The meat in this tasty Taco' is the Solid Axle Swap kit, which includes everything needed to lose the independent suspension and replace it with a beefy new straight-axle frontend and a three-link ...

And from then until 1985, Toys came with solid front axles--it was 1986 when live axle versus IFS became the subject of many a-heated campfire discussion. 0:00 / 0:00. See All 10 Photos.

The Basics. From the first Model T until the end of the '40s, Ford Motor Company relied on a solid I-beam front axle as the backbone of its front suspension designs.

The use of solid axles and reference to rock crawling suggests some kind of truck designed with off-roading in mind. But Ford in 2021 said it had considered, and then nixed, in-wheel motors ...