Had a heck of a time finding longer wheel studs. Didnt want to drop the $$ for ARPs and they dont "just make longer studs". So this is what I found:

Dorman Part #98458 is the stock front stud is a .559" Knurl and a .3149 shoulder depth. Length of 40 mm.

Part # 610-312 is a stock rear stud, with a knurl diameter of .5578" and shoulder depth of .4921. 44.5mm long

But after digging through the Dorman parts book, I found one!

Part # 610-463. Rear stud off of a Awd Toyota Matrix. Same .559 knurl but a shoulder depth just over an inch, it makes the whole stud 55mm.

Stock on the left, stock rear in the middle, and martix on the right.



Same with the Taco rotor on.



And in the rim



I can get about 6 turns onto a stock one, and about 8-9 on to the stock rear. this bolt is .75" long and I have thread for days.



Probably could have gotten away with using the rear studs, but I wanted to be sure.

With that out of the way I put the front axle together.



Still need to work the break shims to get the rotor to line up with the caliper. but still..



Run down of the axle: 85 Axle with all the TG armor. Marlin axle rebuild with Koyo wheel bearings and Youkon trunion bearings. Ifs hubs ground down with martix wheel studs running 97 Tacoma rotors. Stock 92 v6 break caliper moved to the other side of the knuckle ears and drilled out for 1/2" bolt. 5th stud. 4.10 diff with lunchbox locker and 30 spline longs with TG creeper flanges.

 

Looks beefy.your front springs look worn out?? Or is that just me??...

 

Theyre RUFs, info on the previous page. Built them to sit low. Will have about 3-4 " of uptravel and lots o droop.

 

Started playing with where to put the box.

 

Sorry i didnt research that more!!Lookin good

 

Nice work. Looking forward to seeing trail photos.

 

Thanks man, I cant wait to get some trail photos too!

Got most of my steering parts in yesterday. Ill have a better update after the weekend, but heres the teaser.

 

Woooooot! I too AM excited to see you killin it with all this! How are you doing buddy?

 

yay for progress pics.

Box looks pretty good, might want to push it forward just a smidge more so later on when you move the axle forward on the center-pins it still clears.

Awesome find on the wheel studs. I had been looking for the same thing.

You finally locate front bumpstops other than the back-breaking Trail-Gear tab-mounted ones?

With all the other cool home-fab stuff, please tell me you've through-bolted the motor mounts already?

Where you able to retain the factory "military" double-wrap front eyes on the springs in your bastard pack?

Have fun drilling out the high-steer arms for the larger heim's bolt. Maybe make some simple double-shear brackets out of 1/8" to box in the hiem.

Actually, got pics of clearance from your tie rods to the inside of the tire/wheel?

 

Chef- Doin good here!

Monkey- No I didnt do the motor mounts, I know, I know.. . Yes to the leaf springs, but Im looking for a back up set if you know of any stray 48" packs/ Still working on the bumpstops, but wont be using the trail gear guys. Hy steer arms drilled out easy in the drill press! We gotta go crawlin soon, I added a Maxstone 8 to the fleet, this things HuGE, 7" tires.

Heres some comparison pics. These are RuffStuff 7/8th hemis vs the stock 85 tierods.







Mock up.



Going to notch the frame for the bolt. I got it to sit a little tighter, but the overall length of the hemi with the misalignment spacers and bolt is pretty long..



Had to take just a hair off each washer to get the calipers to sit perfect, and they JUST barley clean the inside of the 15" rim. . Tierod is done, but waiting for one joint to come in before I can finish up the drag link.



With the wheel on

 

Looking good man!!!

 

any reason why you didn't use stock 85 wheel studs? they're only 2.5mm shorter than the matrix ones.

 

Welp, The stock 85 studs ( Dorman Part # 610-264) Have a knurl of .5692, so it would require drilling out the holes in the IFS hub. I actually bought one to test because the they fit tighter in the holes of Taco rotor. Besides the re drilling, the splines are also farther down the stud, and a little bit of them actual hang out the other side of the IFS hub. I was going to use them, but then I found the matrix stud..

 

Looking way good man!

 

Looking very good! Can't wait for trail pics!

 

That is one beefy tie rod!

 

Looks like you will be sitting nice and low. Look forward to seeing your ride height when done. I like your beefy steering as well.

Good luck on the rest!

 

Got my box mounted and frame notched. Going to box in above the notch and the back side of the frame a bit, It will be plenty strong, youll see.








Also made it out into the woods this weekend with some friends, and had some company in the shop


Pictures here: Royalton Hill Snow Run 2014 Photos by ediblecrayons03 | Photobucket

 

That video really looks like they were goin ball$ out!!!

 

looks like a fun trip!!!