So a few years back I found a fella silly enough to swap my road legal Daihatsu rugger for his reg on hold 198813bt bj74 and it kind of snowballed from there, first I give it a bit of a spruce up and took her through for her first wof, the wof man was happy as and give her a clean sheet wof! I found a set of 33s cheap and slapped them on then she looked the part, looked pretty rude on the 31” ats when I bought it
Then I got sick of the auto and found a h55f for a reasonable price and converted the old girl to manual, what a treat that was! Much more fun to drive manual
Then my mate give me a ring to say he’d just bought some 60 series cable lockers for a steal and he didn’t know what he was going to do with them and asked if id like to buy them, I didn’t think that opportunity would come around again so I snapped them up, and upon picking them up I realised the housings had been modified to suit a spring over axle setup and later found out they were under an fj40 club truck about ten years ago and sat in old mates garage collecting dust ever since, I had a measure up and figured it was near enough so I’ll try chuck them under the 70 and see what happens, i started with the rear dropped the back of the cruiser down into my shed (the floor was lower than the driveway) jacked it up whipped the semi float 70 axle out from under her and rolled the new rear axle under, chucked the u bolts on and went to roll her out of the shed, she made it out but it scraped like buggery and pushed the garage door up on the way out, faaark she was tall!
That photo was taken after I got the front diff underbelly the truck aswell obviously but it scared the s*** out of me and the next weekend me old mate dan come round and we whipped a few leaves out of every pack to try make them sit flat and drop the ride height as much as possible, unfortunately I have lost a lot of photos from around that time and can’t seem to find them grr.
I keep in touch with Tom at toms offroad and ended up taking the truck to him to tidy up the soa and do a shackle reversal and ended up going rears up front at same time with his custom shock towers in front and a custom rear crossmember for the shocks, it was a totally different truck to drive with the shackle reversal and I’d highly recommend it to anyone going down this track it flexed really well and behaved great offroad!
I’m having trouble adding photos so I’ll cut it for now and see if I can maybe write a reply and add more photos there?? I’m new here just learning the ropes , long time follower first time posting anything thought it was well overdue I have been reading the posts on here for over 5years but only just thought of doing a write up now I’m nearing the end of my build, much more to come and hopefully I can sort this photo issue out
Then my mate give me a ring to say he’d just bought some 60 series cable lockers for a steal and he didn’t know what he was going to do with them and asked if id like to buy them, I didn’t think that opportunity would come around again so I snapped them up, and upon picking them up I realised the housings had been modified to suit a spring over axle setup and later found out they were under an fj40 club truck about ten years ago and sat in old mates garage collecting dust ever since, I had a measure up and figured it was near enough so I’ll try chuck them under the 70 and see what happens, i started with the rear dropped the back of the cruiser down into my shed (the floor was lower than the driveway) jacked it up whipped the semi float 70 axle out from under her and rolled the new rear axle under, chucked the u bolts on and went to roll her out of the shed, she made it out but it scraped like buggery and pushed the garage door up on the way out, faaark she was tall!
That photo was taken after I got the front diff underbelly the truck aswell obviously but it scared the s*** out of me and the next weekend me old mate dan come round and we whipped a few leaves out of every pack to try make them sit flat and drop the ride height as much as possible, unfortunately I have lost a lot of photos from around that time and can’t seem to find them grr.
I keep in touch with Tom at toms offroad and ended up taking the truck to him to tidy up the soa and do a shackle reversal and ended up going rears up front at same time with his custom shock towers in front and a custom rear crossmember for the shocks, it was a totally different truck to drive with the shackle reversal and I’d highly recommend it to anyone going down this track it flexed really well and behaved great offroad!
I’m having trouble adding photos so I’ll cut it for now and see if I can maybe write a reply and add more photos there?? I’m new here just learning the ropes , long time follower first time posting anything thought it was well overdue I have been reading the posts on here for over 5years but only just thought of doing a write up now I’m nearing the end of my build, much more to come and hopefully I can sort this photo issue out