Recent content by deucemonkey

glass and rear clip

"new" doors & bad doors

Yes they are for an fj60. I don't want to ship them. If you want them you'll have to come get them. Two sets of doors and glass. One set of glass has defog. One set of doors have never been used/installed and has no internals. Other set is pretty beat up and rusted but has all internal parts...

The spring perch will also be 1/4 inch to wide as well. They will replace all the rear parts with the chevy conversion kit for no charge if they haven't shipped it yet.

Did you tell ruffstuff you're using chevy 63's on the rear. 63's are narrower than stock springs and will need different parts than what comes in the kit. They will put the parts you need in the kit if you let them know. Unless you're going to wheel it hard you probably won't be happy with the...

They have to have power and have to be "told" to deploy by the airbag computer. So you should be safe. But they could deploy during a car fire depending on the catalyst. Just stay away from yellow connectors or wiring.

I'd wire that up to a weather proof push button and hide it in my bumper for those unfortunate times when the keys get locked inside

Doesn't hurt to scan them and keep them in a file on your computer either

Get you large piece 1/4" rectangular tubing and build the rest out of scrap. I don't know how far you are from Minneapolis, there is a discount steel there. Down here in Texas they are selling "scrap" cold rolled for $.50/lb. I've bought "scrap" tubing as long as 8 feet and seen 5/16" plate as...

The more I look at it with that decal the more I like it.

you're right, pulled the 63's apart this morning. Off to get metal to duplicate it for the 62 springs

I would choose the one with the cleanest frame. Engine swaps are easy compared to a frame swap. Rust in the rear quarter usually shows after the underside rusts. + I'm guessing finding a good engine and parts would be easier to find than a clean frame to swap out.

You're right. I would hate for the spring pack to get loose because the rubber broke down. The spacers on the 63s appear to be some kind of plastic. I wonder if I could use thin gauge steel instead. Plastic is cheaper than steel so it makes sense that chevy would choose plastic. Would having...

I'm in the process of switching over to 63's in the rear. I'm considering adding spacers to the toyota springs like the spacers on the 63's. (figured it might help keep them from rusting in the center as well) Does it matter what material you use to create the spacers? I was going to experiment...

I was looking into this too. The bushings aren't touching inside the spring eye so theoretically grease could get on the pin. But the grease would just come out of the gap in the spring eye instead of greasing the pin. You'd have to put a sleeve in the eye so the grease could be forced around...