Bigfoot Stage 1
February 18, 2009 by admin
Operation Bigfoot – Stage 1
To start the project, we selected a FJ40 chassis (’78 vintage) from our recycled stock.
We removed all the spring hangers and proceeded to graft 40mm channel blocks in the position of the hangers. Our reason for this alteration was to gain extra ground clearance and allow us to use hangers and springs from a 1988 FJ73 Landcruiser.
40mm channel blocks added
The chassis had 50mm spacer blocks attached to the cab mount positions to lift the body off the chassis. We had to reposition the hangers because the centre bolt and length of the springs are different to the original FJ40 configuration. An extra shocky top mount pin was added to the rear crossmember to allow us to fit dual shockies to the rear.
50mm spacer links
dual shockies fitted to the rear
To accommodate the dual rear shockies we now had to put dual pins on the rear lower springs plates. We selected to use HJ75 plates which now allowed us to incorporate later model shockies with larger eyes.
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