I need some help on putting a set of mini axles under our 65fj40, it has a stock front and I blew the ford 9", so I found some mini axles 1979 year and wanted the front disk, my question has anyone done this before? ( name or number would be great ), I saw an outside frame hanger from " proffitts cruisers", that might work, also trying to get spring perch width, so if moveing the perches on the mini in or out about an inch i think. I also think I need a HI-STEER setup, 4x4labs,allpro offroad,marlin crawler..dont know whis to go with. any advice and help would be great.

thanks

thomas mack
cruiser7740@yahoo.com

On the minitruck axles the pass. side perch is pretty much as far inboarded as possible, it is actually sitting on the side of the diff, so I think any perch width differences will need to be made up on the frame.

For high steer arms, I'd prolly get the marlin 6 hole arms just because then you can have the 6 stud knuckles and not have to worry about them at all. They work on normal knuckles too.

chase

funny you should ask this.. this cruiser is running mini everything, has a great shot of the axles under a bare frame in the last page of the thread


http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=372701

mine was running a mini rear and mini-disk conversion on the stock cruiser front. now i have a mini-cruiser hybred rear. its about halfway down on this page

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=342320&page=4

now if you broke a ford 9" i dont think a mini-axle is going to give you any benifit as far as strength.. what was the failure on the 9"?


chris:cool2:

sorry for not getting back I was busy with work and had no puter to get to. well the 9" broke when I was on my way home from work, the seal went on the driver side and i tried to get it home,flat towed it, well I completly lost the wheel and axle shaft going about 40mhp, it shot across the road into a ditch floating like a flagpole. my thought was " this sucks" lol

anyway on removing the rear perches how that done? cutting wheel, grinder,im almost ready to put the front back together.