Solid Axle Swap BS Thread

I bet wheeling on sandpaper in sand hollow also contributes to that!

 

Honestly surprised I haven’t broke more or didn’t break the yota cases when I had them

 

Let it begin.

 

This driveshaft talk got me into thinking as to why I just didn't go with all toyota parts.

Both outputs on the Atlas have toyota flanges. Check.

The front drive shaft goes to a toyota-to-D60 flange. Check.

But the rear drive shaft goes to the 1410 that came with the 14-bolt (I upgraded to u-bolts instead of straps).

So...I got mostly toyota parts but the 1410 is still there. Hasn't really given trouble, but it seems the consensus is that toyota parts are the way to go.

 

I have this Toyota shaft laying around if anyone needs/wants it… it has maybe 500 miles on it

 

Mine finally came in, initially pretty impressed. Came shipped quality packaging, no nics and protective sleeves.

Machined aluminum nitrogen protector with o ring seal, solid thick locknut, came with the bump cans that are tig welded on the top and tapered to fit my retrofit mounts I'm trying to fab up.

 

Im surprised you went 4”, I don’t remember the specifics on your truck but I was only like 4” of uptravel when I was on my 44044 leafs and I’m still only 5” bump on links lol

 

Went back and forth between 2" and 4", only went 4" that way I can destroke if I need to, most likely will to 2.5-3.
I plan on researching and really trying to tune these via nitrogen pressure/oil amount/and stroke limiting.

 

Duh! I forgot air bumps are super easy to de-stroke. I think Accutune recommends like 25% of total bump travel to be the amount of travel in the air bump

 

That's good to know, early threads on these things are all over the map, some running them a hair above ride height and then some using 1" at the very last inch of the suspension cycle.

 

Nice. I got the threaded body ones, but the 2” don’t have much adjustment. Luckily I don’t need much but getting 4” and limiting the stroke isn’t a bad idea. I went 3” for the rear and have a 10/6 split down/up. Just got my bumps on and pulled the axle out to finish welding and set up hydro. I don’t like the low hanging ram mount so I’m gonna hack it up and move it higher up. Debated doing the Artec ram mount for simplicity but damn that thing is huge.

 

You made the mount or that came with it?

 

Made it from some ruffstuff outriggers I had laying around.
https://www.ruffstuffspecialties.com/OUTRIG-45.html

 

Nice

 

I wish these were out when I was buying hydro bumps. I like the threaded top over the slide in. Mine are miserable to pound out once the cans got welded and that was even with a slug in the tubes when I welded them

 

I'm hoping it will package well in between the typical Toyota sas shock hoops that most including myself run. I narrowed the mounts so that it will fit centered and close enough to the frame so that the bumpstop striker will hit the ubolt plates almost straight on.

 

That’s how my rear is but the shock is angled forward which allows the bump to strike half on a strike pad and half on the u bolt plate. I couldn’t squeeze mine between the shock and frame

 

Sadly still trying to figure out the issue with my newly sas tacoma. Last weekend i parked it in the shop, no front driveline and went forward/reverse with all seemingly normal (auto trans). Put the trans in neutral, t case in 4 low, put trans in Reverse and the whole front end rapidly sunk/dove down quite a bit. Put trans back in neutral and truck seemed to settle, put trans in drive and the front end lifted up rapidly. I get that in low range there more torque thus exaggerating the movement. But what's causing the movement, perhaps geometry is off re. anti dive/squat?

 

You ever have issues with your bump hitting the u bolts in the rear? I'm thinking mine will hit over half the plate, and I'll do something similar that you did.

I really don't want to have build a pad over the u bolts like I did in the front.

 

I had a friend's jeep on radius arms that would do that, I forget what it means. Does it drive fine? If so I wouldn't worry about it.