D.B's GQ Shorty

[DieselBoy]

Yep, thats the guy

[wopass]

MX is cool
enduro MX is sweeet
hare scrambles rule

kTm kick arse .... i have a 300mxc

[DieselBoy]

Observed trials is cooler
I have 78 TY250C

[wopass]

go the TY.. going to be so hilarious when we go recon the wires ohh hey, your bro has a bike to eh

[DieselBoy]

Tell me about it!!
The places you can amuse you self on for hours when you have a trials bike!!!
That rock face up there is quite fun.

Andrew? yeah, i think it's got some issues though. Not sure.
Spewzuki Dog Rooter 200.

Any how, stop making me clog up my project thread dammit, you know i have nothing better to do at work at the moment!!!!

[DieselBoy]

Performance mods, you gotta love them!!!!
So anyone that has been out 4wheeling with me latey will know that theold girl has been running lika a bag of shit.
Missing and blowing blue smoke on occasion at high rev's under heavy load.
I won't go into to much detail as to why, but its all to do with the way i have had it tunned. Eg, not for economy.
It starves for fuel between 3000 and 3500rpm.
Much like when you have not bled the system properly after doing a filter change.
To cure this, i could have put everything back to standard and lost the extra performance, but that would be no fun.
So after to talking to people that run TD42 motors in competetion vehicles and finding that this was a common problem after such performance tweaks, a solution to the problem was devised:



The idea is to get a high volume, low pressure fuel pump to supply fuel to the injector pump, preventing it from having to work so hard sucking the fuel all the way from the tank at high rev's.

The tricky part was finding some where to mount it. Big engine bay sure, but its pretty full when you looking to mount something extra in there!!.
Being as i am, not liking to change anything i can't put back if i had to, I decided on making a kind of bracket to attach to the left hand battery box. It would mean moving the clutch vacum cannister somewhere else, and moving those rediculous air horns of mine.





Luckly with the vacum cannister, i just reversed the hoses and flipped the whole unit around the other way. Plenty of room, and i didn't have to cut anything
You can see it mounted in its final place here. Its not plummed in and the airhorns are still out of the way, but you get the idea.
It works well. I thrashed it around alot this afternoon and couldn't get it to miss behave.
Need to take it out and see what it does in the rough stuff.

[DieselBoy]

It was either spend $$$ on panel beating the dents, or spend $$$ on fixing the problem once and for all












So yeah, i've lost the plot

[DieselBoy]

By the way, its not finished yet, flairs to go back on, and bars and exhaust mods to do
This was before:

[DieselBoy]

Any way, BUMPERS











Fingers crossed my mud flap material will show up from Palmside in Chch tomorrow, then the jobs done. Well, i still have to put some more support at the front of the rear bumper ends so i can jack of them.

Hurry up Genie4x4, i want my springs!!!!!

[wjw]

thought you cut those bottom bits off ages ago

[DieselBoy]

yep, just compling abit of usefull stuff that is scattered around all over the place in seperate posts. Its gotta be helpfull to someone one day!!!!

[DieselBoy]

Once upon a time.......................




And these days:






Will get a better clean pic, Just for amusements sake!!!!!

[doddzee]

Nasty C piller dent dieselboy, Couple more of those and it will be time to chop the back off.

[DieselBoy]

Yep, thats waaaay in the future when i have a Y61 shorty to replace this ones duties.

I may actually get that dent fixed, i got a letter from my insurence company telling me i get two claims a year with out loosing any no claims bonus.

Now to be creative with a story of what supposedly happend.............. :8)

[SupraLux]

Why wait?

I have a 9" angle grinder you can borrow - right after I chop all the metal out of my rear quarters due to some very heavy denting from Riks place

Steve

[wopass]

whats wrong with dents ? i rekon they look CHUURRR bro. like you actually do use it off road and its not just a shiney

[De-Ranged]

I'm with Ben, they are like trophy scar's each one has a story, and they gain you more respect in rush hour traffic

Cheers Reece

[hiriklux]

shit yeh no one cuts you up with a couple of dents on the motor

[WACKO]

TUFF marks ! i never get as many people pulling out in front when im driving my paj as when im driving my car...

[DieselBoy]

Seeing as there has been a lack of tech around here recently, here's some of the daily action from my work shop, not all that exciting really, but better than some of the womans weekly shit that gets posted around here

Decided that I needed to make the bed easier to get into, so tonight after work I fished out the remains of the original rear bumper and grafted part of it back on and capped the ends to tidy it up a bit:



Makes access easier


The cool little end caps I made


Doesn't hang out as bad as I thought it would:


The Bed for those that have forgotten (yes, its a SWB)


Good effort the evening I thought

Not quite.

I pinched some OME Nitro Charger shocks off Wopass to try in the rear with the new EFS springs I put in a week of so ago.

The TuffDog shocks I have in it were to hard, they were a competition shock, it was like driving a lowered car on the road

The shocks:


OME are slightly longer extended and the same compressed, so will have more down travel. The valving is fixed, but set so that there is minimal compression damping but strong rebound damping. They should make good touring shocks.

The Tuffdogs are just rock solid, even after years of use, and they are a foam cell shock. The valving is wrong for your average four wheeler!!!!!

[gimmemud]

It's back! Awesome. This mean you sold the cruiser?

[DieselBoy]

Cruiser might be going to Chch tomorrow, dudes flying up in the arvo

[JONO250]

Awesome truck mate. Would really like to see more pics of this bed setup that you have, would like to something similar with mine

[Shane]

Am I missing something?!? is this your old truck?

[DaveM]

Am I missing something?!? is this your old truck?

Looks like he's bought the old girl back (I think of doing the same each time I see mine in town )

[NJV6]

What happened to the Range Rover?

I see Thunderguts for sale again - going to buy it as well?

[DieselBoy]

I see Thunderguts for sale again - going to buy it as well?

Not for $18,000 im not

[petefj40]

Cruiser might be going to Chch tomorrow, dudes flying up in the arvo

I wonder if it'll be up for doing the "Hanmer Mud Plug" event on the 31st then?
He might be to scared to scratch or dent it.

Nice work there! Looking nice and shiny.

[UBZ]

it wouldn't be a build thread without pics of the new bling piant job.

[DieselBoy]

Double posted