time for the ute to become bigg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hiriklux · Post by **hiriklux** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 4:07 pm

We'll some of you will have noticed my ute has grown cheers steve for the tyres !!!!!!!!!!!!!! bugger he asked for them back!!!!!!! new set of creepy crawlers going on tommorrow morn ohh and we did a bit of fabrication to

old ute

new ute

toyota guru at work

temporary long rear shackles untill we put the air shocks in

open and closed shocks stood next to 48" hilift jack 9this ones yours steve :wink:

new front crossmember rears going in here with x over steering at later date tommorrow if i had my way :shock:

new tube flat bed short ass!!!!!!!

all ready to be built up on ute
more as we get it done

hiriklux · Post by **hiriklux** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:09 am

well got a bit more done took the bed off

started to put new bed on which will house the new air shocks so i can cut the chassie off shorter

tristanp · Post by **tristanp** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 12:36 pm

did you get the airshocks locally?

hiriklux · Post by **hiriklux** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:29 pm

no from the states

tristanp · Post by **tristanp** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:55 pm

these are the nitrogen ones right?
have you used them before , just how expensive was it (if you dont mind me asking) ?

cheers
tp

LT1-62 · Post by **LT1-62** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:44 pm

How'd the disc brake rear end turn out?....

hiriklux · Post by **hiriklux** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 4:54 pm

yeh still working on the rear discs got a newer axle off a 2000 surf a bit wider than hilux ones should be doing that asap so ill let you know

SupraLux · Post by **SupraLux** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 8:57 pm

actually its a 2001 Hilux ute rear axle... the wider axles are in all the IFS trucks... and utes went IFS in '96.

Its a small thing... but an important one

Lets make disc brakes next week so I can get cert'd

Steve

hiriklux · Post by **hiriklux** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 9:47 pm

well did a bit more "that easily led lad" and i
put the x over high steer in got it all tested $50 and thought lets go for a play!! straiight down the waimak in to the play ground which was all good till 5 mins later when the steering started to become juddery!!!!quick look underneath steering fluid pissing out !!!! so up with the bonnet quick look could not pinpoint it exactly but it was flowing fast so topped it up and headed home

on closer inspection i noticed that the ball joint on the drag link had been thumped by the spring under compression

which had pushed it up enough to break the seals in the steering box hence the problem of the leak.... though im pleased to say steve's ifs mount stood the whack

nice job m8 so got another box and bolted it in then down to lineside to see about a flatter pitman arm tryed one or 2 different ones to no avail

so down to the engineers to run a few ideas by him (with steve who was suposed to be buying stuff for his kitchen) easily led again we set off at 1 o clock ish and got back to my place at 5 ish after exploring shortening it,having a new spline cut in a flatter one $400 :shock:

and looking for a box of somthing else that would do in all the scrap yards in chch ( which have mysteriously dissapeared) since steve last went to them) so called it a draw
been thinking about it since and the answere was dead easy ...... on my x over the ball joint is on the end of the drag link not the pitman ... so another pitman arm ground the top off and knocked the ball joint out and down the engineers again to get him to machine a bit to fit with a taper to suit the drag link ball joint and put it on top of the arm rather than underneath

so simple

so pick the pnew pitman up on monday

but then i have another dilema should i loose the leaves on the front and go coils and rangie contol arms or stick with the leaves any imput would be gladly received as to the pros and cons of both
cheers Rik

SupraLux · Post by **SupraLux** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 10:05 pm

Until my kitchen is done (and my wife signs it off) we're not allowed to be doing anything more to your truck

However - I'd suggest since you've solved the pitman arm problem then leave the leaves alone

We'll fire the rears in the front - It'll only take 10 minutes :lol:

and it'll all be good... although the shorter pitman would have allowed us to move the axle forward a bit more... and clear the balljoint to the spring... but it was all going to cost lots... which was why we looked at coils.

Lets build the back up then go looking for more work in the front eh? I guess you measured that the balljoint body will miss the chassis?

Oh, and stop posting poser photos... a pic of the broken box, or oil dripping all over, or the pitman arms side by side... anything but more cheezy pomgolian grins and trucks on stupid angles :lol:

Steve

padero · Post by **padero** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 10:48 pm

hey rik, just a thought why dont you cut your old deck up and use that on your new rear end. then you wont have exposed bar work and huge caps everywhere, looks shit as it is sori but... somthing like a mini deck would look good. i knw its means having panels but would look nice

SupraLux · Post by **SupraLux** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:12 am

padero wrote:looks shit as it is sori but...

straight from the school of making friends and influencing people

The barwork serves as a frame for the long-ass gas shocks and a bed to make sure he freezes his ass off on winter 4WD trips

Steve

PS: I suggested the same thing Padero... but Rik likes it

hiriklux · Post by **hiriklux** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 6:34 am

cheers ad for an honest opinion but not gonna be able to use old bed even if its bobbed as the fuel tank is going to sit inside new bed and be nicely hidden away,new bed needs loads of fine tunning yet and will look awhole load better when it is at correct height and got all the accesories on it
and i think we will be able to pull the front axle forward again steve i have a cunning plan so we need loads of agricutual spline :wink:

might be sunday for kitchen have to do the family thing today

padero · Post by **padero** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 10:41 am

lol at least u can take things rik, but trucks looking part from that.. u jst need to give a real good blast around over on the coast or down otargo way..

your not going to sell that mu are you steve? What about the cow paint thou lol

SupraLux · Post by **SupraLux** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:09 pm

Nah, not planning to sell it although everything has a price so for the right coin I'll happily start a new project... hey, just bought a 2.8TD Bighorn Irmscher today... that would look cool on portal axles and 44" boggers :lol:

I think the coil option plusses for the Rikasaurus are soft ride and flex, but the minuses are wallowy piggy ride and pain to get right for onroad use.

Steve