project De-Ranged mudda

mudda-trucker · Post by **mudda-trucker** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:19 pm

ok ... here we go ... a BIG thanks to De-Ranged for the time and effort going into this project, we all know hes a bizzy man.

1985 Toyota Hilux LN65 running the 2L motor.

Mods: Rear Disk Conversion, cross over steering, 5.25 diffs (lokka in the rear and lsd in front), 35x12.5mt, rear leaf up front, XD falcon leaf in the rear, suspension lift,dual transfers ect.
most of the parts are from De-Ranged's project lemon V 1.0 (i think D's up to V 3.0) he just keeps building it bigger and better.

will update as we go and i will post pics when i have charged the battries on the cam.

H2OLOVA · Post by **H2OLOVA** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:52 pm

You do know that with Reeces help your gonna have one awesomely overengineered masterpiece. But will it ever get finished??

I'm sure We don't need another "Lemon" :wink:

De-Ranged · Post by **De-Ranged** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 9:18 pm

cheap shot.... you watch this space :twisted:

Cheers Reece

H2OLOVA · Post by **H2OLOVA** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 8:10 am

De-Ranged · Post by **De-Ranged** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 8:13 pm

evening all just thought I'd post an update

since some think I'm a bit slow :roll:

Sorry no pics can't seem to upload them

Anyway, stripped the front axle, steering & suspension out.... Mudda has stripped the axle right down (waiting on parts to recon it)
I decided to build a new front X-Member as the original had been in an accident in the past and was still buckled.... the new one is now in I also built in a bit of lift :twisted:

and moved the spring carrier mounts forward abit... got it almost all welded in but the wind picked up and I had to pull the pin on welding :roll:

Till tomorrow

Cheers Reece

niblik · Post by **niblik** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 8:17 pm

De-Ranged wrote:Sorry no pics can't seem to upload them

same.......

H2OLOVA · Post by **H2OLOVA** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:40 am

Jeez anyone would think its christmas :wink:

Sounds like you've been busy. Can you send some of that (busy) down to Nibby

Hes got heaps to do

De-Ranged · Post by **De-Ranged** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 9:58 am

Busy

yea a wee bit I've also got stuff to send away for Turoa and rear axle disk brake set for Matt to finish

.... and the poor Lemon is just sitting there :lol:

Oh well one day

Cheers Reece

H2OLOVA · Post by **H2OLOVA** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:48 am

De-Ranged wrote:Busy yea a wee bit I've also got stuff to send away for Turoa and rear axle disk brake set for Matt to finish .... and the poor Lemon is just sitting there Oh well one day

Cheers Reece

Tell them all to F##k off and carry on with project lemon. With all the awesome mods you've done to it so far i can't wait to see what sort of things you come up with next.

mudda-trucker · Post by **mudda-trucker** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:43 pm

there is a few photos on my site, http://www.geocities.com/steve_jones00/ ... mudda.html

will update when i get a few more photos

De-Ranged · Post by **De-Ranged** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 9:29 am

Right its time for an update but first lets sort whats been done so far....
This is what it started like before before Mudda met me and discovered Trademe

I nice bog standard diesel lux... who's only saveing grace is it refuses to die! case in piont the first day I went with Mudda for a play down at the river, with in half an hour of getting there he had it parked in a river wash the bonnet under water and the poor motor pumping steam and water out the back, bearly running on three cylinders :lol:

A number of deals and a wee while later this is how he drove it into my place :shock:

from accross town!!!

The new 35"s are too big to fit under the gards so they're in the cab, the deck is off becouse were building a new shorty for it and there was only the drivers seat inside :wink:

more on that later

You might have noticed he's getting alot of the bits and pieces from the Lemon that I've sorted and discarded, other than these he keeps giving me free rain on the poor girl....
The one question I asked before we started was
"If its a choice between a DNF or breaking something.... whats the call?"
:lol:

yep! he'd give it a go :roll:

so I've decided to have some fun :twisted:

First off the Rear up front swop.... stripped the front axle out... steering alternator, radiator and a few other bits to make access easy...
here it is all ready to go

notice the rust area on the passanger end, heres a better shot

the poor beast has been in an accident in the past and its still kinked so I made the call to remove it and build it stronger better than before :twisted:

while I was at it I moved the hanger forward an inch and dropped it an inch an a half and made everything beafy'er the new X-member is 50x50 box with 5mm wall
Heres a shot of it half way through mounting... note the brace welded behind, put this there to lock the chassi in place before I removed the old X-member

I'm just waiting for the batteries to charge in my cammera and I'll post a heap more progress

with a bit of luck we'll have it waiting for the rancho's by the end of the christmas break

Oh and H2 watch this space it mightn't be as crazy as the Lemon but its not gona be a "standard" build :twisted:

after all I need someone to tag along with :wink:

Cheers Reece

De-Ranged · Post by **De-Ranged** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 4:12 pm

Time for the next installment

The finished front X-member

And here's a shot looking in at the bracing on the inside

With that done I attacked the front axle which Mudda had stripped

from this we ended up with....

I've leveled off the passanger spring perch with a 10mm spacer, done a shave and plate

Relocated the filler higher up and thrown a plate over where it was to reinforce it

Then reinforced the steering balls top and bottom and braced the long side with a piece of 50x50 box

you might spot the weld on the bottom below the driver spring plate this is to lock the U-Bolt in so it can't slide when I do a U bolt flip on it

Now its Mudda's turn to install the new bits and recon this :wink:

Cheers Reece

De-Ranged · Post by **De-Ranged** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 4:30 pm

Oh and while I was doing that Mudda's been busy with the dual trans and trans lift
I already had the duals setup from when I was gona run them so all we needed to do was pull the original single trans and bolt the duals up

then the fun started

Before....

To save over cutting he started small and did the lift, mark, drop and trim thing till it fits nice with a bit of extra for luck here's part of the process

With all the trimming done he has started on the frame... we're doing a heavy wall box for the base that will hammer and weld the floor to and then use furniture tubing for the frame over the top

The fun came when we tryed to find new seats that will mount in with the reduced flooring :lol:

that took a few hours wondering round the wreakers with a tape... but we found some

and they come with seat warmers :lol:

Thats it so far I'll be sorting the front shackles tonight then its the gearbox X-Member...

Cheers Reece

niblik · Post by **niblik** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 8:00 pm

damn reece... you get bored with the lemon and too much time to fill guy? :lol:

great leaps made.. nice.. :thumright:

and i see you've not lost the knack of engineering strength into your work, diff brace looks good.. :twisted:

keep the posts comin d-r.. good to see..

matwelli · Post by **matwelli** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:26 pm

looking Good

mroffroader · Post by **mroffroader** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:51 pm

very nice and its not even over kill............... :roll:

it was a joke i dnt think you do things not-overkill do you

il have to take a trip to you oneday to SAS my vitara :twisted:

De-Ranged · Post by **De-Ranged** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 11:54 pm

I have to admit I like building rock rigs.... its easyer to estimate loadings and stress's and then just over build for them

Wait till I get back into my Rover thats going to be set up for competion :twisted:

then you will see the real engineering :roll:

problem is its the stuff that takes development time as the real world has a habbit of not quite playing by book rules :lol:

No worry's on the SAS but.... you might like to wait a wee while

I've got a pile of bits and a plan for Independent Suspension that might make you rethink the solid axle idea :twisted:

just ask Mattwelli :wink:

I intend to make the wanker a beast to be reakened with :twisted:

Cheers Reece

matwelli · Post by **matwelli** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:47 am

Yes - we need to see the wanker developed before the rangy gets worked on !

Geese Reece you have too many projects on the go, I have trouble getting the time to work on one

Dont give up on IFS just yet MR O.

De-Ranged · Post by **De-Ranged** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:56 pm

Time for an update... haven't done much work on the truck in the last week been busy with work and building a transporter trailer but this is what we got done last weekend, and the fiddly bits I sorted over the week....

Mudda's been working on a new trans tunnel after I convinced him to lift the trans :twisted:

anyway framework is all done and tacked in place after he left I went round and did the mounting welds... the floor is rock solid again

next job for him is gona be skinning it
As for the rest of the truck, I've mixed up a new front diff for him all set up now with new bearings and seals 5.29 gears onto a slippery head thats been rebuilt ready to go in :wink:

waiting on my Mudda Mechanic to come do some assembly work....
Got the rear spring hangers on and will set the ride hight and shackle pivot pionts this weekend....
Hopefully get a good go this weekend

Cheers Reece

mudda-trucker · Post by **mudda-trucker** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:31 pm

be glad im not working on your truck, de asked me to rebuild the front axle/ swivle ect,
away i went, de showed me how to shim and all that. almost had one side done then he realised i had the steering arms on upside down, thats ok swap them over.... but wait.... had the right hand swivle on the left .... BUGGER
had to pull it all apart and start again.

i should be back in the work shop on thursday.. will get some more photo and work done and update then. :oops:

Clint · Post by **Clint** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:04 am

Lookin' real good! What are you going to replace the 2L with?

Cheers
Clint

mudda-trucker · Post by **mudda-trucker** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:36 am

keeping the 2L for now... untill it gos BANG... then i will look out for either a 2.8l or 3l diesel.

De-Ranged · Post by **De-Ranged** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:01 pm

I keep sugesting something better like a 5M or bigger.... one day

Cheers Reece

NuTTa · Post by **NuTTa** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:19 pm

got my two 5MGE's for sale on trademe...i've had enough of trying to get them wired up and running properly...lol...got my eye on a 1G SOHC 6 cylinder..

Cheers
Brendon

De-Ranged · Post by **De-Ranged** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:54 pm

I've been suggesting he grab them....

Cheers Reece

Jafa · Post by **Jafa** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:00 pm

I have a complete loom and ecu for a 5m,that comes with a free engine :lol:

worth a bottle of JD I reakon

mudda-trucker · Post by **mudda-trucker** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:09 pm

I'd be keen on those parts jaffa. as it happens i do have a bottle of JD'S sitting here with your name on it. give me a pm and we can chat. thanks
steve

De-Ranged · Post by **De-Ranged** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 6:43 pm

Right time for an update
progress has been a bit slow of late, work and weather keep interfering
Allso had some techniqal problems the last of which is windows Vista :roll:

not being able to run any of my paint programs
Anyway here is a taster for those who remember the project
This was done some time ago and we are alot further along (that will come when the pond the truck is sitting in drains :lol:

)

More over engineering the "Super U Bolts".... 16mm 4130 cromoly cold bent with 10mm plates :twisted:

I've twisted my ankle at work so when I'm mobile(and if I can find the camera :roll:

) I'll get pics on the rest of what we've done

Cheers Reece

basics · Post by **basics** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:48 pm

:thumright: looking good

Jafa · Post by **Jafa** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:09 pm

Come Awwn Reece, more more more! :lol: