Author Topic: is $650 too much for a complete "85 front axle? (axle found!!!) (Read 14842 times)

darksidefab · « **Reply #30 on:** Feb 10, 2007, 07:26:51 PM »

way to much!!!!!!! i just picked up complete drivetrain from an 89" with an front 85' axle for 200.(complete motor, harness, trany with t-case, rear end with spool, and both f/r 4.88) so yeah thats to much!

jimbo74 · « **Reply #31 on:** Feb 10, 2007, 07:29:33 PM »

the best way to do it, is talk to friends with yotas, it is amazing what networking can find....

robrub00 has been helping me out on my truck lately, he's always getting parts and selling parts...

DTB · « **Reply #32 on:** Feb 10, 2007, 07:30:45 PM »

Quote from: jimbo74 on Feb 10, 2007, 07:29:33 PM

the best way to do it, is talk to friends with yotas, it is amazing what networking can find....

YES! ding ding ding!

kneedownnate · « **Reply #33 on:** Feb 10, 2007, 07:49:34 PM »

Kick myself in the ass all the time about not buying 2 84 toys complete for $400

Marc P · « **Reply #34 on:** Feb 10, 2007, 08:08:13 PM »

I found mine on www.car-parts.com

I paid $250.00

Yota Tony · « **Reply #35 on:** Feb 10, 2007, 09:30:37 PM »

I can get Toy fronts for about $150.
650 is a rip off unless it's got Longs in it already.

ajfriz · « **Reply #36 on:** Feb 10, 2007, 09:55:51 PM »

I just bought one from a salvage yard for $100 complete with front springs and everything. They have another one that I'll sell ya for $350 plus shipping

Redeyejedi · « **Reply #37 on:** Feb 10, 2007, 10:06:09 PM »

so called around abit and these forkn' axles want like $550 and one guy said $825 AND my first born + left nut & bolt.....

Gittinit · « **Reply #38 on:** Feb 10, 2007, 10:10:37 PM »

Quote from: Redeyejedi on Feb 10, 2007, 10:06:09 PM

so called around abit and these forkn' axles want like $550 and one guy said $825 AND my first born + left nut & bolt.....

Have ya looked in the forsale section on here or pirate. Find some individual to buy from, mabye a fellow wheeler won't want to bend you over.

86bobbedtoy · « **Reply #39 on:** Feb 10, 2007, 11:07:28 PM »

dang before I was into wheelin I got a parts truck with 2 in the back and offed them for 50 bucks.. Yes Im kickin myself in the ass. please dont make fun of me. I was like 16

boggerunner · « **Reply #40 on:** Feb 10, 2007, 11:13:52 PM »

i got an 85 front, 4 spd tranny and top shift t-case for $65, and i traded an 94 4runner housing with shafts for another 85 front axle here in colorado

jimbo74 · « **Reply #41 on:** Feb 10, 2007, 11:14:48 PM »

try craigslist and look in the for sale section here. usually there are people parting out toy trucks in your area, they most post a higher price if they know what they have, but cash talks and you can usually use that to talk them down

insane04 is in TN and has all sorts of stuff, might have one....

try contacting the member here named davez, he has a shop and junkyard basically, in the fresno area i believe, im sure hes got one

Redeyejedi · « **Reply #42 on:** Feb 10, 2007, 11:29:37 PM »

i'll take one for $50, and i'll even pay for shippn too if ya twist my arm.

4XFlyin · « **Reply #43 on:** Feb 10, 2007, 11:30:55 PM »

Your problem is that you live in LA

The local yards are a rip off.

Buy one from someone on this board. Keep looking till you find the right price or buy a cheap truck and part it out.

4XFlyin · « **Reply #44 on:** Feb 10, 2007, 11:34:37 PM »

Who's your daddy?
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/ant/pts/274182055.html

4XFlyin · « **Reply #45 on:** Feb 10, 2007, 11:36:54 PM »

You should buy it and sell me the bed cheap!!!

4XFlyin · « **Reply #46 on:** Feb 10, 2007, 11:40:22 PM »

I am a dumb A$$

Just realized it's 2wd

91 super yoda · « **Reply #47 on:** Feb 11, 2007, 03:50:42 PM »

got my 84 solid axle shipped form PA to TX for a grand total of $250. put in a knuckle kit, bearings, aussie, 5.29's, and a coat of paint. got the axle off of ebay everything else came from marlin, except the aussie.

KYOTA · « **Reply #48 on:** Feb 11, 2007, 04:06:37 PM »

Quote from: Redeyejedi on Feb 10, 2007, 10:06:09 PM

so called around abit and these forkn' axles want like $550 and one guy said $825 AND my first born + left nut & bolt.....

you have got to stay away from junk yards (except pick and pull) unless you like to bend over frequently. Craigslist is getting as bad as ebay now, everyone thinks there

is golden

. Looking on wheeling forum classifieds is your best bet, fellow wheelers helping each other out not F you over

alwayzbroken · « **Reply #49 on:** Feb 11, 2007, 04:08:48 PM »

650 is way too much unless it comes with a massaging hand and it doesn't complain

Redeyejedi · « **Reply #50 on:** Feb 11, 2007, 08:27:04 PM »

yeah i looked in the pirate boards, seached cragslist with google, recycler several local yards. i'm sure i'll find one, just gotta be patient(but then if i had a lot patients, i'd be a dr.

)
hit me up guys if you stumble upon something (axle-like).
much apprecitaed for all the heads up and web sifting....

YodaKrawler · « **Reply #51 on:** Feb 11, 2007, 10:30:50 PM »

where are you at and does it matter what gear ratio is in it?

Redeyejedi · « **Reply #52 on:** Feb 11, 2007, 11:32:05 PM »

i am in los angeles, calif - 90301

BoG-ToY · « **Reply #53 on:** Feb 12, 2007, 06:48:40 AM »

I know there is a place selling them on ebay up in maine, to get it to florida it was gonna cost me like 250 for a complete axle shipped to me, I think they let the axles go for about 100 or 125 each,

there problem in maine being, they sent a ton of those trucks up there(they needed the four wheel drive) but becuase of the salt in the air, the drivetrain outlasted the bodys, so then the needed even more new trucks......some of the junkyards piles are full of these axles, I know this one person has sold over 50 of them now

86bobbedtoy · « **Reply #54 on:** Feb 13, 2007, 10:38:36 AM »

holly toyota axles, 50 youd be living good around here with 50.

BoG-ToY · « **Reply #55 on:** Feb 13, 2007, 11:23:01 AM »

looks like the may have sold out now, they had pallets full of them last time......they told me not to worry about it if I couldnt get one right away

Plowking · « **Reply #56 on:** Feb 13, 2007, 03:26:46 PM »

Sounds to pricy. The last one I bought used was set up wrong and used to hum caused the gears werent set up right. I would find someone reputable to buy off of, if the housing is bent you wont know it till you use it and blow berfs, to many scenerios to buying a used rear.

Be careful and good luck

Redeyejedi · « **Reply #57 on:** Feb 13, 2007, 11:24:59 PM »

wow, i thought $825 was WAY too much after reading yall's replies.....like, way way way -spank me then brand my ass b4 you fork me- too much!! But this buffoon in n.hollywierd wanted nine hundred united states dollars. (had to spell it out so u wouldn't think canadian) So i asked him, "is it complete....like with the rest of the truck?" he hung up on me. so, still lookin, wishn i had a bullet train loaded, with my axle, ifs-X- kit+rear all my goodies, 4-in-1 LincolnElectric, and those miller chicks i saw at the bar the other night all shipped to my door. shoots, i'd even go terminal collect @ LAX for them miller ladies -oh so fine!
but yea, i gotta trust my parts-person, be he/she a JY or salesperson not to sell me bent junk. are there bullet trains in maine? my MGD ladies?

(MGD = must get drunk) could have been Miller Natural Genuine Draft....must NOT get drunk....but we know whats really goin down..... $Beer Chug\'n$

Ramrod · « **Reply #58 on:** Feb 14, 2007, 04:01:36 PM »

that last one I bought was $50 bucks cash and then I stripped the whole passenger side for parts and sold the rest for $140 the next day!!!

Redeyejedi · « **Reply #59 on:** Feb 20, 2007, 03:36:59 PM »

Search continues. Called around this week and much of last week. Fools up and down the golden state think yota straight fronts are gold.

lowest price i was quoted yet was $450 for a complete, $300 for housing only :bull crap: . then i found another guy who says he sells the axles for $450-$500 all day long. he said he would buy axles and 3rds from me if i could get some. i dunno. i need an axle but don't wanna get reamed as i am on a budget like everyone else. any more suggestions?

?
thanks

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