Solid Axle Swap BS Thread

No hate, that's a dope build

 

Depends how patient you are. I think you could get 13-16k. Maybe more with patience.

 

Yeah I was thinking of posting it for $15k and just seeing what I get offered.
I may bend up a front tube bumper and redo the center console out of aluminum to help clean it up.

 

Post it for what you actually want. I got a serious offer for 18k for mine and was dumb and turned it down.

 

Fingers crossed my wife doesnt see this post, shes been telling me to sell the truck to save money, I told her I modified it to a value of less than zero LOL!! All that gets spent these days is insurance and gas evrey few months.

 

I felt bad. He was in Oregon or something and making plans to get it when I got cold feet and backed out. It was right after I did the rear axle. Told the dude I’ll knock it to 15k and throw a Tacoma rear axle back in it and I get to keep the 609 or I wanted 22k. He considered it but found something else a few weeks later... money would have been nice to get into a buggy or use for a down payment on some land to move.

 

I drive it so little at this point because I didn’t want to fight smog this year (next year it won’t need smog) I took insurance off of it till I go on our next trip. Now it just sits in the garage covered in dust and tools while I finish the yard.

 

I drive mine a few times a month just to drive it. When I parked it for a while a few years ago all kinds of little shit went crazy on it, sensors, both O2 sensors shit the bed within a few weeks of each other, stuff like that. Then again with COVID and the job market sucking I dont leave the house much these days.

 

Mounted my proportioning valve and put a 3/8 fitting on my rear sending hard line. Anyone with a 96-00 have rear disks - hard to find anyone with them and I’m curious what they felt like.



Also may interest guys on here that like their bed but want more secure mounting points on it. Whole rack is completely removable and breaks into single tubes more or less.

 

Ha, the Ford just puked a water pump Thursday night and I came out to a pool of coolant under the truck Friday morning. I was glad that the Tacoma is ready to go into DD status most of the time.

It was nice too when I ended up filling the trailer with crap for the move Sunday when I had intended on taking the Tacoma in it to drop off at the new house. Was able to flip my dad, who has never driven the Tacoma, the keys and have him drive it 120 miles to the new place with zero instruction beyond telling him where reverse was at in the box

 

I think my taco has done more DD bailout duty than the other way around lol

 

I'm running disks with the stock prop valve end zip tied to the pass side frame rail

 

I have a soft spot for 2nd gen 4runners so I love it


Curious to see if you'll be able to keep the front axle together with the SC 3.4 and that tire size. With dual cases, 5.29s, and a 22R my buddy broke front shafts on 37" Creepy crawlers in his 85. RCVs now, no issue.

 

Do you have tundra or stock fronts?

 

Stock fronts, GM 1/2-3/4 ton rear

 

With tundra fronts and gm 3/4 4wd disks in the rear, nothing i did could get the pedal stiffness to come back. Had to swap to a gm master.

 

Pics? I'm thinking about getting a sequoia booster / mc to mate up to my brake pedal - have the tools I need to make a custom linkage, that said any savings I can get in sourcing parts / time / experimenting I'd really appreicate!

 

How many pistons in the rear calipers?

 

I don't have any pictures but mine was the skys off road gm adapter, had to get a 95-00 booster (01 goes to a 4 post master vs a 2 post of 00 and older). I originally tried a master that low range sells for the skys adapter but was way to stiff of a pedal. Dad had a master from wide open design (1 1/8 vs 1 1/4 low range master) that i ended up using and was able to use the plunger from the booster if i siliconed a nickel over the master plunger hole to take the travel out. b

bolted all up for the most part. was a huge pain though. brakes are stiff have a hard spot initially stepping on the pedal but they work well and now the rear cutting brakes will lock a tire up. At some point id like to try a different booster and a 1 1/16 master. I think that would be the sweet spot for what i have. No custom linkage or anything from mine. just had to trim down the threaded rod that goes from the booster to the brake pedal linkage to fit.

 

Just one iirc