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as the title says, 1986 lux, torque rod, what is its job?? i know its a part of the suspension, coming from front diff housing to chassis, ive just done the timing belt, so ive had the front of the engine bay empty, while i was in there, i noticed a crack in the welds around where the bracket where its on the chassis, its probably a bad thing, and im planning on getting it looked at tomorrow.
is it just fixed by welding it up or is it a major job??
the crack is at the top and a smaller crack at the bottom.

is it an ifs truck?? i may be wrong with what i am thinking, as i am not that femiliar with them, and if it is what i think it is, (th rod that acts as the spring) my mate had a ifs pathfinder, that he had wound the front up to get some lift, but then had no give in his suspension and kept bending things...

maybe if i am on the right track and that is what your talking about, if you have wound it up, that could be your problem, that there isnt enough travle with the rod, and its putting to much stress on the mounts?? and after fixing it all you have to do is un wind it to a better tension...

if i am not correct sorry i couldnt help you.

alistair

(i jut re read your post shouldn't have missed it in the firt place, if its 1986 it would be leaf front yeah???) in that case i am incorrect and i dont know what its job is sorry mate

yeah bud solid axle/leaf spring lux.

It's to stop the diff rolling back and forth when the steering box pushs on the J arm.

Is your truck lifted?, if it is and you don't have an adj torque rod the cracks are from the rod limiting the suspension and therefore more load being put on the mounts, in saying that they crack eventually usually anyway.

Just clean the steel up and re weld it.

Wambat wrote:is it an ifs truck?? i may be wrong with what i am thinking, as i am not that femiliar with them, and if it is what i think it is, (th rod that acts as the spring) my mate had a ifs pathfinder, that he had wound the front up to get some lift, but then had no give in his suspension and kept bending things...

maybe if i am on the right track and that is what your talking about, if you have wound it up, that could be your problem, that there isnt enough travle with the rod, and its putting to much stress on the mounts?? and after fixing it all you have to do is un wind it to a better tension...

if i am not correct sorry i couldnt help you.

alistair

(i jut re read your post shouldn't have missed it in the firt place, if its 1986 it would be leaf front yeah???) in that case i am incorrect and i dont know what its job is sorry mate

That is a torsion bar.

just 2 inch body lift and now 35s, how bad is it?? im getting it looked at tomorrow and hopefully sorted asap, then i can go out and test my new/old rubber on the tracks

You have 2inch body lift and no ruf and 35s?, It's not the end of the world, just get it re welded when you can, it's not going to snap off tomorrow if it only has 2 small cracks in it.

be rad - yeah that what i was thinking of(couldnt remnber the name)

oh well i learned something new(the tourque rod) set up.

why is there not one of them on 60/75 series cruisers???

Because 60-70 series dont run the poxy push/pull J arm setup that solid axle hiluxes do

where can i get an adjustable torque rod?? apart from bbm and snake??

next question- WHen you have an adjustable, How the hell do you adjust it properly!!!

it prevents people asking the same question in more than one section. hooking it up will alleviate this...

thanks for that macca, i thought ill post in both tech sections to get double the info.
im getting superior engineering adjustable torque rod, 107 posted to me.

DUDELUX wrote:where can i get an adjustable torque rod?? apart from bbm and snake??

Active 4x4 at Bero,TJM,Out Of Town,Climax etc all sell them in this are Dont know the price.They are also easy to fit too

DUDELUX wrote:where can i get an adjustable torque rod?? apart from bbm and snake??

Superior Engineering, or EFS do one aswell.

yeah ive got one coming from superior engineering, $107 posted.

its posted about 3 posts up but thankyou anyway

nayto wrote:Because 60-70 series dont run the poxy push/pull J arm setup that solid axle hiluxes do

Nor do they have the shackle reversed. The rod does more than just help with steering.

ferrit wrote:next question- WHen you have an adjustable, How the hell do you adjust it properly!!!

just a guess as never done one, but do it by taking it off, having the truck sitting on a level surface and loaded as it would normally be, then measuring the distance between axle and chassis brackets and adjusting accordingly. If it's the part i'm thinking of then it doesn't bear any load from the suspension. I've also done panhards this way.

I've got adjustable control arms but they were pretty easy to calculate using good old pythagoras' therom.

i was told the best way to fit the adjustable torque rod was to: have vehicle sitting level on flat ground as it normally would, and just bolt one end in, then adjust the other end and bolt it in.
the rod ive ordered from superior engineering has left and right thread so you can adjust it while its on the car.
so im assuming that if yours has adjustment on 1 end, then youd probably have to take it off at that end.