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Old 06-19-07, 09:14 AM   #48
beatdown83fj60
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I've had both IFS and solid axle trucks (many of them lol). Toyota has a good IFS system. I've also had two Tacos. I must say that when 180k miles comes on the clicker, my tacos needed a lot more front end work than my regular IFS pickups and 4runners did. The coils sagged, steeering rack ($$$$$$$$$$$$$$$) needed to be replaced, wheel bearings (dont try this at home!), and control arm bushings all needed to be replaced. The taco front wheel bearing is not something you do at home with a brass drift, a hammer, and a few sockets where the older torsion bar ifs was. And I don't think I ever needed to replace a torsion bar, they could hold the world up. That said in stock form I think an sa truck and ifs truck are equal. Where you may not break a cv on a stock sa truck you will break a j-arm if you are wheeling it hard enough to break a cv, and on an sa truck. Its all a tossup. I think as long as you don't throw a big gaudy bracket lift on an IFS truck it will do fine.


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