Started pulling the front end apart today and found out I broke the steering arm too







Can't really tell the housing is bent from the pictures.

 

Trailgear warranty replaced the arm, should be here Monday. Rock Assault housing should also be here Monday.

Anyone who says a 110 gas welder doesn't get enough penetration for a front spring hanger has never had to cut one off. With a gas cut off saw, angle grinder, and countless cutting wheels it still took me a better part of the day to get the front hanger off. Ended up ripping off a couple inches of the front of the frame too in the process. That thing wasn't going anywhere.

Anyway, tacked on where it should have been all along. 1" forward of the crossmember.



Put some weight on the spring and the shackle angle looks good for once.

Got the steering box unbolted and the steering shaft out and called it a day. It's too hot out for this crap.



I didn't realize only the older trucks had the steering column you could drill the pins out of and have a slip shaft. Guess I'll have to sleeve and extend mine.

 

take the fender flares off tires are way to tiny looks gooffy in my opinion sorry if this came accross rude. lol

 

you should read the build before you go straight to the last page and comment. just a word of advice

 

Hmm, it's on 37's, sometimes on 38.5's and I'm looking to run 39.5's.

Some fun stuff showed up today.






These steering stops look way smaller than the stock housing stops. Unless I'm just holding them in the wrong spot...
I'll mess with them after it's under the truck.

 

Awesome!!!!!

 

I can't wait to get one of those axles under my Ftoy #525 which I pick up Saturday.

I'd weld the steering stops on while the axle is free from the truck.

 

finally got some work done. finally a shackle angle I'm happy with.
steering box forward a little over 2" with a 3/4 drop sky pitman arm, front hanger forward 1", redrilled ubolt plate 1" forward, extended steering shaft 2".









Would have finished today but I mangled my last inner axle seal set trying to get them in the new housing. They seem to fit tighter in there and I trashed some cheapo seals in no time. Time for some marlins.

 

Went away to Utah for a week so I finally got around to finishing it.

Rental Mazda turd on the salt flats.



Sits waaayyy high in the front now with a proper shackle angle.
Looking for some 39.5's now.

 

looks like your ready to go drive over a honda civic...

 

or the mazda turd lmao

 

heyy, sweet truck, ive got a few questions, that rear bumper in some of your pics (the one with the built in shackles) is that homemade? im lookin fer a new bumper and that one looks good. what kinda gfog lights ya runnin? and lastly, is that blue caprice a 9c1? its in great shape dude, looks like you keep it clean!!

 

his rear bumper looks like a smittybuilt with some d-rings welded to plates which are welded to the bumper

 

Dude...I haven't checked in on this thread in literally over a year!

This is what Toyota's are all about - no matter what gets thrown at it it comes back, bigger and better than ever.

Subscribed now, just so I don't miss anything else!

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ohh i see 81yota, good eye for noticing that, i guess ill get a smittybilt, and eventually get my d rings on when i get a new welder.

 

and forgot to mention some cash too haha

 

Like he said it's an old smittybuilt with plates, d-rings, and other reinforcing welded on that you can't see. Thinking about cutting off the bottom tubes that stick out so it's kinda like

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Dunno, I'm not really a fan of it.
I'm still trying to decide what to do about a front winch mount and bumper. Kinda like the trailgear one.
The fog lights are a couple of hellas that a local steel supply place sells the pair of for $25. You can have mine if you buy the front bumper as well. Only $475 lol.

Yeah it's a 1990 9c1 with a 350.


Sooner or later I'm pulling the TBI 350 out and building a carb'd 350 to wake it up.
My daily is a 1985 Celica I just finished restoring about a month ago.

 

if you can weld make your own rear bumper

 

my dads a cop car restorer drive for 1k miles and resell guy, so when i was growin up, we'd have have 5+ cop cars in our yard at once, i remember id always stay up late on weekends and watch my pops work on his cop cars all night. out of all the cop cars ive ridden in while growing up my dads 89 9c1 was by far my favorite, for a retirement gift my borother and sister and mom and i are gonna buy my dad either an 89 or 90 caprice so he has something to play with again. his current project now is my moms 99 P73 crownvic we are "converting" to a p71.

so what engine is in the celica? i bet those qq's save alot of money too eh?

if you ever lose interest in the caprice drop me a line, im willing to pay top dollar in a heartbeat, shes gorgous. if im not mistaken the engine in there is the 'detuned' ls1 right?

 

Hey man, would you mind trying to resize that pic of your Celica?
Turns out I don't have a 46" monitor to surf from.

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