Offroad-Express

that is just a pure pleasure to look at Tom

Any reason why ya didn't lower the tank to sit flush under rear deck and optimise rear deck space plus lower COG?

niblik wrote:Any reason why ya didn't lower the tank to sit flush under rear deck and optimise rear deck space plus lower COG?

If I lowered the tank it would be too close to the maximum up travel. I've set it up with 7" of up travel.

that hilux is sexy

want it

OMG tom you are awesome, making it very hard for those of us with less skill than you to wana go near a welding plant and try to do anything even half as good as your work

very sty lee

Noticed in one pic a mig..? are you using that one for all your work? As your work is "O" for awesome.. and it looks like a small amped one.. surely you jest.. You must have a grunta there somewhere..

Big wrote:Noticed in one pic a mig..? are you using that one for all your work? As your work is "O" for awesome.. and it looks like a small amped one.. surely you jest.. You must have a grunta there somewhere..

Thats it fella . 180 amps of Lincoln goodness. Man I love that mig
But to answer your question..... Yes thats it Why would I need anything bigger? I very rarely have it over 160A.
However................ I do have a 200A DC Tig and if sh!t really hits the fan theres a 200A Arc too. Oh yeah, theres a gas set floating around as well
Got most of my bases covers but in all reality I very seldon weld anything thicker than 6mm MS
One thing that has made a huge difference tho is I got Andy (silver 106 Hilux) to re-wire the shed. Went from 16mm cable from the boundary box to 25mm. Also re-wired the plug for the welder to 6mm cabling insted of 3mm. That changed things in a big way

Are you going to ditch the from leaf setup in that lux, seems silly to have them with that rear set up

GotFlex wrote:Are you going to ditch the from leaf setup in that lux, seems silly to have them with that rear set up

Got my fingers crossed . But the leaves work pretty well. Leaves - in my opinion - are better for carrying weight, which suits the front. Time will tell tho Starting to be not much Hilux left

Time to pull it to bits.

Ramp it first cuz!!

tomsoffroad wrote:

Big wrote:Noticed in one pic a mig..? are you using that one for all your work? As your work is "O" for awesome.. and it looks like a small amped one.. surely you jest.. You must have a grunta there somewhere..

Thats it fella . 180 amps of Lincoln goodness. Man I love that mig
But to answer your question..... Yes thats it Why would I need anything bigger? I very rarely have it over 160A.
However................ I do have a 200A DC Tig and if sh!t really hits the fan theres a 200A Arc too. Oh yeah, theres a gas set floating around as well
Got most of my bases covers but in all reality I very seldon weld anything thicker than 6mm MS
One thing that has made a huge difference tho is I got Andy (silver 106 Hilux) to re-wire the shed. Went from 16mm cable from the boundary box to 25mm. Also re-wired the plug for the welder to 6mm cabling insted of 3mm. That changed things in a big way

Good bloke Andy and a quality sparky!

niblik wrote:Ramp it first cuz!!

Don't worry brother it will happen However I dont have a fuel supply or brakes just yet

niblik wrote:Ramp it first cuz!!

Love to see you up the ramp

That's damned nice work Tom

Overkill

Nice!!

Just like mine (in weight anyway) Saves you having to have anything in the back to get some weight over the rear wheels

Looks Tom.

extended wheelbase

Man thats turned out nice,

I really wanna get something like that dont to mine but i will have to wait.....

Awesome setup you have made there. was that a std hilux diff you started with? next time im down your way i would be keen to come meet you and have a look at your place.

imsohi wrote:Awesome setup you have made there. was that a std hilux diff you started with? next time im down your way i would be keen to come meet you and have a look at your place.

Yip thats the housing for that truck.
Sweet as, flick me a txt next time your around.

Everyone else........ Thanks for all your comments. Its motivating

Cant have that. Your work sucks what were you thinking go back to knitting Feel better now

stinky wrote:Cant have that. Your work sucks what were you thinking go back to knitting Feel better now

Shit no I'm not taking up knitting. Next you'll be suggesting I start painting things pink

tomsoffroad wrote:

just seen this on FB tom, holy shit it looks good

no one cleans there trucks for you tom haha