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I haven’t been in this corner for a long time.
Life is busy, but I’m still working to get my 40, the first 80 and now another all in good working order.
My current project is a wider centered 40 rear.
I had a 40 rear housing (free) laying around and cut it as wide as possible anticipating finding a 80-85 mini truck rear ($300) to slide the tubes into and weld together like many threads have shown. The 83 MT housing I bought was swedged weird and the tubes couldn’t slide into the 40 tubes.
What I figured out is that I can lathe turn the ends of the MT axle to press into the 40 bearing ends, then determine my overall housing assembly with the 96 4Runner shafts ($25).
I’ll try to update this with my progress.
Life is busy, but I’m still working to get my 40, the first 80 and now another all in good working order.
My current project is a wider centered 40 rear.
I had a 40 rear housing (free) laying around and cut it as wide as possible anticipating finding a 80-85 mini truck rear ($300) to slide the tubes into and weld together like many threads have shown. The 83 MT housing I bought was swedged weird and the tubes couldn’t slide into the 40 tubes.
What I figured out is that I can lathe turn the ends of the MT axle to press into the 40 bearing ends, then determine my overall housing assembly with the 96 4Runner shafts ($25).
I’ll try to update this with my progress.