TOY: RE: Solid axle swap steering ?s and parts for sale

["Whitmore, Carl (KUCC)" <kcwhitmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is possible to keep the '85 steering, but probably more trouble than it's
worth.  You'd obviously have to change steering boxes, which means drilling
additional holes in the frame.  Then dealing with the inferior "how short
can a drag link really be" steering.

You have one of the major costs of crossover steering already covered....the
IFS steering box.  I say go crossover right from the start.

Carl Whitmore
I Lean:  48 Toyota CJ-2a
"If it ain't broke, fix it till it is"


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Roberts [mailto:adroberts86@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 5:21 PM
> To: toyota@4x4wire.com
> Subject: TOY: Solid axle swap steering ?s and parts for sale
> 
> 
> Hey y'all, I've been reading the list for a while and this is 
> the first time 
> I've posted in a long time.  I think it's about time I start up again 
> especially since I'm in the middle of swapping to a solid axle on my 
> 4Runner.  After I broke my rear locker and chewed up my rear 
> pinion real 
> good, rendering it undriveable anyway, I thought, hey, might 
> as well chop 
> everything off the front end.  Anyway, I have my front end 
> parts for sale.  
> Y'know just your basic IFS parts.  Everything is fine except 
> my driver's 
> side axle is broken (another reason for the swap).  Just 
> e-mail me and make 
> an offer on whatever you want.  Also, is it possible to keep 
> the stock 
> steering configuration of an 85 axle on an IFS truck (in 
> other words, not 
> sink all that change into crossover or hy-steer)?  I was 
> asking simply for 
> price's sake right now.  I will probably switch to crossover 
> steering at 
> some point in the future but I want it back on the trails 
> right now.  Thanks 
> for the help in advance.  I'm in Nashville by the way if 
> anyone wants parts.
> Alan
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