My beater needs Help! (1 Viewer)

[pistolbob]

Wow you weren't kiddin when you said you aren't nice to it at all. The work that you did to it looks real good though.

 

[Chop Shop]

Wow you weren't kiddin when you said you aren't nice to it at all. The work that you did to it looks real good though.

I try my hardest to destroy things so I can recommend stuff to folks with confidence knowing what works and holds up.

Thanks, its been a bunch of cramming but its now over and time to wheel for awhile.

 

[Chop Shop]

Well I went out to Elbe a few weeks ago and ran the busy. Was a good day till I heard a little "pop" on the last hill coming out.

Got out and inspected the front driver side where I heard the noise and things looked not so good.

The felt seal had a gap on top and had a bulge on the bottom.

Loaded up and went home broken. I dont do that to often.

 

[Chop Shop]

Pulled it apart and found I had broken off the pin on the hysteer arm.
The fifth stud was in perfect shape and still tight with no disturbance of the old dirt sediment around the arms base.

 

[Chop Shop]

The old KOYO jap bearings I put in 3 years ago were perfect. They were used ones I took out of a guys rig cuz he insisted that I put the new TG bearings in that came in his knuckle rebuild kit (garbage).

I will say it again. If you replace a stock good serviceable KOYO with a parts house or TG special then you are very dumb.

Use the stockers over or get a new KOYO form the dealer.

I pressed out the broken stump of the pin and pressed in a new pin (warrantied) and repacked the old KOYOs that just came out and put them back in.

Wheeled them all weekend and they worked great.

 

[Chop Shop]

Then I took it over to a friends play land to give it some abuse this weekend.

Worked good till I pushed/bent the belly pan (TG) up till it let the rear drivelines upper CV rub the frames crossmemeber.

Front axle worked killer tho.

 

[4x4 Station Wagon]

Nice pics . Your not afraid I will give you that. Also I agree with the tg trunion bearings you can simply look at them and see they are less than desirable. With that said I am not a TG hater as competition helps bring the good stuff back in a guy like myselfs price range. However yes their bearings suck and I wish I would have rethought my purchase but their felt rings are nice and make it harder to make the right decision.

 

[Slowerthanu]

Your driving style in your photos matches your posting style......Abrasive.

That said, you give Bobby the credit he deserves and you pull no punches.

I like your rig, for some reason I expected to see one tons on it.

I may have missed it and I am sure you will let me know if I did but what size tires are you running?

 

[Chop Shop]

Your driving style in your photos matches your posting style......Abrasive.

That said, you give Bobby the credit he deserves and you pull no punches.

I like your rig, for some reason I expected to see one tons on it.

I may have missed it and I am sure you will let me know if I did but what size tires are you running?

Tires are 38.5x16 wide on 15x10 beadlocks normal ole TSLs bias. Floaters.

Abrasive! Thanks!
Im a little rough I guess. Bobby and Tina call me "Finesse". Bob and Tina are good people to wheel with. Im glad they got me into toyotas. All I knew was ol chevys before that.

One tons? Those are for V8s. Im building all all out V8 D60 RockJocked, propaned angry SBC/TH400/203/205 rig on big SAWs and 44s on H1 12bolts. Kinda a southern style rig.

The ole toyota is all toyota, axles engine, cases, locker, drivelines etc. Toyota makes good shiit. People just mess up and put 4.3s and V8s in them. Then ya need bigger tranny, bigger tcase, bigger axles, then since ya got bigger axles, why not get bigger rubber, blah, blah, blah, it never ends from there until you have a crappy truck built with buggy parts that just isnt a buggy.

Once I decided to make the V8/D60 plunge it was on. All good/big stuff from there on.

Hers is an old pic of the buggy in progress. Need to take some currant ones.

 

[Wayneraintree]

That is quite inspirational


Be sure to share pics of future "testing"

 

[torfab]

Thumbs up for a clean truggy

 

[Chop Shop]

That is quite inspirational
Be sure to share pics of future "testing"

Thanks.
You know it, just need to go out to get some new pics. I have not been able to go out for the last month due to a back injury but I am ichin to get back out and beater up sum here in the near future.

Thumbs up for a clean truggy

Thanks. Clean, fun, simple, reliable and functional is the key.