14bolt in Fj40 Project

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After years of broken semi ad FF Toyota axles along with broken hub studs it was time to put a 1ton in my over weight 40.
I started with a WFO housing generously provided by cruiser Drew.
This axle was modified by pulling the long drivers side tube and cutting it to the length of the short side. The housing now takes two short side SWR axles.
Who say a 14bolt cant fit in a mini.

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I did not want to keep the ridiculously heavy drum brakes.
I also wasn't happy with the GM front brake bracket weld on kits because the did not have a E brake provision.
I was able to locate some drum Ebrake, caliper brackets from a late model (2002) dodge D60 rear axle.
This was going to require some kind of adapter .

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Some considerations

So one change that came up was that a 14 bolt cut for two short sides has a 4.5 inch offset. a stock cruiser is closer two 6-7 inch offset.
This meant I was moving the drive line to the drivers side and modifying the tranny hump for the shifter.

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Cool. Subscribing.

14b in a mini. I was surprised too. I thought you meant a mini-truck.
 
Finaly done

The adapters are finally done. Start out with 20lb of metal and up with 5lb I will never do that again. There has to be a better way.

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One more tweek

The two inch blocks still were an 1/8 of inch short so I had to add some squares that were cut out of the old backing plates and welded on to add to the thickness.
The late model brakes used the same caliper/backing plate bracket for both sides and just flipped upside down to allow the calipers to end up on the same location. This did make for some interesting e brake cable routing.
I also added some small spacers for the Dodge Calipers so they line up with the GM rotors.

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Some notes about the GM hubs

I was working with pre 83 GM hubs that were considerably larger then newer style hubs that live under the Late model GM rotors.
This required Machining down the diameter of the hub and reducing the over all thickness of the hub to fit under the rotors brake drum.
I also had to reduce the outside diameter of the seal area of the hub
so that they would fit inside the Dodge brackets.
Not big deal but all could have been avoided if I had some late model hubs.
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Some part numbers

GM rotor 2002 silverado 2500 (OReily's 56828RGS)
Dodge rear caliper left Wagner (Oreily's TQM25862)
Dodge rear caliper right Wagner (Oreily's TQM25863)
 
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