Yeah, the tundra calipers are massive, over 8000mm^2 piston area each, which is nearly double the stock 4185mm^2. The Tbird calipers are 4776mm^2 and the 54mm dual pistons that the 90s 3/4 and 1ton trucks and a heck of a lot of other vehicles use is 47575mm^2. and bracket. What Tundra calipers have...

I am putting is hydro boost from a 1 ton truck on my Bronco. I am doing it for two reasons. Make room for suspension and cage in the engine compartment and to give me more power to the oem front brakes rotors. I am going to run disks in rear and a proportioning valve for front to rear. I do want to...

I use a hammer and a punch to make a dent to keep the bit from walking and then use concrete bits, all in my $50 HF drill press. It's not too bad but it takes awhile. Actually cutting down the springs is what's going to be the big PITA, I've got a free chop saw that's I modified to take 7" grinding ...

That's almost it. On the OE shock mount the plate has an outward bend where the gusset intersects the plate in your drawing, about the height of the top of the frame. The gusset essentially runs in a straight line connecting the ends of the plate and is shaped as a triangle with the long side being ...

If the spacer is the case - is there any way to turn one down out of steel & weld it permanently to the tab with a plate or gusset connecting the 2? If you could get a long enough "leg" on the gusset going down the shock mount side (vs the spacer side) you could make the setup a lot stronger. I'm t...

To clarify, I'm only worried about snapping off a 1/2 fastener because the fastener would require a spacer about 1" tall to keep the body of a 2" shock from contacting the mounting bracket as the lower end of the shock moves inboard as the suspension cycles down and I'm worried that puts too much fo...

Anything will pass smog if you slip the right guy the right bill.

I know where I can find the strength of any one fastener but I don't know what an acceptable load to plan for is, specifically the top bolt that the shock absorber mounts to. Does anyone have a suggestion? What type of shock are we talking about here? Big difference between a pro comp and 4.4 bypas...

I know where I can find the strength of any one fastener but I don't know what an acceptable load to plan for is, specifically the top bolt that the shock absorber mounts to. Does anyone have a suggestion?

How do I choose a fastener size for single shear? Obviously, there's a lot of 3/4 and 1" shank hitch balls that are doing just fine in single shear (probably in part to the base of the hitch ball acting as a huge load distributing flange) and they see a fair bit of shock loading. Tow hooks, pintle h...

When people extend beams they always seem to go with cut, welded and sleeved axles or custom axles. Why doesn't anyone ever extend their beams to work with a off the shelf axle size from a different vehicle? I can't find the big D44 axle chart by Mr.N at the moment but surely there's some OE applica...

from the northeast, specifically MA (Commiefornia - emissions + rust). I've got a 94 F150 (details in sig). My rig is also my DD. I intend to build it to go moderately quick over most terrain while retaining it's usefulness as a reliable DD and a truck capable of doing truck things. The major theme ...

Somebody needs to tell the rockcrawlers about this. This + cable shifter seems like a quick and easy doubler. The later SuperDuty electric cases are easy to find ($150/ea on Ebay, the manual shift cases cost more) and cost much less on CL at a non-Upull jy (most JYs in the northeast) than the manual...