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I am gonna run with a Toyota IFS steering box and am looking for steering shaft advise etc,..... so what do you recommend and HOW/What do I need to do to make it work?
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Please oh please send them to me as I do not understand what you are describing and I have one steering shaft and u-joint and rag joint as well, and I am still a tad bit like huh?snowchucker said:we are getting pricing on some NEW custom shafts from Borgensen right now. Their stuff isnt cheap, but it is very nice and will make for a bolt on install.
otherwise, go to the junkyards,
snag two ifs steering shafts, remove the rubber rag joint from one to make it a single ujoint,
drill the roll pins
install lower rag joint shaft onto box
slip ujoint portion onto male portion of steering column
extend shafts (no more roll pins lets them slide).
mark, redrill, and reinstall new roll pins.
once you get the shafts, you'll see how it works.
i have pics but cant post them here due to size limits.
email me your pics and I can resize themsnowchucker said:i have pics but cant post them here due to size limits.
Thanks Ted. That is one of the ways I was considering, just want to avoid welding steering if possible.TMS2U said:You can see how AJ set mine up on my Tundra. Same as Chuck esplayned except we also threw in a heim support for the shaft off of the shock hoop
Steering set up
Aah, c'mon ditch the lame rag joints! Grab a steering shaft from a 79-83 SA yota. Tear open your stock double jointed thing, and convert it to a single joint. While youre in there knock out the cut tiny splined end. Slip older yota shaft into the new joint, and weld right at the splines to keep it together. Walla, no lame tire reject in the steering, and a true slip yoke to boot!Captkirkyota said:Thanks Ted. That is one of the ways I was considering, just want to avoid welding steering if possible.
I think pics are in order for lamo's like me to fully comprehend.Front Range said:Aah, c'mon ditch the lame rag joints! Grab a steering shaft from a 79-83 SA yota. Tear open your stock double jointed thing, and convert it to a single joint. While youre in there knock out the cut tiny splined end. Slip older yota shaft into the new joint, and weld right at the splines to keep it together. Walla, no lame tire reject in the steering, and a true slip yoke to boot!
here hope this helps this is my set up.Captkirkyota said:I am gonna run with a Toyota IFS steering box and am looking for steering shaft advise etc,..... so what do you recommend and HOW/What do I need to do to make it work?
Thanks.
Thanks OZoztaco said:here hope this helps this is my set up.
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off topicFront Range said:Alright, Kirk, youre close. The smaller taco shaft, knock it out. The firewall end is big splines, the rack end is small. Those female larger spline are the same as older male splines. Now does this make sense?
This I understand, BUT I have a double female u-joint with one side bigger and one side smaller, so what I was thinking is leave the taco stuff coming out thru firewall, shorten the used shaft above the crumple zone so it is retained, and then attach the large end to shortened shaft and then the smaller end to the piece that did shoot down to rack.Front Range said:Alright, Kirk, youre close. The smaller taco shaft, knock it out. The firewall end is big splines, the rack end is small. Those female larger spline are the same as older male splines. Now does this make sense?
Does not having the rag joint increase your vibration and noise transfer? The rag is supposed to absorb vibes.generalee7 said:I did pretty much exactly what Brian said. I really don't like having rubber crap in my steering shaft so I decided to use all u-joints. Has worked great so far!
Ooh ooh ooh, I like that, that is prolly what Brian was talking about too, it is the right length like that to not come apart bottom out etc etc ?supahonkey said:For my SAS, I used two old steering shafts from an early 90s 4runner and pickup. I cut off the female end of one of the shafts, and took out the entire shaft with the female end out of one of the steering shafts. All you have to do is break a small pin. Once that's done, you can combine the two shafts to make a somewhat slip yoke shaft. check out the links to the pictures of my steering shaft below:
steering shaft 1
steering shaft 2
steering shaft 3