Builds 2018 GCC Spec 79 Series 1HD-FTE + H152 - The Camel (6 Viewers)

[SNLC]

So John wants the radius arms black, they come silver powder coated from Superior. We scuffed them with 320g and sprayed with our chassis black at the end of today.

Few other items we needed to hit with the chassis black too.

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[mt72]

That's a clean built wow radius arms full black!!! damm

 

[SNLC]

This is one sexy hunk of Toyota iron.

front axle is slung

Fresh rear backing plates.

Other things happening as well like a load of parts out for powder coat.

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[jomelo]

That’s hot.

 

[SNLC]

HZJ105 3rd member fitted to the 80-series rear housing. Still need to swap out nuts/washers for new, studs are all new.

Test fitted 105 rear axle shafts, all good.

So the HZJ105 3rd member required a little work to fit in the 80-series housing. The only reason being that the 105 axle shafts are bigger diameter (and or finer spline) which in turn means the drive slug for the elocker that slips through the notch in the housing on the RHS of the flange is bigger. It would not clear without some metal removal around the notch on the housing, once clearanced it dropped right in. So there is a difference between the 80 and 105 rear FF housing.

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[SNLC]

80 elocked vs 105 elocked short side long spline shafts

105 shaft diameter.

80 shaft diameter

80 vs 105 flange

80 is 30-spline, 105 is 32-spline. Additional benefit, 80 short side elocked axle shaft is NLA, 105 is not.

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[rick_d]

Ian. The studs are 10mm on 105 vs 8mm on 80. Also hub is wider in late model. I don’t have a good solution

 

[SNLC]

Ian. The studs are 10mm on 105 vs 8mm on 80. Also hub is wider in late model. I don’t have a good solution

Yup dowel pins are larger too.

I haven't set the 80 hub next to the 105/79 yet to compare say WMS to WMS but we mocked the build up using the 105 hubs on the 80 axle so all good.

This is my favorite new conversion now. Doing in on my 80-series Ute build too.

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[White Stripe]

I once figured out the percentage of strength gained by going from 30 to 32 spline. But im not sure if i did it right.

 

[SNLC]

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[SNLC]

I once figured out the percentage of strength gained by going from 30 to 32 spline. But im not sure if i did it right.

Well, it is certainly stronger and pretty friggin’ beefy for a Cruiser running 33’s.

One thing I have noted watching a lot of aussie videos is they don't tend to bust a lot of rear shafts or hub studs in 105/79’s.

All that is gained in the front is bigger drive flange-free wheeling hub studs and dowls.

*Also this Cruiser is not full time 4wd. The tcase is part time from I believe a 79, I didn’t order it so if it isn’t 79 it is FZJ105. With the hopped up FTE, beffed up rear axle and part time plus light weight compared to other “overland” Cruisers this one should be a ! We will probably run it on the dyno before all said and done. Seems to me though Toyota upgraded the hubs and rear shafts, and without going RCV + ARP this is nearly as good for 98% of Cruiser owners and ALL Toyota.

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[SNLC]

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[SNLC]

Fresh from the powder coater!

Rear brakes on.

Worked on the front 3rd a bit today too. Bearings and races swapped out along with ring gear.

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[Diesel-Runner]

Is this dude from Aussy stealing your work for his own on FB?

 

[jomelo]

Is this dude from Aussy stealing your work for his own on FB?

Sure seems that way.

 

[SNLC]

Is this dude from Aussy stealing your work for his own on FB?

Yup, he is. Typical kind of behavior for FB.

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[SNLC]

So awhile ago in another build thread we were asked how we are painting the inside of the frame. Been planning to do that with this all along, the products have just been back ordered for months.

We used this wand which is 24” long.

This is Eastwoods main paint for this, it is more of a rust encapsulator. Black is still b/o and we don’t really have any rust inside this frame. Just paint burn off from welding so we opted for the stuff above using the wand.

Would have rather done this before exterior paint but again, it was all back ordered and we didn’t want that to slow us down. So we taped it off and wanded all the frame rails and crossmembers today.

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[SNLC]

The orange is Toyota’s pattern, blue is ours.

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[SNLC]

Bling!

Rear axle is donee so we are moving on to the front before installing the FTE+trans.

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[SNLC]

Front 3rd member installed. The new elocker assembly is sexy.

On to the knuckles and hubs.

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