Sinking Creek 4WD Association

does anybody have some pictures of a toyota fj60 power steering box? or a link to a website with a rebuild?

or better yet, if anybody knows if you can swap the fj60 internals into a mini-truck box... I'm pretty sure the seals are the same dimensions, but not sure about the piston and worm gear dimensions (other than diameter). whole idea being you could make a mini-truck ps box with a flipped pitman arm like a scout ps box (that steers the right way).

I saw a thread on pirate a while ago where someone used an FJ60 steering box on a mini truck so they could move the front axle really far forward. I don't know if the internals are interchangeable though. The landcruiser box looked to be a bit bigger. How much of a pain in the ass would it be for you to just swap the whole box? Prolly need different mounting holes and I'm sure you don't wanna do all that since you just got your box remounted!

OOOHH! I just had a great idea!! You could just flip the pitman arm around on your steering box and learn to turn the wheel left to go right and vice versa! It would make it very hard for someone to steal your truck that way too!

I'm pullin this out of my ass, but doesn't 4x4labs make a double sided arm to put the tierod connection behind the axle? Then you could slide the box backwards and flip the pitman the other way to fix your problem. Just a thought.

BTW, I think Chris Dobroth might have an extra steering box for an FJ60.

see, here's my thinking (there was a post on pirate that mentioned the fact that you can take a saginaw box and swap the guts around to get a forward swing box... basically turn any sag box into a scout box): if the guts are swappable in a toy, then potentially you could keep a stock IFS box, rotate it so the pitman is flatter, and then convert it to a fwd swing box and scoot the axle like 6" forward... could potentially make linking the front easier, too.

oh, and the fj60 boxes are bigger, and use 4 mountin bolts instead of 3 on a minitruck. but since all the seals are swappable, i'm guessing there's gotta be some similarity. likewise, the guts (sector shaft, worm gear and piston) of a push-pull box are entirely swappable into an IFS box.

word... do it and let me know what happens!

Yea I want this too.. I'm thinking I might need it. You know of any 60 boxes around?

I think I have at least one or two lying around. I'll snag one for ya when I go home to get the heep.