Offroad-Express

Hi guys new at this.

Had a few trucks over the last few years starting with a Hilux Surf
(Note some of the photos are old and things change over time as we all know)
TJM bar
custom rear bar
50MM body lift
spring and torsion bar lift
Snorkle
33" Cooper's
NEW HEAD




Suzuki SJ410
Hilux Diffs
Lockright lokker
custom body (shortned lots)
had 3.8 v6 for it but never got round to it
Quarter Elliptical Suspension in the rear
hilux leaves in the front sprung over.




Current truck might be familar to some of you

1989 Mid wheel base Landcruiser
13bt motor
spring over
bigger turbo
front mount intercooler
warn 8274 winch
simex 35" ET2
5.28 60 series diffs
disc brakes all four corners
arb locker's
custom drawers in rear
roof console for radio and prs
ARB bull bar




I have helped build a few trucks in the past including and sprung over 40 Series landcruiser Green V8 on 36 simexs. 84 nissan safari/Patrol sprung over on 35 simexs. Im currently replacing the shocks and springs under the midi with Rancho rs9000's and longer springs.





Hope to be out and about in nelson again soon.

Your old green cruiser is owned by one of the boys on here.
Seen your wagons around. Welcome to the fray...

Smurf wrote:Your old green cruiser is owned by one of the boys on here.
Seen your wagons around. Welcome to the fray...

Not my green cruiser it was a mates that we built from a bear chassie in the shed. i saw it on trademe recently it's looking a bit worse for wear.

Kiwimidi wrote:

Smurf wrote:Your old green cruiser is owned by one of the boys on here.
Seen your wagons around. Welcome to the fray...

Not my green cruiser it was a mates that we built from a bare chassie in the shed. i saw it on trademe recently it's looking a bit worse for wear.

its now owned by a fulla here in Welly.

not sure who he is, but if someones knows they may want to let him know about you as he may want to pick your brains about the cruiser


any how, welcome aboard

Kiwimidi wrote:Not my green cruiser it was a mates that we built from a bear chassie in the shed. i saw it on trademe recently it's looking a bit worse for wear.

Its in Grahams shop at the moment getting both cracked heads replaced

Nice Midi, .. Good to see it covered in mud. Welcome to ORE.

Howz it going mate..good to see you still have the cruiser..still looking good

furnace wrote:Howz it going mate..good to see you still have the cruiser..still looking good

if you look hard you might reconize the guy in river Furnace.

That was a good little trip...should catch up some time...Have been doing a bit of 4x4ing on the Coast and wouldn't mind having a look north of Westport and Karamea as haven't done much over there

Hi Kiwimidi welcome to the best place to hang out, apart from on a track somewhere !!
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Kiwimidi wrote:Hi guys new at this.
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Some cool Pics ...

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custom drawers in rear
roof console for radio and prs

More stuff ...

Any chance of photos of these ??
I have done some work in the back of mine but want to add drawers
And I want to lift the radios x3 from there current location too close to the floor/ water

dazza85 wrote:Any chance of photos of these ??
I have done some work in the back of mine but want to add drawers
And I want to lift the radios x3 from there current location too close to the floor/ water

the drawers in the back go as far forward as the rear seats. the bins infront can be removed to fit the rear seat back in. they are on ball bearing draw slides. and can handle about 70kg each. beside the drawers i can fit the high lift jack on one side and spade and axe on the other. the whole idea of doing this was casue i use it for hunting a b it and wanted to be able to sleep in the back which i can on an angle accross and i'm 6'2".






theothe rbits i have done are are a roof console to hold the headunit and cd changer also the prs radio. and a S**t storage round the gear leaver area.

Looks good. I need to revist my rear storage compartments. I got given some plastic draw storage units and slapped up a plywood frame to hold them all in an afternoon - its lasted about 9 months of hard use and the plastic draws have fallen to bits so time to do something more serious - I had something similar to what you have in mind. Problem is I can't open my rear door fully as the spare tyre hits on the bull bar!

Sadam_Husain wrote:

Kiwimidi wrote:Not my green cruiser it was a mates that we built from a bear chassie in the shed. i saw it on trademe recently it's looking a bit worse for wear.

Its in Grahams shop at the moment getting both cracked heads replaced

Hi there seems to be alot of talk about a green 40 on here that i built yes it is the one from nelson sold it to a guy in Auckland for $13500 now its in wellington any questions just ask

Good to see you logged on eventually Midi.

When are we going mudding???

Quarter Elliptical Suspension in the rear

hi I have been toying with the idea of 1/4 elliptical springs combined with and air bag suspension for awhile now and was just wondering what you thoughts are? (the good the bad.)
cheers DJ

DJ wrote:

Quarter Elliptical Suspension in the rear

hi I have been toying with the idea of 1/4 elliptical springs combined with and air bag suspension for awhile now and was just wondering what you thoughts are? (the good the bad.)
cheers DJ

why would you have 1/4 eliptical and airbags? Wouldnt you just have the bags or am I missing something?

or am I missing something?

you are missing something!! I'm playing with a few ideas ...

the spring hold the axle inplace ,airbag for suspension and a panhard rod to control side movement, saw it done on monster garage

you are onto it ...but will it work better than just air bags or just 1/4 elliptical springs??? how do springs work just by them selfs??

Is that Clyde's 70 series in the avatar ?

Cheers Richard

DJ wrote:you are onto it ...but will it work better than just air bags or just 1/4 elliptical springs??? how do springs work just by them selfs??

the leafs dont just work by themselves though do they? If you do1/4 eliptic you usually have a 4 link or similar to hold the axle in place and the spring supports the weight of the vehicle?

coxsy wrote:the spring hold the axle inplace ,airbag for suspension and a panhard rod to control side movement, saw it done on monster garage

That has got to be the shittiest suspension setup on earth? what kind of cheap idiot would do it like that

the quater on the suzuki was great for travel it almost got to a point where it was scary. we set it up wit a 3 link A frame on the top and trailing arms on the bottom. the springs were hilux rears cut in half and inverted. they were mounted to the chassie so they could pivot up and down freely and to the diff with a hanger arangment (upside down) half way along the spring there was a bump stop giving the suspension. we never got round to putting shocks under it as they would have needed about 2 foot of travel!! the suzuki drove really well like this far less springy than it was normally. if your going to do it you will need rose joints on all links and some funky swivle hangers on the springs then you should just about be able to get the body on its side with the wheels on the ground still.

Im not sure what the advantage of air bags would be. I would look at having the bump stops hydraulically and independtly moveable so you can adjust the ride hight, apply pressure to the required wheel whilst still retaning suspension.

That has got to be the shittiest suspension setup on earth? what kind of cheap idiot would do it like that

driven a few have you?? before rubbishing anyones ideas how about quanitifying your erudite statements ...

the quater on the suzuki was great for travel ....etc...etc... etc...ground still.

thanks for your experienced reply. my thoughts were to use the air bags as bump stops / shocks for greater travel and ability to 'pump' them up quickly
cheers

DJ wrote:

That has got to be the shittiest suspension setup on earth? what kind of cheap idiot would do it like that

driven a few have you?? before rubbishing anyones ideas how about quanitifying your erudite statements ...

the quater on the suzuki was great for travel ....etc...etc... etc...ground still.

thanks for your experienced reply. my thoughts were to use the air bags as bump stops / shocks for greater travel and ability to 'pump' them up quickly
cheers

no I havnt done it like that and have no desire to