Blowen 87 series Landcruiser

[basics]

truck is looking tops
next project is making the garage taller

[QUADRACER]

Leaking power steering will be an o ring under the canister, five minute fix If you can't be bothered cable tie a piece of inner tube under p/ s unit

[Big]

Looking real Good! way better with the new rubber bands!
Did you space the back of the bonnet up?

Thanks all for ya comments Yes I have to agree it's has grown up somewhat now
we were suppose to have printed numbers but event day nothing.. so made do..
No problem with heating or should I say cooling BUT i have got inner gaurd linners now and it stopped a lot of air flow over/ past the motor and I boiled the power steering so I spaced the bonnet to help..still working on a fix

truck is looking tops
next project is making the garage taller

Yip i hear ya.. lol

Only thing is now a super charger and lockers.. wish list stuff..

Leaking power steering will be an o ring under the canister, five minute fix If you can't be bothered cable tie a piece of inner tube under p/ s unit

Might have a look tomorrow.. cheers Bob

Well Im almost ready for Timaru.. Starting to get the bug..see ya all there.. we'll have to see how it goes..
Later K

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Leaking power steering will be an o ring under the canister, five minute fix If you can't be bothered cable tie a piece of inner tube under p/ s unit

Ended up being the relief valve O ring.. had to remove the unit to replace it.. zzzz 2 hr job by the time I found the right O ring..
Going to set up the lighting tonight so might be able to get a pic.. just have to wait..
cheers

[Big]

Righto then.. it has finally got dark and truck was outside..
Here are some pics of the lighting I have.. not totally happy with the LED's but they are very bright but dont have the distance..
This pic is just low beam HID kit that I installed

and High Beam

The LED's are off in the pics before so here they are on low beam HID + LED's

Same again but High beam + LED

Maybe I need BIGGER HID's.. but they are very bright and are only 55 watt jobs.. For the money they are awesome as I think the Lightforce jobs are 100 watts and have 210mm lens so what I have are not bad.. On the other hand the LED spots are bloody hopeless but do light up around the truck..zzzz the Light bars make it really.. again for the $$ spent not bad.. Makes my reverse lights look yellow and very low but are 100 watt jobs..
All lights are 6000k colour range so nice and white..
Not much more now.. latersszzzz K

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Well wee update.. Had a ball at Timaru.. was awesome fun although I didnt complete many stages.. about 6 total and 4 dnf's.. was a shitter of a day.. very wet.. to say the least..
Anyway we won Outlaw class so very stoked with that.. even got some goodies
New tahs went a treat on the day but really I need beadlocks now and lockers.. Oh the list just doesnt seem to get any smaller..
Anyway here is a couple vids of a couple stages I quikly put together for you all.. enjoy

and

Will try to get more up as I get them..
cheers K

[suzolla]

Looking and sounding good, and needing some lockers.
What sort you looking at, Lockright or Air, got some of each comming in soon.
Cheers
Tim

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Looking and sounding good, and needing some lockers.
What sort you looking at, Lockright or Air, got some of each comming in soon.
Cheers
Tim

Looking at air and not the china ones.. will be getting arb but for now I'll be saving.. spent enough on her as it is..
Wish list is;
supercharger
lockers front and rear
Beadlocks
and not in any order.. but you know.. gotta get them..

[Sadam_Husain]

Looking at air and not the china ones.. will be getting arb but for now I'll be saving.. spent enough on her as it is..

$996 USD save quick and strike while the dollars still high

[niblik]

Good effort dude.

I'm curious to know. What programme did you use to make the video steady and erase the pitch and roll? Very interesting.

[QUADRACER]

lockers first, supercharger last

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lockers first, supercharger last

[meatc]

lockers first, supercharger last

x2

Oh and if you are looking at running plenty of power a good tight LSD in the rear and locker in front is a good option. One less switch to worry about and the LSD helpd control the rear end and get power to the ground.

[Madaz]

Just buy both...............

[Big]

you guys.. are such a tease...

[Madaz]

One of the comp trucks up here uses a supercharged lexus with no lockers and he drives most stuff just as good as the trucks with them

[Big]

Funny you should say that.. there has been debate here over that..lol
I think they work well when you have to crawl over stuff at low speed..when the fat is up it .. I dont think it would matter so much..

[Madaz]

yep, just as sure they get you outta one mess, then tend to drop you in a even bigger one

[QUADRACER]

kerry, with out sounding like a smart arse, i got round that tree on the first go, and had nothing to do with the power, you were the one with brand new tyres.
next time your around we will swap trucks and leave the lockers off.

[Big]

kerry, with out sounding like a smart arse, i got round that tree on the first go, and had nothing to do with the power, you were the one with brand new tyres.
next time your around we will swap trucks and leave the lockers off.

Thats fine Bob.. would love too BUT I didnt lower my tyre pressures until after that stage.. was running 18 front and 15 rear.. dropped them to 12 around after and made a huge difference, Still getting used to them also..so just learning still.. And didn't want to pop beads.. no beadlocks too..so you know..
Maybe dropping them further would again make a huge difference but after the shit at our wc.. I was a little reluctant to go too low.. as that cost me a new tyre at ours.. so just bear with me.. I'll get there..lol

[QUADRACER]

Mate, just giving you some honest advise, that what I would do
Brought this one done, but built the Suzuki from scratch.
Been there , got the tee shirt.

[Big]

All good Bob .. I do listen and watch.. I try to learn from you guys.. but seat time is lacking ( second event and about 5th time out, 1st time out with the new tyres), One day I'll be where you guys are.. just need the time.. walk before running I say.. mind you I dont mind the "hitting the ground running" but that generally doesnt get you anywhere..
Truck handles totally different to the old swb 70 I had..and I knew how to throw that around.. this one is like ummm.. holy cow..so different in so many ways it's amazing..
I will get there, and as you know you need time behind the wheel..

[Big]

Well thought i'd post an update.. well no update but have taken the xfar out as it has a terrible noise coming from it and if you watched the vid I posted from timaru.. thats the noise..lol traced it back to the thrust washers on idler being shagged.. so waiting for new ones from Central4wd as toyota ones are $90 each and fark that.. as I need 2..lol
Ill post up a pick in weekend of it stripped for info really..
Later

[Madaz]

Which idler?

[Big]

main one..34mm one.. not the pto idler or the output shaft with the gears on ahh hang on ill take a pic..lol
This one..


You can jsut make out the marks of the washer going around on the case.. not good.. but not that bad either..

[Big]

Had a phone call today and went and picked up these, old ones on left

While yaking and chewing the fat, I was talking about mods etc.. and look what I found on the floor..

And seeing as Im thinking of changing a few things.. thought I'll place that on the shelf for a rainy day..
I only hope that its the correct part / parts I need.. to do the mod..lol
Looks like ima need research more.lol

Anyway thing is the xfer will be back togther in weekend so will pop some pics up as I look at it then..
cheersz

[sig]

that looks like the front case and shaft from a 70 series prado auto ,(which happen to have a lower low range than a normal cruiser )

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Well have put everything back together and forgot to take some pics.. you get that anyway
This arrived in the post yesterday thanks to d_b, cheers Its great to see there are still some good barstewards around..

which fits on this

which will fit on couple things..
anyway I was cleaning up all the oil etc and this came out of one of the ice cream containers that was when I dumped the oil out of the gbox/xfer

and

Now i was carefull when doing everything and Ive looked in the manual thinking maybe it came out of the gbox..???? anyone know what this might be cause Im fkerd if I know what it's out of..lol

Thats it for now

Cheers K

[shortylux]

Haven't read your thread for a while. I can't help with info on the bush, but it's looking and going sweet bro! Nice work!

[Big]

thnx mate.. she's been a long hard road..lol almost 3 years in the making..