Outer Limits 4x4 Board

There is a better product than helicoil. its a wurth product called a time-sert. Google for it and read about it... Otherwise i the head is off and you hae really stuffed it you can it filled wih weld and re tapped. I am stopped using otrque wrench n bearing caps, use small socket gear (even 1/4 ...

I have asked 20 or 30 experienced trailer builders, bushies, trailer parts suppliers and the majority (say 75%) say you should use slippers when building a leaf sprung off roader for the outback. But without fail 4x4, car or bike people on forums will disagree tell people to install eye to eye. I am ...

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I am considering how to approach the same thing.

-Scott- wrote: I guess this is just one more of those contentious 4wding issues, and I like to question other people's opinions, to ensure members make a well-informed decision. I'm not saying I have all the answers - I'm just trying to air some questions.

Thats exactly why i asked the question on here!

Alcohol fuelled random musings: This concept of "winch first / lockers later" - does it work? Get stopped, break out the winch, continue. Do you ever learn to drive the obstacle, or do you simply drag it? Once you become accustomed to winching everywhere do you ever feel the need to buy a locker ...

well. After a long chat with the MoF i am getting a winch for now. I could afford a locker as well, but i really want to get out there and do a few tours...if i really get to a place where i really really feel like i want a locker i will get one...but i will wait until i really feel convinced i need ...

Check out Wurth Time-Sert - anyone who has ever had to heli coil something will be going oohhh ahhh

Thanks Scott, i hear what you're saying. Its not an easy decision, but i am leaning towards a winch, if i really feel i need a locker after a trip or two i will get one.

I need to decide by the end of the week.

Drawers i am making my own use rack mounted server rails for the fridge slider. Do you know the rating of the rails? I built a fridge slide using Hafele rails rated to 160kg - 4 years later they haven't failed (yet). How much does a rack mount server weigh? :? 60-100kg. My fridge isnt gonna weigh ...

Oohhh. Loads of tips in here, thanks very much. yes i am getting lift, tyres, cargo barrier and bullbar and winch at the same time. Drawers i am making my own use rack mounted server rails for the fridge slider. So yeah, i wasnt planning on taking a stock car and adding a winch or a locker and ...

tas80 wrote:x2 on the Lucas TRW, massive improvement in braking when I fitted these.

I only ever used pads like bendix before. These TRW are brilliant, more dust than others, but very good braking...

I am about to go shopping for bits for my NM Pajero. Its used for 80% road and kids to school and 20% camping, getting to trailriding and soon to be som northern treks. we are interested in touring, not rock climbing or mud bashing. I was going to buy Dueler ATs, not MTs. I am not sure i can afford ...

Yeah that sounds a bit light weight. I would always buy them from a proper trailer supply place too...not from any box mover type stores.

Mine has 8 or 9 leafs.

Towing a mid size camper trailer (big enough to require trailer brakes) behind ours we would get about 17L/100km.. Also the 3.5 V6 can be a bit underpowered when fully loaded for the hills and such. If you find a turbo diesel over the petrol I would. Much more balanced car. If the pajero club can't ...

Bikes off. You could swing them off but i havent tried...i will ask my mate to try it on his, see how it goes

Check out Melbourne Trailers, they custom made what you want and send it.

I have an NM Exceed with 150km. Recently it developed a noise, a kind of grinding noise. Sounds like it was out pads, pulled both wheels off and it has 85% pads left. The noise only comes on after you been braking and are almost coming to a stop. I think it might have happened after they replaced ...

I was searching for some info on a prob with my paj and thought i would post this in case it helps anyone else, since it was relatively rare. Bought a second hand NM Exceed and after a while is started vibrating, as if the tailshaft unis were stuffed - would always do it at the same revs, fairly low ...

I ma going to buy an NM Exceed, not for trails, but to haul the family and motorbikes around. I want to buy the petrol version and whack it on gas. Any ideas how these machine go converted to gas? I have heard from one LPG fitter that it goes great, another that he wasnt so sure. Any ideas? PS: if ...

I just bought a 98 Bravo Dual Cab 2.6 - can anyone tell if these cars have catastrophic failures when the timing belt snaps? (bent valves etc?) or is no big deal at all?

Has anyone seen the 200inch stretched H2 getting around mornington peninsula?


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Thanks Scott. Yeah i like the idea of a TD Rodeo or Hi Lux.

So stay clear of 2.4 Hiluxs for daily drivers? 2.8 is fine? even non turbo?

I notice unless you get SR5 you have a vinyl interior etc, is Rodeo the same, or a little more car like inside?

ASUS is the grooviest built in GPS with really great PDA functions too. Dont buy it with software and spend $500 and dpownload all of the softwares you want from the web .

Another question i have on this topic is how much would it cost to have a turbo fitted to a non turbo diesel hilux?

I am selling my BA falcon and getting a dual cab 4x4. I want the dual cab so i can use it for camping trips with the family, and take the kids with me a lot of the time anyway. I wanna keep my spends to 10k. I drive from Mornington into the city a couple of days a week, otherwise just local driving ...