Thread: Hilux diff conversion

yeah seen that build it is awesome but my plan is to tube the whole back up to the rear doors so having no depature angle putting raidiator in the rear and raising the fuel cell up and using fox shoxs all round with a rangie A frame rear

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Originally Posted by Urban Panzer

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Thats an awesome truck, but I'm not sure 100" and that much combined lift would work at Tuff Truck! That'd need to be out at somewhere around 120" or a fraction more I would have thought.

to further the ease of doing the toyo swap after what Simon (slunnie) recommeneded this is direct feed back from head engineer for ARB lockers
QUOTED: "If you have one of our newer style Toyota 8 inch diffs (ARB #RD132) then you can swap a Rover 24 spline gear set (ARB #728H141) straight into it and then plug your Rover/Maxi shafts into the diff.

We are seeing this modification performed more and more lately as people report higher ring gear strength, and some are using high pinion Toyota diffs to claim the drive shaft angle advantage in order to get that extra big lift."

So i am sourcing my toyo lockers from ARB® Toyota 8" Air Locker - #RD132 Diff Air Locker 4 or 6 Cyliner (All) in the USA so much cheaper and getting my side gears from my local ARB they are expensive $800 for the pair ,but i will be able to sell the brand new toyo ones quite easily(i hope) this for now will allow me to run my ashcroft/longfield axels cv up front and still run my maxi in the rear

overall this set up should not be to expensive for now untill we finish making my complete housings to swap in
cheers Kelvin

Well done Kelvin.

Hang on to those side gears. Sometime not to far down the track I'll be putting Patrol centres (at least the front) into LC60 axles and will need to swap the side gears out from Nissan ones to Toyota ones!

Thanks
Yeah if you want i will hold on to them

Originally Posted by Slunnie

Well done Kelvin.

Hang on to those side gears. Sometime not to far down the track I'll be putting Patrol centres (at least the front) into LC60 axles and will need to swap the side gears out from Nissan ones to Toyota ones!

Okay after a late night call to the Usa East coast gear supply Drivetrain Specialists East Coast Gear Supply they are going to make up my arb lockers over there and ship them out ,by doing this is saving me over $1300 it is quite amazing that a Australian company ARB will not make this up here but are willing to charge you almost $1600 dollars to buy locker and part to exchange into the locker and a USA company will happliy build your locker to your spec and ship it out to you for just over a $1000
****ed off ARB lets make the locker here in australia ship it to USA then rebuild side gears and ship it back still cheaper than buying the locker here before rebuilding it
angry
My 2cent rave
sorry Simon can not justify getting them here

Originally Posted by disco_thrasher

Okay after a late night call to the Usa East coast gear supply Drivetrain Specialists East Coast Gear Supply they are going to make up my arb lockers over there and ship them out ,by doing this is saving me over $1300 it is quite amazing that a Australian company ARB will not make this up here but are willing to charge you almost $1600 dollars to buy locker and part to exchange into the locker and a USA company will happliy build your locker to your spec and ship it out to you for just over a $1000
****ed off ARB lets make the locker here in australia ship it to USA then rebuild side gears and ship it back still cheaper than buying the locker here before rebuilding it
angry
My 2cent rave
sorry Simon can not justify getting them here

Daniel Bongard is a senior engineer at ARB and a member on here. Feel free to contact him and let him know your experiences.