Offroad-Express

swapped the motor from my ute into my new middy,(mudzillas old truck) new radiator ,water pump,exedy tuff clutch,big oil cooler,new breaters,replaced steering damper with raw big bore,had the rear axel rebuilt last week hub to hub,not much sleep but it goes real good,new radiator and oil cooler helped it now runs at 80 instead of 100 when warm

nothing much in the 4wd dept ... added a cb to the mistress and welded up a couple of stress cracks on the shiny, spent most of Sat driving around in circles looking for a cheap car for my son to learn to drive in as the only Manual we own now is the mistress, after looking at endless rusted out/knocking, smoking clanking crap up to $2000, we where on our way back north when we spotted this on the side of the road for a $1000, she's an original 1987 Nissan Sunny, little older than i wanted but shes all there and only 90k's on the clock lol .. no power steering, no lecy windows, no EFI, no computer, Factory Am radio talk about bringing back memorys

HaHa - I had one of those when I was a student......same colour even!! No t he greatest of cars but took 4 of us up to Scotland a couple of times to go ice-climbing......4 blokes & lots of gear & it handled it all fine.

spent saturday in the shed helping a mate paint the tray for my hilux, well i did lots of sanding and cleaning anyway

before paint


hi fill primer


white base coat


green base coat


finished with 2 pack clear


and today i undersealed it and put it back on the truck

Is it just me Mark or is the colour slightly different? Cab looks darker? Just an optical illusion perhaps.

Looks 'mint' though!

yeah it is "slightly" different, the cab was painted 5 years ago It only shows up in certain light so im not to worried about it. I have to keep reminding myself that its not a show truck

awesome LOLYF. good to see your still working on it.

Helped a mate and new member install a 40mm body lift on the Safari in antisapation of the new 35" Creepys from Rob this week

that hiluxs looks awsome, same color my brother done his hilux (2wd tho)

how come you didnt do the inside of the tray just out of intrest

im betting it gets a tray liner.

basics wrote:that hiluxs looks awsome, same color my brother done his hilux (2wd tho)

how come you didnt do the inside of the tray just out of intrest

flyingbrick is correct, It's getting Hippo-Liner on the inside of the tray. I'll probably do that tomorrow night after finishing the fuel system.

Yeah ive got hippo liner to do the inside of my cab let me know if there are any tricks to it.

flyingbrick wrote:Yeah ive got hippo liner to do the inside of my cab let me know if there are any tricks to it.

Mask everything and remove tape before the paint dries (or it wont come off), wear gloves (the shite dont come off), make sure any rust is taken care of before hand, clean it really well before painting, dont drop any on the concrete driveway (cause it dont come off), use the roller thingee to get a nice grippy surface, wear old clothes (overalls) and throw then away when finished, dont let the cat/dog or whatever on it untill it is dry.

Did I mention wearing gloves! Trust me when you still have shiney black fingers and black spots two weeks later it gets to you. Did the back of my lux and the inside of my zuk (sj413) and think it is great shite. would use it again for a dirty/wet area in a heart beat.

flyingbrick wrote:Yeah ive got hippo liner to do the inside of my cab let me know if there are any tricks to it.

you guys should do what i did when i done up my b2000 ute a few years ago, when i welded and shaved the rear tail gate (which was the gangsta thing to do )
marine ply liner made up inside to fit nice and snug, then a layer of fibreglass then gelcoated, the underside was resin coated, then i dropped it in with some msall sealant and riveted the outside edge to the tray, completly watertight, hard wearing, easy to hose out, easy to repair

very pretty paint on that , great what a white base coat can do for light colours