Take a look at marlin crawler

sorry closest pic I got now. And i didnt have to cut the inner fender on mine

 

yes, i read the quote and the bolded passage you posted, but i was under the impression that you didnt have to cut the fender to mount those...
btw, thanks for the sarcasm...

 

Is that with or with out a body lift? How much lift and what size shocks?

 

The Sky-Manufacturing hoops might work without cutting, along with the Marlin ones. They just seem a bit expensive without knowing for sure how well they will work (clearance and shock length). It just seems like the Ford towers would be a lot easier to modify and allow for the most travel possible (and they are cheap).

Looking at this picture, you can see that it would be easy to notch out the Ford tower to allow it to follow the body line for more height and clearance.

 

That wasn't sarcasm, that was a response without having to retype it all.

 

I have that same CB in my 86' and put it in that little cubby under my CD player. Had to use a dremel and it hurt me to cut on that dash but it turned out great.

(sorry about the bad picture)

 

wow... That looks exactly like my interior.

 

That looks really good!

 

okay, so, if you do go with the ford towers, is there a simple way to brace them? im thinking of the bracing like the hoops have off the back of them...
i imagine that a shock would stress them a lot, and even tho the notch would probably help, im wondering about how flexy they are...

great idea thinking out of the box tho...

 

I think it would be easy enough to brace them, I have a couple ideas but I think I'm going to go with the 12" Trail Gear hoops instead. They say that they require no cutting of the inner fender and they are about the same price of the Ford towers.

 

After WAY too much time in the shop this last weekend, the solid axle is under the Turbo 4Runner. I still have a lot of details to work out but it's drivable and on all tires.

I pulled it in the shop Friday night after work and spent a couple hours in the shop to get head start.

This is how it looked when I showed up early Saturday morning.



And a little bit later





I fought with the front driveshaft for a while and finally had to pull the crossmember to get to the bolts

 

After some cutting and hours of grinding it looked like this





One of the PO had some sort of a tow bar (or something like that) welded to the front crossmember and had cut it off. I had to clean this up to mount the new front spring hanger.

 

Almost ready!



Then it was time to work on the shackle tubes. I wanted to get the best shackle angle possible, so I mounted them as far forward as possible. I did have to trim the body mount a bit for clearance at full droop.

 

Axle going in!





At full droop, the axle has been moved forward an extra 1 1/4"

 

At this time it was around 3:00pm Sunday afternoon and I still had to drive it home that night. Needless to say I didn't take any more pictures but I did drive it home at 1:00am . I still have a lot of details to work out, but this is how it looks right now, I will try to take some better pictures tommorrow.

 

Sick!!! Looks like a real 4Runner now on 35's

How's the front shackle angle? I need to trim my body mounts just like that.

 

nice job I want mine to look that way too...

 

you do very beautiful work... kudos my friend...
mind if i bring my runner up there so you can york magic on it?

 

Sorry it took me so long to respond, its the 12in bilstein 5125s and thats with no body lift. 5 in marlin springs and 2 in shackles.

 

I definitely gotta hand it to you. You do GREAT Work!!! I started following your last Runner build shortly before you decided to go this route instead. And was very impressed with your attention do detail and how clean your work is.

Wish I had the time and shop available to me like you have. I"m stuck doing all my work at ground level. Unless I take to to the college to use the lift for diffs and gears.

Keep up the Great posts and Pics! : )