Offroad-Express

Jerry wrote:well not ones of his truck anyway

haw haw haw...it's been real dirty but our club has a hast trip next month and I'm hoping to make this seeing as i missed the other..and this ius a grade 4+ so the ChainasorusRex is coming along with snatch and Wench..it likes to get out and about every now and then to cause havoc ...lol I should have some vid then..

Big wrote:

sig wrote:i,ll pop around one day and have a look and give you some instructions .theres only 87 wires to sort out

I think you're telling porkies..theres only
starter motor relay
sta feed to ecu
fuel pump and fan controller relay
batt feed
main relay
efi relay
87 wires my ass

My 2 cents worth...
oh heres mine and I wired it [youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbSEcweoDm0 [/youtube]

the original lexus/soarer/crown loom has 87 wires and it sounds like jerrys has the original loom just grafted in so it might need a bit of culling out to get down to what you have

sig wrote:

Big wrote:

sig wrote:i,ll pop around one day and have a look and give you some instructions .theres only 87 wires to sort out

I think you're telling porkies..theres only
starter motor relay
sta feed to ecu
fuel pump and fan controller relay
batt feed
main relay
efi relay
87 wires my ass

My 2 cents worth...
oh heres mine and I wired it [youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbSEcweoDm0 [/youtube]

the original lexus/soarer/crown loom has 87 wires and it sounds like jerrys has the original loom just grafted in so it might need a bit of culling out to get down to what you have

Well if it's had a splice job and the dorks didn't know what they were doing then you in for a shyt fight to sort it out..for the hassle just pull it off and get a links and base map then dyno it..it'll save you endless hours of tracing wires that just either go no where or go to the wrong place..(you'll probably fry the ecu anyway due to this..)OR get a full loom and use that..but they are as scarce as rocking horse shyt too...only way I see it getting done right is if you have a mate with one going and strip his loom off and copy all the sensor wires accordingly..best of luck.you're gonna need it..btw there is average of 120 wires..

^^ causalman - do you know anything about the winch? I had one on my Blizzard but I can't find any info on it - rating etc...

Andrew1706 wrote:^^ causalman - do you know anything about the winch? I had one on my Blizzard but I can't find any info on it - rating etc...

its the factory one that came on truck from new, Ive been told tey are rated to 1500KGS they arnt that good snaped the cable in the weekend

casualman where do you live? that play area looks great!!

badnuz wrote:casualman where do you live? that play area looks great!!

Any play area looks good to you if it includes MUD

badnuz wrote:casualman where do you live? that play area looks great!!

Its the new 4wd park in woodhill forest in auckland

damn that woodhill park looks good, everyone seems to be sending in pics from woodhill. i gota get there.
Someone should set up a newby day. Ive just purchased a 60 surf, it got rear l.s.d, 33 muds, diff breathers.
Fairly new to the scene, need to get to Woodhill with sum dudes to show us around and pull us out.

yeah rekon that wood hill looks like fun, we could never have anything like that happen in the Gisborne district, if i head to auckland any time i would have a look

Hella keen for Woodhill.

doin_it_dirty wrote:damn that woodhill park looks good, everyone seems to be sending in pics from woodhill. i gota get there.
Someone should set up a newby day. Ive just purchased a 60 surf, it got rear l.s.d, 33 muds, diff breathers.
Fairly new to the scene, need to get to Woodhill with sum dudes to show us around and pull us out.

We head up there nearly ever second weekend,
Try http://www.jeep4wdpark.co.nz
Its set up for never been of road to experinced

casualman wrote:

doin_it_dirty wrote:damn that woodhill park looks good, everyone seems to be sending in pics from woodhill. i gota get there.
Someone should set up a newby day. Ive just purchased a 60 surf, it got rear l.s.d, 33 muds, diff breathers.
Fairly new to the scene, need to get to Woodhill with sum dudes to show us around and pull us out.

We head up there nearly ever second weekend,
Try http://www.jeep4wdpark.co.nz
Its set up for never been of road to experinced

Cheers mate, will hopefully head up ther in couple weeks, are you with that group thats going on the 24th??

I only just heard about that, i was going to go up this weekend, but might have to wait till 24th then

Here is my bush pig, and not unlike the other bush pig in this thread its insides are blood red....
crazy japs, what were they thinking??? my only hope is to cover the interior with mud.

Supra 2JZGE and V6 auto. 4inch suspension lift with them drop box IFS thingys. landcruiser rear shocks,pajero rears on the front. 33inch KL71's on landcruiser offset rims....







truck owed me $1000 before i put them tyres on it.
already broken one front diff. but it was a weak 4.5 ratio with a 4.3 on the rear so was a bit stressed.
4.875's are on their way..

My brother just got his 40 on the road again after getting it certed (after the repower). He's still waiting for the badge and the WOF to go on. That'll take a couple of weeks. But he can't wait that long. So on Saturday we threw on the hard top (just in time for the rain) and he hasn't stopped driving it since.
His cruiser is running the small block 305 Chev motor naturally aspirated. It's a fresh motor. Kevin Geary's tunned it on his dyno. The boys at 4X4 Accessories recons it doesn't sound like a V8, till you put your foot up it. But it feels better on the road than mine. It's in a word, tighter. Doesn't look like much. But this is the cruiser than inspired me to get one. After all the things I've done to mine, I still think his drives better, slower, but still better.

petefj40 wrote:

heh heh.. that'll be its main parkin spot where we're probably most likely to see it..

"fill 'er up!"

True.

the old 40s are a little bit wandery on the road with 35 mudders, going down to 33s on the road makes a big difference (less sidewall flex i guess )

sig wrote:the old 40s are a little bit wandery on the road with 35 mudders, going down to 33s on the road makes a big difference (less sidewall flex i guess )

To be honest. In stock form the way they were when we brought them, I'd agree with you. But now, I prefer the 35's to the 33's any day. Both my brother and I run them. The only time mine gets a little wandery is when it gets over 160k. But under that it's sweet as. Both our trucks have had new shackle bushes and shocks. That made a big difference. And running the 35's at 100k brings the revs down 500rpm which is another big difference. Though my brothers is a 4 speed where mine is a 5.

sig wrote:the old 40s are a little bit wandery on the road with 35 mudders, going down to 33s on the road makes a big difference (less sidewall flex i guess )

Put some air in them i,m on my third fj40 now and i thought they all wandered that way, even from new. Sometimes i wonder if the steering wheel actually connected to anything

Even from new?
You're welcome to drive mine. Mine doesn't wander fark all. On the open road I'm doing 100k round the 65 70k corners no problems. With the shocks adjusted to max firm it's sweet as!

Blizzard, 2" body lift, spring over, 60 Series Cruiser diffs factory rear diff lock

wholly crap that things high

basics wrote:wholly crap that things high

It's still on the jack stands isn't it?
Looks good tho.
Like the paint job.

petefj40 wrote:

basics wrote:wholly crap that things high

It's still on the jack stands isn't it?
Looks good tho.
Like the paint job.

opps! hahah

The front is sprung, the rear diff is just sitting there. I had to move the springs out 75mm to match up to the original spring mounts on the diff, I can't keep the springs where they are because the difflock mechanism gets in the way. Moving the springs out will be better for stability too.

This is what started the whole project:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9eA84yQn8k

When we came back about an hour and a half later the truck went 20m from where I left it and the gearbox gave up completely (no surprise) then 15 minutes tow down the road resulted in this: