Toyota SAS from scratch

[88WhiteTurd]

Yo! I wanted to start this to jump in on the community and share all my mistakes and hopefully learn from them lol. My truck is a 1988 short bed p/u, it has been my daily for the last 5 ish years and I’ve always wanted to do something to it and I finally landed on doing a solid axel. My idea is Chevy 63s in the rear with a set of 14” 2.5 shocks and stock rear leaf springs up front with 12” 2.5 shocks I’ve also got red or dead frame plates with the steering box relocation. I’m starting with the axel that I got for a good price on fb and was told that it had a busted hub gear… turns out it was a blown up birf but I am cleaning up the housing and giving it a little spray while I’m looking for a new shirt side axel, I’m also debating on waiting to re assemble the axel after I have the frame tubes and front spring hanger mounted so it’s a little lighter not sure yet. This is my first build so this is probably going to be rough for some of yall but I want to make sure I’m doing things right I don’t want a janky truck lol

 

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That birf looks mint sweet ride.

 

[88WhiteTurd]

this may be a little over kill but decided to clean the knuckle hardware and realized the dude before used a 10.9 black oxide bolt instead of a knuckle stud :/ not sure if it was a trail fix or the dude was too lazy. But I’m going to get new split cones anyway so I’ll add them to the list.

I also finished cleaning up the diff and giving it a spray. And I realized that I never put the specs on the first post so here

Drivetrain: 22re w/ a w56 and stock case
It’s on 33s with 4.88s and a lunchbox in the rear and and the front once the swap is done.

Some progress before work hoping to get the truck in soon and get the bed off.

 

[88WhiteTurd]

I also need to install a 220v outlet in the garage I have the proper wires running to a box with out a plug but from what I understand it’s 2 sets of 110 wires running to 2 separate breaker switcher, I think I can combine those to be able to run 220 for my welder but I have no idea how and alot of the stuff I’ve found online is for Tesla chargers and it does not look the same. Any help would be appreciated, thanks

 

[88WhiteTurd]

Little side project today! I don’t have a large sturdy bench space and I needed a vice for ya know vice stuff for the sas so I found this anvil / stand thing and I figured it would work and I could practice welding before I work on the truck.

I used 3/16 for the mounting plate and some old hardware I had lying around

I also understand a lot of the welds are pretty cold, mainly because I don’t have a 240 v outlet and I didn't pre heat anything. but for just messing with the voltage and wire speed and just getting used to welding again I figured it turned out pretty well