Just stopping in to say hello.

[porkchop88]

Hello to all. I have been on this forum some but i guess not enough, so I am going to start all over again.

I live in a small town in NC. I have always toyed around with the idea of rock crawling, but I also know how drawn out of a process it is (lots of man hours).

I currently am working on an 87 Toyota Pickup that i bought a couple of years ago to be a daily driver. I don't exactly know the route that i want to take. I am tossing around the idea of having a street legal machine that i can also play with. The truck as it sits right now is pretty much stock. 22r motor, g54 transmission, IFS, etc.

I would like to get some ideas from all who are pros at this. This will be a long and drawn out process for me, as i don't have the mega funds to go all out. Any input for anyone on this site will be most appreciated.

I look forward to talking with everyone in the future.

[Nation]

If it were me. I'd start with gears and lockers.... then bigger tires.. Also IFS is not the strongest for serious wheelin g. That being said there's a little trick I learned. If you pull the PS differential flange out of the diff and clean it off. You'll notice a weld there where the l
Flange meets the output shaft. Beef up that weld and it will be much stronger. That seems to be the weak point..

[porkchop88]

O.k., that's good to know. I have a Solid Axle off of an early 80s model Toyota that i plan on installing in the front.

Will that suffice, or do i need to get something a little bit beefier?

[Rocksurfer]

  II  depending on how much you want to put into this you can make a decent crawler without breaking the bank. The frontend will be the weakest link on your vehicle but there are plenty of ideas out there on them. I've run them IFS and have only broken 1 axle and I beat them up. The biggest thing is that if you put a locker in the front you will need to not be a throttle jockey. That is the quickest way to snap the short axle shaft. Since you are limited on funds a locker in the rear will change your whole outlook on traction, lifting it with IFS can be done to accommodate 33's with rear leafs, flat bumpstops on the front and a spacer on the upper arms. Many shun body lifts but it is cheap and effective to squeeze 35's under your truck, but with IFS that's as far as I'd go.

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