hi all , 1st the steering lock jamed on 1 evening in my navara and i had to cut the bolts to get it off and permanantly dissble th steering lock then bolt it back up again, 2nd, love the horn idea, ive had kill switches and horns hookd up to the dor lite but hookingit up to the starter switch is ...

hi there im having similar problems with my ramsey winch, it had been siting for a wile uused on my truck but several dunkings and plenty to of weather, i cleaned all the connectionsand it went for a bit longer then when i pulled a few stumps round home it started the clicking again then i pulled ...

Hi all, ive been reading up about these winches tonite and see that they are great value, only question i have as there seems to be alot of pepole on this site with now the same winches, has any one been on a trip and needed to use there wire less remote winch and had the truck behind them or near ...

thanks every1 for the advice, hadnt even thort about a cv befor but i got this dc of an old RN46 i wrecked out a whil back so its looking cheaper to start with, there s enuf meat on the flanges to drill out the holes so will give that a go, i have a prado high pinion diff head but the ute sits at a ...

so i posted sumthing about these a long time ago, but ive now recovered from a nasty car crash and starting work on the ute again, my question is, can the d/c join go at the diff end of the driveshaft, i have a hilux front beam in my navara and the d/c joint will bolt up to the diff but not the ...

agreed, through the ab would hav serious potential for danger, hadnt thort of that part and it wasnt that i wanted them through the cab just wasnt sure of how it was done. only thing im left with is, will the water pump do the job, i dont see y not its just pumping a little xtra water a bit further ...

Road legal or rough truck?

plan to have it certed and road legal but dedicated to off road

Will you be using large electric fans to keep it cool?

yes,

intresting buout the copper pipes were they runing along th chassis??

hi to all so im thinking about moving my radiator to the deck of my ute, for obvios protection benifits, wanting to know from any1 thats done this or knows where i may find some info for these questions, factory water pump keeping up??? best way to run the water back there??? through cab, underneath ...

Hi, just wondering how the short dump pipe from the turbo is going to be under water,as its such a short distance from the turbo to the end is there a greater chance of sucking water in if stalled under water?? sounds awsum tho, i have a good intercooler on my td27t and am looking foward to a good ...

thank you yes the to one is what i hav, altho alot rustyer looking than yours, cheers

i am currently doing the finishing touches to my nissan, including front drive shaft, gbox xmember, brakes ect, i have th old drive shaft off a RN46 hilux which is perfect as i have a hilux beam in the front of my ute, this drive shaft has a huge long joint on one end of it, could this be a d/c ...

hi i have a black rat 8000kg 9m and have given sum awfuly stuck toyotas some good pulls, it aparently has a thread thru it that stats to show when the snatchy has been overloaded??? others may no more about how reliable that is.

my 2c worth

hey mate, just wondering how your goin with your parts collecting?? im not sure what you gear box is like but i have been told that my td box wont bolt up to the vg engine so am now on the hunt for a terano V6 box.

thats a good idea,



skid

sweet, cheers m8

hello again, 1st im still pretty new here, but im luvn it, wish i had of looked this up early, its always good chating with pple who undastand our crazyness. Aswell as the help and idea sharing is brilliant. 2nd i have changed the radiator in my ute, my old 1 was getting a bit shaged and a new ...

hi to all,

i have a 90 navara with the td27t, have a V6 siting and waiting, could sum1 please give me a trans/axel code off a V6 model terano, so i can see if myne will bolt up b4 removing engine.

or if uve had your box out a pick of the bell housing would b awsum,

cheers skid

hi al, a few parts up for sale here, 82 single cab parts, rear sliding window, bothe doors, avg condition with windows, bonnet, grill, bumper, plus a few under bonnet parts, brake booster, steering box, steering arm, drag link, std top king pin part where steering arm bolts to, steering collom ...

hey there, are you just swaping the crown wheels and pinions??

im looking for the c/w and pinion for my rear end in the 4.3 ratio, have found a couple of diff heads but i have 3 spare heads so only realy need the gears,

what do ya reckon??

cheers Skid

sooooooooooooooo lucky, ive heard stories of the like how ever my only bad luck recovery was a rope moving half off the hook with the river curent, it was a factory hook with a flat end, alowing the snatchy to gather reasonalble force before sliping off and becoming airborn this was only a snatchy ...

hi i got a nissan navara with hilux beams in it, the lead sounds like a good idea and so does just trying it, dont det me wrong i appreciate al stories good and bad, but the saying you cant please every1 is rite, if i talk of air lockers then the people with lockrites say air is crap coz youve only ...

hey mate, its f?/#en scary ay, ive had it twice in my ute, once just rattled loose other time striped studs, and similar to you sloged out the holes they press into, i managed to reair mine by buying the next size studs, same thread but biger spline thru stud holes, drilled the holes to make them ...

hmm thats different, i gues if anythings gona give probs with steering it wd b a big tank like a safari intresting to find no probs, did you go through many cv's axels hubs ect?

cheers guys, im only running 33''s at the mo planing to move on to atleast sum 35''s a soon as funds are sufficiant. xorph how was your tire wear on road??

cheers guys, keep em cummin, had thort about the legal fact, hav spare carrier for th rear come warent time, and leave the front hubs dissengaged should be fine, its not goning to be an everyday truck so ill either b offroad or fixing it for the next weekend,

plese keep sharing stories

hi to all, i have often wonderd about lockers, back in the day me and mates would blow a diff in the car and would weld the spiders and be back rolling again with more reliable 2wheel burnouts than ever before and never once blew a welded diff! now on this site ive only read about 1 truck with a ...

hi, i also have a nivara, 1990, i have a vg30 and computor siting haer waiting for time between other mods to figure out how im gna get it in, my td27t is still running fine so im not in a rush untill i decide to upgrade from the 33''s if you still havent done yours ill fill you in on how my mission ...

hey, was working on my truck most of the day 2day, and forgot about the photos till it was dark, will try again 2morra, your more than welcom to come have a look sumtime, im in leeston, you wont need to go to southbridge for your engineering work it waz just my closest, ive lernt enuf on this ...

hey,yeah sori about that am new here and ddnt no how to post a link, will take sum pics of unda the bonnet 2morra 4 u, ive done a 50mm body lift too witch helps with the room under the bonnet, hmm the sas now that was intresting, with every1 telling me that i should just buy a hilux coz its easyer ...

in the nicest possible way, 16mpg is crap, id say 31mpg is prety good for any td27t thats had a life, my uncle owned 1 from 10000km, he reckond he got 33-34mpg untill the 50 thou then it improoved to around36, vehicle still in its 60's now and only ran std tire size. My td27t in my navara is an ...