Hi Guys
I'm Faith, Andrews wife.
I've been blown away by the comments from this forum. Andrew is, or rather was, a very quiet chap. He kept to himself a lot and few people knew him very well. I knew he was helping folk out with your conversions, but didn't realise how many. It does explain the...
I used 16mm bolts, but turned them down to 15 where the bushes run on them. A wee bit hard getting the thread through the bush but has worked well for several years...
Anything light - white grease works as does engine oil.
Pull the inner, lube it, wipe it almost all off so there's only a very thin film left and you're done.
I made my own - see the ROTW link.
I put an extra 4" into it and that's really only just long enough.
Owners of 'stock' 45 cabs can chime in but I recall having seen lots of listings about problems with head room, leg room etc in the std cab because Toyota made it just a bit too short...
As most wear is on the end of the gears and the end plate/housing, you can get the gears, housing, end plate machined at resolve a lot of the wear issues.
I've swapped end plates over between older and lewer pumps OK - but it's also easy to gently trim the baffles to suit the later type...
80 series front has the smaller crown wheel, reverse cut, hi-pinion from memory and these can often break especially under high reversing load.
Out here - for serious off road work, they get re-engineered with a full size rear crown wheel and pinion - but it involves some rework to the...
On my 40 I've found that propane gives around 90% mileage compared to petrol. Since I've increased the compression to use it better they run about equal.
And I've never had heat issues.
I've also run a number of vehicles on CNG but it does have a much poorer milage ratio to petrol.
A...
SOLD.
Health reasons force me to sell Gertrude. All deatails in my ROTW thread. I'm looking for around NZ$13500 (currently around US$8000)
Don't know about shipping but there seem to be a lot coming in from Australia at present so it could be a viable option for someone who wants a...
I like Precision. Very happy with them.
I used to get Yukon from Randy's until they sent me some lo grade Chinese gears instead (without telling me) and wouldnt refund.
I wouldnt fit 5:29 personally - seen too many broken because the pinion gets too big. sure someone else will fill in...
With a front extension, depending on flex and tyre size you may have clearance issues with the lips on the front on the front fenders - and also problems with the tyres ripping up the wiring into the front indicators. But I didnt find this until I went to 35s from memory - but it might have...
You can probably go about 1" forward before you have steering problems.
Rear is easy to check - undo the rear U bolts and move the diff back and see when the guards get in the way.
Why do you want to extend?
If you do a 2" lift and a 1" extension you'll need to get longer driveshafts - BTDT.
You'd need to change the pinion angle a lot to move the calipers that much.
If you are changing angle that much, change the caliper to the front of the axle - you can do that with the conversion you've got - and they'll go up.
And run some steel castor wedges.
Much easier as all bolt...
I've (on other vehicles) used a marine product which was exceptional. About 1" thick, foam, super high density plastic, more foam and foil.
No heat got through and noise drop was incredible as well.
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