98 R20 mistral

[Crash bandicoot]

what's the new steering box off, could you redrill and plate/crush tube the chassis instead of elongating the steering box holes?

Where the new holes need to be over lap the exisitng holes/crush tubes in the chassi to the point that it is simply easier to take five minutes with a die grinder to slot the holes on the steering box..the steering box is from a pre 97 R20 with the large spline but small taper to match the D21 drag link.

[Crash bandicoot]

few action shots from the weekend.
Only problem with LSD's is when you get bogged, Ya REALLY get bogged..down to the door sills.

top of the tararua foot hills just below the tusock and scrub.

one of my favorite mud holes, about three foot deep on the hump in the middle. good 20 meter winch.

[Crash bandicoot]

well...it got a wof today...

[Crash bandicoot]

So Got the twin alternator set up in today...being tuesday.

Employed the Air con pump bracket, and the idler pulley from another engine, along with a brand new old GM/Bosch alternator that I had brought for my long gone HDT brocky.

So now the winch has it's complete own power circut seperate from the trucks.

No more unbalanced batteries and complicated wiring and switch overs




There is probably room still to put the ac pump back in, but it'd would make the alternators impossible to get to if need be.

[Mattman]

Nice work. Don't obstruct access to that lower alternator. You will need to get it out to clean haha

[Crash bandicoot]

put the new rope and fairlead on today that has been sittin in the shed since forever., all 40 meters of it, just.

[Crash bandicoot]

went for play on the weekend and blew a CV apart. literally.
Though F it it's f'd now still had 3.5wd so kept going.
other then that pretty good day really.

[Crash bandicoot]

Not much happening with 2nd bubs on the way

new recovery points on the front. made from 20mm plate and tacked them on then got a near retirment aged engineer at work to blast them on with the big mig...his words when he finished "those bastards aren't coming off again.... farkin hope not.

[Crash bandicoot]

got bored today . so built a ground anchor.

[Grayham]

Hi whats the ground anchor made of was going to make one my self .looks good

[Crash bandicoot]

Hi whats the ground anchor made of was going to make one my self .looks good

6 mm plate and 52 od 4mm wall tube

[Grayham]

Cheer

[Crash bandicoot]

Question i got asked today..

revolving around r200 lsd coversion to the longer D22 front axles.


you have to disassemble the inner tripod joint and swap the 5 bolt flange cv onto your ale and cv

remove the inner tripod joint rubber boot on the d22 and then tap the cup down onto the axle, a seal will pop off exposing the tripod,
clean the grease off remove the circlip, then tap the tripod off the axle shaft.



part numbers 2.3.5.6.7 and 15 bottom left of image 5 bolt inner

wth the 5 bolt cv, remove the rubber boot /slide it down the axle, clean away the grease and you should see a large inner circlip that holds the race inside the cup, slide it out and remove the smaller circlip from the other side/end of the axle... tap bearing race off the axle and reassemble them onto the d22 axle.

IF the race wont budge from the cup of the 5 bolt cv cup, remove the cover over the end and do it the same way the tripod joint is done.

[lax2wlg]

Sweet but your still running the R180 front diff right? Otherwise it's impossible b/c the R200s only had double offset inner cvs. So the tripod you blew earlier could have only been from a 4 cyl R180

[Crash bandicoot]

Sweet but your still running the R180 front diff right? Otherwise it's impossible b/c the R200s only had double offset inner cvs. So the tripod you blew earlier could have only been from a 4 cyl R180

Not my d22 lax,

But if you are talkng about mine, it is a nismo 2 way unit i used have in gtr. R 200 wd21 housing with short side inner axle and cup still skyline/300zx but td27 tripod knuckle, the long side is r200 axle tube, shortened 180 axle and td27 inner tripod etc per norm.

[Crash bandicoot]

Hence it only ever blows the long side cup apart, my have to see about mating the skylin inner to it instead of terrani one.

[adam666]

Great write up Crash!

Bit late for the party as usual but appreciate the detail of mods etc immensely!
That front bar is awesome! Thanks for sharing

Just picked up a 1997 Type X Mistral, and goes like the clappers compared to the older TD27T Terrano
Thinking its time to start making it off-road-able