John's surf project v8 and SAS

[jonossiksilvia]

Thought id better do an update

the surf has passed cert as of 330 today!!!

Now the wait for the plate to get made

[Sadam_Husain]

haha awesome mate shit those brakes must have given you some grey hairs, did you work out why they wernt pulling up properly in the brake tests?

[Smurf]

Awesome News. you got there in the end. Well done

[tomsoffroad]

Choice. Well done fella

[jonossiksilvia]

Cheers all hugh relive that its passed now - just gotta hope that lvvta dont request the bumpsteer test as that'll be more money.

Brakes after lots and lots of vacuum bleeding and couple bottles of fluid finally got the air outta system. Looks like it was getting trapped somewhere prob bias valve as it didn't have a nipple on it for some reason

[SamLogan]

you could be waiting a while for the plate it took them 9 weeks to get mine sorted haha. Well done anyways. Will have to come around when i get back and have a look

Sam

[jonossiksilvia]

cheers mate and yeah deff come round or meet on a trip soon.

yeah my plate for my car took 5 weeks and i depended on the car at that time and was frustrating

[jonossiksilvia]

So its been a while since last updated. been getting a little seat time in it. am very happy.

Seemed to chew through fuel pretty bad so change out the water temp sensor as old 1 buggered. that fixed that issue



then there was the trouble of the battery sliding around even with a clamp so i fixed it by making this




next was the first stage of the sound system. sub and amp still to be installed





right so im wanting to run twin batteries mainly for winch but also camping so i needed to change the intake around abit and also fit an air box. still needs finishing (hopefully next weekend)



and got a snorkel for it







am getting it shortened abit as its too high



so thats it for the update. be another in a couple of weeks

[jonossiksilvia]

also had powersteering box and alternator rebuilt too $600 for both latter

[jonossiksilvia]

bit more progress:

relocated the plugs for the ignitor packs and afm



got snorkel shortened then fitted it up






finished the air intake


Still got to sort out a bracket for the throttle cable and then be driveable again.

[KIWI_TERRANO]

looking good mate,

is that a stainless snorkle?
where you get it from and how much if you dont mind me asking?

[jonossiksilvia]

cheers mate.

yeah its stainless. got it off of a guy on trademe who got 2 made 1 for himself and one for a mate but his friend sold his truck so thats why he got rid of it. i paid $200 for it

[KIWI_TERRANO]

I want one now that looks cool,

wouldnt happen to have his detail haha

[jonossiksilvia]

i lost the guy who made it details. was a while ago he got made and was clearing his garage and came across it

sorry cant be much help mate

[2.8SURF]

And heres the origional snorkel, I sold that one to him after I bought it for a mate but he sold his surf before fitting it.
Awesome solid and great looking snorkels and full credit to the clever bugger who made them but sorry to say I think that one was the last one hes making for a while.
That one was a prototype for a new polishing method hence the welds visible in his compared to mine but either way they look the part.

[jonossiksilvia]

Update time:

brought the second battery and fitted.
And finally fitted winch ive had sitting around for 18 Months








Just got to finish up some wiring for second battery
Next up date will be the uhf install

And then some bloody seat time

[jonossiksilvia]

Finished the winch install finally. Well winch was finished last week but spent the day setting up in cab control



Switch with red cover turns on and off the cab controls
Once this switch is on the red led between buttons lights up
The 2 red round buttons are in and out

Also got my uhf radio installed

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Forgot to get a pic of external cb speaker setup.

[2.8SURF]

Very nice. Quite jelious now
Really need to come see it in action at some stage and have a poke and a prod at your solid axle setup as I think its about time to do that to mine now too.
Glad the snorkel worked out well, looks a treat

[jonossiksilvia]

Very nice. Quite jelious now
Really need to come see it in action at some stage and have a poke and a prod at your solid axle setup as I think its about time to do that to mine now too.
Glad the snorkel worked out well, looks a treat

Yeah am really happy with snorkel cheers. I'm sick of spending time on it now aye. JUST WANNA GET SEAT TIME!!!! only time its been off road was at new years on mates farm near cheviot in the hill country and river bed launching the jet boat.

Just waiting on my recovery gear to get here (brought yesterday) from 4WDBITS and then i gonna use it for what i built it for

[jonossiksilvia]

UPDATE

so have had some seat time. went out with my mate also a 1uz hilux. got to test the winch out.

now it needs more work.
got rebuild stuff for this:

Gonna rebuild whole front end wheel bearings etc.

Also half way through fixing this:


Good old rear crank seal!!!

[jonossiksilvia]

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[jonossiksilvia]

Update time:

So after a lot of swearing and cursing got the rear main seal replaced. Changing seal was the easy part - gearbox was the swearing and cursing boy do they weigh a shit load



Then came the front axle rebuild





Kingpin bearings were well past use by date


Putting back together







Full knuckle rebuild kit
Wheel bearing kit
New rotors
New wheel studs and nuts
Removal of rotor backing plate by cutting to keep the spacer right
New steering arm ends x4

[jonossiksilvia]

opps double post cant delete wrong one as delete button off of the screen

[churchill]

Tidy work man.

[jonossiksilvia]

chur mate

[rokhound]

Hope you enjoyed the front rebuild. You will be doing it again before too long
There are ways you can reduce the water entry etc the housing components, but some people think it is the wrong thing to do as you will cook the wheel bearings.
Still, I have always pumped my hubs chock full of grease (grease nipple drilled and tapped into hub) and have never had issues with bearing overheat as all the naysayers tell me I will. (maybe in a race car, but it is a 4wd FFS).

Rig is looking sweet John.

[jonossiksilvia]

Hope you enjoyed the front rebuild. You will be doing it again before too long
There are ways you can reduce the water entry etc the housing components, but some people think it is the wrong thing to do as you will cook the wheel bearings.
Still, I have always pumped my hubs chock full of grease (grease nipple drilled and tapped into hub) and have never had issues with bearing overheat as all the naysayers tell me I will. (maybe in a race car, but it is a 4wd FFS).

Rig is looking sweet John.

Cheers Grant it does mean a lot when guys with more capable and highly setup 4wds do say "things" looking good and proactively offering advice.

Rebuild is messy work and like you said it wont be the last time is do it

drill and tapping hub to add grease nipple- what part u talking about? knuckle, wheel bearing hub or fwh?

had a look at a few forums on tricks to rebuilding the front end and try get more life out of the job. So i have added more grease than normal to knuckle housings, set all bearing preloads little bit higher than specs etc.

[rokhound]

In the wheel bearing hub. Hole drilled and tapped between the 2 wheel bearings. It means you can pump it full of grease, and if it is full of grease there is no room for water to bugger up the bearings. When you finish filling them up, just remove the grease nipple and place a grub screw in there (otherwise you can't get the wheel on and off ) Stripping the front end is a shithouse job, so if you can avoid it, all the better I say.
As I said, some think this idea creates excess bearing heat, and it probably does at 140kph, but I don't know of to many rigs that actually get used that are capable of maintaining that sort of road speed.

[jonossiksilvia]

cheers.

yeah was thinking hub but had me stumped on how to get wheel back on but a grub screw makes sense. That is true usually above 130kph they do start to get a hand full on 35s

[jonossiksilvia]

So after more runs it became known that the cooling side was having trouble keeping up so the pics will do the talking.


Rad has been asking to be hit hanging this low





Everything removed

New Rad for a s14 turbo

xr6 turbo Fan

mark hole


Cut hole





Make up radiator mounts

Clearance the bonnet and add pins

new Powersteer lines and powersteer cooler

Set up bleeder system

Finished product with more natural airflow