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Old 06-25-2012, 10:08 AM
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IFS --> SAS What can I take with me?

Brake calipers, pieces of the driveshaft, but what else can be used off the IFS within the swap? Im using an 84-85 axle and replacing the rotors, but have little to none of the hardware from the SA. I already bought a bunch of hardware for the knuckles because the axle had already been gone through when i bought it, and was missing almost everything i needed to make it whole again.
Can I use my IFS bolts and nuts to attatch my shocks?
Can I use my stock ifs brake venter-spacer thing as the backing plate on my SA knuckles? I read on 4crawler that you can use it "with a bit of trimming" but i'm not sure if he was referring to the ifs brake venter-thingy or not(sorry dont know what its called).

Im asking because when i do the swap im going to be 100+ miles away from my house or any you-pull JY's and want to make sure i've got close to everything beforehand.

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Most of the hardware is the same.

Backing plate.

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Just curious what year truck or 4runner you're working on? There are other swap/modifications you can do that will utilize some of your ifs parts that you have. If you want your front sa to match the width of your ifs rear axel, but you don't want to run wheel spacers you can swap the sa wheel hubs for ifs wheel hubs and use the ifs caliper, but you have to replace the ifs rotors with Landcruiser rotors. It cost me about $60 for 2 rotors and new bolts and locknuts, (which is cheaper than buying wheelspacers) and now I have better brakes and ifs width front axel.

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Yea, I read about that info but I'm already set up with the sa hubs and already bought the wheel spacers by the time I found that article, so I'm gonna stick w/ the sa hubs for now, but keep my ifs hubs to tinker with. Thanks for the tip though!
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