Recent content by Alexsupertramp

Howdy all, wondering what's up with nuts and bolts on my Aisin flanges. I have been rebuilding the birfs on my 1981 FJ43, and the job is complete...but I destroyed several nuts and washers torquing them down to spec - ~23ft lbs. I went back to the manual, and it shows a range of 18.1 to 25.3...

Birf back in the knuckle...or so it seems. It looks into position, but it travels...all the way...should the diff stop it from rotating?

Not the arms, the hub assembly that mounts to the rotor, where the hub flange mounts on top. Nonetheless, yeah, I bought this from a dealer who seemed to know a lot about the resto...and it certainly looked good everywhere else

awesome! Found them at MarlinCrawler.com. Thanks for the note. Related to this, I'm replacing stuff that was obviously damaged - threads to the spindle, the flange especially, the 54mm nuts within the hub. The splines on the CV took a little scoring...but I'm kind of on the fence on whether to...

rebuilding the left front knuckle on my FJ43. Restorers didn't include cone washers on hub assembly, and that caused things to fall apart while driving. So, on that, I can't seem to find a replacement kit for those smaller bolts and cone washers (I can find the larger ones that go on the arm up...

that was great! I didn't expect that many folks would show. Trying to plan for the trail ride now in Feb.

I’d be up for this!

Hey all, new to all this, but would like to see about making this trail ride if you’re up for bringing on another member.

1. 97 2. Al 3. Phaedrus 4. 206K 5. front bumper/winch, remote starter...more planned 6. part time driver in DC area...looking to explore WV 7.