Re: TOY: Full floater kit?

[Luke P Miller <umilll02@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Scott Wilson wrote:
> 
> Oh thats right... the guy (he hasn't piped up, so I'm not going to
> reveal his identity ;-)   who I was talking to was hoping to find that
> one of the other Toyota wheel hubs would bolt on (or could be
> made to bolt on).   ...either the straight axle wheel hubs or the IFS
> wheel hub.

I'm recalling this from the dim recesses of my memory, but there was a guy
on the old ORC BBS from SLO (enough acronyms for ya?) that was selling a
dually axle converted to run single wheels, using the spindle and front
hubs off a solid axle truck. I don't remember if it took modification to
get the spindles and whatnot on the axle, or if it also required custom
stuff like different length axle shafts. All I really remember is that
there was someone who had this axle sitting and ready to go.

>
> I'm interested to know the width of that rear end (to the edge of the
> wheel hub where the wheel would bolt up I suppose, since none of
> us would run dually wheels  :-).

Again, from what I remember, this guy said the single-wheel-converted
dually axle was 3" wider than an IFS rear axle (therefor 6" over a solid
axle rearend). I'd believe that, since the rear ends are pretty wide on
the duallies.

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