took the wagon in for cert today, apart from a link that should be clamped with a seperate clamp rather than a nut and bolt it passed, Certifier was happy with the brakes, steering and handling, ride bloody nice, no bump steer, sort out this little issue and will get a compliance plate early next week,
then i can get into bull bars, and side bars

Cheers


Pedro

 

took it out for three days of driving, ranging from muddy hills, drop offs, beach etc, got it up on three wheels down a bloody steep hill, of camber drop offs, gotta love em, wife and kids like the truck, nice to ride in, only thing it needs is more power, may well have re cam the motor when i do the oil leaks,





a clone truck



winch out

 

That is absolutely awesome. Love the work you have done. So I was looking for a good fix on those rear door arches where they rotted thru. When you do yours, I hope you document that like you did so far. Love the effort and the results too. Great job.

 

Sweet pictures!

 

well been a few months and have done a few more trips in the vehicle, the suspension mods with the crusier gear has been almost faultless, no issues with rub, had a bit of a clunking coming from the rear end, so once i had actually done the swing arms bolts up tight the noise went away. the chinense lockers have worked very well, the front is a tad reluctant to come out but that is typical locker trait that even the arb can suffer from, the motor is slowly learnnig how to rev, was very sluggish when i got it, but the more i drive it/rev it the freer is becomes.
Now have a mega squirt computer sitting on the shelf and a old rover computer that i ahve butchered to get the computer plug, the grand plan is to make the megasquirt just plug into the rover harness, will need to run a couple of wires for the VR sensor and the coil packs. am sorta aimnig to do that in the next couple of months before xmas, i am looking to pull the motor and fix the oil leaks, replace the frost plugs as i think one is leaking and replace the rear main. and if i feel keen enough pull the heads and replace gaskets, if i am that far in i will also look at the camshaft and replace it with a lumpier version which of course leads to skimming the heads and perhaps a tickle up in the ports, got a few buddies who dabble in that sort of thing

i am going away in it for about 3 weeks touring the south island so want a leak free reliable truck.

Cheers

Pedronz

 

Totally awesome work.