Robertocritser LT, 4 link, and 37s build

Been looking into the SD unit bearing knuckle idea for a while. Glad others are working on it too.

 

Thought about that, but really want to keep it outside if I ever do one. Really want to have something to keep the body off the rocks. Maybe tube from front bumper to front of slider would be enough. Can’t do much for the doors anyways.

 

This would be sick! I've been debating if I wanna go rcv but I like my weak links being 70$ on ebay. And I can change them in about 20 minutes.

 

Short of what he said I haven't seen a good looking exo cage. My cage is ran through the body above the rear glass. It was my first cage and I learned a lot. But I really want to redo it.

 

Hey @Robertocritser If you were let's say converting a 2wd to 4wd would you rather do sas or ifs? Also let's for giggles let's say the ifs isn't a bolt in conversion like a prerunner.

 

That's tough. Because if I did a sas I'd go with 1 tons front and rear which we will throw out a junk yard number at 13-15k for parts. If you did a landcruiser front axle I think you could get that number to roughly 5-6k depending on how you set it up.

Not sure if you going with a one of custom ifs or a bolt in but for instance with my bolt in kit I have roughly 7k in my ifs setup (not including gears and locker). That is lt, kings, gussets, hydro, heims, and spare axle.

One thing I will say I really enjoy about ifs is I can wheel with everyone and enjoy it. I can wheel with buggies on 40s one weekend then the next go with the 35/33 crowd and enjoy the trails just as much.

 

I'll probably be in the 35/37 crowd lol

Being a 5 lug, non of the stock ifs stuff bolts in but I do have a welder lol

For the sas I was looking at doing a Dana 44 or something similar with a ruff stuff housing.

 

Didn't even thing about the 5 lug!

Then I would more than likely go with a solid axle to make life easier.

 

Beefy setup for sure. I assume your going to make a nice drive shaft loop to make sure you don't take out the engine if it goes?

 

Yeahhhhhh 5 lugs lol. I'm already half 6 lug in the rear with a trd off-road axle. One day the front will match the rear.

 

Land cruiser front axle will be 6x5.5 up front.

 

I'm excited to see tour truck up and going again. Hopefully I can make my way out to wheel with you guys some time.

 

I'm starting to look into the land cruiser axles. It looks like they would get me close to the matching the rear wms and it's a passenger side drop which would match my plans for a Dana 300.

 

That's the route I would look. You could even make it cheaper by going with leaf springs over links.

 

Probably won't make it west till 2023

 

A cautionary note. You may end up not going back east. It happened to me 18 years ago. lol

 

I know what you mean. It's beautiful out there!

 

@Robertocritser where did you source your 4 link set up? I’m leaning towards this option and wanted to see where folks are getting parts and figuring where to mount these things. Been looking at the RuffStuff kits.

 

I have a ruff stuff kit. I also looked at barnes and tmr kits as well but at the time ruff stuff had the biggest discount. Also ruff stuff has cheapest dom tubing currently

 

What was your process for figuring out where to mount everything and what length to make the links? Totally foreign to me.