my 83 Crawler

[John Dibble]

this is my 83 Toyota. i am building it for the rocks and tight trails. it runs on 38"tsl and has 5.29 in the axles. the front has been upgraded with the 30 spline longfields to keep it together. the rear suspension i built myself and i used rear grand Cherokee coils. the front suspension is rear leaf with some modification. i get about 30" of travel in the rear and about 20" in front. i am currently working on putting a Toyota auto in (30-80LE) with a duel case.

[alwaysbroken]

   Nice truck..

[wa4x4]

Nice first gen! More pictures are needed!

[John Dibble]

here is some more pic.

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o' !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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DIVE! DIVE! DIVE!

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[toyo487]

That toy flexes awsome,     I see you really like the mud,  where were you wheelin?

[John Dibble]

This trail is up in Sandpoint Idaho. we went on my birthday witch is in Jan. and the trail we normally run is to difficult. so we just go on this one . the trail we normally go on is a steady climb up a mountain witch is covered with granite rock. when there is snow on the ground the rocks turn into ice and its dam near imposable.

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[BoMXtreme]

I was in sandpoint over the summer, great place.  Looks over that huge mountain range, but i didnt have my ride so we couldnt do any wheelin.  I still got out on the backroads to check out the area, sweet rig and 

[pumkin toy]

about how much did you spend for materials when you built your 4 link?  i'm gonna do one soon, just gettin ideas

[John Dibble]

all the materials i went to the scrap yard and spent about 30$.the joints were about 100$ and the inserts i made my self. the coils i went to the junk yard and pulled  off of and jeep grand Cherokee. the front were to stiff so i used the rear. so in all it was about 250-300$ which isn't bad.

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for any who is think of going on the cabin fever run in coeur d' alene idaho in april 1 here is some pic of the trails

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[pumkin toy]

thats not bad for materials at all.  i'vde got about 4 sets of used coils off of cherokees, tjs, and other trucks so i should be set to go with one of those.