my first go at buildn a zuke

[flexy]

well decided to sell my old prado and build somthing a little more suited to what i want,started with a plan in my head and started putting it in action and this is what its come out as so far, open to comments and questions if you have any cheers hope u enjoy

[flexy]

[flexy]

[img]http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz64/pradozer/suzuki%20build/Photo0008.jpg[img]















[img]http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz64/pradozer/suzuki%20build/Photo0144.jpg[img]

[flexy]

its a suzuki 5 door running a late model 1kz-te with v6 surf gearbox,nissan safari axles,hoping to set it up with hydro steer and built to run 40" tyres,theas a few pics of it on 40s in thea but was built on 36s,just about finished the ute chop. getting thea slowly

[lincooln]

my hats off to you, that's looks so freaking cool. Looks like some of the american Zuks. When do you think it will be finished by?

keep up the awesome work

[yeti]

shot ash....very

[Mud Hog]

Thats some sweet flexing Very cool

[flexy]

shes gota fair bit ta go,mainly all the little fidly bits left,gota few top blokes helpin ta do it

[2DEAFN]

Far out , il take my hat of to ya mate , that things looking wicked and like it was said above looks like somthing out of the states !!

Keep up the good work

[flexy]

yea still got full exo cage,front and rear bar work side bars front and rear winches ta go

[suzukisport]

Looking great work. What are your plans? Comp it or just a tuff club truck?

[flexy]

just a truck to play around in mainly up rivers and on the coast. i do enjoy competing tho so planing on running a small winch on each corner to winch it down/adjust the ride hight to suit the style of driving.its running 18" fox air shox at the moment so will need some type of travel limiting system for speed use, its running 4" fox hydro bumpstops to so if i can lower it down almost onto them i rekon itl be about good, the idea behind it was

1.not to heavy (especialy in the roof)
2.strong drive chain (hence the safari axles)
3.decent powerfull motor thats relyable and simple and thats wea the 1kz with manual fuel pump comes into play

[Bolo]

Man that is awesome , keep the pics coming

[flexy]

yea will do as stuff gets done haha gota save then spend,bit of a cycle i got going on

[Fakey]

yea will do as stuff gets done haha gota save then spend,bit of a cycle i got going on

I know that feeling Nice work but... In one of the pics of the rear end it looks like the pinnion is facing down when its at full droop? Are you upper links adjustable?

Also how are you planning on running the hydro steering on the saf axle?

[flexy]

the pinion stays just above level throughout travel the top arms are 70% the length of the bottom arms and the two angles roughly meet at the centre of the front face of the front tyre,and as for hydro steer,if you get a drivers side swivel housing off an older leaf sprung axle it fits on and gives you the other foward facing steering knuckle point then just weld the mounts to the diff,armour it all up and your away laughing

[Fakey]

When you say level does it follow roughly the same arc as the diff or does it stay roughly level with the ground?
Will the gq cvs still fit in the earlier swivel housing?

[flexy]

pretty much level with the ground. im by no means a suspension geomerty expert haha i just did a bit of asking around and a bit of looking online and got the basics,hopfuly it works ok,best part of being a heavy fabrication apprentice is that if it dosnt work ill just chop it out and do it again haha

[mudslut]

Mate that is the shizz,keep up the good work

[Fakey]

If it stays level with the ground itll pull the slip joint apart, you could start by looking at the seperation of the chassis link mounts, if you drop the top link chassis mounts down a bit it should work better,
Mine isnt quite right , it pushes the d/shaft towards the transfer case but theres only about 20mm movement at the slipjoint so I can live with that

Try thishttp://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=204893&highlight=link+calculator

[flexy]

yea the drive shaft distance pretty much dosnt change to much threwout travel,im guna make my own drive shafts using cv's rather than universals hopfully and have a place that i can buy lenghts of slip joint so i can make the slip joint pretty long if needed,wana make them pretty tough as i enjoy a bit of crawling from time to time

[Fakey]

Sweet, keep up the good work

[flexy]

cheers mate will do cant wait ta get it going

[muddyplumber]

Thats f$%kn outstanding Ash.iv seen those superswampers before,they seem to get around

[tomsoffroad]

Wicked.

[flexy]

haha yea they do get around a bit,suited what i needed so i grabbed em

[flexy]

progress been a bit slow but iv been doing a few wee things here and there got the back window and ute chop all finished and sorted the clutch system,also decided what tyres i think ill run (40" super swampers)

[mazdamike]

bro u should have been at work lol not trying on other ppls rubbers. what time did u get home?

[flexy]

haha u can talk mate was in the shop and no site of you haha yea got ta bed at 4.30

[tomsoffroad]

I'll say it again..............Wicked