Fully polished TuRD

Found a place that stocks zero lift fj62 springs, time to spray and pray with the credit card and hope they aren't backordered a million weeks. If they are backordered all to hell, it turns out waggy springs are within an inch of these springs length wise, the only issue is they are shorter which will cause some issues with the tire, firewall, and steering into the oil pan. At least there are other options out there!!

 

Good... but you could link it

 

Or I can swap springs in a weekend and wheel it and not have an 8+ month long hell project!

 

We need to hop on mud runner or snow runner this weekend some time.

 

gslander

 

I'll call you this weekend

 

New parts day is always a good day.

New fj62 leafs

New type of u bolts plate from ruff stuff, made for a bump stop. I'm going to add my air bump pads to these. I hate my current setup, hopefully I can do something different with these. Also have 4 ubolts in there despite only ordering 2

 

All that before black friday?

 

Ordered it well before black friday! I'm trying to get this truck back on the trails before a run with a local club I'm wanting to join in a few weeks.

 

Got a chance to take some shit apart, was hoping to have the new springs under it, but Amazon didn't deliver my bushings today.

So I took the driver's side spring out:

And holy fuck LOL!!!


Who knows how long it's actually been broke, I did have to replace a center pin on this side a few years ago, hmmm


Hope to have the new springs under it tomorrow if the bushings show up. After that i have to re do my bump stop pads, and do a brake job and it will be back in action!!

 

Hell yes that's some good stuff there

 

I was hoping to have the truck driving tonight but between fighting ubolts, realizing I jacked the truck up a dumbass way that made my life harder than it needed, and my damn center pin needing to be ground down to fit in the perch, I'm ending the evening not much further than where I started. I always enjoy reading people's screw ups so here is one:
I jacked the truck up a stupid way the other night, I put a jack on cribbing under the driver's side frame rail and left the pax side tire on and took the driver's off to get the spring out. When I cut the ubolts off the entire truck leaned to the driver's side. All evening I have been fighting u bolts because the damn pax side tire has been side loading the spring. I now have the truck supported by both frame rails and life is much better.

Due to the above situation I have been beating the fuck out of u bolts for the last few hours to get them over the axle tube, I never remember them being this difficult when I did the swap initially.

Issue 2: my leaf spring center pin but is too big for the hole in the perch, so I have to grind that down, which means the side I have been epically battling has to come back apart:

So I decided I needed a win and worked on the pax side:

This side was a breeze until I assembled evreything and realized I forgot to grind the pin down on this side, and this is where I stopped LOL


Positive I got my ubolts plate for the drivers side trimmed.


And for some humor, my shitty old air bump pads:

 

Back on all 4s!!! Well at least until I jack it back up again in 10mins to change out my calipers!



Springs sit nice and flat, no Carolina squat which is awesome!!

I won't tackle the bump pads for about a week while I put some miles on it to break the springs in and retorque evreything.

 

#racetruck


Can't test drive it tonight as I didnt have any new copper washers, so I reused the old ones and one side is leaking brake fluid, damn!!

 

Well the truck left the garage but not the neighborhood.

The good:

• No more crunching while I steer like it has since I did the swap, would be amazing if that spring has been fucked since the begining.

• No more violent shake under brakeing

The bad:

• The brakes SUCK!!
• Can't get the air bled out
• One hose won't stop leaking, so I tightend it at the banjo, got it tight until it wasn't, pretty sure I stripped it. FAWK!!!

So back in the garage it goes. The side with the fucked caliper wasn't seized so I may toss the old caliper back on it tomorrow.

 

I hate those banjo bolt copper washer things. Can definitely be a pain in the ass.
Dealt with that with my tundra calipers.
The casting on the caliper mating surface wasn't great, so I plugged the hole and took a file to the surface and then some various grit sandpapers to try and get it a better. Eventually got there.
Make sure you're using new copper crush washers too.

Give that a shot. Well after you get a new caliper that isn't stripped that is lol....

 

Yea, I remember having troubles with these in the past. I may just toss the old caliper back on and send it until that one seizes up and kick the can down the road.

 

I got these from G and J Aircraft in Ontario, CA. $75 shipped cut to your specified length - going from frame junction.

 

Finally got the truck out of the garage and back on the street today, spent over an hour running around town finding a banjo bolt for this goddamn truck. I hate having Toyotas because you can't even find the most basic of parts in the parts store. The banjo bolt I got was off a Pontiac or some shit, the tundra one O'Riley's had listed was like an inch too long and course thread

Anyway brakes no longer leak, and it stops. Next project is making some new bump stop pads!