Offroad-Express

well i will get the ball rolling this week.
Today at lunch time i picked up my new tyres for my vitara. they are only 30/9.5/15's but thats all i could fit on my truck without doing serious modes. I got the last 6 hankook rt01 in the country. Well thats what i got told anyway.

Sat 11th:

I took some time to scramble under the new Wrangler, havent had much time to give eveything the once over underneath, and im bloody glad i did.

As part of its lift kit theres an extender bracket (sleeved into the existing one) for the steering damper held on by a single bolt. The bolt was loose and had moved to the point the the bracket was hitting the coil spring. Quickly rectified that. And will permanantly recitfy it with a welder sometime soon.

I then paid some attention to the front adjustable panhard rod. The adjuster sleeve in the middle of the two threaded sections of rod was held on by two finger tight bolts!! i could grab a hold of it and the flex was approx 2 cms!!!! ("#### me drunk" i think was the phrase that flew from my lips) Soon fixed that, and oddly enough the steering is a damn sight more responsive too.

I skidded myself down to the back to give the rear adjustable panhard an inspection as well, considering as how the front components were so shithouse i thought it prudent to do so.
Again theres a silly bracket sleeved into the existing mounting bracket, and again held with one bolt, but it appeared ok. However, out of curiousity, I pulled out the tape and measured centre to each wheel.... where theres a 20mm discrepancy.... (any wonder why the arse wants to step out??!) So ill get around to sorting that tomorrow, as soon as i can get my head around which way i gotta turn the adjuster to get it centre, i would have done it there and then but i had a date with my 5y/o and Weber Bros Circus (and a bloody great show too!!!)

Also still have to get my steering wheel back into centre too, its 1/8 out to the right............ and no, whipping the steering wheel off aint an option.

Tomorrow......... well theres another day

Work meetings all morning, but in the afternoon was nutting out the logistics of coupling my new powerplant up to the dual transfers.



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N-I-C-EEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

niceeeeeeeeee .know a guy up the line with one in his 40 and it goes like a cut cat yeooooh. managed to squeeze an afternoon in the garage and got my sidebars and bullbar almost finished on the 40 .one more top bar and then its off to the zincers yeeehah .evan managed to bolt on my pto unit as well .almost ready to give it a damn good thrashing

worked this mourning and this afternoon spent the arvo on my vitara. I got the wheels and tyres on and front gaurds cut up to allow for the bigger tyres and maximum offset wheels. Also got the grill cut up and fitted on to. My truck is now looking like a truck again. Hopefully tomorrow i can start on the front bars.

rokhound wrote:Work meetings all morning, but in the afternoon was nutting out the logistics of coupling my new powerplant up to the dual transfers.



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Looks good,apart from the dizzy being at the wrong end

Shane

Bet you drive a Nissan as well Shane

Went to work this morning. Then went and had a look at my new project brought half of it home yep its in bits pics to follow. Its a X trials rig (from back in the day ) its a landrover with full cage etc and v8 and heaps of other stuff that im yet to find out. It's cool kinda like a big jigsaw peice. Except when my dad comes home from up north he's going to kill me

when he gets home ask him to help you out with some thing on it you don't understand , he may forget to be angry , a old trick.

coxsy wrote:when he gets home ask him to help you out with some thing on it you don't understand , he may forget to be angry , a old trick.

he doesnt know anything about cars lol

got some pics of it.

This is how we found it (has been like this for the last 3 years)



loading up what we could into the van (guards, bonnet firewall radiators etc etc.)



basics and red_zuki having a little drive haha they look like monkeys



like a gigantic jigsaw puzzle its great, going to chuck the chassie etc on trailer 2moro and bring it home

your doomed, doomed

whos that good looking guy in green?

mroffroader wrote: Its a X trials rig (from back in the day )

Having seen pics, difinetly from back in the day

lilpigzuk wrote:

mroffroader wrote: Its a X trials rig (from back in the day )

Having seen pics, difinetly from back in the day

it has leaf springs....what more can i say

mroffroader wrote:

lilpigzuk wrote:

mroffroader wrote: Its a X trials rig (from back in the day )

Having seen pics, difinetly from back in the day

it has leaf springs....what more can i say

a near standard landrover used as a trials rig, what more can I say

xj wrote:Also still have to get my steering wheel back into centre too, its 1/8 out to the right............ and no, whipping the steering wheel off aint an option.

You don't have to whip the steering off in a Wrangler. Look at your drag link (that is connected to your tie rod in a Y), there is an adjusting sleeve. You just undo the bolts slightly and turn that sucker, it will pull the steering whichever way you want. This does not impact your alignment in any way. Lie under it from the front and see how the steering system is connected. Other read the manual, it is very simple and clear.

lilpigzuk wrote:

mroffroader wrote:

lilpigzuk wrote:

mroffroader wrote: Its a X trials rig (from back in the day )

Having seen pics, difinetly from back in the day

it has leaf springs....what more can i say

a near standard landrover used as a trials rig, what more can I say

I said back in the day fawker!!! + u said before....you used to trial a near standard landy u hick

mroffroader wrote:

lilpigzuk wrote:

mroffroader wrote:

lilpigzuk wrote:

mroffroader wrote: Its a X trials rig (from back in the day )

Having seen pics, difinetly from back in the day

it has leaf springs....what more can i say

a near standard landrover used as a trials rig, what more can I say

I said back in the day fawker!!! + u said before....you used to trial a near standard landy u hick

yeah that was the late 80s and early 90s ya fawker

Broke it to dad on the phone before.....he wasn't even angry

mroffroader wrote:Broke it to dad on the phone before.....he wasn't even angry

hey, atleast he knows you are out of the closet now....

lilpigzuk wrote:

mroffroader wrote:Broke it to dad on the phone before.....he wasn't even angry

hey, atleast he knows you are out of the closet now....

Fawk u fanta pants

The beauty of driving a 4WD, did my good samaritan bit on the way home this afternoon. I had been down to Queensgate in Lower Hutt this afternoon with my two boys and on the way home along Harcourt Werry Drive I spied a guy with a 2WD flat deck over by the willows loaded up with firewood. He couldn't get up the slight slope with the road tyres, sliding all over the place. So looped back around, hooked up a rope, and out he came - very grateful.

Have a great weekend all
Cheers
Ian

TJ wrote:

xj wrote:Also still have to get my steering wheel back into centre too, its 1/8 out to the right............ and no, whipping the steering wheel off aint an option.

You don't have to whip the steering off in a Wrangler. Look at your drag link (that is connected to your tie rod in a Y), there is an adjusting sleeve. You just undo the bolts slightly and turn that sucker, it will pull the steering whichever way you want. This does not impact your alignment in any way. Lie under it from the front and see how the steering system is connected. Other read the manual, it is very simple and clear.

Flicking through the FSM now TJ. And here i was gunna crack the pittmann arm off and line it up that way...... what an animal.

Just had a look, without seperating the draglink from the pitman arm (and then turning the sleeve) it must affect toe in or out surely? I'll have an experiment tomorrow.

whos that good looking guy in green?

I'd be embarassed....a pic of you in a landrover Redzuki looks like he has just sat on the gearstick or something

downunderxj wrote:The beauty of driving a 4WD, did my good samaritan bit on the way home this afternoon. I had been down to Queensgate in Lower Hutt this afternoon with my two boys and on the way home along Harcourt Werry Drive I spied a guy with a 2WD flat deck over by the willows loaded up with firewood. He couldn't get up the slight slope with the road tyres, sliding all over the place. So looped back around, hooked up a rope, and out he came - very grateful.

Have a great weekend all
Cheers
Ian

Nicely done Ian. Doesn't cost anything to help anyone out like that aye.

xj wrote:Just had a look, without seperating the draglink from the pitman arm (and then turning the sleeve) it must affect toe in or out surely? I'll have an experiment tomorrow.

Nope. Toe in and out is controlled by the tie rod (the rod connecting the two front wheel . Its strange, but then again its a Jeep. When I had the alignment done after the initial lift, steering was centered through that adjustment sleeve that is on the drag link that connects your pitman arm to the passenger side knuckle on the wheel. As long as you are not playing the tie rod (which is parallel to the axel tubes), you are not changing your alignment.

Its actually explained in the Steering / Wheel Alignment section of the factory manual.

Jerry wrote: Redzuki looks like he has just sat on the gearstick or something

you know that how??

Sounds good to me then TJ..... Cheers dude.

Ill have to print the FSM out, I cant handle reading big lots of text on the computer screen hence my inherant laziness

Bought this today...