Hilux Tub Lift

[spongerx]

Sorry to add another post about Hilux body lift questions but I've been searching OL and the web the past few days for the pix and answers I'm after with no luck. I'm sure I've seen a thread on here with a link to a web site where a guy documented his Hilux body lift with detailed pix of the work involved but I cant seem to find it.

What I'm after is pix of the tub mounts. The cab lift looks fairly straight forward but my tub has a couple of really tricky looking bolts on it and am not sure if all Hiluxes are like this. I'm going to be loosening up a couple of bolts to have a further look this week but the pix below are the bolts from one side of my tub.

This is the bolt closest to the cab and uses an extremely short bolt with possibly a nut welded under the bracket on the chassis. Not much clearance above it to slip a longer bolt in and pretty tight below the tab to get a spanner on the nut


The next pic is the middle bolt. I'm hoping the nut on the end of this bolt is welded onto the channel section above it cos it doesnt look like there's anyway to access this nut short of cutting a slot in the channel section above it.


The bolt closest to the rear bumper is easy enough to do.

Do the Aus spec Hiluxes have the same type of mounts on the tub? Most sites say the tub is the easiest part of the lift, they just say drop the bolts in after jacking it up but this looks a bit more challenging on my tub.

A link to a thread or site with detailed pix of the tub lift or closeup pix of a tub lift on a Hilux would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[yfz]

Those nuts are fixed. And you will be able to replace those bolts with longer ones once lifted.

[snatch_this]

http://www.toyotasurf.asn.au/techsite/bodylift.htm
i think this may have been the one you same across in the forum???
its for a surf but the princible is the same i think???

[JOHNZ]

That tray is from a 1998>2005 hilux & they are easy to do a bodylift on

[spongerx]

Thanks for the replies. I had a close look at it yesterday afternoon with a spanner and those bolts seem easy enough to work on now.

Just gotta find a way to get my big hand in a position that I can loosen the filler and breather hoses a bit on the fuel tank. All the hose clamp screws seem to be facing towards the front of the vehicle. Looks like there's enough pipe on the fuel tank end to lengthen them but access to that is pretty cramped. When you guys have lifted these trucks did you drop the fuel tank to adjust the hoses on it?

The rubber hose for the clutch piston looks like it'll be a tight stretch too.

The link I'd come across in the past that I was after was for a Hilux pickup lift. The Surf lift link I've had a look over recently and has the info I was after for the front end.

[ausyota]

Just gotta find a way to get my big hand in a position that I can loosen the filler and breather hoses a bit on the fuel tank. All the hose clamp screws seem to be facing towards the front of the vehicle. Looks like there's enough pipe on the fuel tank end to lengthen them but access to that is pretty cramped. When you guys have lifted these trucks did you drop the fuel tank to adjust the hoses on it?

Yeah its a bugger hey, I think they must use a robot or soething to do that clamp up.
Get a 10mm ratcheting ring spanner onto it thats how I did a mates.
Had just enough room.

[98lux]

Undo the 3 x 10mm bolts inside the fuel flap, once the tray is lifted there will be more room. also use a 8mm 1/4" drive with a long ext for undoing the hose clamps. Worked on mine.

As for the tray lift, i just got some new bolts and used the same captive nut and a nut and bolt on the very back mount (no captive nut)