I have been reading a lot of posts and am getting the impression that there will not be any  SAS kits for the tracker any time soon. I would like to run an idea by you.

Swap in a 1.9TD VW engine using an Acme adapter. 5-speed Toyota transmission, 2 Toyota  cases mated with a marlin crawler. Take the entire suspension link system out of say a FZJ80 (I want the selectable lockers). Weld in custom cross members for mounting points. Use the drive shafts from either the FJ80 or donor of the tranny & T-case shortened. I haven’t researched the trany/T-case combo too much yet but I would be looking to avoid the whole SYE issue with the tracker case. All of the drive line components would be compatible being Toy gear. Stock out of a LC or Truck would e a huge upgrade from the tracker.

I am at least a year away from starting the project but I want to end up wit a 4-door (I want the room, AC & creature comforts) with solid axles, coil springs, plenty of gearing and able to run large tires. I am thinking junkyard scrounging. I am game for fabricating just not for the tedious trial & error. So a kit (such as for the oil burner) is money well spent. If I could find detailed diagrams/drawings for the axle swap I can take it from there which is why I was thinking just using the original FJ links. What do folks think? Thanks, John.

thats quite the project! I am heading the same way sort of!  Except I am keeping the ifs for now. I have a 1.6TD Jetta sitting in yard and am starting to pull together all the parts I will need to dot he swap.

You could keep the sidekick trans and use the OTT kicker to go from the kick tcase to toyota tcase.

One thing to remember is that landcruiser axles are both offset to the pass side so with a minitruck tcase your rear drive shaft will be on an angle. How about a tacoma rear with the e-locker and a minitruck front with the e-locker? prob be cheaper than the LC diffs.

Coils are alot of work and alot of playing around to get set-up properly. that is why alot of people go leaves when they SAS.

K.I.S.S.

Weld on Leaf spring mounts from a YJ. Leaf springs from a YJ. Front CJ axle. New front driveshaft. CJ or YJ steering linkage. Drill out pitman arm to 3/4". Use Go-Fer-It weld in sleeve at the pitman arm. Do the front and rear in leaf springs or just the front... Even Sami guys know it drives nice once you got the leafs setup properly and a Trackick is not much off weight wise once it's modified from a stock YJ so the spring rate should be spot on. Only fabbing would be shackle mounts on either end of the frame and I think anyone who has fabbed anything can tell ya 2x4 box works great as a place to mount as well as a beefy crossmember/bumper.

Done. SAS for under $600.

Sure you can fool around with the coil links... That's easy too. Radius arms up front (see XJ long arm kits) with a panhard rod. But that's another option.

Not sayin your wrong but an SAS for under $600 is pushing it! You get a CJ axle and then you will need gears as they will be too low and a bearing kit while you have the diff apart.

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8 months.  Almost had this thing buried.

I highly doubt that anybody has detailed their SAS swap for a Sidekick with drawings.
It's a lengthy process with lots of different options.
However, it does sound like you've figured out a good path.  Next thing to do is to try it out.
Good luck,
~Nate

And so it continues..................

Go for it, you have nothing to loose. But with all of planing why not just build a Toymotor up instead?
I know from a VERY reliable source that CALMINI are still doing a SAS kit but it has to be 100% before release - from a commercial point of view you will all agree that this makes sense.

Personally I have done a SAS on a Kick using coils. Yes it is a lot of work but it drives SOOOOOOOOOOOOO nice . Articulation is fantastic and I am happy with the result.
Leaf springs are good - coils are BETTER!
I have played with a leaf sprung Sammy and it worked real well but coils - Yeah Baby Yeah
I am now building another Kick with IFS, I am looking forward to the challenge of getting it sorted out properly. I really like the benefits of IFS - but that is another story.

Anyway - Good luck and I hope it all works out

Well , seen the topic and figured it was going to happen. Then I as i was reading , nothing about the sas kit
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I know from a VERY reliable source that CALMINI are still doing a SAS kit but it has to be 100% before release - from a commercial point of view you will all agree that this makes sense.

I agree with this, this is something that needs to be tested fully. You wouldn't want to release a new product and have it fail in any way.

I was thinking of using the complete LC case so the shafts would line up right. Use another Toy case to get the reduction unit out of. I was thinking of getting mini truck axles and selectable lockers (and T-case). I was just hopping to find an LC that someone wanted to upgrade to larger axles & hopefully get theirs cheap or free (yes I dream a lot). Does anyone know if the rear E-Locker out of a new Toyota LC Prado will fit in mini truck axles front & rear, or any other cheap Toy axles for that matter. I may (again that dreaming again) be axle to get some. They seem to crash a lot around here. I can’t get the whole axle home & it has IFS but the lockers for free will save be a boat load if I can get them. I was thinking going with Toyota from tranny on back so everything was the same & hopefully avoid headaches.