Fully polished TuRD

Cool thanks, i saw the online guides, but wanted to ask the Guru himself!

 

Yea never say those things near the truck. They tend to have a pretty dark sense of humor LOL

 

Yea rookie move for sure, i should have known better!

Other phrases: i havent broken a cv yet (1hr later grenaded my 1 and only cv)
I can easily crawl that, i have dozens of times(followed by multiple denials)
I can sas this truck in a month tops!!

 

This shit box done yet?

 

Getting there, the front axles built, got the column all modified last night and got the u joint to fit. Today im making the steering shaft.

My axle that i flipped using my eyeballs and no true bar is nice and straight, rcvs fit in there with no drama, i didnt even need to clearence the knuckle balls!

 

good...glad they slipped in....Happy 4th of July now get back to work.

 

Lol thanks. Making a store run, then wrenching for a few hours, then its beer and cooking ribs time!

 

Time for a pic heavy update:

I made my steering shaft, i started with a 37" borgensen collapse able DD shaft, and had to cut it down to 13" LOL.

Chopped down


Steep ass angle at the steering box.

I ended up having to grind down the yokes:


Now it works great, no binding.


Next up i test fitted the pitman arm and i am going to have to notch the frame and install a piece of 2"dom cut in half. I did that tonight, and its embarrassingly hack so there will be no pictures of that LOL.


I also fully built the front axle, everything is greased up ready to rock. It took me 2hrs to center the axle shaft in the spindle and set the pre load on the pax side, drivers side was dead center and pre load perfect with the stock shims. I'm just glad the axle wasnt bent to hell and i put it back together straight.

The stock IFS front driveshaft fits perfectly, i am sure im going to hate that it hangs below the springs, but there's no changing that now.


I also did a ton of little crap like hook up the radiator, hook up the belts and boring crap like that. I hope to have it on the street Friday. I have some bilstein 7100's12" short bodies that should be here in a few days, i just need to weld on the shock mounts, bleed the brakes, hook up all the steering and align it and im ready to drive!

 

Looking good. Make sure your steering shaft u-joints are in phase.
http://www.yotatech.com/f152/sas-fj...y-2001-tacoma-283930/index6.html#post52265895

 

Thanks ZUK, ill keep that in mind. Its a DD shaft so they may just be setup in phase, ill read your link over on my commute to work tomorrow.

 

Took another look at that pic of the shaft and it does appear to be in-phase. That is a pretty steep angle.

 

Yea zuk im not the biggest fan of that angle, but it is what it is. I may get a spare ujoint for the box end and toss it in the trail spares since i dont know long term how it will hold up.

 

Nice work... just gettin' in there and getting it done!

 

Its the last 10% that seems to take forever!!

 

Only took me 2 days to read your build. Get back to it lol! Helluva job sir

 

Thanks man. "Cost effective", simple and reliable is what im going for here.

Trust me ive been living off coffee here at work for a few weeks now, its been an almost non stop thrash session after work until late at night trying to get this thing done before going on my trip on the 22nd. This stuff is so damn tedious and takes FOREVER!!

 

On track to hit the road friday. Measured and made my steering hoses, set the alignment, finished up my hacked up frame notch and discoverd i only have 2" of uptravel until my tie rod hits my pitman arm, good times.... i must have moved the box forward or didnt test fit the box with the pitman arm on it. Oh well thats what bump stops are for i guess. I have a 15 item punch list for tomorrow night.

 

That's good news... back on the road again.

My list grew to 20+... once I did one thing, another was added. I'm down to 7 items.

What are you going to do about the up-travel?

 

Bump stops

 

What are you doing with the firewall plate? It looks as if the joint from the steering column will get into the seal like mine originally did.