Builds 94 Toyota Pickup on 94 80 series chassis

[gnob]

do these attach to the housing differently?
hard to tell from the pictures.

 

[HiCruiser LandLux]

do these attach to the housing differently?
hard to tell from the pictures.

Yep they do attach differently

The two mounting holes with bolts on the hyperflex arms are bushed, the front is just a solid spacer for the bracket. They use the OEM mounting holes on the axle

And again to reiterate my before and after comparo, the truck had 18" of FLEX before lifting the rear wheel. Swapped to the HyperFlex arms and gained 10" of FLEX before lifting the rear wheel, ending up with 28" of front end FLEX before lifting a rear tire.

 

[HiCruiser LandLux]

So back to progress instead of the arms, I started thinking about the cooling system. I wanna run a big proper double pass radiator with Spal fans. I measured clearance from the crank pulley to the front core support. It wasn't good, only 4" of clearance. Narrowest fans are 2" and narrowest radiator Id feel comfortable running is at least 2.5" thick. After Flexing the truck out I decided I could drop the engine quite a bit as well as push it back. So I cut the motor mounts and dropped it down

Easiest route for mock-up was move the transmission back by sliding the T case mount back one bolt hole, Will fix that properly later.

Top of the intake was above the Cab cowl pinchweld, now its comfortably below that.

Much much happier with the design if the new mounts, they look less stupid and are much much stronger. Engine still.has plenty of clearance to the axle and got dropped nearly 3" now I have a comfy 5 3/4" of radiator clearance