Tires, Wheels, and rear disk parts

I've gotten some work done in the last week, as well as pulled together some parts for the rear disks. I also picked up some nice used 35x12.50 BFG Mud Terrains and my Mom got me some wheels to mount them on for my birthday. Thanks Mom!

First order of business was to mount up two of the new tires and rims. This way I can roll the front axle around and free up two of my jackstands. Here's one of the tires mounted with to the front axle and the front axle mounted to the frame. I also mounted a fender to see how the spring flip and shackle reversal puts the tire in the wheel well.

I should loose some height, 2" or so when I install the motor and body. Looks good to me!

I also disassembled the rear axle and gathered the needed parts for the rear disk brake conversion. Here's the housing with everything pulled apart. I'll clean it up and weld on the new brackets for the SOA and the rear disks. In the second picture is the internals. Those axle shafts are beefier than the 31 spline shafts in my 9" on my jeep. Nice!

Finally, here are the components for the rear disk swap. From left to right, we have The AA Manufacturing Metric Chevy Caliper brackets, ($8.99 ea), the Rebuilt Metric Chevy Calipers (20.99 ea including core charge), Pads ($12.99 for both wheels) and 1/2 ton Chevy 4x4 truck rotors ($23 ea). My buddy Carl opened up the center hole in the rotors to fit over the centers of the Land Cruiser Axleshafts.

This overall conversion will cost less than rebuilding the stock drums and should work much better. The other cool thing about keeping the stock transfercase is that the rear driveshaft mounted Emergency Brake keeps me from having to worry about an E brake on the wheels. Stay tuned for the rear axle cleaning, painting, and assembly....