skeebum

How is your project coming? Do you have more photos for us? I am also mid-construction on an 84 mini cruiser, and I wanted to see your progress for ideas.

Welcome Bob, A photo would be best. Are the front wheels 6-lug? Have you read the tire sizes on the front and rear? Some/Most of us have 5 lug fronts and 6-lug (due to axle recall replacement) rears.

Have a read of this thread to find a tire (or 7). From what I have read, most people carry one front spare, mounted and balanced. If you lose a front, you can change it yourself and drive to get it repaired. If you lose a rear tire, you can take the wheel off, and limp to a service center on 5 tires. If you lose another rear, remove it, balance out the rear with one tire on each side and crawl to the service center. I have considered keeping a new unmounted spare rear tire on board in the event that a local service center cannot find a replacement, or it takes them days to get one, and the cost! This way, you can be in and out, but is it worth the weight? Maybe. At least if you had to order a tire and wait, you wouldn't be left without a place to sleep...

Interesting.. On mine, there are stock muffler mounts that hang just to the rear of the wheels. I was unsure if they were added by Toyota or RBR (camper manufacturer) Tell me, do you have any windows that open to the rear of your tailpipe exit?

I do agree about the 2.25" pipe. A little more research and I think im working with an 83 model instead of an 84 (via ToyoDiy VIN search) This changes things a little bit, since the cat-back isnt available for the RN44. But i may be able to piece it together with a custom bent pipe. I was hoping someone had done it before. I still need to know about wheelbase and tailpipe length. To be legal, the exhaust must exit at the rear (back bumper area) in a motorhome?

I can handle shocks and ball joints. I just want a good source for the ball joints/control arms. The mech said that when I remove the joints I might damage the arms, so I might have to buy those with the joints installed already. That might not be a bad choice since that will include the CA bushings as well. No welder nearby, except the shop. I need to avoid having to piece together the exhaust with welds, if possible. I cant even bring them the exhaust parts I want installed, as they wont install them. So I'm stuck either paying their prices, or finding a bolt together exhaust.

I brought my new 84 MiniCruiser to the local repair shop to find out what it needed to pass the safety inspection and the list included front and rear shocks (gabriel - jcwhitney), upper and lower ball joints (?) and an exhaust system, including cat and everything rearward. They quoted $169 for universal cat, $82 for univ. muffler and 3hrs labor all totaling about $500. I know that we can do better than that. I read a few posts about cat-back exhaust systems from rockauto and a cat from LC Engineering, and looked up my chassis code on ToyoDIY. Are there pre-bent exhaust systems that I can just bolt on myself for the RN44 chassis? Rockauto only lists catback systems from Bosal for RN50 and RN55 chassis in 3 wheelbase lengths. How do I know which one (if any) will fit? Will it use the stock exhaust hanger locations? What diameter pipe is on it? When looking under the vehicle, it appears that the exhaust would exit to the rear of the passenger side rear wheels. Is this legal? The bosal image appears to exit at the rear, and I guess I would have to install new hangers.