Outer Limits 4x4 Board

My brother put one of these on his rice burner and he bought a premade loom and all the sensor off some guy who assemblys the kits and seems to hold a lot of the parts in stock.

I can chase down a phone number if you want

You bring the salad, I'll bring the axles....

Sounds ok, let us know closer to the date

I just bought an 82 Hilux ute and it has an 18R engine in it. Anyone changed theirs over to electronic ignition? What did you use?

I changed my Rangie to electronic ignition and it made a world of difference so I would rather do that than keep changing points/

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Centre of wheel to wheel arch measurements are available for most vehicles. To use the current Rangie as an example the measurements can be found at m

This is the easiest way to determine the amount of lift a vehicle has. Even if you cut the guards its not that hard to compare a guard to work ...

I have been wary of this since day dot.....

Just look at the TTC carpark a lot of cars had 50mm plus lifts mine included and no doubt 90% without engineers approval.


This raises an interesting point. When if come time to try and appeal something like this you can only go on statistics ...

This is a public forum. Don't use foul language like that.

Yep, I've been under the pump all day today. Just stepped back into the office after being out in the boonies. I did a 18.5 hour day on Tuesday so I am not going to work this weekend and try to get some progess on the Rangie. How's the stress level at your place today?

mkpatrol wrote:My bad, having a blonde moment, dont know why I went to the dark side then when we were talking about the Alliance in the first place.

Just did the same thing to the missus in an email, she just sent me backe one of these

Never ever go to your missus's dark side. Just not worth it.

When I bought my Rangie I could not get any of the wheel nuts off. We tried a breaker bar with a 1.5m peice of bar on the end with a fat mate bouncing on it. We had soaked them with wd40 and no go. We left them overnight with a good soaking of more WD40 and still couldn't get them off even with the ...

I know a few people have put in the EL falcon fans and shrouds on the STD rangie radiator. Has anyone put in the falcon radiator or know if it will fit. My radiator is marginal and brand new falcon radiators are cheap as chips. I am putting in a different engine so the inlets and outlets are not ...

At first I thought the 50.2 at the wheels was pretty low but after talking to a few other Rangie owners it seems that is about the right figure for a 3.5 V8. I was told a lot of Cruisers are only in the 40's for newish ones.

Good to see some of the bigger engines are putting out bigger numbers.

I had a P76 fitted earlier in the year. It had been rebuilt using holden pistons about sixty thou oversize, which we worked out made the engine approx 4.6L, stage 1 cam and 350 holley, 2.25 single exhaust with the later style manifolds - not extractors.

running a LT95 with the later high range ...

A LT95 4 speed manual and some dead stock axles/diffs & some 31's

Yes I hear you laughing. I expect the old 10 spliners to give up pretty quickly. I plan on changing to tojo diffs like HSV Rangie did or some GQ axles but I am going the 1/2 cage and seats first.

A friend of mine is running a 1UZ-FE and he get about 225 hp at the rear wheels but it has an aftermarket computer, extractors and a lot less driveline losses.
The dyno guys said to allow another 15% loss roughly for being a 4x4 and a bit less for the std stuff so hopefully I can get the 150 hp at ...

The torque is the embarrasing line at the bottom

I am pulling my 3.5 Rover V8 out this weekend to make way for a 1UZ-FE tojo engine. I thought it would be good to know how much gain there will be so I put it on a dyno this afternoon.

50.2 Horsepower! With that few I could nearly give each horse a name.

Does anyone here know how much ...

I am looking at buying a car trailer to cart customers/my vehicles around. I am looking at one that is made by "Just Trailers". Anyone had any dealings with them?

Decent size bed but the don't know if it will have a high enough rating for the weight I need to carry.

Does $2500 for a used car ...

I always run my light on on the hwy. The colour of some cars can fade into the back ground. Never know if hte guy comming the other way is tired/drunk/sms ing. Most of my hwy driving is on one lane each way with no separation.

When daytime running lamps, separate to the headlamp, were introduced ...

Just because you are meeting the ADR doesn't mean you can go ahead with the mod. The state regs still take precedence.

It's a bit of a catch 22. If you were to recertify the vehicle as a new vehicle at a federal level you can do what you wnat but you have to recertify the whole vehicle to all ADR ...

The ADR will not specify a max tyres size but changing a tyre will alter things such as

ADR 13/00 Light layout - height of lights
ADR 14/02 Rear view visibility, The seating reference point will have changed therefore retest need to confirm acceptable are (category specific)
ADR 18/xx ...

When a vehicle is first released to the market it must comply with the ADR's. There is a max height requirement within the ADR's but that is not low enough to effect lifts. One of the first problems is that there are limits for the heights of lights and lifting a vehicle can put your lights over the ...

Interesting info Guts. I wonder if there is anything anywhere about hydro rear-steer that is locked out on the road...

This might be a possibility. There are vehicles around that are four wheel steer and the rear steer is electric only. I think the argument is that failure of the rear steering ...

hay i don`t give a shit as I don`t have and don`t any intention of having full hydro.

I just thought that might be a possible way to get it legal. What if you build a rig from nothing would you be ableto get it in under those rules?

If you build your rig from nothing you would still be ...

The types of vehicles they have listed as example of having factory fitted hydraulic steering usually do not have compliance plates and are registered under concessional schemes to start with.

Your vehicle will have a compliance plate and therefore was originally manufactured to, and required to ...

Those airbags have a few setting that depend on a fair few inputs to determing the strenght of the deployment. Weight of occupant, proximity to air bag, presence of Child Seat and some others. They can get a bit tricky.

Also for info, the sensors for the airbag are all under the dash of 95%of cars. They are no where near chassi's are bullbars. Those crush tubes are just designed to take some of the impact in a decent bingle.
And yep they do take 15mins plus to deactivate. Some of the newer stuff with 10plus ...

How do the radial and bias ply swamper compare to each other for on road driving? Looking at buying a set but not sure which one.

I understand the bias is better of road but worse on road. This is fair enought but how much worse?

Should I keep these as off road tyres only.

On your way back come through Gympie and go to Widgee Crossing. This is a spot that has a very pebbly base that you can cross the Mary River (excluding when there is lots of rain). The crossing slopes down gradually as you go upstream so you can nose your truck upstream and drive as deep as you want ...

This is a bit of a tricky one. There has to be a bit of give and take with time and advice given. From my end, don't ring up and piss in our pockets about what you 'might' do if you win the lotto. Be realistic about what you are going to do and the time frame. Like all businesses time is precious ...

Where is the best place in Brissie/Sunshine coast to get parts for a 2.4 Surf.

After timing belt, and all filters. Was not sure if Repco and the likes sell the import stuff.

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