12 bolt third assembled. Nothing special done xcept welded, cleaned and reassembled.




front hanger done, frame is all done.




Soem of the welds on the gussets are cold because I was brave (or lazy) and didn't tip the frame to do them-- just did them out of position/upside down, need more practice. I also think the front hanger is off a bit, had trouble lining it up because it was essentially built in "space" as it was welded to frame extensions that weren't "square" or relative to anything. I just eyed it actually. besides that I am happy with how it turned out.






Built the front toyota axle. I chose to "martack" the inners which allows you to skip on using the outer circlip on the inner which makes birfield changes easier. A tack weld keeps the inner shaft from drifting into the 3rd. This pic shows my first attempt, I taped an area on the splines and slid the shaft in. The grease pushes away on the sealing surface to indicate where the inner has stopped. I thought this looked good and it looks like the seal is resting dead on in the middle like it should be. Turns out I did not factor in the width of the seal itself so it was actualy riding too far inside -- when tacked, the inner did not slide into the 3rd far enough to allow the birf to clear the brass bushing of the spindle. I realized this after I tacked both sides of two sets of inners (one for trail spares) ha ha I had fun for a few hours doing it all over again and using a cut off wheel to re cut splines.... Anyway incase you do this, I would suggest using the grease method shown but also installing spindle and birf to check clearances.



birf in knuckle




they say the spindle is hard to line up and they are not kidding. Here is two gaskets, a spindle, a cut down dust guard, and a grease seal you have to finagle 8 bolts through.




toyota SST (special service tool) Hub nut wrench built using exhaust pipe and the old "use welder as caulking gun slash construction material" method, haha, this thing is getting retired.

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kind of looks like some menacing black insect, or maybe that is just all the toluene talking....
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