New buggy build

[2065toyota]

I sold my last buggy last weekend. I already had all the parts to start a new build, but I guess it's time to put it in high gear as it is wheelin season here in St. George. Torched and ground all the brackets off the frame yesterday. Cleaned up the axles and mounted the front today. Hopefully get the motor and the rear axle mounted tomorrow

[2065toyota]

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[Bootboy]

Yota based? Looking forward to following a build thread.

[accadacca]

Sweet! :popcorn:

[2065toyota]

Ftoy

4 seater

3.4L

5 speed

Toyota crawl box to twin stick Dana 300

Full hydro

Toyota axles with Longfields, six shooters & drive flanges

488's

Detroits

37" stickies

Beadlocks

Cutting brakes

Supercharger - possibly


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[Bootboy]

5vz?

Cruiser axles or mini truck?

[2065toyota]

Ya

Mini truck




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[oldno7]

you staying with springover?

[2065toyota]

you staying with springover?

Ya


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[Bootboy]

So it's just a little guy.

I guess cruiser axles with 3 and 4 links would be a different animal.

[2065toyota]

So it's just a little guy.

I guess cruiser axles with 3 and 4 links would be a different animal.


In rock crawling everything you change is a give and take situation.

A lot of stuff out there is for the bling. If you build a super lightweight <3000 lb rig you don't need big axles and your horsepower / weight ratio is awesome

I've had linked rigs before. I had fully built buggy, V8, 4 linked, Dana 60's, 42" tires, full hydro front and rear steer.

I sold it to build my last toyota buggy with no regrets and this one will be even better




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[Bootboy]

I just like the idea of the cruiser axles for their 64" width as opposed to the 56" width of the mini truck axles. The birfies and knuckles have about twice the material in them too.

Someday I'll have e-locked fzj80 axles under my '81 on 37"s

Again, I'm stoked to follow your build because I dork out on everything toyota.

[2065toyota]

And I don't like being that wide. You add some stability in some situations but hurts you bad in the tight super technicals obstacles. For street/expo rig for sure on the cruzers, just not on my buggy


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I've been sick the last two days so Devin has been working by himself on my stuff. The rear frenched hangars are in and the rear axle position.

The motor, trans and cases should be going in shortly


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[Bootboy]

R150f?

[2065toyota]

3.4L
R150f
Toyota crawl box
Dana 300 modified for twin stick


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[Bootboy]

3.4L
R150f
Toyota crawl box
Dana 300 modified for twin stick


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Solid setup.

Is the 300 case a direct bolt up?

[2065toyota]

Advance adapters makes stuff for about any combination


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[2065toyota]

Rear axle, gears, locker & disc brake conversion is in
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[2065toyota]

Rear hangars, custom transfer case mount and front hangar done. Ready to start building floor and cage

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[oldno7]

looking good!
Do you need any diagonal bracing on the back of the cage for lateral movement?
Not really seeing any for front to back either?

[2065toyota]

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[2065toyota]

looking good!
Do you need any diagonal bracing on the back of the cage for lateral movement?
Not really seeing any for front to back either?

Diagonals in the front, center and roof. It isn't Nascar :-)

Any bad obstacles there won't be any rear passengers and it's super light.

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[oldno7]

Looks like way too much fun--well done...

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Little more playing and testing

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[Sandstone Addiction]

Did you discover any issues you need to address? Or is it ready to go right out of the shop?

It looks amazing. :2thumbs:

[2065toyota]

The used motor I bought has a burnt valve so I need to address that soon. I have another motor so I'm going to swap heads this week sometime. Right rear caliper keeps locking up. Not sure if it's the caliper or the cutting brake doing it. Bought another caliper to try and diagnose it. Other than that everything turned out awesome and I just need to button a few things up

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[Sandstone Addiction]

Sounds like only a few bugs to work out. Nice.

What do you like/prefer about this version compared to your other crawlers?

[2065toyota]

More power. Less weight. Full hydraulic steering. Better shocks, longer wheelbase, motor relocated 6" back for better balance, shorter floor and roof height, cutter brakes, front dig. I'm sure I missed some stuff but I took all that I learned from my last 2 builds and the builds we have done for others and tried to incorporate it into mine. I don't think you could find a more capable leaf spring rig out there and very few link rigs will do more

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[2065toyota]

I got the new motor installed last week. New rear calipers because the last were acting up on me. Everything is pretty dialed in on it now and ready to go again. Only thing really left to do is wire in the LED front lights and the rock lights and finish up the dash. Nothing though that won't let it be driven. Time to go break some more stuff :-)

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[2065toyota]

Broke front ring gears last weekend. Got it all back together. Heading out again tomorrow

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[2065toyota]

Few pics from the last couple of weekends. Perfect weather to be outside right now. Canyoneering season is about ready to be hit hard so trying to get as much wheeling in as we can

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[2065toyota]

Zion was rainy again today so we headed out to sand hollow to play around

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Headed out on Labor Day with the guys from Dixie 4 Wheel Drive. We had a big turnout

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[moab mark]

Zion was rainy again today so we headed out to sand hollow to play around

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Who does that Red Jeep Belong to?

[2065toyota]

Ben Hanks from Ben Hanks Racing

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[2065toyota]

When you going to bring yours down here?

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[moab mark]

You selling your buggy?

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[2065toyota]

Ya. Both my kids moved out to go to college so I don't have a need for a 4 seat anymore. Was looking to sell it and build a new 2 seat

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[2065toyota]

I just put this buggy up for sale. 11k and it's yours. That's about half of what I have into it

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[maveric]

What rotors/calipers are those on the rear? What master cylinder did you run?

[2065toyota]

Toyota 1" bore master cylinder

I believe rear is off of half ton Chevy truck.

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[maveric]

Thanks. I am looking to do something similar.

[2065toyota]

Easiest and cheapest is to buy the whole kit from low range offroad. Comes with all the brackets and everything

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[2065toyota]

The buggy got sold a couple of weeks ago. Had a fun time building this one and playing in it, but after being in the offroad world for quite a while it was time to move on. Now we've entered the UTV market so we will see where this ends up

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[oldno7]

Went the 4 seater route, love it.
Went and ran the mail drop loop last weekend, among a bunch of local trails/routes.

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[2065toyota]

Decided to go with the 50" wildcat trails. We spend a lot of time on the mountain and these will go more places than the full size

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[oldno7]

I thought about going skinny but decided I already have an atv if I need to do 50" trails.

These things are just fun. I can go places in minutes that it took me hrs to go in a jeep or truck.

The sand roads around elephant butte are really chopped up, they get better down around Rock.

It reminded me of the days riding through the park, on sleds from West Yellowstone, had to go extremely slow or extremely fast.

[2065toyota]

Ya. They are a lot of fun. And since I'm down from much hiking or anything for the next few months, I can get some good exploring and camping done over the summer

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