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Originally Posted by Pighead  It involves a fair amount of research and independent study. I'm not going to spoon-feed it to you.
Lil' John has offered up a smokin' deal.
You MIGHT be able to put your own package together locally and save two bucks.
But you won't find it easier. I can vouch for Lil'John and his good taste in parts. |
Thanks for the vote there Pighead
Minitruck swap is the same as FJ40/45/55/60/62 swap.
Dumbed down a ton:
- You strip your axle to the housing with a third member in it. Throw everything you pulled off away except for the inner axle shafts.
- Put the birfields from the axle you are stealing disk brakes onto your inner axle shafts.
- Bolt the rest of donor disk brake parts on... basically reverse of step one but with the donor parts
Here is a picture for step 2:
You keep 57 and 58 from your old axle and slam 54 from the donor rig.
Here is a picture of the rest of the parts that get replaced:
as well as:
FWIW, knuckle rebuild kits are around $75... wheel bearings are around $80 for both sides. Rotors are $50 each I think... and calipers are $50ish each not including core. Tie rod ends are like $25 each. That's new/rebuilt parts
