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Installed my 60mm body lift, no more little rubs, yay!!

Before


After

Nice

lookin good..
I'm gonna go see my car, have a look at how the plow is going !

welded up the rear diff today

took it for a short drive to put sum gas in the 40 and holy #### the diff locating bolt had snapped so an hour later shes all back together mite go for a skid down the river when the rain stops

pulled a rear axle out of a challanger to count the splines he wants to fit a locker, mitzi dont know FA about their trucks so no help there, so its a 9.5 RG 31 spline , then a ARB RD154 will fit, challanger don't even have a slippery diff in them, stink spec for a 4x4

acquired this from brother in law in jafa land was trucked down last night needs abit of maintenance but not too bad considering its been parked up for 4 yrs

yes its a beam axle model too

taz01 wrote:acquired this from brother in law in jafa land was trucked down last night needs abit of maintenance but not too bad considering its been parked up for 4 yrs

yes its a beam axle model too

Nice one Taz

hope your keepin the plate !

nah he wouldnt part with it

got me moulds finished for the flared guards, so tomorrow i can prep em ready to make some guards

went for a skid down the river

i now have a broken 40 haha

taz01 wrote:acquired this from brother in law in jafa land was trucked down last night needs abit of maintenance but not too bad considering its been parked up for 4 yrs

yes its a beam axle model too

AND welcome back to the land of TOYOTA!

W

Tryed to bring home my truck from my uncles workshop this morning. Got up at 4:30 to do it cause i was using my brothers ute to tow it on the trailer. Drove down, got all loaded up, drove for a few minutes then on to the motorway and pop, one of the tyres blew out at 70kmh and flung the tralier from side to side violently , freaking the crap out of me.
Limped the tralier back to the worksop, unloaded the truck. Drove all the way home and dropped off the ute, got in my van drove all the way back fixed the trailer, then dropped it off empty at my mates place.

Got one good thing done though when i went back, put the lsd centre out of my stuffed 4.3 and into my new 4.88 diff head, then tryed out the 4.8 i chucked in the rear during the week in anger Whole damn it is loose in the wet.

Dialed in the steering, mounted the steering box, engine and coil overs done and fitted, then for some excitement I thought i would set fire to the garage. managed to save it, but only just I fear

rokhound wrote:Dialed in the steering, mounted the steering box, engine and coil overs done and fitted, then for some excitement I thought i would set fire to the garage. managed to save it, but only just I fear

shit mate not to much damage i hope, reminds me of a time i broke a chair because i was so drunk and decided welding it up was a great idea, i was lucky to get away with only a flat mates footwell carpet going up in smoke..
feel free to add more pics to your build thread at any stage

rokhound wrote:Dialed in the steering, mounted the steering box, engine and coil overs done and fitted, then for some excitement I thought i would set fire to the garage. managed to save it, but only just I fear

He has said it before ...

Skid wrote: This thread is USELESS WITH OUT PICS

What he said

Not really a weekender, BUT. Just spent the last week in AKL, visiting with ny nephew. Spent FAR too much money, drank a bit of beer, Bouight a new cell phone, just another leckky toy, old one was dying the death of all lecky toys that are 7 or 8 years old.

Had to go to AKL cos I had won a Tardme auction.....



So paid over my $700 and brought it home.

Trip back was a BITCH!! !GRRRRR 2 hrs to get from Te Atatu peninsular to far enough down the motorway to get up to 100Ks.

Took a whole HOUR to cross Hamilton.

Sailed on down the road, a Subway in Tirau.....

Ran into low cloud etc a few Ks south of Turangi and it stayed with me until Waiouru, heavy rain to help things along all adding up to 8 1/2 hours AKL to Wangas.... ARRRGTHHH!!!!

didnt come and see me did ya

bought home 2 suzukis to wreck 94 v6 and a 95 2l diesil turbo
wifes taxi booted out of the shed.........she not happy......only
got sausage roll for tea.........me thinks me in trouble........another
trip to the florist comin up lol
Al

rokhound wrote:Dialed in the steering, mounted the steering box, engine and coil overs done and fitted, then for some excitement I thought i would set fire to the garage. managed to save it, but only just I fear

bet you its not as bad as my frie I had aye rok

coxsy wrote:didnt come and see me did ya

Stop whining yuh pussy!!!

I Was spending time with one of my favourite rellies, and drinking beer etc. He's a guy I dont see a great deal of, unfortunately..

read 'the week that was' not the best wekend ever

Glorious sunny day down here. Didn't get my truck into four wheel drive but was glad I was using it today. Went to Taylor's Mistake and was trying to find a park, all pretty much full until I found one that every one had avoided because it had a huge sloppy mud puddle to get into it, no problem - and plenty of room for me - Just a bit hard to get into the back doors and avoid standing in it. A bit later I noticed the nice wee car next to me had a scattering of mud splashes on it

weekend started on friday afternoon for me

was cruising past beer brothers work and though I'd see how they were getting on with the clutch, coz they should of been done, they weren't 5 hours later it was dark and we rocked out of there, home for supplies and round to the beer bach for a quiet night of drinking.

home by lunch on saturday, looked at the 80 as I ran past it in the rain and did some stuff around the inside of the house and maybe a wee nanna nap due to late night

this morning went to help my engine builder and retrieve a 40 for a new project for him, stopped along the way for a radiator and a perve at a crawler, then onto the 40 and more cruiser porn as he was rebuilding a 45 and had a few other lying around

back to his place to do some more work on his deck and then sit in the sun with a few coldies and a BBQ to make sure the deck was up to scratch

nice cruisy weekend

Looked at the POS on sunday morning with the plan of making some flares for it and putting the creepys back on.

Thought fark it and went sailing for the day instead

whacked the alternator in the terrano friday night, got it going sweet, still got a drain somewhere, so off to the auto sparky its going, once the injector pumps are done.

fixed the light and panel on the other terrano after I drove it into the side of a large parking building, sunday was out at castelpoint cleaning out a caravan, scored a primo beer fridge, now I just need to get permanent power to the garage.

picked up a parts truck for my bighorn, had a collaped wheel bearing, but needed shocks, scakles and other stuff so all good, ill get a few spares for my truck out of it

didnt get a chance to swap stuff over, but all in good time....

walked though the garage on sunday and noticed my cruiser is still there so thats good...should get around to doing an inspection on it after Gwavas at some stage i spose to see if/what/how much is broken

skid wrote:this morning went to help my engine builder and retrieve a 40 for a new project for him................ back to his place to do some more work on his deck

Get used to it I hear you'll be spending the summer up there painting his 2 story house

Chchshrek wrote:picked up a parts truck for my bighorn, had a collaped wheel bearing, but needed shocks, scakles and other stuff so all good, ill get a few spares for my truck out of it

didnt get a chance to swap stuff over, but all in good time....

I don't suppose the parts truck has a snorkel ya don't need ???