Brandon's Fantasy Factory 1980 Build

[sixstringsteve]

What's your measurement from eye to eye?

 

[Marsh99]

shackles? 5in eye to eye

 

[sixstringsteve]

what's your measurement from frame shackle tube to front hanger bolt hole?

What did your main leaves come from? Are they stock yota main leaves, or marlin mains?

 

[Marsh99]

gotcha... I am at 44.5 I moved it up a little from the pics.. I flexed the spring and it looks good.... The the springs are marlin rears with tacoma mixed in not sure the order I bought them built...

 

[sixstringsteve]

sweet. Burn that sucka in. I'm curious if those leaves will move your axle forward from stock or not.

 

[Yota]

Sick 1st gen. I love round headlights.
If you want some vintage emblems I have some from an 81-82.

 

[Marsh99]

sweet. Burn that sucka in. I'm curious if those leaves will move your axle forward from stock or not.

it looks like it should move it forward...

 

[Marsh99]

Sick 1st gen. I love round headlights.
If you want some vintage emblems I have some from an 81-82.

definatly interested in those

 

[Marsh99]

front axle is all apart now hope to get it all back together tomorrow...

 

[sixstringsteve]

Did you pull the knuckles off? If you haven't done that yet, keep the shims in the order they went on. Then you won't have to mess with the drag fish scale thingy.

 

[Marsh99]

Yeah made sure to do that

 

[sixstringsteve]

nice. That's the best feeling when the front end is all put back together.

 

[Marsh99]

I know I feel way overwelmed but feel like it will be ok I recruited my dad to help get them all back together tomorrow

 

[sixstringsteve]

Dude, you got it. Just take little steps at a time. I totally understand the feeling. You got it though. Brake cleaner is your friend. Do one side, then the other side will be way faster. And keep track of your parts. I couldn't find my felt ring bolts when I was putting mine back together. The nice thing about toyotas is that generally, the bolts only fit in one hole, so it's pretty tough to put the wrong bolt there.

You're so close. get this front lift on, rebuild the axle, and add steering and you're golden.

 

[sixstringsteve]

have you ground off the stock bracketry yet? That took me the better part of a saturday.

 

[Marsh99]

have you ground off the stock bracketry yet? That took me the better part of a saturday.

Which stuff?

 

[Marsh99]

Brackets made to weld on hanger from 2x2 1/4 thick thanks for the idea Steve should have these on tomorrow

BTW first pic post done from my HTC Evo this phone is sick

 

[sixstringsteve]

great pictures. Yup, those gussets are exactly like mine, only twice as thick. I wish I had used 1/4", but I'm sure it'll be plenty strong. Nice work. It's hard to make them line up even in that gap. Some of mine are crooked.

 

[Marsh99]

Armor is on and parts are all clean... I have to take my sister inlaw up to logan so done for a while today
Hopefully I can get them rebuilt tonight

 

[sixstringsteve]

Nice work! Are you going to cut the steering stabilizer/sway bar mounts off too?

Looks great. That is a TON of work.


And I'm totally diggin that color. My brother is going to go with an electric blue on his runner. We'll be the three blue toyotas.