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by Bruce Balis
Thu Nov 08, 2018 9:02 pm
Forum: Toyota
Topic: Fixing 80series winch stall issue
Replies: 7
Views: 5400

Re: Fixing 80series winch stall issue

Ah you are a very clever man there bud. How and where did you source the spare parts from. Ive got an toyota l.m sitting on bench which just about made it to the scrap bin because of this very issue. Got a fast runva in its place but miss that pulling strenght on a single line. May go back in if i ...
by Bruce Balis
Sun Oct 14, 2018 12:17 pm
Forum: Toyota
Topic: Fixing 80series winch stall issue
Replies: 7
Views: 5400

Re: Fixing 80series winch stall issue

kbushnz, yeah i had checked the solenoids, im not running dual batterys but do have a new 810cca one, its been doing it for years so when it shore the end off the drive rod (from me clicking the hell out of it trying to get it to reverse) i figured it was time for some DIY...again
by Bruce Balis
Sun Oct 14, 2018 12:09 pm
Forum: Toyota
Topic: Fixing 80series winch stall issue
Replies: 7
Views: 5400

Re: Fixing 80series winch stall issue

Sorry i havent managed to get the photos in order but i hope this will help anyone else out there like me that wants to fix their 80 series winch because they like it.....but mainly cant afford to buy another. When i pulled it apart there was no sign of any water which was brilliant (and suprising),...
by Bruce Balis
Sun Oct 14, 2018 11:50 am
Forum: Toyota
Topic: Fixing 80series winch stall issue
Replies: 7
Views: 5400

Re: Fixing 80series winch stall issue

pretty much replacing the clutch plate one with a commonly used flat coil spring one.
by Bruce Balis
Sun Oct 14, 2018 11:44 am
Forum: Toyota
Topic: Fixing 80series winch stall issue
Replies: 7
Views: 5400

Fixing 80series winch stall issue

The factory low mount winch is great, easy freespool, 50m of rope, but when the blimen thing almost stalls under heavy load it will wind in but not back out, last straw was a recent trip to the coast and it left me in a spot of bother. the issue is the clutch not releasing allowing the drum to spool...
by Bruce Balis
Sun Oct 14, 2018 11:30 am
Forum: Toyota
Topic: Rust in crumpy Hilux footwell/ rain leaks in
Replies: 2
Views: 3015

Re: Rust in crumpy Hilux footwell/ rain leaks in

heres some terrible photos, one side of the truck shows the origonal small opening and the other (if you squint) you can see ive cut ithe opening bigger, and anything i cut out and replace i use 16Ga zintec, i hate rust....but love old toyotas
by Bruce Balis
Sun Oct 14, 2018 11:22 am
Forum: Toyota
Topic: Rust in crumpy Hilux footwell/ rain leaks in
Replies: 2
Views: 3015

Re: Rust in crumpy Hilux footwell/ rain leaks in

It all starts in the gutter infront of the windscreen, leaves/mud falls through the slots in the pannel and build up in the 's' bend in behind the front gards, that in turn holds water and rusts out,flowing inside and rusting the floor and usually taking the firewall corners with it, if youre ever i...
by Bruce Balis
Sun May 01, 2016 8:53 am
Forum: Toyota
Topic: V6 Holden into Hilux
Replies: 23
Views: 4403

Re: V6 Holden into Hilux

About a year ago my clutch went in haast, it still drove, just no clutch. So i bleed it and fluffed around in the pouring rain and ended up road rangering it, jetboat in tow back to Canterbury. That viaduct back over the hills gets interesting with no clutch! haha. found out my bolts in the bell hou...
by Bruce Balis
Sat Nov 21, 2015 9:42 am
Forum: Toyota
Topic: V6 Holden into Hilux
Replies: 23
Views: 4403

Re: V6 Holden into Hilux

Ahh mean cheers thats some good info!
yeah ive been driving the truck over a year now after its conversion and ive had no clutch issue.....so far.
Also do you know if it drunk the gas after the chip upgrade? id like to get carried away but i don't want to compromise on economy and reliability.
by Bruce Balis
Sat Nov 21, 2015 9:31 am
Forum: Toyota
Topic: winch setup
Replies: 4
Views: 1276

Re: winch setup

Bit of a look at how it sits on my truck
by Bruce Balis
Sat Nov 21, 2015 9:28 am
Forum: Toyota
Topic: winch setup
Replies: 4
Views: 1276

winch setup

Thaught id share how ive got my winch set up. Quite often iI just shoot out for a quick tikitour and find myself out somewhere by myself stuck, Late at night, (usually on a sunday) or if i do have someone with me ill be the only vehicle. So over the years i seem to carry more and more s....t with me...
by Bruce Balis
Sat Nov 21, 2015 8:25 am
Forum: Toyota
Topic: V6 Holden into Hilux
Replies: 23
Views: 4403

Re: V6 Holden into Hilux

cheers guys,
yeah ive had a few projects on the go over the years, not much to do with 4wd'n latley though more into the jetdinghy scene at the moment. Bit cheaper than wrecking a 4wd every weekend although it is fun. But the budget dosen't allow for too many hobbys.
by Bruce Balis
Sat Nov 14, 2015 6:16 pm
Forum: Toyota
Topic: V6 Holden into Hilux
Replies: 23
Views: 4403

Re: V6 Holden into Hilux

ALL UP this whole project including the cert cost just under $2500, I would have loved to put a 5l diesel in it even looked at a 13BT (bit too deep) but a 5l would have been easy and good. plus T or supercharged (which i have and subsequently made to fit on the holden) but a second hand one of those...
by Bruce Balis
Sat Nov 14, 2015 6:07 pm
Forum: Toyota
Topic: V6 Holden into Hilux
Replies: 23
Views: 4403

Re: V6 Holden into Hilux

rubber grommet from the car make it look all tikitybu.just cut the hole out with a pair of tinsnips
by Bruce Balis
Sat Nov 14, 2015 6:04 pm
Forum: Toyota
Topic: V6 Holden into Hilux
Replies: 23
Views: 4403

Re: V6 Holden into Hilux

heres the slave cylinder

AND heres the elbow i made up i made it from alloy, didnt have any steel at the time.
by Bruce Balis
Sat Nov 14, 2015 6:00 pm
Forum: Toyota
Topic: V6 Holden into Hilux
Replies: 23
Views: 4403

Re: V6 Holden into Hilux

showing the engine mount i bent and made up, didnt take long at all, just all scrap steel
by Bruce Balis
Sat Nov 14, 2015 5:58 pm
Forum: Toyota
Topic: V6 Holden into Hilux
Replies: 23
Views: 4403

Re: V6 Holden into Hilux

heres my driveshaft, thaught about turning up a flash alloy one but i didnt have a billet just lying around and say if the bolts came loose steels gunna be allot more resiliant to being f.....ed up.
by Bruce Balis
Sat Nov 14, 2015 5:55 pm
Forum: Toyota
Topic: V6 Holden into Hilux
Replies: 23
Views: 4403

Re: V6 Holden into Hilux

heres a birds eye view of the engine bay, she ant got pretty paint , but this trucks lived its whole life(up until now) on the west coast as in driving on the beach from day one, so its had some rust killing hours put into it. One thing i did try and do on this conversion was keep hilux hilux and ho...
by Bruce Balis
Sat Nov 14, 2015 5:47 pm
Forum: Toyota
Topic: V6 Holden into Hilux
Replies: 23
Views: 4403

Re: V6 Holden into Hilux

here we go...... thats my power steering anyone doing this wants to make a loop in it and dont do what i did and have a short piece of pipe. I know i know its gunna look ugly but what happens is theres no play in the short pipe and it cracks the holden end off
by Bruce Balis
Sat Nov 14, 2015 5:32 pm
Forum: Toyota
Topic: V6 Holden into Hilux
Replies: 23
Views: 4403

Re: V6 Holden into Hilux

ive just taken some photos of the lux but dont know how to resize them to get them on here..... please ask if ive forgotten something, bit hard trying to remember all the little things i came to when doing the build. The hardest thing was the wiring and the longest thing was the cert took aaages, th...
by Bruce Balis
Sat Nov 14, 2015 5:16 pm
Forum: Toyota
Topic: V6 Holden into Hilux
Replies: 23
Views: 4403

Re: V6 Holden into Hilux

as for the cooling i kept the lux radiator and i have had absolutley no cooling issues whatsoever thats towing all over NZ from northland down to Tuatapere. what i didnt do was go and throw on a poo Repco fan i just kept the holden one and made it fit. with the power steering i just cut both hilux a...
by Bruce Balis
Sat Nov 14, 2015 4:53 pm
Forum: Toyota
Topic: V6 Holden into Hilux
Replies: 23
Views: 4403

Re: V6 Holden into Hilux

sorry i dont have too many photos of what i done. ..... Once i had the engine in and mounted i hadto cut the gearbox mount and shift that foreward and inch or so which then meant i hadto make a rear driveshaft spacer which i turned up out of a piece of steel i found around the shed. welded up an elb...
by Bruce Balis
Sat Nov 14, 2015 4:32 pm
Forum: Toyota
Topic: V6 Holden into Hilux
Replies: 23
Views: 4403

Re: V6 Holden into Hilux

i just kept the diesel engine mounts too and also used the hiulux rubber mounts, so what i did was cut the steel template off the holden mount (that bolts flush with the block) and just made up a piece of steel to mach the two up (making sure the sump would clear, oil filter wasnt gunna be a c....nt...
by Bruce Balis
Sat Nov 14, 2015 4:20 pm
Forum: Toyota
Topic: V6 Holden into Hilux
Replies: 23
Views: 4403

Re: V6 Holden into Hilux

looked at different bell housings. dellows seemd good, marks had some stupid gearbox extension sharft thing so i steered away from that.....and just used a steel home made one haha its not flash but its working.
by Bruce Balis
Sat Nov 14, 2015 4:14 pm
Forum: Toyota
Topic: V6 Holden into Hilux
Replies: 23
Views: 4403

Re: V6 Holden into Hilux

So after gearing up for it i decided the best thing was to purchase an entire car that way i had engine,loom,exhaughst blah blah. picked up one off trade me for 600 bucks and drove it home (bloody stoaked) was the first ''car'' i had ever owned pulled a few skids and paddock bashed it for a bit then...
by Bruce Balis
Sat Nov 14, 2015 4:04 pm
Forum: Toyota
Topic: V6 Holden into Hilux
Replies: 23
Views: 4403

V6 Holden into Hilux

Gidday folks. Not too savvy with a computer but we'll see how this pans out figured theres not much info on the net (that i could find) about throwing a v6 commy into a hilux, so i hope someone out there gets something from this. Blew the clutch on my 86 lux and figured since im seperating the engin...
by Bruce Balis
Tue Jan 14, 2014 2:06 pm
Forum: Projects / Mod's
Topic: turbo upgrade on 2LT
Replies: 17
Views: 9319

Re: turbo upgrade on 2LT

Mines just got a 308 bullet jammed in the waste gate line and i control my boost with the amount of diesel that gets pumped in (which is maxed out) and that's around 16 psi, no i/c , been like that for years, and its now on 500,000km
by Bruce Balis
Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:04 pm
Forum: Projects / Mod's
Topic: turbo upgrade on 2LT
Replies: 17
Views: 9319

Re: turbo upgrade on 2LT

Good project bro, Haven't thought about keeping that 2.5' exhaust??
ive got one on my old girl and it makes it breathe so much better, keeps the temp down too. Don't wanna go choking it now :oops:

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