Given the trauma that housing has seen. It may be wide to rig up a line-bore setup to make sure it's not bent. Hopefully it's just a crack that they welded.
Your perches also have some non-original something going on.
Can't quite tell if it has some taper to it and was used as a ship or just...
It does take a toll on all of the mentioned parts. So do larger tires, so does the weight from bumpers, winches roof racks, etc. Everything we do to an original Cruiser is a generally speaking a compromise. While the Lock-Right will reduce life of some components, I don't think it's accurate to...
I was 5? years into my Land Cruiser journey before I first owned a locking differential (ARB's, still have them in the same FJ40 22 years later) BUT had I know how inexpensive Lock-Rights were and how easy they could be installed, I would have rocked them F/R in my FJ40 right off the bat. Tires...
Likewise. I've got local customers (many Mud members) that have installed LockRights in various Land Cruisers they've owned over decades of use. If it's a daily driver and your hundreds of miles from legit off-road terrain, yeah it may not make a ton of sense but for a weekend wheeler that...
But it's missing the park-brake pivot bracket and doesn't appear cut-off so I suspect it the variant that uses the late model brakes without the integral PB.
The bracket on the diff cover is odd but it seems that is common. I think I see it on the FJ45 at the museum that has t-case mounted...
Swaybar mounts, interesting. It's missing the park brake cable pivot bracket. Could have come from a 45/47 with the sway bar, non-LSPV and a t-case integrated park brake.
Oh, neglected to answer your original question!
Wheel studs...
Shouldn't limit a disc brake setup. Before you clean-up and paint that housing. I'd measure the WMS-WMS and spring perches, verify you're good to go with a 4x FF housing.
That is quite the interesting combination you received. All in all, Full-Floats are hard to source. Gone are the days where we could run down to Marv's and get a truck bed full of them (did that several times in the early 2000's). Ironically I'm working on a long-term project to bring a...
I'm curious about that too. The 9.5" is up to KOH, Baja, Dakar and many other competitive events. It's proven quite a robust differential. Sure there are stringer axle assemblies out there, but it's eliminated the weak-link SF that many have suffered with in heavy use applications.