Bigfoot Stage 2
February 18, 2009 by admin
Operation Bigfoot – Stage 2
The next alteration to the chassis was to mount a 1983 FJ60 steering box. This required plating & spacer tubes to be fitted to the inside edge RH front section of the chassis. By using the 60# steering box allowed us to use FJ/HJ75# steering arms & drag links. We could now do away with the original steering damper, arms and drag links. The steering damper used is 60#/75# Landcruiser, which required us to relocate the fixed end to the chassis. For this we used the steering damper mount bracket from a 1982 HJ60 Landcruiser.
1983 FJ60 steering box mounted
The one problem with using the 60# steering box was it clashed with the position of the top front shocky towers. As we have fitted dual shockies, care had to be taken when remounting these to the chassis. The dual lower mount blocks fabricated and welded to the front diff housing all had to be carefully aligned before fixing to the chassis & diff housing.
lower mount blocks
The diff housing we selected to use was from a 1984-BJ42. By using a BJ42 rear diff housing we were now able to incorporate all the hand brake assembly from 84 Landcruiser 40#/60#/70# and the cable can only be from a BJ42. No transmission handbrake is required now.
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