98 Triton with live axle swap and gen 3 chev

Post by **Cammo30** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 12:58 pm

Using 79 series landcruiser front and rear diffs, and factory toyota coil hats, then fitting a HSV gen 3 chev.

Post by **jafa** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:52 pm

dang those are some bad pics!

should be a nice truck though

Post by **Cammo30** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:56 pm

jafa wrote:dang those are some bad pics!
should be a nice truck though

Thanks mate, phone cameras are great!!!!!

Will try and find the good camera and get better ones,
double the Kw and torque over the standard V6, should get the triton moving better.

Post by **Bitsamissin** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:20 pm

Will be an awesome truck.
Your using a Tojo full floating rear so broken 28 spline rear axles shouldn't be a problem.
Rear discs and larger front 4 pot calipers so should stop fine but will have to look at the Mitsi 23.8mm master - I don't think it will supply enough volume.
I used braided lines and thicker 100 Series pads in the front (had 4 pot V6 4 Runner calipers) but I had to machine the pad edges to get them to fit and then it stopped well.
Sorted out the front propshaft and pitman arm ?
There are also crawler gears available for the Triton FYI.

Post by **WACKO** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:32 pm

very cool man. are you sticking to the standard mitsi box and transfur? what are you doing about the bellhousing if you stick with the standard box?

keep up the progress reports.

Sam

Post by **NJV6** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 7:12 am

Looks good, Doubt the std gearbox and transfer will be used as the pumpkin is on the wrong side in the photo's... SO that will mean the crawler gears won't work.....

Post by **Brendan-s** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:28 am

What sized tyres will this be running?

Make sure to keep us updated with pics...

Post by **Cammo30** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:20 am

Progress is slow atm, just welding all the tacked parts in and making sure everything will work, tyre size is 33's but may put 35's on to make it look the part.

This is getting set up as a work truck for towing and lite 4wding, so overkill isnt needed.

Post by **Cammo30** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:52 pm

some better pics

Post by **Cammo30** » Thu May 07, 2009 1:27 pm

Suspension done, auto modded and transfer fitted, bolting it all up now, then making the rear crossmember.

Post by **Cammo30** » Thu May 07, 2009 1:32 pm

Post by **hulsty** » Thu May 07, 2009 1:44 pm

What is this linkage for? Does that go from above the radius arm mount on the diff to the chassis? Just I dont notice it on a 80 series radius arm 3 link front end.

Post by **Cammo30** » Thu May 07, 2009 1:59 pm

It the swaybar, and its not connected to the radius arm, its mounted to the chassis, just looks to the arm in the photo

Post by **Baker_24** » Thu May 07, 2009 2:29 pm

This thing is a beast and making me hell jealous lol.... i cant wait to see more pics of the build croydon4wd.. keep the good work up

Post by **Cammo30** » Thu May 07, 2009 3:38 pm

Please call me Cammo, Croydon4wd is my workshop!!

Post by **Baker_24** » Thu May 07, 2009 3:44 pm

hahaha sorry bout that cammo.. just wondering with slipping that v8 in will you have to do any mods to your inner guards in your engine bay?

Post by **Cammo30** » Thu May 07, 2009 3:44 pm

Post by **Baker_24** » Thu May 07, 2009 3:46 pm

hahaha well the pics answer my question

Post by **cozab** » Thu May 07, 2009 6:31 pm

man thats cool i have one of these (01) as a company car its giving me stupid ideas...

Post by **xagtho** » Fri May 08, 2009 7:34 am

Nice work cammo, after this is all said and done you should be a master at this conversion, any chance you would like to do it again to mine? I can supply the motor and diffs.

Cheers

Post by **Cammo30** » Fri May 08, 2009 8:43 am

xagtho wrote:Nice work cammo, after this is all said and done you should be a master at this conversion, any chance you would like to do it again to mine? I can supply the motor and diffs.

Cheers

Yer would look at doing it again, but cant get you a price till this one is finished, to many unknowns atm. but if your keen email me at a later date and ill see what I can do.

As you can see the engine is in, rear cross member will get made today, then we can measure up the tailshafts and order them, still need to level up the rear suspension, wire-up the engine and get the headers/exhaust made. Hoping to have it off to the auto elec by the end of next week.

Post by **jasonw** » Fri May 08, 2009 9:23 am

well done cammo
what i like the most is the fact that you are getting stuck into it. its been just over a month from your first post to now and you have come a long way. if it was me i would still be thinking about it.

are you getting advice from a engineer on what to do? or are you just going to present it and hope for the best?

Post by **Baker_24** » Fri May 08, 2009 9:33 am

yeah i agree with jason with the speedy build. the other thing is where did u get that rear sports bar looks sick with the dual bars. cheers baker

Post by **Cammo30** » Sat May 09, 2009 7:18 pm

Baker_24 wrote:yeah i agree with jason with the speedy build. the other thing is where did u get that rear sports bar looks sick with the dual bars. cheers baker

Like most things on this car it was custom made,
If you havnt picked it, the ute tub is of a single cab, 480mm has been added to the chassis so the wheels fitted into the tub wheel arches.

Post by **Baker_24** » Mon May 11, 2009 5:39 pm

wow i didnt even notice but thats an awesome idea i cant wait to see this thing finished going to be one nice triton

Post by **calicivirus** » Wed May 27, 2009 9:49 am

I like it, I like it a lot.

Could I do small block into Gen 1 paj. Mmm time for the tape measure.

Post by **Cammo30** » Wed May 27, 2009 11:43 am

calicivirus wrote:I like it, I like it a lot.

Could I do small block into Gen 1 paj. Mmm time for the tape measure.

Yer should fit, but the idea of the live axle was to get the Gen 3 to fit, dont think it will fit with the IFS

Post by **calicivirus** » Wed May 27, 2009 5:21 pm

Croydon4wd wrote:
calicivirus wrote:I like it, I like it a lot.

Could I do small block into Gen 1 paj. Mmm time for the tape measure.
Yer should fit, but the idea of the live axle was to get the Gen 3 to fit, dont think it will fit with the IFS

Yeah thats what I discovered when I did measuring. I could be shagged doing a V8 into the Paj but SFA as well, too much work for me.

Looks great though mate, well done.
Why did you go the s/cab tub? Did you have to lengthen chassis to make the setup work, or did you just want a bigger tub? Cheers.

Post by **Cammo30** » Fri May 29, 2009 9:55 am

The ute tubs was swapped over sometime ago for extra load carrying, yes the chassis was streched 480mm, this is getting built as a work truck more then anything, extra load carrying and more power to tow a big diesel gen for welding and 3 phase power, the only other car that had the same size tray or power of the gen3 was an F-Truck, GMC, read that as $80k plus, or spend 20-30k on a truck that he alreadys owns and have something that will do the same job, but look alot cooler and differant to everyone else.

Will put some more pics up soon, just got towed out to the auto elec to wire up the motor and elec windows. had some custom door trims made, should be a runner within 3 weeks
Cammo

Post by **dave_str** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 4:53 am

Cammo any updates.

Dave.

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