Free wheeling hubs for LJ78 - aisin?

[wobbly]

Electric hubs gave up ages ago, so permanently engaged the locking rings as a quick fix, but with diesel at £1.40 per litre, £6.30 a gallon!! I'm really feeling the loss in mpg (about 3 mpg - UK gallons).

I like manual hubs - had a look around but cant see an Aisin fwh for the JDM LJ78 Prado - its a 93 with the sought after 2.4 LT/E

Can anyone suggest a suitable manual hub, or even better let me know if there is an aisin hub suitable and a part number....

Cheers

Pete

 

[oldblue]

You won't get any freewheel hubs to bolt straight on, because your Prado Hub is approx 14mm shorter than a none electric freewheel hub.
option #1 Buy or make a spacer ring and fit Aaian hubs , this is OK for the average 4 wheeling but for hard work they can have problems.
option 2 , Swop to none electric hubs & stub axles off an eariler Cruiser
option 3 , Do an electric to manual conversion of your own electric hubs.

 

[wobbly]

I might just go back to fixing the locking ring in place for the winter, it only takes 5 minutes so I can wait until it snows/rains.

Thanks for your help.

Pete

 

[gotoy]

I might just go back to fixing the locking ring in place for the winter, it only takes 5 minutes so I can wait until it snows/rains.

Thanks for your help.

Pete

If the fix only takes 5mins, then doing that is surely going to save your fuel bills!!

Any LJ series manual locks will fit on the front, even the older 8" hilux's.