Thread: 1992 Toyota Build

Well i am popping my cherry and building my 1st truck! It is a 1992 2wd Extra cab, 4 banger 22re fuel injection with a 5 speed. My gramps bought it a month before he died. Since then it has been my dads truck for 15 years. Then my sister got it....and wrecked just about everything, 3 new clutches, new radiator, blew a head gasket....and the list goes on. So she decided to get a new car. I thought i could use an upgrade from my nissan hardbody. So i got the truck and dropped in a 22re from another truck with only 61000 miles.

Here is what i started with basically, that is with saw's and a bj spacer, and i just got the windows tinted.


How its looking now


Bought this truck for the tc kit, steering, national leafs, 411 gears, locker, and rims for 1200 bucks.


Here is the kit off of the truck


and the leafs


and one of putting the motor in or taking it out i forget




So im getting into the kit and running through everything and i am going to need new bj's and the spindle slots for the bj's are stretched out because the guy i bought it off had them loose... so im debating making a uniball kit and spindle, fixing this spindle and buying bj's, or doing both haha.

Seriously? Thanks for all the sideways pics lol


FAIL!

Agreed. And if it were me i would build the truck that already had the tc kit and leafs and that is fully caged. Others might disagree but that is just my 2¢

i like to keep the heads turning. I would but i dont have a tow rig, dont fit in a standard cab, and dont want that thing...

Whats up man....... Good luck on your build

looks like a lot of fun man

was the caged yota street legal?

Thanks man, yea its getting there. Ill have more fun once it it done tho.
and no not street legal. I want to build it but i just dont have the time to build 2 trucks (or even one) or the money to build it and take it out.

I'll take it off your hands.....lol

im selling the cab frame and cage i guess you can say haha. 300 bucks and its urs. Might have it sold tho but this dude is flaking a lot so we will see

PM Sent buddy.... What other specs can you give me on that thing

ya i gave you an email. Its a 89, 1.5 inch tube. The guy was running national 62 leafs, and a tc bj kit. rear mounted fuel cell and batt. It would be sick to beam and link and drop a nice 6cyl or v8 in there, it would ripppp.

So im having some trouble finding out what i should do with my front end. After debating beams and arms, i decided arms since it is my DD and i cannot have the truck down for very long. So i have this tc bj kit and a spindle that has a stretched out bj mount. So im wondering what would be best. Should i make a uniball kit based of chaos's but with a vertical uniball on bottom and top or run the bj kit and get the spindles fixed. for all the work that would be going into the kit is it worth it really?

im lost about your kit..your saying its a tc ball joint kit but it has uniball uppers? not sure whats on the lower. how about some better pics.

also your saying your gonna beam your truck but are asking how to fix your aarm kit? beams are also gonna be alot longer down time then setting your truck up to run that kit

my bad i meant arms...changed that. its a tc bj kit. the guy i bought it off of added plate to the side, has a custom 2wd spindle and home made upper arm with a uniball. The lower arm can bolt to the stock 2wd spindle.

thats what they were like when i got them. I cleaned them up a bit and now they look like this...

this is the spindle with the stretched out bj hole.

its the center hole if you dont know.

So as you can see its not very pretty...which is why im debating making something better and nicer looking.
slcpunk on here is making a kit with a vertical uniball and i was thinking of something like that for this kit but with like a chaos lower.

Originally Posted by Live...Ride...

So as you can see its not very pretty...which is why im debating making something better and nicer looking.
slcpunk on here is making a kit with a vertical uniball and i was thinking of something like that for this kit but with like a chaos lower.

I did the two vert uniballs because I wanted a flat lower arm and steering with a race built toyota on 35" tires was not a big issue. You could always convert to the six lug 4x4 toyota uprights and build a kit like the esb/vendetta but 6-lug for better strength and brakes.
1995 Toyota Hilux Desert Race Truck Front Skid Plate Photo - Off-Road Magazine Article at Automotive.com

if im not mistaken the vendetta truck runs D44 snounts and a fully fabbed upright.

Originally Posted by desert_steve

if im not mistaken the vendetta truck runs D44 snounts and a fully fabbed upright.

I never said it wasn't.. I was just posting a kit that could give him ideas that he might not be familiar with like the tc or jd kits

That truck looks like it handles. Love the spare driveshaft haha. Im kinda debating on vertical or horizontal uniballs on my upper and lower arms. I want to get around 15 or so inches of travel. But what are the benefits of each?

A few updates. Im in the process of making a jig for my tc arms because they are a little tweaked but should work, im going to make a jig then throw them on once the spindle is fixed and i get a coilover. Sold the parts truck and just today sold the rear end out of it which payed for my new 9 in that im going to drop in soon! Half off pick a part is great! I got a 31 spline big bearing with 2.75 gears! im going to be running 5 in rims and 12 in tires! hahaha. Im going to look into what gearing i should run. Open to suggestions tho. im going to be running 33's.




9 inch next to the 7.5. Sooo much wider

Lol 22r and 2.75 gears would be a awesome combo

sure its not 3.75 gears? never seen or heard of a 2.75 gear ratio. 4.88s will work well if you are going to be driving it on the street a lot.

yea i know right hahaha great acceleration!
yea i am thinking something around there. I do a lot of highway miles so i want to be able to go at least 70 at 3000 rpm. i have a 5 speed tranny too so ill have to see what other guys are running with their 22re's and compare

I had 4:88s on my 4cyl Tacoma and 5th was still pretty much useless. Worked well enough offroad for me.

Got some shocks for the front end finally. Not too sure about the spring rates but i was told they were valved for a pickup like mine so we will see how they do. They are King 2.5 10 inch coilovers wrapped in 500 over 600 springs that are just about brand new. Definitely make me want to get the ball rolling.

damn finally getting some progress I see. So is it just you doing all the fab work on this thing?

Originally Posted by Live...Ride...

Got some shocks for the front end finally. Not too sure about the spring rates but i was told they were valved for a pickup like mine so we will see how they do. They are King 2.5 10 inch coilovers wrapped in 500 over 600 springs that are just about brand new. Definitely make me want to get the ball rolling.

The coils will work well. I run the same set up with my Toyota kits.

As for the gears, I had 4:56s in my Toyota with 33s and a mildly built motor. With the locker in the rear, I was able to do donuts in the street with ease and still hit 70 on the freeway. For a strickly desert truck, I would run at least 4:88s, maybe even 5:13s.

Getting there on progress i need to fix the spindles i have or build some 2wd ones so i can throw this kit on! Yea my buddy and I do everything at my place or his so it works out. Just trying to do clean work and do it right the first time. I sold those smoothbodies too and am going to go with some 16 triple bypasses for the rear instead. Just have to find a deal haha. Good to hear that my shocks should work out and i will be stoked if i can break em loose that easily! Hopefully some big updates coming soon.

If you want to save a little cash you could just go with some double bypasses and you will be fine. you can always have another tube added to them later if you really need it.

So explain the spindle more please. If this is a TC balljoint kit then the spindle should be a stock spindle. It looks like a modified Fabtech lift spindle in the picture.

Personally I think the fabtech lift spindle is not good for offroading. It puts the tire below the lower A arm which turns the lower arm into a pivot and pushes the upper A arm into the motor twisting/bending the frame. The TC ones are only 3 inch and put the tire right at the same level if not a little above the lower a arm which is where it needs to be.

I would just get a stock spindle and install it and run it. If you want a lift spindle then you can build a set (If you have the know how) or have some built while driving on the stock ones.

Should have run that other trucks cage too. You could have used the motor and bedcage and then just tied the cab cage into those and been done.

^^^this. ps my friend and i are making lift spindles out of my spares, ill put up pictures when theyre done

I broke my fabtech lift spindle, that's why they discountued them, noctorious for breaking

yuup. lots of people have. im keeping my upper arm balljoint though (TC balljoint kit), so we're trying to come up with a strong solution to cut and extend the upper, to be able to use the tapered stock hole

Originally Posted by the bodj

yuup. lots of people have. im keeping my upper arm balljoint though (TC balljoint kit), so we're trying to come up with a strong solution to cut and extend the upper, to be able to use the tapered stock hole

U want to extend the uppe total chaos arm? Just make ur own arm don't cut it up the chaos arms, save them there worth something.

He is talking about the upper arm of the spindle.

I had the VERY first set of fabtech spindles any of us ever saw. Truck looked awesome and handled better because I was able to lower the torsions which gave it a better stance and worked better. I bent them and the ball joint hole stretched out the very first trip out.

Originally Posted by dsrtrcr01

He is talking about the upper arm of the spindle.

I had the VERY first set of fabtech spindles any of us ever saw. Truck looked awesome and handled better because I was able to lower the torsions which gave it a better stance and worked better. I bent them and the ball joint hole stretched out the very first trip out.

maybe thats why they just stick with lift kits lol

hahah yeah i was talking about the upper part of the spindle, my bad. and we definitely plan on making these beeeeffyyyy

I can get triples for cheaper then doubles at next years off road swap meet tho so i might as well go big.

Definately found out that they were fabtech spindles, modified obviously in a very shitty way...

My neighbor is looking into making some lift spindles for his yota as well and i have a set of 2wd already that im either going to drill out and run with the kit then build the other set after the kit is on, or just build these and make a jig for em so i can put out a few sets and be done with it. I am just getting anxious! I wanna take this baby out in the dirt already.
I would love to see how your spindles come out bodj the more ideas the better. Ive collected a few pic's of some spindles on here.

these are mullens^^^


and i forget whose these are but maybe somebody can chime in...





Only thing is all of these run a horizontal lower uni where i will be running a bj. But if anybody has pic's of some more spindles and how they are build that would be great!

Thanks for the help

the difficult thing we are dealing with is making strength, but we have to cut it in half horizontally, then extend it taller, so we have to make sure its beefy

Why are you doing it like that? That would make it really weak on one spot i would think. Are you trying to mount off of the stock bj points?