I had a friend that an early 4x4 LUV, and it had a solid front axle. As far as I know it was not a conversion, as I recall it had AISIN hubs. I don't know what the exact year was. The truck was sold long ago. He had this truck in the late 70's. I really don't know when GM started importing the LUVs, but I konw this one was an early model. I remeber that both the front and rear axles had removable third members. I really don't remember too much more except that he had Corvette drive-train in the form of a 350HP 327 and a Borg-Warner T10 with a divorced 205 tcase. It was a very squirrelly truck with a backend that always wanted to pass the front <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/notooth.gif" alt="" /> His homemade lift shackles didn't exactly contribute to stability either. All in all it was a fun truck, but it did spend a bit of time on it's side <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shiner.gif" alt="" /> now and then, largely due to it's propensity for end swapping. In all my travels I have never seen another solid axle LUV, so maybe it was a conversion??