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

["Dale Sinkey" <dps444@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quote:
 "more trouble than it's
> worth"

    Com Awn! As if the SAS is not trouble? Drilling a few holes is
nothing..:) Go crossover anyway, less then $500 arms $200-$250, rockstomper
rods $150, pitman insert $20 So you are not saving much.

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Oroville,Ca!!!!Where is that???
----- Original Message -----
From: "Whitmore, Carl (KUCC)" <kcwhitmo@kennecott.com>
To: <toyota@4x4wire.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 6:37 AM
Subject: TOY: RE: Solid axle swap steering ?s and parts for sale


> 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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