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botailing a 60
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 8:59 am
by crazyclark31
Family has an old bj60 and is get pretty hard to wof due to the good old rust in roof.
Am thinking would make a good club truck but wanna shortin the rear overhang.
Is this a hard thing to do? From what i can see it isn't but wanna make sure before i take to it with the grinder
Also how much boost can the 3b handle before it becomes an issue?
Am pretty good with the spanners and welder so will do most if not all myself.
Re: botailing a 60
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 9:13 am
by GotFlex
do it!

Re: botailing a 60
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:56 am
by Mongoose
have a look on ih8mud.com, do a search and you'll find quite a few people who've done it.
Re: botailing a 60
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 1:12 pm
by mudlva
cut off right behind spring mounts this will take off close to 500mm
install a heavy channel as a cross member and this can then be a mounting for your recovery hooks etc
doit doit doit

Re: botailing a 60
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 4:45 pm
by crazyclark31
fully intend in doing it
Just gota convince the minister of war and finace to let me
am going to cut were mudlva said.
If i do a spring over do i need to put torque rod on diffs?
At this stage it will be non road legal club truck but still done properly

Re: botailing a 60
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 4:48 pm
by mudlva
crazyclark31 wrote:fully intend in doing it
Just gota convince the minister of war and finace to let me
am going to cut were mudlva said.
If i do a spring over do i need to put torque rod on diffs?
At this stage it will be non road legal club truck but still done properly

sorry just reread what i said and it was all sh--t so i got rid of it before i got cut to peices
painted on eyes being the problem
yes a touque rod or esle known as a tramp rod would be reckomended
Re: botailing a 60
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 5:01 pm
by Fakey
Do it an take heaps of pics
Try this for inpsiration (not sure if its the exact one Im thinking of but you get the idea)
http://forum.ih8mud.com/hardcore-corner/258072-fj62-bob-extend-wb.html
Re: botailing a 60
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 5:08 pm
by Big-AL
Have a chat to this guy:
http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/ ... 38&t=24887i know he cut his down, he took heaps of pics and did a nice job.