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DieselBoy

To protect the back of the fridge from the sun, 5% tint and a hacked up sunvisor thingy that you use on your front windscreen. Also hides the wiring birds nest :shock: image.jpg All the plumbing tucks away nicely not talking up to much space image.jpg On the panel left to right is the master switch ...

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After 3 solid weekends and a couple of hours after work each day it's finally finished!!!!! It's really hard to take photos inside a vehicle and get the lighting right!!! The photos seem to correct their orientation if you click on them and open them up fully. Finished product: image.jpg image.jpg i...

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10 litres of oil, two oil filters.

Y60 is the chassis, like your D31 & D40.

In Aus they are badged as a GQ Patrol.

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:D

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Kitchen upgrade time!!!! First up I made Betsie a water tank image.jpg Not happy that the material would hold water for two long, I outsourced that minor technical aspect to FPS Engineering. image.jpg It fits (quite snugly :shock: ) up under the left rear guard. image.jpg Fills from here image.jpg I...

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ChurchurDan wrote:Update time...........

I did, I just posted that super long boring video yesterday

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Just when you thought I had forgotten all about this thread and let die........... I felt inspired the other day and dug out the four days worth of Simpson Desert footage. Lots and lots of hours of up and down sand dunes !!!! I put this clip more together for us as an easier to watch record of that ...

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The Ngaroma 4WD area in the Pureora Forest is about the only place left.

Its pretty bloody awesome too, something for everyone, and a mint camp site with water and toilet

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That's so bad, but it's everywhere. Even the sneaky places we go are getting like that, fire places full of glass and tins, toilet paper with a rock on top, native trees mindlessly hacked half through with axes, wheel tracks up hills that go no where etc etc. There is a real problem. I reckon it's b...

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Clearly Mr Carr has been wound up one to many times :lol: It's always a minority who won't follow the rules i.e track closure dates, and leave the rest of us to pick up the pieces :evil: :evil: We are almost completely screwed up North now. Thompsons closed, Wires Closed, Waitapheta closed, now the ...

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Opinions and different perspectives are always welcome in this forum

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Disco Rears up front, standard 110 in the rear with 50mm spacers, no sway bars, Single EFS shocks, rear shock droppers, extended front bump stops. I did 30,000km round Aus in 4months with it last year, Cape, Simpson, Tanamai, Canning, Gibb River, Strezelecky etc and a billion corrugated dirt roads i...

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I see I missed your thinking of heading to Sth Is, down the bottom!! I had a chance to spend a couple of weeks in a Troopy with BFG km2 MUDs in it. Fantastic tread design, I reckon they WOF be hard to beat as a good all rounder M/T , that's some serious void length, almost to the centre of the tyre ...

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Hi roof GQ Safari are no good either. My parents have one and we have tried two different set ups over the years to make it work and eventually gave up in favour of a Troopy 8) 8) 8) 8) The rear doors are just normal low roof Safari size, so you cant get in and out of the back of them when you have ...

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Have a look here. https://www.nzta.govt.nz/vehicles/importing-a-vehicle/ All you need to know. Vehicle will be an MC class vehicle. Look carefully at the section on emission standards and frontal impact standards. Could be a complex process getting it road legal. thanks its a 1985/ oct. so apart fr...

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At this point you have nothing to loose. Sooooo...... Big can of wD40 with nozzle thingy and empty the can into the bell housing spraying around as best you can from through the little drain hole. Leave for a day. Get your mates over. Put truck into 1st and get you mates to help you rock it back and...

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Check you brake disc backing plate, give it a bit of a bend by hand and see how that goes.

Number plates vibe two sometimes.

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Can't go wrong with BFG A/T

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Doesn't bode well for outdoor recreation on public land in general

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On the plus side, it will save it from getting hammered over labour weekend and give it more time to dry out if it does get te opened. Kauri die back is an interesting argument from DOC. That whole area has been extensively logged 3 times, first for the big kauri, then for what ever was left, and fi...

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Is that E.W (Waikato Regional Council) doing their standard whinge about sediment getting into waterways again and making DOC out to be the bad guys??

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Which end are you heading in from??

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No idea what road, but either way that's a big win for public access across the board!!!!

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Its the age old problem, gates, permits and licences only work on the responsible honest folk. Those are the folks that don't cause the trouble. Those that do cause the trouble won't pay any attention to any of the above controls and carry on as they were. It won't do anything to solve the problem, ...

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Dion from Otaki/Levin I think built it

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Like any motor, if it hasn't been serviced at the correct intervals,with the correct oil, expect premature failure. TD42 Nissan chew through rocker shafts, 1HDT Toyota chew out big ends, 1KZ blow heads etc etc TD5 20,000km Service interval 300Tdi 10,000km Service interval Nissan TD42 5,000km Toyota ...

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Yeah, that's a good idea, I will keep that in mind

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We have come a hell of a long way on some seriously rough and slow roads http://i1313.photobucket.com/albums/t552/dbsatalite/10517547_293120960869157_1316962975892469232_n_zpsvtdfq4lf.jpg Finally now the fun begins :D :D :D http://i1313.photobucket.com/albums/t552/dbsatalite/nj_zps9s8gsqfs.jpg http:...

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We dragged ourselves away from Archer point and headed in to Cook Town. We needed fuel, food, water and some petrol for the stove, so it was time for a bit of a shopping mission. They had a really cool outdoors shop there, all sorts of goodies that we didn't have room for in the truck!!! While in th...

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Right, been a slacker, time to catch up!!!! After traversing the Bloomfield track, we camped the night just out of the Aboriginal village of Wujal Wujal. What a fun filled night that was. We found a cool little secluded spot down the river for the night. It was a magic little place!! Location: http:...

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