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Hey Guys,
Im Dick, and im from New Zealand. I drive an '87 Daihatsu Rugger, F75. Im a keen offroader, and love it out in the NZ bush.
I am wanting to upgrade the suspension on my Rugger, and am looking at different options that i can do.
I would really like to do a diff swap to Toyota Hilux diffs, and keep the Spring Over Axle (SOA) the toyotas run with.
The hilux diffs will allow me to:
- gain more height
- lower my diff ratio, while means more power with bigger tyres
- run bigger tyres
- lockers
Any suggestions or tips on wether this would be a good idea or not, or something else that I could do, would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
Dick
Here are a few pics of my truck:
You can do a spring over
You can do a spring over conversion on your current axles. Is it a Diesel? If so then you could put the transfure box out of a Petrol (F80 / 85) into your car to get the lower gearing.
Problems I can think of for putting Toyota axles on: Do the spring mounting plates on the axles line up with the width of the Daihatsu springs? If not you'll have to make new brackets anyway. Are the drive flanges on the diffs the same? If not you'll have to make propshafts to fit. Are the axles the same length? 6 stud wheels. Not a majour prob, but you will have to get tyres swaped across.
Any veiws expresed in this thread by me are purely from my own experience, and (sometimes) falible memory. Hope my comments help, but please don't take them as gospel.
Any veiws expresed in this thread by me are purely from my own experience, and (sometimes) falible memory. Hope my comments help, but please don't take them as gospel.
Re: you can do a spring over
Quote:You can do a spring over conversion on your current axles. Is it a Diesel? If so then you could put the transfure box out of a Petrol (F80 / 85) into your car to get the lower gearing.
Problems I can think of for putting Toyota axles on: Do the spring mounting plates on the axles line up with the width of the Daihatsu springs? If not you'll have to make new brackets anyway. Are the drive flanges on the diffs the same? If not you'll have to make propshafts to fit. Are the axles the same length? 6 stud wheels. Not a majour prob, but you will have to get tyres swaped across.
Any veiws expresed in this thread by me are purely from my own experience, and (sometimes) falible memory. Hope my comments help, but please don't take them as gospel.
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Thanks for your reply. Yes it is diesel - turbo diesel, and will the transfercase from a F80 / 85 just bolt up to the existing one?
The spring mounting plates on the front toyota diff are the same I believe, but not the back, however this is not a big deal to cut and weld, as i would have to change the mounts on the Daihatsu axles anyway. Drive flanges, i think they are different. Axles on toyota are 100mm ??? wider, giving a wider wheelbase, and yeah i will have to get different rims
Thanks again for your help.
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Yes the F80 transfur should
Yes the F80 transfur should just bolt straight up. Or you can swap the whole gear / transfur box (almost). The F80 has a diffrent bell housing and primery input shaft. These are both interchaigable (bell housing 4 bolts, shaft one cerclip accesible throught the top of the gearbox) and the only diffrences between the gearbox parts of the gearbx / transfur assemblies.
Any veiws expresed in this thread by me are purely from my own experience, and (sometimes) falible memory. Hope my comments help, but please don't take them as gospel.
Any veiws expresed in this thread by me are purely from my own experience, and (sometimes) falible memory. Hope my comments help, but please don't take them as gospel.