New to FJ40s, axle, steering questions, etc...

[BWilliams]

Hello, I have built a few yotas in the past going towards the rock crawler truggy type, but now with a young family I am into the classic LCs, with moderate wheeling. I have a lot of truggy parts left over and would like to use them if I could but I don't know what fits. Can I swap the knuckle to pickup SA knuckles? Should I? Are the Asian hubs stronger? What do I do about steering, I know I need new arms and will have to change the drag link etc, but does someone sell a kit for this, or do I have to modify a TG kit? How about axle seals etc, will they swap?

Also, I have a rear disc brake kit for an IFS pickup rear, other than the brackets will everything else fit?

Any info would be great, sorry to start off my posting with a bomb of questions, I will start up a build thread after I research for parts.
THX!

 

[Diskord]

Knuckles, etc. From a solid axle mini pickup will swap onto an LC axle, its on of the ways to convert a drug brake front axle to discs. Depends on the year fj40 you will be using though, I'm certainly not a expert by any means. There is a great deal of info in the faq on the knuckle swap.

 

[Diskord]

Damn auto correct. Drum not drug brakes

 

[Fast Eddy]

You can swap the minitruck parts, but you need them all, birfs out including the steering arms and hubs. Cruisers use better, ventilated discs so you probably want cruiser rotors and calipers.

 

[BWilliams]

thx for the help, i will check out the faqs section