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chur brother, just mounted spare tyre in the back for this weekends trip

well this is what i been up to for the last month or so, rust repairs and finishing this ute chop. All done and cab all enclosed now with my custom fibreglass liner. Am going to mount the spare to 1 side and have tool box against the other side.
Heaps a dry storage on the inside behind the seats.

That's looking awesome mate.
Love the dry storage area.

You have done the right thing.

All you need to do now is put all your heavy stuff like tool box and recovery gear right at the back inside the tail gate and it will perform good.

Cheers Richard

cheers fellas. yea im thinking of having a box for tools and recovery gear made to fit up back against the tailgate and just keeping the spare wheel in the middle and just sitting on the deck rather than up to 1 side. Not sure weather i just make a plywood box or a steel 1.. the heavier the beter i guess

and next is finishing front tube bar.. then ripping out both axles to fit locker and high-steer

Are you planing on a roll bar in the back?

yep would like to think so, just a simple hoop behind the rear window going to chassis then 2 bars linking down to the rear bar uprights. Not sure im liking the shape of the cab extension.... may cut it square... dunno

did some work on front bar, just made up a template to give to the old man to cut out 3 plates which the bars will be welded to.

and thought about when and how im gona fit these mods, not sure whether ill be doing it at home at a mates shed, i aint got a shed, just a car-port

carport better than nothing

done some of bar, hopefully finish this weekend
think im gona get rid of the tailgate and have a heavy duty cargo net instead..



think ill also fit a hoop in the middle of the bar like what ya see on pirate and on alot a the crawlers in the u.s

That looks the shizzle. Nice and tight, follows body line well. I can't understand people who slap bars every where with no apparent thought to design or aesthetics.

Don't make a big ugly stinger bar will ya (or I 'll come up there and beat you around the head with it ). Make a nice hoop with that sticks up above bonnet line so if you have a roll over the front edge (and hence the radiator) is protected. That is the bit that I got wrong with my bar, it is only at bonnet line.

cheers mate, yep wanted to keep everything as close as possible, hiluxes have a pretty respectable approach angle, and i didnt want to lose that..
do you mean a hoop the full width of the vehicle ie: going from headlight to headlight or a centre hoop between the headlights? cause thats what i was thinking.....

That is what mine looks like. You can see the centre hoop is a bit too low to fully protect the bonnet, but I'll live with it. You have the chance to make it a bit higher now, so my advice would be do that.

thats a rather meaty sexual bar, sweet, yep i wanted a hoop of some sorts so ill bear in mind enough height to protect bonnet, nice 1

whats peoples opinions on 2 and 4 spider hilux diffs? are 4 spiders that much stronger? is it worth fitting a 4 spider over a 2?

Short answer. Hell Yes!

Hi rok,
Is that because you think only having 2 spider gears is weaker than having 4 (obvious I guess ) or because there is only one cross pin with the 2 spider.
What is your opinion when fitting a Lockright locker considering that for a 4 spider diff the original side gears are used to engage with the lockright center, whereas with a 2 spider the side gears are replaced as well hich I think would be stronger than the 4 spider arrangement.
ie is a single cross pin stronger or weaker than using the side gears as part of the locker assembly.

Cheers
Tim

ive always heard 4 are allot stronger but have never played around with both and investigated as such,also never had a power plant big enough to do damage but ive sourced 4spider 4.5s to go in with my chev as a posed to 2 spider,interesting about the locker comment with replacement gears,had not heard this before

The 4 spider has bigger bearings in the Crown wheel and the pinion.
I am not a fan of the way the lockright works on the side gears in the 4 spider unit, but it is damn easy to fit. So in short the 4 spider is a stronger all around unit and considering the hiding most active 4wd's give their drivetrain, stronger has to be better, yes?

a short add, when i had a lsd fitted to a 9'' diff was told the four gears and pins carry the torque and shock load better

all tacked up now, ready for the old man to do all the welding, decided to keep it tight and follow lines of the grille and vehicle, not bad for my first time at doing bar work

nice bar work mate,very tidy

just went and looked at a VR comy with a mere 158ks on the clock, damaged but driveable, he will take $400.
Ill be able to make money when i sell the parts, free motor

go hard dude, I got a free motor and enough to buy a set of headers and after market memcal / comp

just trying to sort a tow tommorow cause he wants it gone this weekend so ide say its a 90% certain..
pretty excited now, there primo engines, so you will have to get onto Oscar to see if we can get a good deal from Marks4wd

oh tru,id offer to help out but ive gota sort my garage door tomorrow,n hard,ill chase him up again,im surprised he hasn't actually got back to me bout it,ill let you know,oh and still no credit sorry bro

I reckon the commonwhore V6 is the best repower for lux you can get your mits on. Mine was going to be 3.8 powered as well, but the 304 came up at a deal that was waaayyyy to good to turn down.
Keep us up to date with the conversion

thats what im talking about 130kw of sexual holden/buick power