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Hardcore Hardware Toyota Fj Cruiser All Pro Rods
Hardcore Hardware Toyota Fj Cruiser All Pro Axle Mounting Flange
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Hardcore Hardware Toyota Fj Cruiser All Pro Axle Mounting Flange
How's this for something thick? All-Pro has seen some third members actually bend their mounting flanges under heavy loads. Diamond axle builds its toyota housings with a 1/2-inch-thick mounting flange - no more bending. All-Pro takes the strengthening campaign a step further and installs 10mm third member mounting studs in place of the stock-size 8mm studs.
Hardcore Hardware Toyota Fj Cruiser Warn Locking Hub
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Hardcore Hardware Toyota Fj Cruiser Warn Locking Hub
If you enjoy metallic carnage and live to wrench on your rig on the trail, it's best to Avoid these parts.
Hardcore Hardware Toyota Fj Cruiser Wilwood Rotors And Calipers
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Hardcore Hardware Toyota Fj Cruiser Wilwood Rotors And Calipers
The lightweight Wilwood rotors and calipers are not only great stoppers, they're also custom- designed to allow using 15-inch wheels, if desired. A custom mounting bracket ties the Wilwood caliper to the F-450 steering knuckle.
Hardcore Hardware Toyota Fj Cruiser All Pro Lower Links
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Hardcore Hardware Toyota Fj Cruiser All Pro Lower Links
Lower links take quite a bashing in the rocks, so these are made from .281-wall Dom. There's a 2.5-inch Johnny Joint at each end of the lower links. Johnny Joints are easily lubricated via grease zerks, and the joints' urethane inserts are fiendishly cheap to replace when they wear out. The upper link is made from .120-wall Dom since it's tucked out of the way above the axle.
Hardcore Hardware Toyota Fj Cruiser All Pro Steering System
The FJ cruiser uses a rack-and-pinion... 
   
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Hardcore Hardware Toyota Fj Cruiser All Pro Steering System
The FJ cruiser uses a rack-and-pinion steering system in stock form. It doesn't work with the solid-axle swap, so it gets deleted and replaced with a steering box from an '86-'95 4WD toyota pickup. In addition to being the correct configuration for steering the solid axle, the steering box is much stronger than the rack-and-pinion steering system. All-Pro's weld-on mounting brackets are required to bolt the steering box in place on the driver-side framerail.
Hardcore Hardware Toyota Fj Cruiser Stock Suspension
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Hardcore Hardware Toyota Fj Cruiser Stock Suspension
This is where many captions would read, "here's the inferior ifs system that will shortly be eliminated." Instead, we'll say that the stock ifs system works well in many situations, and it works that much better when augmented with an all-Pro upper control arm and an all-Pro bolt-in coilover built by Walker evans racing. Point the ifs system at a hardcore trail, though, and shortcomings start to emerge.

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