THE 50

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Wed May 09, 2007 7:56 am

It looks like the silicon RTV sealent stuff. I have used second hand fuel hose i had lying around, an old fuel filter, and a very old fuel tank. I did flush them all, but not really surprising i have initial problems :lol:

Should have sent the $5 and got a NEW filter :lol:

Clint · Post by **Clint** » Thu May 10, 2007 11:15 am

Lookin real good!

For tyres, I had some 29" (215/85 I think) Super Swamper Radials on my 413, they measured up the same as most 30x9.5s & did pretty well compared to an MT pattern.

Cheers
Clint

PuddleJumper · Post by **PuddleJumper** » Thu May 10, 2007 12:36 pm

I don't know when they are arriving or there price but there is a 30x8.5R15 Simex Extreme Trekker coming out.......

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Thu May 10, 2007 6:20 pm

PuddleJumper wrote:I don't know when they are arriving or there price but there is a 30x8.5R15 Simex Extreme Trekker coming out.......

mmm that sounds good but i need 16 inch ones

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Thu May 10, 2007 8:57 pm

PuddleJumper wrote:I don't know when they are arriving or there price but there is a 30x8.5R15 Simex Extreme Trekker coming out.......

?? where'd you hear that rumour?? That would be pretty kool

PuddleJumper · Post by **PuddleJumper** » Thu May 10, 2007 9:53 pm

I work for a place which amongst other things sells tyres including Simexs. In there latest catalogue there is a indent listing for them! But i as i mentioned i don't know when or how much... :?:

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Thu May 10, 2007 11:10 pm

PuddleJumper wrote:I work for a place which amongst other things sells tyres including Simexs. In there latest catalogue there is a indent listing for them! But i as i mentioned i don't know when or how much...

Sweet, thats some Kool inside info :shock:

Keep us posted!!!!!!

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:05 pm

Bit more stuff been goin on over the last week or so.

Got the electric fan mounted, one hell of a squeeze, trim a bit of steel here, a bit of plastic off the grill there, and:

Had to cut a fair bit on the radiator support panel to get it in, but the panel was rooted all ready due to a P.O bein a ruff bastard when pulin the engine out. It worked really well,as now the fan has become part of the structureof the radiator support panel, and strengthend the whole thing

All wired up to thermoswitch, also with manual kill switch for those deep water crossings :lol:

:

Slapped a couple of new frost plugs in:

Bought an electric fuel pump and threw that in (mentioned that already haven't I :roll:

)

Harness are 90% in, i have one side of the lap belt looped through the seat rail, but is going tobe mounted to the floor or sill when i make up my mind.

Fuel tank in its new home:

Also fitted a LJ fuel level sender i had kicking round to the tank.

Thought that seing as i had a fuel gauge and a new temp sender in the cyclinder head, i had beter have a go at gettin somthing happening with the gauges on the dash. Took the best part of a day, lots of swearing and yelling at the wiring diagram telling it that it was wrong, but it all came down to one dodgy wire that was hiding under the dash with a really old and very loose crimp connecter

So i have a working fuel guage, temp gauge, rev counter and charge light.

Thats about it, waiting for the expansion chamber, hopefully ready on Wednesday.......................................

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:17 pm

RAD !

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:34 pm

Was sitting there looking at the pic's again. Noticed this:

Strange place for what looks like burnt 2stroke oil to be running from. Better have a look at that tomorrow :shock:

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Fri May 18, 2007 11:01 pm

pic of my contribution so far to the 50 :wink:

will be added to when the chamber is done

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Sat May 26, 2007 9:24 pm

wopass wrote:pic of my contribution so far to the 50

will be added to when the chamber is done

Bah, your a modest bastard at times. He's scored me shit loads of stuff to help the build, its been awesome

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Sat May 26, 2007 9:41 pm

Been waiting round for this to get done for about two and a half weeks

No need to tell ya what that is :twisted:

So i got busy and started chopping it up :roll:

(i had to to make it fit :lol:

)

Being the impatient bugger i am, i bolted it up to the mainfold and took it for a strop up the road. Kinda like a Integra with V-Tec, FKN blew me away, just AWESOME!!!!!

Had to prise myself outa the drivers seat before it did some damage with the chamber just hanging off the manifold with no other mounts, and got busy quickly (read roughly) piecing together the rest of the exhaust so i could go for a decent stropround the paddocks.

Ended up something like this:

Nothing fancy, but very functional :twisted:

Worst part of today was that i took it out for a couple of hours testing, filled up the fuel tank, only to find that the tank has a leak from a spot weld on one of the mounting brackets. Time for fuel tank plan "B" .......................

niblik · Post by **niblik** » Sat May 26, 2007 9:45 pm

wicked shit pete!!!!

that little fiddy cent looks great bud, and sounds like it'll be pingin off rev limiters and the like soonly!!! (without exhaust hangin)

very cool work!

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Sat May 26, 2007 10:03 pm

Bens got some vids from today i think. Probably even some of when i got it running properly towards the end of play time :twisted:

He might still be recovering though :wink:

lilpigzuk · Post by **lilpigzuk** » Sat May 26, 2007 10:12 pm

lol, saw some footage, #### you made a mess of your old mans property :lol:

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Sat May 26, 2007 10:15 pm

lilpigzuk wrote:#### you made a mess of your old mans property

Ahhh, ya

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Sun May 27, 2007 11:24 am

video

http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/images/ ... uphill.mpg

lilpigzuk · Post by **lilpigzuk** » Sun May 27, 2007 11:37 am

that sounds wicked Pete :lol:

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Sun May 27, 2007 12:02 pm

im working on a compilation kina vid of it nw....

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Sun May 27, 2007 12:27 pm

ok

here it is. no music, no captions, no nuthin ! just 2 stroke coolness :twisted:

http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/images/ ... _fiddy.wmv

lovin it

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Sun May 27, 2007 12:39 pm

DieselBoy wrote:
lilpigzuk wrote:#### you made a mess of your old mans property

Ahhh, ya

so will these two trucks be at rallywoods??? they both seem to be all good??

Baldrick · Post by **Baldrick** » Sun May 27, 2007 1:04 pm

Ahhh.. the sweet smell of 2-stroke in the morning...It gives me a .....hmmmm

Great Work & awesome job from what it/they started as DB.

Plenty of fun to be had already

Post by **mike** » Sun May 27, 2007 3:18 pm

so whats it like going from 3 ton to 300 kgs DB :?:

Must be a huge difference in driving :wink:

From the surf to the LR is a big difference.

Mike

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Sun May 27, 2007 7:24 pm

RAD, cheers Ben, that rocks!!!!!

Those vids are off early in test session, it kept droping a cyclinder under load, but got that sorted and it was pulling 8500rpm quite happily up that last hill in the compilation vid :twisted:

Ahhh, the list of shit still to do on it

IcedJohnno · Post by **IcedJohnno** » Wed May 30, 2007 1:06 pm

Last night I saw what I think is a LWB 50 with a factory pressed steel sided flat deck that looked in the dark a real minter.
Orange in colour and on a trailer at the local nissan wrecker. Hope its not going to get wrecked, it even still had the factory tyre pressure sticker still in the door jamb.
Someone needs to save this
Cheers Johnno

phaedrus · Post by **phaedrus** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:55 am

I just had to create a user & comment on this.. I think it may be the LJ81 I just purchased from a Rangiora wrecker on Saturday...

It's certainly not mint, unfortunately, but I am in the process of restoring it a little to its former glory :-)

Will be making new guards for it today I expect, it also needs some floor panels, brake shoes and other things that I'll get around to doing at some point.

Unfortunately the motor is _very_ smokey but there's an outside chance it may improve if I replace (or fit!) new stem seals I guess. If anyone in ChCh has a reasonable 797cc motor laying around from a re-power I may be interested! I can recall putting a 3K into one of these in the early 80's as well as delivering a brand new LJ80 in the Sounds and bringing back the trade-in LJ50 soft-top, quite an interesting trip.

Cheers, Luke.

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:13 am

Disc conversion all done.

Collection of bits, old drums on the left, SJ 410 disc's with LJ50 axles fitted on the right. (Not telling anybody about what happened while swaping axles and cv internals around other than i have a good selection of spare CV joint ball bearings

)

Any ways, it all kinda just bolts together and all of sudden you have disc's on the front. Too easy.

Hey like my cool new brake lines!!!!!

From a Mitsi Evo 3, strange eh.

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:21 am

Got new rims and tyres. Few pic's for ya.

Winch yet to come............... :wink:

niblik · Post by **niblik** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:32 am

very cool db... very very cool... i see you've also been very busy and taken care of things like the headlights and front bar even.. and then theres the vinyl cover etc...

awesome bud..

thats a cool little zuk..

so is the winch just about the last thing to add?

and as for discs..... dude!!! that thing wouldnt have enough weight to warrant bothering with discs...!

after that effort, you deserve a good celebration pete.. good work