Recent content by jacksonp

Thanks for bringing that up. I honestly hadn’t considered the built-in steering geometry as a possible contributor, so I went back and looked into it. Toyota shows about 1° positive camber and roughly 9°30′ steering-axis inclination, so the trunnion/kingpin axis is intentionally tilted. From...

Thanks, that’s really helpful. “More sensed than felt” is actually a pretty good description of what I’m experiencing. Everything is well greased, the races are fully seated, and I’m working on getting the preload dialed in now. I mainly wanted to make sure I wasn’t ignoring something just...

Haha, fair enough. I get in my own head too much and those words are exactly what I need to hear sometimes. Thank you for responding

I’m rebuilding the front knuckles on my ‘73 FJ40 and wanted to see if anyone else has experienced this. I installed new Koyo trunnion bearings and races and packed the bearings thoroughly with a bearing packer. Everything is clean and the races are fully seated. I’m setting the preload with a...

Do you mind showing some pics of what it all ended up looking like? What unit you used and are you happy with it? Your install just looks so clean and like it could’ve been designed that way!

You are correct my fellow mathematician! I've called every "custom" and body shop around here and no one wants to even look at it with the exception of two that I finally got a hold of this week. Going to drive it over to them and get a feel for what they are capable of.

In my instance, it’s when one frame rail is ahead or behind the other. When you measure two set points diagonally on opposite sides they should equal the same and mine don’t. If all were equal it would be “square” but because they don’t equal the same, even though not visible, it creates a...

Does anyone know of a "craftsman" who can help correct a '73 FJ40 diamonded frame around the panhandle of Florida?