After going around in circles for a couple months getting ideas from lots of people, I'm going to go with a Toyota solid front axle in my FrankenWillys project
Cheers, - Jeff G
After going around in circles for a couple months getting ideas from lots of people, I'm going to go with a Toyota solid front axle in my FrankenWillys project
Cheers, - Jeff G
'85 and older on the pickup/4Runner axles.
'85s have more gusseting on the axle housing and have more strength in them. I think '84s are the same with '83 on back not having the gusseting. As an aside, why go with the 3.0? The 3.4 is more pony and better reliability. The intake and exhaust are swapped around, but with all the mods you are going to be doing anyway it won't make that much difference.
Chris whitewall junkie and variation dabbler Mfinja's Hot Wheels with Whitewalls
There are several sites around with information about what axles and gearing might be found in which trucks. I was doing some research on what truck to look for last night and ran across a number of them, and info on how to read the VIN codes. Here's one, and there are links to others from there.
Good Luck,
- Tom
85 sounds like what I'm looking for. I'm using the 3.0 because that's what came in the chassis that I got for next to nothing and it runs like a brand new engine. I also have a nearly complete spare 3.0 that I can scavenge parts from if I even need them. Otherwise I probably would go with a bigger engine, even though I'm yanking out the SBC V8 that's in there now because I don't like the weight of all that cast iron.
- JG
Actually the '83s (and maybe a few years before) have half lengh bottom gussets that stop just shy of the u-bolts, '79 and '80 (maybe '81) have no bottom gissets. Now folks are going after the early axles and adding a top of the tube gusset:
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