those options have handbrake mechanism's on them. They also use the hilux solid front rotors on the back but they do need very minor machining.