I just finished doing the Toy swap, and have a vibration that starts at about 20 and smoothes out at 35. Is this normal? Its not really a violent shake but you sure notice it. :confused: Thanks for any input. On a side note I reversed the shackle and was told you need some kind of big bucks long travel driveline on the front:flipoff2: , I just cut down a rear toy driveline and reversed it and it works great.

my doesn't vibrate at all. i have a cv shaft and 3" offset diff though. :D

Originally posted by poppycock
3" offset diff though. :D

How'd ya do that poppy? Cut down IFS rear axle?

I had a set of 'yota axles.... sold 'em to OILBURNER. Wishing I had 'em back now. I'm getting frustrated at these cheesy 'zuki axles.:mad2:

Well CSR, I've got an 82 model front axle you can have. Wait - I just paid $550 for HySteer for it. I think I'll keep it. ;)

Oh, and you have reverse shackles, right Luigi? As in, the shackle is at the back of the front spring?

When you run that setup, you need a long travel front driveshaft. The Toy front axle is also designed to point straight at the T-case, since Toys had a CV-type front driveshaft... So yours likely doesn't have enough travel - and the pinion angle is wrong for a non-CV type shaft. Do the angles at both ends of the shaft look about the same?

If you run a non CV-type shaft, the angle at both ends of the shaft should be very close to equal.

If you run a CV shaft there should be a 0* angle at the pinion, and all of the angle at the T-case end where the CV-joint is.

BTW - is this vibration from the front or rear shaft? Does it occur in 2WD with the hubs unlocked? You make it sound like you're having front shaft problems, but you shouldn't be on dry pavement in 4WD...

it is probably pinion angle on the rear shaft , get an angle finder and check the t=caseflange and pinion flange they should be the same, because of wheel base you might have to run a c/v/

I had the same problem with a 84 Toyota rear end. I got tired of it so I got a Tacoma 8.25 diff cut down 4". Works good now.

Mike

How'd ya do that poppy? Cut down IFS rear axle?

Yep...he bought a cut IFS axle from me....which I bought from Jake. Cutting one side makes it an offset, and the same width as 85 and earlier fronts. Its not perfect, but its damn close.

yeah it's super. :D it's only off by about 2"

I always though it would be easy to just run an ifs rear toy axle and slide it 3" to the pass side and just use a wheel with 3" more backspacing on that side. I don't think you could do it with aluminum wheels, but steels shouldn't be a problem.

I guess that would just be easier than cutting down an axle? You could always use junkyard parts then :)

later :jeep:

Uh....No. I think that would violate every possible "rigging" rule there is, just too :rainbow: . You could save some weight by using ductape instead of ubolts too :flipoff2:

Why not run 33 9.50s on the wide side, 33 12.50 on the short side...very short track chic..be the FIRST with crawl stagger!

i'll keep my axle but thanks for the suggestions. :flipoff2: