Solid Axle Swap BS Thread

Sounds about right. Even turn key rig from built shop runs in to unpredictable situation.

 

How much longer? Been like a while year now, lol

 

Some goodies showed up. 14” travel 200/300 to start for the 3rd gen

 

@allenfab knocked out this adapter to run a remote oil filter mount.

 

14 CO?

I'm still waiting for Mickey to come out with their 42s... They said summer of 23 and now its Fall.

 

Yes, 2.5x14 Fox coilovers, 40" Mickey Thompsons.
I'll probably start a build thread within the next few days since I'm taking a little break waiting for parts to arrive.

 

Need some Rockwells

 

Overkill

 

I doubt the chunk would even fit without being mud truck tall haha definitely not a good choice for a SAS

 

Anything is possible with $$ and

 

Definitely possible I suppose. Guess you could put the axle way out in front of the engine haha. I like my Rockwells good enough, but damn I wouldn’t put them on anything that wasn’t all tube.

 

Yep.

 

Whose using a super duty axle and stock frame? What kind of numbers are you getting?

 

@malburg114

“Stock frame” as in not notching the front frame section? The top of the center section hitting the frame will be your limiting factor then. With no truss on the axle, 24.5" frame with 5" of up-travel on 40s is the absolute max you'd get before the center section hits the frame (with 99-04 SD axles, not sure how much different 05+ SD axles are but I imagine similar). I see you are using the new 4WU SD stuff, I'm not sure how large the truss is (looks like ~2"?) so I'd say you are only able to get 3" of up-travel with the numbers above.

I wanted as much up-travel as possible on my build without a body lift or lifting the engine, so I built a new front frame section. 24.5" frame, 5" up-travel, on 40s are my numbers.

 

Check out chays build on irate: https://irate4x4.com/threads/ray-charles-tacoma-build.383071/

 

Thanks. I’m building it for a buddy and we are scrapping most of the 4wu kit. The frame side link mounts won’t work but I’m hoping to use the truss and some other pieces. The buddy was torn between keeping the stock frame or having me build a new one. I wanted to build a new one and convinced him to go that route.

the bare minimum I’m hoping for is a 25 in frame height and 5 inches of uptravel. Plan is to raise the motor similar to my personal Tacoma ao that will help. You have a build or some pictures I can send to him so he sees what I’m trying to do

 

I forgot he used a superduty axle. I’ll go read again.

 

@malburg114 I need to start a build thread