More progress got the front hangers tacked on as well as the rear. Axle is almost centered not perfect but very close like 99% lol and pictures for proof!

 

Looking good. You really want your axle centered in the fender wheel at full stuff. That gives you the most tire clearance without having to trim the fenders. That's what Ive read anyways, and it makes sense to me. I still haven't decided if I will center mine at full stuff or at ride height and trim as necessary.

 

Well I'm gonna check that today after work going to throw the flanges on and bolt the tires on to see how it looks well after we tack the perches on and what not fingers are crossed lol

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Well shoot miscalculated things and now I need to move the perches back about 1.5 inches sigh, but I did install some new wheel bearings lol

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Well at least they are just tacked on at the moment. Trail and error...that's the fun part about building something right? lol

 

Yes we shall use the word fun lol it's fun building special tools like the bearing remover thing my old man and I made it's basically a press without the hydraulic part lol

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cool build! love that 2-dr runner.

not sure if you have it covered already, but anytime that you rotate a pinion like the rear end is there, and you want to drive it on the street, you'll have to run a double cardan joint on the driveshaft... you get vibration without it.

as long as the transfer case/rear pinion flanges are parallel with each other, you can usually stick to a u-joint at each end.

I ended up with a tom woods cv driveshaft(1310), but right after I got it, I found a clean front cv driveshaft in a newer 4runner, that probably would have been cheaper to setup, and certainly stronger.

 

Thanks for the tip! I was bugging my dad today about borrowing the double cardan in his 4runner once everything was done on my truck and well he said no lol. So I'll just try and get by with my driveshaft for the time being haha

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I went through that. Longer shackles equaled pinion flange pointing to the transfer case flange.......= some shake and deceleration growl. In went my IFS CV, problem solved.

 

Hmm never thought about using the front double cardan do you have a write up somewhere teuf?

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No write up, I just cut the CV off a few inches from the yoke. Disassembled CV. Brought it to a driveline shop. They installed and balanced it. As stated I have no vibe issues now. My SAS thread may go into this a bit.

 

I had to grind the corner out of the frame crossbrace to fit the woods cv driveshaft, it was really tight.

single t-case may not have to do that.

 

Well my hybrid leaf pack is still too weak the rear end only came up about an inch lol so I've opted to not use the lift blocks and instead go with a add a leaf from zoneoffroad that they sell for Chevy leaf springs if that still doesn't work well shoot lift block it is or I'll just pull a leaf from the front dam HD leaf springs so stiff! But the axle is centered now yay!

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Well that sucks. Did you order a long AAL or short? From what I hear, the long is what gives the most lift.

Any pics of how it currently sits?

 

They didn't specify a size on there site I guess I'll shoot them a quick email to ask if there are different sizes and no I don't have any pics I'm too shamed atm lol

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Well they told me it would net me around 2 inches of lift which should be enough

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Hopefully it won't be too stiff with that setup. That's what makes me nervous about a AAL. No reason to be ashamed about how it looks. Right now. Trail and error is part of it. Plus it helps guys like me that are fixing to do the same thing

 

I don't think it'll be stiffer then the front springs lol should be here sometime next week so while I'm waiting I'll be painting the shackles and other parts that need it oh and taking care of the dam rust on the back of the frame might need to brace it the rear too

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Painted my pumpkin and shackles still need to take care of the rust as you can see and yes i love the color green lol

 

I'm super nervous about the aal not lifting the rear enough lol but until it gets here I won't know sigh and clearly I'm impatient because I'm miss driving my rig....sniff okay I'm done crying haha

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