Land Cruiser 200 Steering Rack & Pinion Dimensions.

[AMERICAN]

Hello everyone, and hope you all doing well, and hoping I am posting this in the right place.

I am in need of your help, and I am working on a project and would greatly appreciate your help.

The Land Cruiser 200 Series has a heavy duty steering rack system since it has 3 mounting points and it is a much heavier vehicle and it would need to handle much greater PUSH/PULL forces, and I would like to know what are the distance between “THE MAIN 2 FRONT BARREL MOUNTS” the Toyota part number for the steering is 44200-60170, The part number will fit the LC 200 from 2008 to 2020 it is very important if your vehicle falls within those years I would greatly appreciate if you can measure from the center of each bolt and that would give a very precise measurement.

I am keeping my fingers crossed, and if the LC 200 rack would fit my truck 2010 Fj cruiser, it would be a game changer.

Thanks in advance.
Dennis

 

[Taco2Cruiser]

Hey Dennis, I don’t have the measurements available off hand but we’ve done these rack conversions on Prado and Tacoma frames. Tundra and Land Cruiser rack are the same width, just some gearing is different in inside them)

They are far from plug and play. It will require cutting and welding. The very architecture of a Prado frame to a 200 frame are very, very different when you look at the rack’s orientation. You will also need to have new barrels made to be welded in the new mounting points.

But here is the real issue. Land Cruisers get VGRS, it’s a way that that vehicle can have a super low steering gear when off road. Then when a 200 is at a faster speed, the VGRS acts as a kind of “clutch” letting the steering shaft slip. So when you are on the highway, you don’t present this issue where a little steering input makes for way too big of a tire direct change.

With a LC rack, you would also have to figure out some integration of a VGRS, just to make is safe when driving at speed. Unless this is a dedicated trail truck. But that wouldn’t make sense as you should just SAS it.

That’s why you don’t hear about at lot of people doing it. I would plan on around $1500 for fab work to make a tundra rack work. The steering ratio is much more appropriate for what you will be able to achieve.

 

[AMERICAN]

Hey Dennis, I don’t have the measurements available off hand but we’ve done these rack conversions on Prado and Tacoma frames. Tundra and Land Cruiser rack are the same width, just some gearing is different in inside them)

They are far from plug and play. It will require cutting and welding. The very architecture of a Prado frame to a 200 frame are very, very different when you look at the rack’s orientation. You will also need to have new barrels made to be welded in the new mounting points.

But here is the real issue. Land Cruisers get VGRS, it’s a way that that vehicle can have a super low steering gear when off road. Then when a 200 is at a faster speed, the VGRS acts as a kind of “clutch” letting the steering shaft slip. So when you are on the highway, you don’t present this issue where a little steering input makes for way too big of a tire direct change.

With a LC rack, you would also have to figure out some integration of a VGRS, just to make is safe when driving at speed. Unless this is a dedicated trail truck. But that wouldn’t make sense as you should just SAS it.

That’s why you don’t hear about at lot of people doing it. I would plan on around $1500 for fab work to make a tundra rack work. The steering ratio is much more appropriate for what you will be able to achieve.

Thank you so much for such detail explanation and I really appreciate it. You are right, not many have done it. I was hoping not to go SAS, but at this time perhaps is the only option. I have talked to Chase at ECGS, and he can make me a D60 front for $6k and I would retain the Toyota bolt pattern/wheels. After braking the R&P twice on the OE rear axle back in 2016 I convinced Chase to built me a D60 for rear and I am extremely happy with the outcome and performance of the axle.

I have done a extensive research on SAS and a reputable shop will charge close to $15k for labor and parts and I will provided the front axle. The only major problem is, no Insurance company in California would cover that much modifications, let alone other after market parts on the truck. Only hand full of companies will cover up to $5k only.
As of 2010 model year for Fj cruiser, Toyota has installed a power steering oil pressure switch which would read the Oil pressure at the pump when the truck is in very low RPM and would raise the RPM slightly when the steering wheel is moved, but lol, not as advanced as the LC 200 system.


I will definitely look into Tundra Rack, and also which model year do you recommend? The part# 44250-0C160 covers Tundra from 2007 till 2013 and 2014 to 2020 part#44250-0C131.
Once more, thank you so much for the reply.
Cheers