I have just recently towed a funiture trailer bigger than a horse float from Dunedin to Palmerston North it weighed around 4 tonne completely full and my shorty towed it no probs sat really well on road although yes a bit slow on the hills. I have added a fair bit of weight to it with front and rear ...

Good to hear Mark did you remember to cut a bigger slot for the 4wd lever ?

Mark it isn't that difficult to sort you just have to make enough room to get a socket on rip out old bolt from underneath which gives you enough room to get cold chisel in to the rest of the captive nut holder off ,mine were frozen too , bout half hour per bolt to sort. I put the new bolts at rear ...

Well I've been thinking about all your comments & suggestions they are all very helpful, so I'm thinking that one by one I'll replace with new bushes & bearings that were on it when I got when I purhased it now that I know what the problem/s were/are. I must admit I wasn't to worried about getting ...

I had thought about the steering damper so I took it off went for a drive and it still did it, I also thought it could be a problem with the valves in the power steering so I removed the p/s belt and it still did it, my shocks are only six months old and panhard has reasonably new nolathene bushes ...

Well I've taken both hubs , king pin bearings and axels completely apart cleaned and repacked with grease etc. The shims on the kingpins were half a mil on top and quarter of a mil on bottom of both so i've taken the bottoms out and replaced the top ones with them so have effectively taken quarter ...

Have done 60mm susp lift, 40mm body lift ,and have put offset casters in to correct front diff. But all this has been done for a while now and this problem has just started out of the blue. On Diesel Boys advice have just finished pulling kingpin bearings out of left side there was a bit of water ...

Hi guys back again my problem that I thought had been solved has reappeared even worse this time, (violent shuddering of steering wheel at all speeds) this is doing my head in trying to sort this problem ,Has anyone else had this reoccur? For such a simple system the safaris have I'm buggered if I ...

Well I dismantled both hubs cleaned and repacked and assembled, checked and tweaked up every thing that might have needed it and still problem exits so I took it in for a wheel alignment and got tyres rebalanced and put up to 40psi. The alignment was out by a mere fraction and so the balancing on ...

Thanks for your suggestions guys , checked out tyres couldn't see any obvious problems so I swapped the fronts to rear and rears to front in case there was something I had missed but the problem is still there.So I am in the middle of tearing the front end apart, cleaning regreasing and putting back ...

Hi guys, had a problem arise today travelling on open road with my steering. I was sitting at 100ish k when all of a sudden my steering wheel started shaking violently so I stopped and checked the whole front end over ie; bushes , bearings etc nothing loose or worn .It did this several more times at ...

Hey Deisel boy is there some other detail you might have missed cause I'm f--ked if I can get my photos out of the forums albums and on to this relpy and yes have done what you listed but it aint working, some help please !
Cheers T

Sorry guys have no idea where it came from as it was a car dealer that I brought my wagon off who supplied it for me. As for your light staying on thats a head scratcher , once I fitted new sensor the light disappeared and have had no probs since.

Yep sounds like oil pressure sensor , mine did it about a month after I brought it ,A new one isn't cheap either for what they are I payed $70 for a replacement genuine part .It should sit just on or afraction over 4 at 2100 rpm in top gear and 2.5 ish at idle, well mine does .

Thanks guys will be back in touch once springs are in .
Question though, today I took my winch and bullbar off to do a few adjustments and the wagon jumped up 25mm this would mean I will have to get springs to cope with weight as well as a 50mm lift yes/no.
Cheers T

Thankx guys. I thought there was not alot to it but I was told by the mechanic that does my WOF that I would have to change the front stablisers arm bushes to off set bushes, adjust brakes, wheel alignment etc. I think he may have just been trying to gain a bit of extra cash out of me.....maybe not ...

Hi I've got an 89 swb safari and I want to do a 50mm sus lift but I'm getting to many conflicting comments as to what bushes etc may or may not need changing to compensate the 50mm lift. My understanding is that a 50mm is a common lift and there is very little if any other adjustments need doing ...