Does anyone know of a person or vendor on the East Coast who does cut and turns on axles? I am going to SOA my cruiser and while I know I can get away with not doing a cut and turn I would prefer to do it right the first time.

I can't belive everyone sends their axles out West for this to be done. If no one knows of anyone I will probably end up building a jig with a friend and we will start doing it on the East Coast. Of course I will have to gueina pig a few test axles first. :D

i think most of the "shops" here will do it to you housing or swap it out as a core i think mudrac's (sp) is one i can find the link but someone will post ... strip yours down and ship it

John:

Have you tried 4x4Connection in VA? I've heard some not-so-good stories about some of their fab work, though.

What about Up And Over in PA? http://www.upnover.com

If that doesn't work, there is Land Cruiser Solutions up here in NH: http://www.cruisersolutions.com/

Welcome to the dark side, grasshopper. you missed the meeting last night, otherwise i would have pointed you in the right direction...

now i'm not sure if i can. ;)

Just kidding. I sent mine out. I know Lance has the wherewithal to do it, but you might ask him if he's willing to. He'd be the first person i contacted.

Beyond that, i sent a bare housing to Joe Calleja at CTS in Colorado, and he sent me a turned one. Pretty simple really.

Rob

Also Kurt at Cruiseroutfitters will do it, he does it all the time but they are here in Utah. Poor Wally of Poor Wally's Land Cruiser Emporeum (the other name for his barn, but it is a badass barn full of Cruisers ;) ) does AMAZING fab work and should do it for your too, his email is farmboy@sover.net (in Bennington VT) or PM Rabid and he can get you in touch with him. Not quite MD but it should work.

Rob, I would have made the meeting but the beltway was a parking lot yesterday. I had to bail out. Yeah, I am finally ready to take the leap to the dark side :vader2:

I would ask Lance but I know he is busy being a dad right now. I may ask him anyway. Otherwise, I am going to build a jig and get Ryan to to help me with his engineering/technical expertise.

Everyone, Thank You for the tips but I know 4x4 connection does not do that kind of work and I really don't want to ship the axle out West. I really want to avoid the cost and pain of shipping it period. If Up and Over does it I may see what they want, they are close by in PA.

If I build this jig it will be available for any East Coasters who want to use it for free. All you MidWest and West coasters have it good when it comes to axle turners.

Welcome to the dark side, grasshopper. you missed the meeting last night, otherwise i would have pointed you in the right direction...

now i'm not sure if i can. ;)

Just kidding. I sent mine out. I know Lance has the wherewithal to do it, but you might ask him if he's willing to. He'd be the first person i contacted.

Beyond that, i sent a bare housing to Joe Calleja at CTS in Colorado, and he sent me a turned one. Pretty simple really.

Rob

there is no jig neccessary. look in the archives, cutting & turning is a piece of cake. just use an 1/8" cutoff wheel w/ an angle grinder to make the cut & it rotates easily. as long as you can weld you can do it.
every axle really needs to be turned differently so it would be silly to build a jig. even if you want to make them all the same a $5 angle finder will get you within a 1/4 of a degree. on my rig I bought one from a well known shop, & it turned out to be a total POS (barely turned). I'm still running it but I've done some myself since then & get it right every time.

I would second the suggestion for Lance/Lobsterfab (if he does it), Farmboy, or another possiblity if he does cut and turning maybe Jim Chenoweth at TLC Performance (he seems to take alot of pride in his work).

RUN, don't walk away from Land Cruiser Solutions in NH. They seem like the Man-A-Fre of the East (very expensive, Uber-incompetent when it comes to handling orders).

Shipping a bare, empty housing isn't that expensive, John, you'd be surprised! There's a ton of people out west who do this, and several of them have done hundreds of housings, they have it down to an art form.

It wasn't till a few years ago that East Coasters began to get into spring-overs, a few years back it was considered a West Coast oddity.

Finally, I don't know of *ANY* current East Coast shop that I would seriously recommend for serious fabrication on a Land Cruiser.

Originally posted by Cruiserhaven
RUN, don't walk away from Land Cruiser Solutions in NH. They seem like the Man-A-Fre of the East (very expensive, Uber-incompetent when it comes to handling orders).

Interesting, I hadn't heard this before, although I've never personally used them. I know he's not cheap, and he sure gets a LOT of coin for his rebuilt rigs.

Brookline Machine in Allston Massachusetts!

Ask for Bobby Mack!

I had him cut and turn 2 D44 axles and he charges me $270 and did a hell of a job!!

My .02

Originally posted by KLF


Interesting, I hadn't heard this before, although I've never personally used them. I know he's not cheap, and he sure gets a LOT of coin for his rebuilt rigs.
Their rebuilt rigs do look VERY nice, I saw a couple of them a few years ago at the Catamount Cruiser Challenge.

But I had a terrible time ordering items from them. I tried to order one of the aluminum storage tailgates for the FJ40 and they lost the order like three times. Finally I said fawk it and just bought a set of used half doors from Proffitt's Cruisers (Jerimiah is great BTW).

I had been considering ordering an aluminum tub from LCS now I'm very glad I didn't.

The cutting and turning isn't that hard. Lay come scotch tape inside of the weld. Plasma cut off the shock mounts and steering stops. I used a sawzall. Went even depth working my way around. Till reaching inner sleve. Had it clamped to a fork lift, with the third out and gutted. Slide 5 ft. solid stock in the king bearing hole and turn to desired angles. Every rig is so different, I would think it would be a dice toss to send it out to be done with out them seeing the angles needed.

Originally posted by Boston Mangler
Brookline Machine in Allston Massachusetts!

Holy crap, I forgot about these guys! Yeah, they do nice work! They have a shop in Lawrence that just does driveshaft work, too.

Thanks, Kevin... :D

Originally posted by KLF


Holy crap, I forgot about these guys! Yeah, they do nice work! They have a shop in Lawrence that just does driveshaft work, too.

Thanks, Kevin... :D

No Sweat!

Just walking into their shop, will put you in utter awe!