Tacoma coilspring SAS

tacomatrd00

tacomatrd00

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I'm about to bit the bullet and do the SAS on a 2000 tacoma with coil springs. I am wounding if anyone has done it or knows someone that can help me out. I am thinking about running a dana 44 out of a 78 or 79 bronco so I am in the market for one of thoughs. Let me know if you have any help. :confused:
 
YHA PARTY TIME!!!!!
 
I have a 78 Bronco axle housing, stock gears/carrier, and will have some radius arms pretty soon too most likely. Let me know if you are interested, otherwise they will sit and take up space.
 
The bronco lug patter will be different. I've herd you can change the spindles to 6 lug to from a chevy to match the rear toy but I've heard from the same source that the ford outer stub axle sitcks out a little more at this point but that it will work. Haven't tried it myself so I can't verify but I mismatche lug pattern is something I was dealing with on ford/waggy 44 setup. I've also been told that on an FZJ 80 landcruiser housing the coil buckets line up w/ the factory tacoma upper strut mounts. Last time i talked to Bud Rosenberger ( sometime last year) he was working on a tacoma coil SAS kit.
 
It's also going to be a lot wider than your rear. The '78 is a full size axle, the 77-73 (Bronco) on the other hand is a bit narrower version of the dana 44.
 
how much for the dana 44 and yes I know that is wider it will be 2 inches wider or so and that is where wheel spacers will come in for the rear if it is that bad.
 
Shoot, I'd let the housing go for $100 (we might can bargain it a little if necessary), not including the radius arms. I'm not sure when I will get ahold of these so. Let me know if you are interested. It is just sitting there waiting for a home.
 
I'm going to pass that up I am getting a whole assy for 75 with all accessories but if it falls through i'll get back to you.

Does anyone have suggestions on what coilsprings to run trying to get the best bang for the buck.

I am getting chevy outer hubs for the right lug pattern. But I am looking for a toyota gear box and steering linkages.
 
I've got a rodeo with a 3.1 litre v6 i think for sale in the vehicles section that i already started to SAS. i have the axles front and rear 8 lug chevy D44, and 14FF and i have already started making the mounts for the links on the fram if you are interested in getting something under construction. All the crappy work is done in the front i have cut just about everything off from it. and its cheap!!!!!!! willing to deal to get it gone
 
I am switching axles I am going with the waggy dana 44 and going to make my own radius arms.
 
Not neccesarily. I ran a waggy 44 in mine without the knuckles turned and had 38's. No issues either in the 2 years I had it. Drove 3 or 4 trips to Uwharrie and every weekend to the beach and half the time the hubs stayed locked b/c of how much time it went into the sand. Of course each truck is different depending how you make the hangers, length of shackles, and type or spring or coil used
 
Josh C said:
Not neccesarily. I ran a waggy 44 in mine without the knuckles turned and had 38's. No issues either in the 2 years I had it. Drove 3 or 4 trips to Uwharrie and every weekend to the beach and half the time the hubs stayed locked b/c of how much time it went into the sand. Of course each truck is different depending how you make the hangers, length of shackles, and type or spring or coil used
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x2 , but like he sida it depends all on setup, spring hangars.. etc
 
well I heard the ford was better then the waggy because of truning radius and better flex, but I don't want it to stick out to much and make it look like a roller skate. I have a 3.62 BS on my wheels now so it should be ok with the ford. Plus it is HP and that is good. I am just confused on which one to run I want it to be right and plus 10 years down the road I don't want to regret what axle I went with even though a simple swap with take care of that. Let me know what your option is.
 
What is the negative side of going with a HP?
There really isnt. If you are going to run 37s/38s like you say, you need atleast a full width axle. You can't go straight up in the air and not go wider or you'll flip and die somewhere.
 
haha, I kind of agree with mudonthetires, unless you are doing trails uphill backwards there really isn't a down side to going HP. And wider will be better. But even if you wanted to stay narrow just get a HP44 and then shorten it down to run waggy axles. Good luck.
 
Just for comparison theres only about an 1" difference in the width of the waggy 44 front and the tacoma rear to give you a ballpark idea of your stance
 
I have that J-10 D44 i told u about in ure wanted post, its not high pinion but its 64.5 wms-wms, its right inbetween full width and waggy sizes. I think ure rear is 60" wms-wms, with some 2 in spacers on each side to make it 64" wms-wms and the backspacing on ure wheels, i think it would give ure truck a nice stance. i can email u some pics of a nissan running 35's with this axle under it to give u an idea of how it would set.
 
Thanks for the help I am going in the morning to hopefully to bring the hp 44 home if it is still there.
 
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