Looking to buy "LSD" for AE86 - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

mr4age · 09-03-2001, 02:40 AM

I know it's going to be hard but I still gotta try. I'm looking for an LSD for my 1986 AE96. Anyone?
Please reply to e-mail:

jl@intergate.ca

**Also anyone got a set of deep dish rims for sale? - 14 or 15" - does not have to come with tires. Also for my AE86.

captain tofu · 09-03-2001, 03:16 AM

Guys, help him out if you can. He helped me a lot of my Hachiroku.

ApexForBreakfast · 09-03-2001, 07:41 AM

I think i recall that in Superstreet a couple months back, they had signal prepare a hachiroku for drifting and they threw on some tanabe shocks and springs and a KAAZ LSD. you should contact them and see what they have. Let me dig up at article and see if they priced it ...

ApexForBreakfast · 09-03-2001, 07:42 AM

Found it ... but it's pricey!

http://www.kaazusa.com/pdf/prices.pdf

goodcookiedrift · 09-04-2001, 11:48 AM

cusco, kazz, trd, quaife and oem toyota make lsd's for the 86.

i have a set of bronse supra rims 14 x 7 +8 offset...not really selling, but if you make me a good offer maybe i'll part.

Nick

captain tofu · 09-04-2001, 10:42 PM

I have Supra 14" rims too and willing to sell them. Let me know if you want them, I am from BC and don't mind lower the cost a little bit to pay for your shipping.

Z! · 09-07-2001, 09:25 AM

Check out club4g, in the classified section. There are always guys in the U.S. that are selling them.

The funny thing is that Canada never got them - but they guys in Hawaii and California all have them.

Good one Toyota!

Z!

captain tofu · 09-09-2001, 03:22 PM

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On 2001-09-07 10:25, Z! wrote:
Check out club4g, in the classified section. There are always guys in the U.S. that are selling them.

The funny thing is that Canada never got them - but they guys in Hawaii and California all have them.

Good one Toyota!

Z!

I don't know why they don't like to ship to Canada. They just need to fill out one more piece of document.

goodcookiedrift · 09-09-2001, 04:30 PM

if you get the lsd, i'm pretty sure you have to get the lsd axels that go along with it.

Nick

Migs · 09-09-2001, 07:27 PM

I might as well toss in some info as I'm probably the only guy on this board that has an LSD (and lives in Canada).

I currently work at a Toyota dealership so I was able to get a little more info about the whole topic....

I'm 95% certain that LSD's weren't available in Canada, but that's something I've never been able to find physical proof of (besides the fact that NO ONE has an OEM LSD)...unlike the US where you can buy a rebuild kit, in Canada, the only thing available is a brand new LSD (I think it was around $2600 CAN)

As someone already said, there are a few companies that make aftermarket LSD's for the AE86 and they cost a small fortune especially since we have to deal with the horrible US to Canadian coversion rate.

Now that used OEM LSD's are becoming more and more availble from junkyards in the US, it's the best way to find one for relitively cheap. Don't waste your time looking in Canada because you won't find one. The one problem is that OEM LSD's are based on a clutch type of mechanism and after 15 years many of them won't be very effective...so buying a rebuild kit from the Toyota USA might be the way to fix that.

Also, you must keep in mind that the AE86 changed axle sizes from 85 to the 86/87 models, so an '85 LSD will only work with '85 axles, and in turn, an'86/87 will only work with '86/87 axles.

Nick mentioned that you need LSD axles if you plan on swapping in an OEM LSD and this is true as they are 6-10 mm shorter than the non-LSD units. Though finding LSD axles would be favorable, they seem to be harder to come by than the LSD itself since they're more succeptable to damage (speed + curb = bent axle...as I learned :smile

One alternative is to simply shorten your non LSD axles by cutting off that 6-10mm, which is what I was forced to do.

Hope this helps!

Migs (sliding all over the streets of Calgary)

Migs · 09-09-2001, 07:35 PM

Oh, since you're probably wondering...

I bought my '85 LSD through Ebay from a guy in South Carolina who pulled it waaaayyy back in 1986. He had bought the entire rear end from an AE86 that the owner had flipped shortly after buying it...1200 miles after to be more precise. He used the rear end for a rally project car and removed the LSD diff so that he could replace it with an open diff that was welded together.

15 years later, he found the LSD sitting in storage and thought there might be someone out there interested in buying it...needless to say, it wasn't a cheap buy, but I've got no regrets. LSD's kick ASS.

Migs

goodcookiedrift · 09-09-2001, 08:11 PM

hey migs...i dunno if you remember me..jover's friend who bought the afm adapter plate off of you a while back.

anyways, can toyota dealerships up here get access to lsd axels from toyota south of the border..brand new?

i'm thinking of going with either a 2 way kaaz or cusco, provided i can find all the parts. does cutting it make that much of a diff (no pun intended) from getting th oe lsd axels? i remember yasin had one on his 86 but i wasn't too sure what he did to get it on...however he said installing it wasn't as complicated as everyone thinks it is...somehow i'm very skepitcal about that remark.

Nick

Migs · 09-11-2001, 01:16 AM

How could I forget ASSuna speed suns Nick?

I didn't know that Yasin had an LSD in one of his rides. It really is simple to put it in though. Put the diff in the housing, put the bolts in to secure it, stick in the axles and you're done. Well it's not quite that simple, but basically, that's all you're doing.

I did price out new AE86 axles a few months ago before I got my LSD, both non-LSD and LSD ones and they were somewhere in the neighborhood of $400 each, which is outrageous.

I haven't noticed any problems with my cut axles, and I'd do it again if I had to.

Migs