I have not had it aligned yet. I'll let you know how that turns out. The truck is not exactlly tagged and inspected (it's a trail rig), but I did drive it around the block late last night & could tell a big improvement in steering feel. My TRE's where shot so it was bound to make a big difference, not sure how much improved it would have been compared to good TRE's.

 

Very nice work!!!!! One thing to consider would be some flat spots on the center of the rod where you can insert a wrench to turn it.

 

I had planned on milling some flats, but ended up just using some channel locks to adjust them. Truth be told I needed the 4runner out of my garage for another project so I ran out of time and just put it together. I think it will be fine with out the flats.

 

yeah, channel locks or a pipe wrench works great. lots of vehicles come stock requiring a set of either to adjust the toe.

 

Very cool thread. That is exactly what I will be doing with my setup.

yotarob2005; all ya have to do now is convert your lower arms to uniballs, and make an upper arm like mine to use a uniball. Do away with the BJ spacer and get more droop and up travel. I think mine will be right about 11 inches of wheel travel width stock width arms, stock steering geometry (adding hiems and chromoly tie rods) and ZERO CV bind. oh yeah stock CVs too

Another thought would be to add some material to the spindle just above the tie rod end on the spindle to get a double shear point on the spindle for the hiem. Like a gusset. that way you would never shear that bolt at high side loads.

Very Cool stuff guys!

 

Thanks Rob2thec.

Man I would love to see a write up or some pics of your uniball control arms!

 

On my build thread, the uppers are on there. I will FOR SURE do a write up on the the arms, when I am putting the system on and cycling it.

-R

 

That is pretty cool! as far as the drilling being undoable on the drag link, a new drag link only cost me $18 bucks at the junk yard so I figured I will give it a shot (ive still got my old one so I may just try it out on that one first to see how well it works.) Also dont ever buy anything from ballistic fabrication. Im still waiting on my tubing to get in and ive had the rest of the parts sitting in my room for a couple of weeks now. Ridiculous.

 

looks good!

just need to address the idler arm now


good work!

 

LOL, I have been threw 3 idlers in 6 months of hard wheeling. Idler has bronze bushings already & will be fabbing a brace similar to the one Downey used to make very soon.

 

my point exactly

 

I see what your saying, I got mine put in this weekend and I have a little bit of work to do tomorrow and then hopefully ill get mine aligned. However I was not able to do it the way you did. Idk y but where your bolt just rubbed against the frame. Mine would not even fit, I was no where close to what you had, I had to fab something up. Ill post some pictures soon that should take your interest!

 

Heres what I ended up with. Works pretty good so far.

 

Sorry about some of them being sideways, Im uploading these in class and dont have time to rotate them.

 

Very cool setups guys! I should be starting on my steering and suspension next month.

 

Nice work. I went with the FJ80 ends



Like I said in the other thread, I'll be interested to see how the heims wear.

Sweet machine work. Well done.

 

Hey mega man, how is that set up working for you? Do you have any issues with bump steer since the tie rods got longer? Cool set up!