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Old 11-20-2008, 06:04 AM
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39.5's (thank you for not calling them 40's)
Oh no, I'm off my .5"
Old 11-20-2008, 08:19 AM
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You wanted 40's, buy 40's!

Seriously, since apparently there is no accountability for "claimed size" vs "actual size", why the hell didn't Interco call them 40's?
Old 11-20-2008, 09:43 AM
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Living in the same area as the o.p. I can tell you why the yota mechanic said what he did. We live in toyota land, 50% of the pop. out here drives a toyota not kidding. Now the local steelership hasn't worked on a solid in over 10 years and has downsized any old school techs to the street to keep from paying them more. Now all the new kids look at leaking knuckles and worn drag links or sacked out leaf springs and wonder why you even bother with one. So most run ifs and see it as lesser repairs not true. Just like it was said normal maint. same, breakage around here not the same. I have customers who sas'd to keep from replacing ball joints every other year and idler arms every six mon.
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um... SFA y well if u were to step back and look at things, and yes i know im diggin a thread from the grave, but why did toyota only offer ifs in america until what mid 90's . everywhere else was straight axled front. that has to say something about dependability and also maintenance. just my 02 cents
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Originally Posted by LIVES4CRAWLIN91
um... SFA y well if u were to step back and look at things, and yes i know im diggin a thread from the grave, but why did toyota only offer ifs in america until what mid 90's . everywhere else was straight axled front. that has to say something about dependability and also maintenance. just my 02 cents
I'm pretty sure they swapped over to IFS so early also because of the consumer wanting a more streetable ride here in the states, and they had to keep up with the trend; solid axles were still produced over seas for some years (a TRUE Hilux)



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Old 05-31-2010, 09:00 AM
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I absolutely love my solid front axle! I love the way it drives, performs, its ease of maintenance. I have done nothing in terms of maintenance since the swap and I have wheeled it pretty hard.
If my 82 had IFS I would be beating the brush for a solid front axle.
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I knew that was y they switched to ifs here in the states, but I was just stating that as y didnt they just change the entire platform... which im glad they didnt i absolutely love the fact we can sas ours with leaf springs and never truly have to worry about the frame being able to handle it. but ya i couldnt sleep last night so i grave dug on a lot of threads lol
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