My 84 safari

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fearless
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My 84 safari

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Just a few poser pics

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Nice, now bring on the mods :wink:
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Think I saw that on Trademe a while back? Looks great for its age.
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Re: My 84 safari

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I brought it off a dealer 2 years ago.

Its an NA sd33,5speed,pto,bald 30's.
slowly doing a few mods to it,took the canopy off today, getting a snorkel made up and modifying the front bar
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hey.....ah..... mike mate......hey..ah....when we going to go get it all dirty????? :wink: :wink:
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Re: My 84 safari

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Few things to do,snorkel,front bar,diff breathers,recovery hooks and then il be giving it heaps and gettin dirty.Got a few tracks/creeks i want to take it up


Took it for a drive up the rd today,fun to drive on the gravel with no weight in the arse or a front bar :)
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Re: My 84 safari

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heres mine at costa plenty last weekend needs lots more work......
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WARNING:
Insanity has replaced reason in the modification of this vehicle

you can follow me, but its gunna hurt
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Re: My 84 safari

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what are the specs on that?
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fearless wrote:what are the specs on that?


:lol: :lol: they aren't specs, that's a load of cow shyt :lol: :lol:
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fearless wrote:what are the specs on that?

specs??????????? almost standard 3.3 non turbo, 5 speed, manual hubs, 34x9x15/16 swampers, 3inch spring lift, snorkel, weldrite locking system (rear diff welded) and lots of mud inside and out
im about to chop the rear off and turn into a ute make exo cage pto winch to go on and looking at 35x10.5 swampers also on the hunt for front auto locker , bit low on horsepower but have a turbo ready to put on will get everything thing else done first.
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Removed a few things,some for good and others to be modified.Lost alot of weight from the rear end over time, chrome bumper,towbar,rear wheel carrier,canopy,tailgate.
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This is how ive mounted my rear hooks,chassis sandwiched with 6mm plates and bolted with 3HT bolts.
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Thinking i should weld a plate to the open side of chassis rail to box it off for strength?
What do you guys think?
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Re: My 84 safari

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heres STINKY's and TAZ01's in action at Costa Plenty recently, theres more action in the other 5 parts to this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YLv4FT1Ddk
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