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My SAS Build And MUCH More
So this has been a dream of mine to do for years. Ever since I bought my first 95 toyota pickup when I was 15. Since then I have built to the max that 95, a 01, and a 07 but because of limited knowledge of doing a sas and the time/ good opportunity to do one I never pulled the trigger on the sas swap. My 95 had a 7" lift with
35's. My 01 had a 13" lift with 37's and my 07 had a 6" lift with 33's. All were IFS and needless to say I have gone through many cv axles over the years. So when I bought my 92 pickup last summer the plan was to do a SAS on it to make it my best hunting rig to date. When I bought it it already had a 4" bracket lift on it and that was about it. I put 2.5" ball joint spacers on it with 2.5" OME springs that sat on top of 4" blocks with 33's. The first wheeling trip I broke both cv axles so as soon as I got home I started doing my research on the SAS swap. After months of research and countless hours on this site reading some great build up threads I finally chose to order trail gears 5" HD IFS elemenator kit along with the creeper gusset kit, arp studs, and 5" rear springs. |
I found a 85 4 runner axle to use as the donor. I completely rebuilt it and added a front diff guard that I built and painted it. I had the truck tore down for about 2 months while I completed everything.
As it sits now: 5" HD springs in front and 5" springs in the rear. 85 toyota 4 runner solid axle, creeper gusset kit, arp studs, custom front diff guard, 4:88's front and rear, lock right in the rear, 36" bias swamper tsl's, 15" steel wheels, custom tire carrier, custom rear bumper, tool box, trail gear front bumper, 8000 lb caisson winch, smittybuilt rope cable, warn hubs, durabak on the truck and bed, tint, new stereo system, 6 under carriage lights, 2 bed lights, 5125 bilstein shocks all around, custom rock sliders, bushwhacker fender flares, magnaflow straight pipe exhaust, high lift and shovel mounted in the bed, I cut out my stock turn signal light brackets off of my stock bumper and welded them on trail gears front bumper to re use my stock turn signals, after market tail lights, head lights, and corner lights, and of course gotta have the camo hunting decals on the windows. Im sure there's more that I haven't listed but you can see it all in the pics. |
Edit: its a CSI winch, not caisson. Stupid cell phone lol
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I have a ton of pics of the sas and the rest of the build along with a couple pics of my previous trucks listed above but its not letting me post pics on here. Keeps telling me to enter the url address and I don't have a photo bucket account to add them to. Never used to ask me that before. I used to just upload them right on here. Anybody feel like posting some pics for me if I email them over or walk me though a way of doing it myself without the url?
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Get a photobucket account, they are quite handy. And if you sign up in the next 26 minuets, its free! |
^ heh heh
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Working on it
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So I set up a photo bucket account today and after a hour of messing with it I still can't get the pics to load on here. Sorry guys.
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Let the pictures begin!
This is my 95 and my 01 Attachment 191278 This is my 01 with some more upgrades. It had a TRD supercharger with the 7th injector kit and smaller pulley and ran a 15 flat in Utah in the quarter with 37's on it. With the 4:88 gears I went through a few rear ends with that truck. Had 333 horse power!! Attachment 191279 This is my 07 Blacked out with a 6" fabtec lift on 33"s Attachment 191280 Attachment 191281 This is the 92 the day I bought it Attachment 191282 After a few mods to make it my own Attachment 191283 After I put the ball joint spacers and OME springs in the rear Attachment 191284 The day I broke my cv axles and the SAS vision became a reality Attachment 191285 |
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The first day starting to tear it all down.
Attachment 191286 Attachment 191287 Attachment 191288 Lots of parts lying around and started to tear apart my donor axle and clean it up a bit. Attachment 191289 Attachment 191290 |
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Moved it over to the shop to tear apart the IFS and the rear. What a pain in the ASS all that IFS removal is!! I powder coated a lot of the trail gear parts and painted the rest.
Found a good deal on some 36" swampers with steel wheels and a brand new full size spare to throw on my tire carrier I built. Attachment 191291 Got the front axle all put together with no major issues. Attachment 191292 Attachment 191293 Attachment 191294 |
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Started working on the rear lift first.
Attachment 191295 The rear lift about finished Attachment 191296 I left part of the stock hanger on the passenger side cause it had my brakelines mounted to it. Attachment 191297 |
Forgot to mention that I built that rear tube bumper you see while the bed was still on the truck to fit it like a glove!
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Torched all the IFS brackets off
Attachment 191298 Then grinded them smooth. Attachment 191299 Torched the frame holes and welded the motor mount plate. Attachment 191300 Tacked and clamped the hanger to instal the front springs and then used the floor jacks to test the shackle angle under load. Attachment 191301 Attachment 191302 Attachment 191301 Welded the front hanger and gussets in. Attachment 191304 Moved the front axle in place for intal. Man thats a heavy sucker to move around!! Attachment 191305 |
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Bolting it up.
Attachment 191306 Man that passenger side inner u bolt was a pain in the ASS to get on with my front diff guard!! Attachment 191307 Put the shock hoops and braces on and then the shocks. Attachment 191308 A little flex test to intal the bumpstops and steering stabilizer. Attachment 191309 As it sat after that day. Attachment 191310 |
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Next was to start painting and durabaking the whole truck. I went with DURABAK because it is super adhesive and has a UV protectant built in that wont fade my color.
Attachment 191311 http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/...GTOY88/T36.jpg Put the bed back on then took it home to start putting on all the goodies. Attachment 191312 Attachment 191313 Then I hooked up my under carriage lights and bed lights. Attachment 191314 Attachment 191315 Attachment 191316 Next was to go get the alignment done and I was actually impressed with how well it alligned up. Attachment 191317 Then I put all my decals and logos on and had the winows, windshiled, and tail lights tinted. Attachment 191318 Attachment 191319 Attachment 191320 |
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Next I took it down to a buddys shop and had him fine tune the engine for me and replace all the plugs and wires so it runs like a champ now! Heres some pics as it sits today. I still need to figure out a better way to mount my rear shocks to give me more travel on them because there is only about 4-5 inches of rod sticking out of the shaft and it will limit my rear flex.
Attachment 191321 Attachment 191322 Attachment 191323 Attachment 191324 Attachment 191325 Attachment 191326 Attachment 191327 Attachment 191328 I hope my build up will help some people out with their own and give them some different ideas. It is good to give back to this site as it has helped me learn a lot about these trucks and how to troubleshoot different issues you come across while doind projects like these. I am picking up my front driveshaft today and will be taking it out on its first wheeling trip this wknd so hopefully I will have some good wheeling pics to post up for you guys soon. |
Thats a beautiful truck man. I really like it
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WOW!! Really nice work!
I know those hills. I wheel a similar truck to yours in them thar parts! |
Thanks guys. Toyo, you come to UT much?
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