I dont really have a build thread for my truck or anything, but made this thread so im not just spaming the "what did you do with your 60 this weekend" thread.
This will just be stuff for my @TRAIL TAILOR coil conversion done in my garage at my house. Photos, questions, etc. Thought it would be neat to put them here.
Right now im building my axles. They are from a wrecked 94 Land cruiser. Theyll be getting the nice acronyms. ARBs, RCVs, ARPs. The original plan was to epoxy prime them but Its winter time and you cant spray SPI Expoxy under 65 degrees so im just going with tractor paint. These axles came with me to Oregon from Tennessee on the shipping truck with our household goods. The movers said that they had never shipped axles before. Here they are in Tennessee. They also shipped all the steering, the drive shafts, and a few other misc parts from the 80. Ive seemed to have lost the front swaybar along the way, so will need to probably source another one
Starting with the rear axle, this is where im at currently.
To do on the rear axle:
-clean gunk out of inside of axle and the axle tubes
-wire wheel all of teh outside because theres no way its fitting in my sand blaster
- cut off other spring bucket
-weld on new spring buckets
-prime and paint housing
- install new brakes and wheel bearings
-reinstall diff
-build new brake hard line to match up with the fj60 body brake soft line
To do on front axle:
all of that stuff over again
Progress is a little slow going because I cant really bang on stuff in my garage after 7pm because my 1 year old might wake up
One spring bucket off, and some wire wheeling done. I got rained on outside so had to stop
New Coil buckets.
The rear diff on the way to my diff guy to get some much needed love. Keeping the 4.10 factory gears. This is actually a regear for me as im on 3.73s in the 60 axles. I think the 4.10s will be perfect for the 5.3 and the 34s on the truck.
Once the swap is done, planning on tossing these fenders on to take up the additional width of the 80 series axles to keep it looking pretty factory.
This will just be stuff for my @TRAIL TAILOR coil conversion done in my garage at my house. Photos, questions, etc. Thought it would be neat to put them here.
Right now im building my axles. They are from a wrecked 94 Land cruiser. Theyll be getting the nice acronyms. ARBs, RCVs, ARPs. The original plan was to epoxy prime them but Its winter time and you cant spray SPI Expoxy under 65 degrees so im just going with tractor paint. These axles came with me to Oregon from Tennessee on the shipping truck with our household goods. The movers said that they had never shipped axles before. Here they are in Tennessee. They also shipped all the steering, the drive shafts, and a few other misc parts from the 80. Ive seemed to have lost the front swaybar along the way, so will need to probably source another one
Starting with the rear axle, this is where im at currently.
To do on the rear axle:
-clean gunk out of inside of axle and the axle tubes
-wire wheel all of teh outside because theres no way its fitting in my sand blaster
- cut off other spring bucket
-weld on new spring buckets
-prime and paint housing
- install new brakes and wheel bearings
-reinstall diff
-build new brake hard line to match up with the fj60 body brake soft line
To do on front axle:
all of that stuff over again
Progress is a little slow going because I cant really bang on stuff in my garage after 7pm because my 1 year old might wake up
One spring bucket off, and some wire wheeling done. I got rained on outside so had to stop
New Coil buckets.
The rear diff on the way to my diff guy to get some much needed love. Keeping the 4.10 factory gears. This is actually a regear for me as im on 3.73s in the 60 axles. I think the 4.10s will be perfect for the 5.3 and the 34s on the truck.
Once the swap is done, planning on tossing these fenders on to take up the additional width of the 80 series axles to keep it looking pretty factory.
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I’m afraid I’m going to rack up some debt by following your truck to closely.
