Honey Boo Boo

[cruiserjunktion]

Mel,

Sounds like a plan. You were going to run some kind of spacer anyway, for the front, right.

I just want to see them tires on there.

Yeah, rather than swapping the front axle I am just going to run the 55 housing with the 60 3rd and knuckles. A set of 1.5" spacers should keep everything lined up.

 

[lowtideride]

I had them balanced, had them use the more expensive stick on wheel weights. Had them stick them on the inside of the wheel. It was a nice clean look and stayed balanced for damn near 3 years.

 

[cruiserjunktion]

I've had a nasty sinus infection sowing me down, leaving little time to do anything other than be sick. I'm feeling better so I took a little time and worked on HBB this afternoon.

The knuckles require a little wallowing out to fit the larger fj60 birfs. Luckily, I didn't have to grind out too much on either side. I've done this job before on other rigs which required a lot more pork to be pulled out of the axle housing.

I pulled the 3rd out and cleaned the old gasket off the housing. I'm a lil OCD about getting all the old crusty gasket off to ensure there will be no leaks, spending about and hour with my knife, chisel and razor blade.

 

[cruiserjunktion]

So, have I screwed up here? My new wheels tundra steelies are hub centric. Can these be run on my lug centric axles. It looks like they won't work because of the lip on the inside of the wheel- pic one. The fj60 wheels are flat on their backside- pic 2. I've seen newer taco wheels on older minis but not sure how they are running them. Any ideas, thoughts or suggestions?

 

[nuclearlemon]

grind the lip off

 

[lowtideride]

It must be a steel wheel thing. None of the aluminum rims I have ran from Toyota had that.

 

[cruiserjunktion]

Donor 60 rear axle pulled-

 

[yodafrick]

;( RIP Stockey... glad parts of her are livin on!

 

[cruiserjunktion]

;( RIP Stockey... glad parts of her are livin on!

Not stockey, she is in Venezuela!

This donor 60 is heading to Tennessee.

 

[yodafrick]

Not stockey, she is in Venezuela!

Even cooler!

 

[cruiserjunktion]

Sb0 starter bushing allows you to run 55 tres with 60 series arms. $1 for each Sb0

 

[cruiserjunktion]

Removing the valve and spring in the front brake circuit allows a drum brake master to work with discs.

 

[cruiserjunktion]

Poking along

 

[scrapdaddy]

All forward movement. There's always alot of small stuff to do, but it all adds up. Good job.

 

[cruiserjunktion]

Cruiser karma! A total stranger saw the 55 and said he use to have one. He sold it long ago, but for whatever reason kept the mirrors. He noticed Hbb didn't have any pig ears and asked me if I wanted his set for free!

Merry Cruisermas HBB!

 

[bobm]

Mel, thats awesome they are hard to come by. Whos 40 in the garage I had the exact truck years ago.

Thanks Bob

 

[cruiserjunktion]

Mel, thats awesome they are hard to come by. Whos 40 in the garage I had the exact truck years ago.

Thanks Bob

The 40 belongs to a professor at the University. I did a 3b conversion on his brothers 62 that turned out so nice, he is having me do a frame off on his 40. The plan is to have Hbb as a running/ driving side project, while the 40 gets the works.

 

[PabloCruise]

Sb0 starter bushing allows you to run 55 tres with 60 series arms. $1 for each Sb0

Who/what is Sb0?
Where do you get these?

 

[PabloCruise]

Removing the valve and spring in the front brake circuit allows a drum brake master to work with discs.

Thank you for posting these pictures, even though I have heard of the mod, I had never seen how it is done!

 

[PabloCruise]

Cruiser karma! A total stranger saw the 55 and said he use to have one. He sold it long ago, but for whatever reason kept the mirrors. He noticed Hbb didn't have any pig ears and asked me if I wanted his set for free!

Merry Cruisermas HBB!

That is flat out awesome!