Johnny 5 Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 (edited) On my my way home from Mexico I found this guy on the side of the road... So i drove it back it back to Canada! let the fun begin. the good: almost everthing is there, jump sets and everything. No real body damage and no bad body rust from what I can tell. runs! Shifts pretty good(4spd) the bad: Torn cv’s lots of caked oil, Mexican wiring oil sender dosnt work driver side strut top is completely torn(found this once I got it home) leakying front main seal bad rad fan Truck bed leaks into cabin(when it rains) Plan: since I’ve been building my crazy off road poptop gl wagon, I thought it’d make this more of a daily driver. bushings upgrades 2 inch lift 215/75/15 Baja bfg on yota drilled 6 lug. camber/caster plates longer ish dual rate suspension Electric swap?!?! Edited April 11, 2019 by Johnny 5 Title change and info 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny 5 Posted April 13, 2019 Author Share Posted April 13, 2019 (edited) Temporary fix for the driver side strut top hat. 1/4 in thick steel plate to sandwich the torn rubber. Then filled with a rubber compound to take up any slack. No more vibration driving. Found a ea82 loyal at a pick and pull luckily. pulled the front cv’s off, one inner was missing the doj balls. should be able to make two good cv’s out of the broken 4. Edited April 13, 2019 by Johnny 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el_freddo Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 Neat (but dirty) looking brat! Heads up: EA82 shafts are not compatible with the EA81 units. Only usable part is the inner joint unless the EA82 shaft is from an MPFI/turbo. Cheers Bennie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny 5 Posted May 2, 2019 Author Share Posted May 2, 2019 On 4/13/2019 at 4:31 PM, el_freddo said: Neat (but dirty) looking brat! Heads up: EA82 shafts are not compatible with the EA81 units. Only usable part is the inner joint unless the EA82 shaft is from an MPFI/turbo. Cheers Bennie Is it just length? Seems like the bearing will take the stub shaft, just maybe swap the inner knuckle seal? to an ea82 seal? and use ea82 lca and adjust for the offset Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny 5 Posted May 2, 2019 Author Share Posted May 2, 2019 (edited) Rebuilt the front end. Lots of mud and broken parts. The smallest amount of play in the inner tie rods. Lordco wants 70$ for one... Outers are discontinued so I ended up using an Imprezas from around 2000s I think. Just short enough to towe the front in Just a touch. Tho the threads aren’t fully tight. I wonder if this is just the worn inner tie rod or the new Imprezas is just a slight larger diameter thread. manged to stuff some BFG Baja 215/75/15r (28in?) tires on some 6lug Nissan rims. Bolted to some ea82 hubs. there’s maybe a slight offset difference between ea82-ea81 hubs? my questions is, are the front and rear bearing seals the same? Ie will a front hub seal and set on the rear? if so I could fab a backing plate and mount ea82 front disks on the rear with what ever calipers I like Shimmed the radius rods maybe 1/2 for more caster, and some fender bending. No rub in the front. the rear inner fender needed just a small trim on the bottom . Still need to do the outer because of alight rub on the mud flaps. Blending everything to keep it nice looking. I adjusted the front spring preload all the way and now have bad camber, so off to fit some ea82 lca and cv axles? Edited May 2, 2019 by Johnny 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkyboy Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 Nice dude! Ive been to mexico they like toyotas and vw. Very nice grab! Plieades was extra bright for you to run into this cat on the road! Um, canada accepted and transferred ownership from the mexican title? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el_freddo Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 22 hours ago, Johnny 5 said: my questions is, are the front and rear bearing seals the same? Ie will a front hub seal and set on the rear? if so I could fab a backing plate and mount ea82 front disks on the rear with what ever calipers I like Short answer: it won’t work. Long answer: the rear stub axle is a smaller diametre than the front axle of the driveshaft. So the front hub will not fit the rear stub axle for a start, that’s basically the blocker for this mod - and the reason why not one does it, ever! Mandy EA82 front drive shaft outer shafts/axles are different to the EA81 drive shaft outer shafts/axles. You have to swap tocthe EA82 hub for EA82 shafts, plus some other stuff I don’t care about so can’t tell you anything in that department as I’m not going to do that to my brumby. The 28s look good on those rims and your Brat. What’s the bearing like with that rubber?? Woeful at best I bet You’ll need a gearbox build with 4.111:1 diff ratio minimum! Cheers Bennie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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