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Wow, thanks Sadam. That advice is worth its weight in gold (actually) . Could you please give me his business name because i could put the old girl in the post? . Does he do good work?

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Thanks for the replies people . Lanky, we are hopefully moving to the south island in the next month so i will get in contact if we end up down there. Does your mate do bodywork too?

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Gidday people, i am wanting to get a full body off paint job done on my fj40. I have completed most of the rust repairs and am in the process of getting a price for blasting to bare metal and painting. I have only managed to get one rough estimate and it was for $8100 inc gst. I thought this price ...

As I see it, this is a 4wd forum and people on here should fight for as much access as possible just as a fishing or tramping forum would do the same for their interest. If people from greeny sites want to spent time watching what goes on here surely they won’t be surprised that people want to go a ...

I have only been doing it for two weeks but the flux stuff it came with dosn't compare to how good it is using gas.

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I just brought a Cebora Bravo 155 for $1000, which was with good discount. I have never welded before but after an hour or two of practice I was welding plates in the cruiser and it seems to do the trick. My brother has the Cebora 130 and loves it.

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What a load of PC bullshit. A man takes a photo in a ditch and is forced to make a public apology, are we turning into a bunch if sissy boys(& girls) that have to squabble over this sort of crap at night on our computers rather than talk about relevant interesting 4wd topics? If Elmo featured in the ...

That Bestop auction was mine, i couldnt believe how long it took to sell seing that they cost $900US and a pile of shipping on top of it if they would ship here. It seems people in NZ do not have the dough for this kind extra?

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Let me know how you applied the Hippo liner as i want to do it to my FJ40 also Has anyone else used this product photos if any Yea me too, I have bought the stuff but not applied it. It was on special at supercheap for $90. After reading up on it spraying seemed to be the best application method ...

I tow a 1.7 ton boat with our 2.5 litre skyline which has plenty of grunt all over the north island with no trouble except for that damm Tauranga pass. It is pretty steep and I can only do around 50 but could still go faster than the trucks which seem to do about 20km/h. I would not let it worry you ...

Cheers scotty, it was the fusable link that hat gone. Back on the road again

Gidday guys, was out on the farm last night with the big spots on. The 40 drove fine untill the head lights started flickering at low rpms. I turned the truck off with everything still working well but now it wont start?. I have no electrics at all, the car is totally dead ie no headlights, starter ...

coxsy wrote:good luck down there, have a mother inlaw in waitra

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Got my gf's dairy farm to play on down there too . South island is still the best though just too bloddy cold.

Sorry mate, moving to live in the naki on wed so prob not

Thank god to get out of this frickin Auckland concrete jungle, might find something to 4wd on other than tarseal roads .

Thanks for the replies guys, i definately want to kill and prevent any rust that i cannot see. I only want to do this job once.

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so i would end up with a molten pile

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Hi guys, has anyone galvanized any of their panels before? I am going to fit my new tigertop to my Fj in the summer months to allow me to restore my hard top and doors etc. I thought if i got the lot acid dipped and galvanized it would be a pretty good insurance policy, especially to treat the steel ...

Let there be light

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Thanks mate.

Hi flange, i thought the same and bought a bench seat out of a late model toyota liteace van. The seat was the correct width to fit into the back and sit over the rear wheel arches. The problem was that when it was in there was not enough head room for the people sitting in the seat. http://www ...

Thanks tuxy, for the moment it is a choc box with insulation tape but i will look into the hella one to tidy it up.

Thanks for the replys guys. I will wire up a plug just as it exits the roof so that i can remove the whole bar, which is not that hard as it has a roof rack attachment thingy. Jumper did you ever take your truck for a wof with the lights on the roof? There was an existing hole in the roof so i used ...

Hi Guys, i am in the process of wiring up my new roof mounted spot lights for my fj40. Someone told me that it would be a wof failure having more than 2 spotlights? . This will obviously affect how i wire them up so any advise on this woule be greatly appreciated. Will they need to be removed for a ...