I was wondering if anyone has ever or has any info on a sas conversion to an ifs? Because i plan on converting my 85 toyota pickup from sas to ifs because i want to prerunner it. so if anyone has any info on this that would be great!

 

Im sure its been done before by someone on here, guess we just have to wait for them to chime in. In the meanwhile can i call dibbs on your front axle?

 

Step 1: sell SA truck.
Step 2: buy IFS truck.


Forreal, it's a ton of welding, cutting, welding, cutting, parts runs, cutting, welding, and cutting to make a non IFS truck IFS.

 

What he said 10 x10 to the tenth power.

The welding is the easy work.

The fitting has to be perfect if you could get your hands on the jigs used at the factory it still would be lots of work.

If your not perfect your truck goes down the road sideways and is impossible to align which means you could need front tires every couple hundred miles.

Thing is it is your truck go fourth and start cutting

Your going to need a whole truck to make sure you get all the parts much easier to swap your engine in a new truck. I know I would not want one that has been hit.

You start trying to do anything but splice in the whole front section of the frame things get all distorted and warped one big mess

Just buy a new to you truck

 

trade trucks OR swap frames

lots of people would love to have a solid axle

 

Solid axle will do fine in a prerunner. Just truss it and be prepared for a rough ride. I run my SA truck pretty quick through some very rough terrain and haven't had an issue.

 

Like said above sell yours and start with a factory IFS truck

 

Yeah, There is some guy on here that runs an '85 Prerunner, but his started life as a two wheel drive truck, not a SA truck.

 

Why sir in the name of all that is yota would you wanna do that? You have the holy grail of Toyota's learn to love the ruff ride or sell to someone who will.

 

Been done plenty of times with some ultra 4 race cars. But they are built from scratch to begin with.

 

StangBanger - if i go through with it you will be the first one i talk to about the SA.

The whole reason i really want to do this is because I just recently rolled my truck and I have always wanted a prerunner so I thought it would be a cool idea. But I think I might just look in to finding a new frame or something. Thank you y'all were great help. I'll let y'all know what I plan on doing.

 

its not uncommon to have a SFA Pre runner setup. watch KoH and you'll see.

 

Yeah I know but I'm just kind of tired of the SA and I hope to one day turn it in to an all out race truck with gnarly long travel in the front and a nice 4 link system in the rear, but I don't know yet i'll just have to wait and see what happens.

 

I thought prerunners had no front drive of any kind.

 

typically, yes, a prerunner is only 2wd and was a word used to describe a vehicle that can mob around offroad at high speed and soak up all the bumps. I would guess the name kinda derived from stadium truck racing as people started making them out of their street-driven vehicles. with modern suspension systems and racing such as KOH, I think the definition is sort of changing because now we see lots of 4wd and solid axle vehicles being able to handle this type of driving.