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Posted: **Thu May 17, 2012 12:26 pm**

PM'ed - man I need to get my 80 out to see you for some piping work

Cheers - lovely job

Posted: **Thu May 17, 2012 3:10 pm**

Holy crap, thats actually the coolest Hilux I've ever seen (more pix ), love the red on black. What size are the creepys? 37s?! As always wicked engineering you've done there keep up the awesome work

tomsoffroad wrote:

You dont know how well I hear you Nibs. Same story, no time. Struggling to keep up with the work load.

Glad to hear ya busy with it though and its going well... cause I'll have alot of work coming your way when I move back to NZ in a years time

Thanks.

I'll look forward to it.
Yes 37x14.5x15" Crawlers. Yeah starting to wish this one was mine. Ohh and the last one, and the one before that :lol:

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2012 7:41 pm**

Posted: **Mon May 21, 2012 1:01 pm**

All done, wheel alignment and cert on Wednesday :mrgreen:

Posted: **Mon May 21, 2012 1:43 pm**

ruff as guts as usuall... keep up the good work tom

Posted: **Mon May 21, 2012 2:07 pm**

more travel than an air hostes

Posted: **Fri May 25, 2012 7:14 am**

Well end of another week. Some links for the rear of a 106 Hilux :mrgreen:

More pix to come

Posted: **Fri May 25, 2012 9:00 pm**

Posted: **Fri May 25, 2012 9:03 pm**

Man you do stuff awesome work there Tom.

Keep it up I do think that this is the best thread on ORE.

Cheers.

Posted: **Fri May 25, 2012 9:26 pm**

Man you do stuff awesome work there Tom.

Keep it up I do think that this is the best thread on ORE.

Cheers

Posted: **Sat May 26, 2012 7:34 am**

when you moving to welly dude ?

Posted: **Sat May 26, 2012 7:44 am**

taz01 wrote:when you moving to welly dude ?

Our Tom aint got much class and style, but he has a shit load more than having to move north :mrgreen:

Besides if he did, he would make a big arsed dent in the fabricators work loads up there.........
AND, on top of all that, he is starting to come along nicely, don't be poaching the boys just when we are just getting them trained properly :lol:

Posted: **Sat May 26, 2012 1:19 pm**

when you moving to welly dude ?

Probably never now I've learnt that the locals have started buying British :lol:

Our Tom aint got much class and style, but he has a shit load more than having to move north
Besides if he did, he would make a big arsed dent in the fabricators work loads up there.........
AND, on top of all that, he is starting to come along nicely, don't be poaching the boys just when we are just getting them trained properly

Such kind works there Westie. And your right, no class, no style, just a red neck with a welder.

Posted: **Sat May 26, 2012 3:54 pm**

Yeah man, but you sure know how to swing that hotglue gun fella :wink:

Posted: **Sat May 26, 2012 4:04 pm**

Starting to take shape :mrgreen:

Posted: **Mon May 28, 2012 8:06 pm**

Bit more progress

Posted: **Tue May 29, 2012 10:07 pm**

Right my bit is done :mrgreen:

Its booked in for another round in a couple of weeks

Posted: **Wed May 30, 2012 8:39 am**

Very

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Posted: **Thu May 31, 2012 8:37 pm**

thanks tom for the great job :mrgreen:

cheers andy

Posted: **Fri Jun 01, 2012 7:43 pm**

Back onto the Prado :mrgreen:

Having to get a little creative :roll:

I'll let these pix do the talking......................

Got a wee bit to cut out of the chassis :lol:

Posted: **Fri Jun 01, 2012 10:57 pm**

What's happening in those last few pics Tom? It's a very radical move for the steering box, is it for more up travel on the front axle?

Posted: **Sat Jun 02, 2012 6:38 am**

What's happening in those last few pics Tom? It's a very radical move for the steering box, is it for more up travel on the front axle?

Yes it is. I looked at using a 130 Surf box but would've had to move the front right body mount. Being that the Prados have a high CoG we are trying to keep it as low as possible. There is going to be a notch on the passenger side too (Not as big tho) to clear the draglink and tierod.

As you can see we are aiming to get a little bit more articulation in the front. There is a pair of 14" coil overs to go in there too :mrgreen:

Radicals good :mrgreen:

Posted: **Sat Jun 02, 2012 7:09 pm**

Very clever! Buggy like articulation but you can turn the aircon and stereo on

Posted: **Sat Jun 02, 2012 8:28 pm**

Very clever! Buggy like articulation but you can turn the aircon and stereo on

Well stereo anyway :mrgreen:

Posted: **Sat Jun 02, 2012 8:37 pm**

I think I just made a mess in my pants................. :oops:

Posted: **Sat Jun 02, 2012 9:21 pm**

Vwwery noice Tom

Posted: **Sat Jun 02, 2012 9:27 pm**

Mate, you are a very cleaver chap! Impressive.

Posted: **Sat Jun 02, 2012 9:45 pm**

as above, extremely nice work there mate,have talked to a few guys about doing similar,clearly its achievable and worked just as we thought it would

Posted: **Sat Jun 02, 2012 9:47 pm**

Stop it fellas. Its just cutting and welding :oops:

have talked to a few guys about doing similar,clearly its achievable and worked just as we thought it would

Everything is achievable :wink:

Surely someones done this before tho :?:

Posted: **Sat Jun 02, 2012 10:03 pm**

ive seen similar on pirate but only like half chassis height notched out,not a small section removed :lol:

,but as said its very achievable. I'm not surprised your the first to do it on here, at least that ive seen

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