1993 fzj80
245000km
245000km
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What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (36 Viewers)
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Manual Transmission but no lockers
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BTW, this one listed for sale in my country. I'm not the owner just love sharing pictures.
CrabCake
SILVER Star
Now the trick is to get these installed without knocking off that beautiful paint job! I ended up f'n mine up and just stuck the OEM's back on. In hindsight, I should have used a seal install tool or a proper size piece of pipe just around the flange edge.Found some deep dust caps and I had some blue slate metallic laying around in the garage for the color match…double whammy! This is the cheaper fix for the rcv zerk nipple sticking out. Rather than a new flange. Trying to keep this thing in budget is tough so
found these at Trail Gear in case it wasn’t obvious.
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Budgets are always tough to stick to, but the later thick flanges are not too expensive for the extra beef. I gave my OEM axles and thick flanges with 175k on them to a local member that had stripped out his early ones...I updated to the Longfield 30mm CM's with new flanges just to have the entire assembly new for my piece of mind, but glad that I kept my decent old parts to pass along as a gift to keep another cruiser on the road!
Yes, OEM are still available.
Price Point is the primary reason, second reason is vehicle use.
Third is availability schedule.
I recently bought a set of stock-type axles from Cruiser Outfitters. Price point was good, availability was immediate.
I have been running the RCV equivalent of OEM for the last 12 years, but they are way out on lead time. They are also now out of chromoly, which I don't want because mine is a DD, not a crawler.
Chromoly are known to wear more in a DD.
Yeah, the finish will be hard to keep on there. You make a great point. Everything else on the front end is new, I should spring for new job flanges.
Thanks for the info. When you say you bought “stock type” axle shafts, what exactly does thst mean? New Toyota OEM or something else? I was looking up new oem for my 94 but for some reason I remember seeing they’re NLA. I could have messed up and used the wrong part numbers though.
The 91-94 style have the shorter Birfield.
It is easy to retrofit to add the 95-97 style drive flanges and Birfields.
CruiserTeq (Cruiser Outfitters) has what you need.
See the attached link.
Cruiser Outfitters Birfields
I priced new Birfields from Ourisman Toyota and Partsouq and they have OK pricing, but they are much higher than Cruiser Outfitters.
I trust Cruiser Outfitter's support, as they have been here a long time and they stand behind their products.
I ordered (2) FAXT60070JP, (1) FAXT80FLH, (1) FAXT80FRH. I will be installing these in the next month or so.
They are not OEM, but they are Japan made. I will report in another 150K miles to advise how they held up to the OEM and the RCV's I've used.
I replaced the OEM at 225K, and the RCV's are clicking at 132K, although not as bad as what tot OEM's were when I removed them.
The change from 238.5mm to 246.5mm Birfields took place in April of 1994.
1991
Love those bench seats back there
Left-hand drive and gcc specifications
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143000km
Cool box
3fe engine
Manual transmission
Cool box
3fe engine
Manual transmission
Went 705 miles to St Augustine with the lx450 . Furthest road trip yet . 192,000 miles on the odometer. Took wife ,daughter and 4 year old grand baby . No problems at all ran like a champ . I’m sure it will make it the 700 miles back home . We sure feel safe in the suv .
Mine is the longer model. Build 11/94. I just rebuilt the front and rear axles. Stuff still looked good but if I find a good sale I’ll buy spare birfs and axle shafts.
Thank you very very much for the info man!
Whats it listed at price wise?
Ordered Thursday morning. Came in today.Right on!! Thanks for posting that up! Now I've gotta wait for her to fall asleep to get my CC out....
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