Offroad-Express

Here's mine:
32" MT tires
2.5 inch body lift
1.5 inch suspension lift
spacer in balljoints to lessen torsion bar crank
pickup conversion
Simota Free Flow air filter
2" wheel spacers

immediate Future upgrades
winch
exhaust extractors

Back view


With the door open


Front view


Spacer in ball joint to lessen torsion bar cranking


Inside view from the right


View from the left


Front view

BTW the front and rear bumpers have been replaced with a customized steel bumpers.

left hand drive?

nice truck

freshtrax wrote:left hand drive?
nice truck

Thanks and yes in the Philippines, we drive in the right side of the road.

Nice rig, wonder if those spacers could be cert'ed for here?? looks like a far better way of gaining a couple of inches rather than wnding up the torsion bars.

i think they should be a good engineer would be able to extend the arm downwards as well which once painted and a bit of dirt and shit on it would look factory

Here is the latest addition to my Feroza with:
7,500 winch
4-2-1 extractors
2" wheel spacers on all 4 wheels to increase vehicle stability
Fender trimmed to accomodate the 25mm offset wheels and 50mm wheel spacer
Fozzy lockers up front.

Picture of the front differential marked to faciliatate easy return alignment

Side gears being welded

Side gears with filled trough

where did you get the 2" wheel spacers from?

hes from the phillipenes i think it is and there illegal to run here

how illegal?

rockyman wrote:how illegal?

there are different levels of "illegal" ??

1997 Daihatsu Fourtrak Independent TDX

nice truck looks like you could do with a lift and some bigger tyres, good base to start from though.

its actually been pretty good offroad, never been hung up, does tend to collect dirt in the front guard thou! Thou i will probably just leave it for general use from now onie, highway, gravel, beach, skifield access roads, moderate tracks etc
I think its probably one of only 2 of these in NZ.

Wouldnt mind another daihatsu for pure offroad. How well do Rockys without the turbo go?

i think ive seen 1 like it round dunedin a wee while back used to park up on queen street. the non turbed rocky's go all right im running one as a dedicated offroader and its running 33in tyres, bit sluggish on the hills but in all not too bad, if i was to do it again i would get a new set of springs made up instead of going to the hilux springs, once i can afford it im going to coil spring mine.

Mine is a coil springer. It is out of the UK, so has slight differences. Basically appears to be a mix of Rockys and Ruggers..ie has vertical mirrors but bumper rear lights. It also was a 7 seater, thou the bottom seat cushions have been removed.
Has a few UK spec things too like rear fog, immobiliser, alarm, colour coded guards, wood grain panelling, manual FWH.
But a few things are missing, no sunroof or air cond. The TDX is the top range model. Thou there are special addition models you can get with leather seats, air cond, sunroof, mud tyres etc. presumably even drivers airbag and ABS, thou im not 100% sure that was true. They were still selling fourtraks into 2002 and even new in Indonesia into 2006.

From memory the F300's (Feroza/Rocky) were known as the sporttracks, and the F75's etc (Rocky/Rugger) were known as the Fourtracks, the later UK spec Fourtracks had EFI which gave them more power and economy (which we didn't get with our NZ/Aus/JDM ones, your one should be a F75/F80/F85....

Theres a couple of good Daihatsu forums here
http://www.daihatsu-drivers.co.uk/
http://www.warfs.org/ (the US didn't get the F75 etc)

Factory service manuals can be downloaded from here
http://www.warfs.org/content/view/16/47/

after 97 fourtraks had a power reduction so they were euro 2 compliant! Im not sure if mine is one of them or the efi model u mention. gearing certainly seems different too my old rugger.

yeah feroza are called Sportraks over there. Think they stopped selling them about 97-98.
ruggers are fourtraks. The SWB's are called Fieldman's and the LWB is the independent. TDX top of the range and TDL lesser specced.

Its a great wagon, runs really well, handles a dream for what is basically a box! They made a whole lot of limited edition models..Timberland, Riviera etc..some have awesome paint schemes..ie navy blue with chrome grills. All good.

have a look at www.autotrader.co.uk some mean as ones on there!

Mighty fine looking 2000 model..like mine but with the chrome front!

http://search.autotrader.co.uk/es-uk/ww ... =970331591

Picked this up from Auckland yesterday, $2500 with WOF REG and 5000 k's RUC's. Full service history too. Unfortunately the stickers/badges are telling lies, it's an non-turbo 2.8 diesel, the guy who owned it before me had another one before this, his daughter flopped it going around a roundabout. So he bought this one with a blown motor (rod tried to escape) and put the motor out of the rolled one into it. Goes damn good for an NA diesel, sits on 100k's nicely. Not much planned for it, have a set of 750x16 SAT's for when I go 4WD'ing.

Looks a bit more useful now. Just got to get a little bit of rust patched up and clean up some of the surface rust around the place and it will be ready to get dirty!

1990 rugger - use to be the 2.8dt.
3/4 through a holden v6 + bighorn transfer conversion on the cheap. (hopefully be running for the mudy season)
SOA
16" spreader truck tyres.
Re done leaf springs since photo, hilux in the front and cruiser in the back.

Got it a few years ago and have been moulding it to my needs.