Outer Limits 4x4 Board

are these motors all very sluggish off boost and then a real gem over 2000rpm?

i just bought a 99 300tdi that was overheating. I got the radiator cleaned and it turned out that the baffle in the tank that stops the water from flowing straight from the inlet to the outlet was broken and no water was flowing through the radiator. This also caused the head gasket to go, lucky the ...

1 have 2h with turbo in my 60 and same problem. has just over 300 thou on the clock. I used 5 litres of oil on the 4000km round trip from brisbane to adelaide. it runs fine though, and blows no smoke at all. hopefully someone has an answer...

Just finished switching out the auto for a 5 speed in the 60. She has a 2H with turbo running 10psi. The auto box decided to lose all interest in going forwards so I thought it was time to ditch it for the manual cog swapper. Performance has increased so much I cant believe its the same car. Must ...

have been struggling with a problem with my 2H Powered 60 series with AIT turbo since i bought it a few months ago. I bought new injectors and adjusted the pump but it was still sloooow and used heaps of juice (20L/100km). I thought the tappets were ok so i never bothered checking them until ...

what is the basic key to flexing leaves? is it in the shackles or the spring packs? is it better to get a spring specialist to make them up or are the off shelf packs good enough?

How hard is it to convert a 60 to coil springs? Can you bolt the body onto an 80 series chassis? Or should i just buy an 80 and be done with it?

Has anyone done this conversion successfully without spending heaps?

I just changed out the injectors for reco ones. There is heaps less black smoke, and it needs much less throttle to get the same power as before. The turbo seems to spin up a bit quicker too. I'll have to see how the next tank goes. I'm heading to adelaide next week so I'll be able to get a real ...

UPDATE - i changed the fuel filter. Now I get 15l/100k. The injectors will cost $400 all up to get new ones so I'm going to get them ASAP and see how that goes. I'm not sure how a fuel filter could cause this much of a difference, but the figures don't lie. I got 450km to 66 litres. I would have ...

bit hard to tell but it could be a big end bearing. they usually only knock in a narrow rev band and will do it mostly when there is no load or very light load. should be able to hear it loudest if you hold it at the same revs in neutral, or maintain a constant speed in a low gear, but it will ...

have you checked for corrosion on the fuse connections, or other plugs and wires? check all the plugs that connect to the gearbox and to the fuel pump.

sounds like its might be something electrical. problems like these are a PITA to find. i had a wire rub through and short out intermittently on my old fourby. i found it 6 months later, after replacing ecu's and sensors, it was just one crummy wire that caused me so much trouble. good luck.

are the 1hd-t's electronic or mechanical like the 1hz? might be something to do with external control of the governor. maybe a diaphragm getting vacuum when it shouldn't or something silly like that. if you have built the pump and done the injectors there isn't much left to look at. not that I am an ...

i just paid 6000 for a 60. turbo 2h auto, but its in good nick. i doubt wether you could even get a 2h motor for 1000 let alone the rest of the car.

i dont have a 12h-t but the 2h auto is similar which is what i have. there is a vacuum pump on the alternator, which supplies the brake booster and a light blue solenoid valve mounted on your intake manifold. there should be 3 connections on this solenoid. the far left comes from a connection on the ...

i've heard of some diff guys putting more clutches in the diff instead of spacers between the clutches to get better LSD action, but by the time you do that it's more expensive than a locker anyway. everyone has a different story about this oil or that oil making there LSD work better, best you ...

I should have mentioned that a whine in any one gear only can also mean the case hardening has worn off from the teeth and without it, the massive increase in friction causes the metal to fatigue and crack. had this happen in a 5 speed nissan box, it whined for a week, then spat 5th gear and smashed ...

if anyone knows where mark from alltraction diff and gearbox has been hiding, he's the man to speak to. he just closed his shop in brendale a while ago and i haven't seen him since... also johnson transmissions at brendale is ok.

if anyone knows where mark from alltraction diff and gearbox has been hiding, he's the man to speak to. he just closed his shop in brendale a while ago and i haven't seen him since... also johnson transmissions at brendale is ok.

if anyone knows where mark from alltraction diff and gearbox has been hiding, he's the man to speak to. he just closed his shop in brendale a while ago and i haven't seen him since... also johnson transmissions at brendale is ok.

I pulled the injectors out today and checked the spray patterns. They are not real good. I had one spray nicely, the rest shot out like a water pistol. Going to get new injectors and see how it goes. How much difference can injectors make to the economy if they arent right? The face of the injector ...

thanks for the tip. we'll give it a try on the weekend. need to get out and do some wheeling asap.

yep did all that. ended up clamping off all the hoses and got a solid pedal. took off one clamp at a time and found that the problem is in the front pipes on the diff after the rubber hose. can you get air stuck in there anywhere?? or is it likely to be a caliper?

i haven't got a pyro guage yet, but i played with the fuel screw. i ended up 1/4 turn out, as it dropped the power a bit but felt smoother and less smoke. first i wound it in 1/4 turn and it turned into a smoke stack. heaps of power though. i will get a pyro soon hopefully, and also adjust the ...

Also, if it means anything it stalls if you're climbing a steep hill in low range then back off and it rolls back a bit in D. I thought you would have to really try to snuff out a diesel.

Pump and injectors look like they have been tinkered with. Would timing really cause that much of a difference? I notice that if i rev it flat out in neutral it blows a big cloud of black smoke. Also when you give it a rev from idle it also blows black smoke, but seems fine mid range. I'll check the ...

Doesn't matter how its driven. Flat out or highway cruising (90km/h) it just chews. Always exactly the same 19.8l/100km. Seems very strange. Might have to bite the bullet and get it tuned.

Sorry, forgot to mention that I am just running 31's, tyre pressures at 35psi, usually only use half throttle even up hills, although there is a few hills on the way to work. Thanks.

Hi guys. We have just upgraded the brakes on my friends 80 series, as the pedal was just sinking to the floor. Replaced master cylinder, rear drum cylinders, replaced front calipers and rotors for 100 series units, removed and bypassed that stupid proportioning valve which was siezed, and bled like ...

I just bought a 60 series 2H diesel with AIT Turbo kit fitted. It seems to run perfectly, only blowing some black smoke at full throttle on take off, and a fair bit more at peak revs, but nothing in between. It is auto, and running only 9psi boost. I bought it to get rid of the petrol guzzling ...