81 toyota project

Ever wish you wheeled a full body rig again?

the only reason i would probably go back to a full bodied rig is because of the weather, but with my removable cab now it works out pretty good. Other than that I love having an all tube design.

got some rubber on the wheels and on the truck. loaded it up to go to the exhaust shop

Looks way better than the tube IMO!

so thats why it was at hong kong the other night and out of the shop. figured you had it done finally and was going to play

Me likes the look/stance... Looks better with the cab IMHO...

well since i got the 42 ive been sheering off hub studs... so I ordered up a set of Bobbys drive flanges but then got to thinking it would be nice still have locking hubs being welded up front. I have a few extra wheel hubs and hubs laying around so I dug them up and am going to try this out.

drilling and tapping the wheel hub for 7/16 hardware. got this all done yesterday and just waiting on new ring&pinion for the front to put it all back together.

rig looks awesome. will the wheel clear those bigger bolt heads? I have two in the garage with the studs blown off. hopefully that works out let us know after a couple runs :awesomework:

dobber said:

well since i got the 42 ive been sheering off hub studs... being welded up front.

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Theres your problem. :;

Bobby makes a 6 pin hub kit too.

when i had my toyota stuff i drilled and taped my hubs to 3/8s but you have to use alen head bolts cause the wheels wouldnt clear the hex head bolts.

Ive heard of going to 3/8ths. With the 7/16ths is there still ample wall thickness on the hub?

traildemon said:

rig looks awesome. will the wheel clear those bigger bolt heads? I have two in the garage with the studs blown off. hopefully that works out let us know after a couple runs :awesomework:

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The bolt heads do not clear the wheel center, I could have used allen head bolts that would clear but with this being the first test for me doing this i just went with regular bolt heads cause the allen heads were about 3 times more $$$. I will just have to put the wheel on before the hub and I am completley fine with that.

CHOP SHOP said:

Theres your problem. :;

Bobby makes a 6 pin hub kit too.

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I looked at that to but oredered a drive flange kit instead, then I thought of doing this so if this idea doesnt work or other parts of the hub start breaking ill put the drive flanges on

red beard said:

when i had my toyota stuff i drilled and taped my hubs to 3/8s but you have to use alen head bolts cause the wheels wouldnt clear the hex head bolts.

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I believe 7/16 allen heads bolts dont stick out either but the washers still do. hopefully some day soon I will be saying what you have told me "when I had toyota suff".

Bunk said:

Ive heard of going to 3/8ths. With the 7/16ths is there still ample wall thickness on the hub?

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there is still quite a bit of wall left, I think it should hold up just fine. If i measure from inside of threads to outside of wall it is about 0.124in thick and from the outside of thread to outside of wall is about 0.09in thick

here is a crappy pic to kind of show thickness

Here is a picture 1 second before the trunion broke

a little late on an update but i have been super busy

thanks for the pic Corey, I wish it would have been just the bearing. Ended up being broken pin in the hi-steer arm, bend the housing on the short side and the inner knuckle ball ears on the short side, and i had to fix it in a week to be in the naches for the 4th. so i ordered some parts and got to work the day i got home from truff truck.

had to cut the ears off the inner knuckle balls to get the birf out and then had to chop the shot side tube to get the inner axle out. a friend had a bare housing laying around so we went and got that. cut my diff guard, steering skidplate/guard and truss off the old housing to put on the new one. I also ordered the TG kingpins to get rid of the trunion bearings.

heres a few pics

how it sat for the week

broken histeer pin

lower knucke ear bent up pinching birf

and its out

broken and new

just start cutting


not much left



that is all the pics i got, from here there was lots of grinding and welding and had 3 very late nights tuesday, wednesday and thursday so i could leave for naches on friday for the 4th.

Oh yeah, and after a few small trips around home, a day of abusive truff truck racing and a day in the rocks of naches not being easy on it... i am very pleased with the 7/16 bolt upgrade in place of hub studs, no broken bolts(was breaking stock studs about every trip out), the bolts have not loosened up and all and i found out that my wheels do fit, just barely, around the bolt heads to slide off.

Sweet rig! Kinda reminds me of mine...:awesomework:

Those six shooter arms are junk. The pins just sheer off. IMO you would be better just adding a fifth stud.

Mark m. said:

Those six shooter arms are junk. The pins just sheer off. IMO you would be better just adding a fifth stud.

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ill try the kingping pins out for a while and if they do break easily soon ill do the warranty and get some more, but eventually i would liketo be giving spidertrax a call:awesomework:

Poor toyota axle. Your rig is

Mark m. said:

Poor toyota axle. Your rig is

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What toyota axle

Sneaky nightvision shot of what is brewing in my garage