Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Mate,
try ringing MRC Dyno services in Castle Hill NSW. Phone 02 96345399.
They specalise in Nissan V8s. The boss has just had his car featured on the cover of some performance mag. he will steer you in the right direction.
Ric

I looked at putting a 93 Pathfinder body onto mine but the engine bay wasn't long enough! The engine would fit but without enough room for fans on the rad. With an R50 you have the added problem of no chassis so harder to make body mods. The VH uses the same auto as Patrol and this is what I have ...

Speak with an RTA engineer before buying anything and discuss your ideas, to see if it can be legally done before blowing $10k. I have. No problems, why would there be. I will have to get an emissions test done as the motor is 97-2000 and the vehicle was not available in Aus. Athol Mullins in ...

I,ve done a search, but come up with very little info. I have a 99 Pathy and I'm going to do a VH41 conversion, using the Cima auto. The pathy forum suggested the auto will bolt straight up to the Pathy transfer, but i am a little suspicious about hearsay evidence and would like comments from anyone ...

Every vehicle is different. You will need to consult the workshop manual to find out at what temp, the thermostat operates at. For my vehicle, I have an 88 degree thermostat and the thermo fans kick in at about 92 degrees from memory. I have calibrated my temp guage so I know that the mid point on ...

IMO 2x 10 inch thermos will not cool enough. I had ongoing cooling problems when I first put a VP V6 into my old D21 Navara. I experimented with 16 inch thermos, shrouds etc, etc, all to no avail. I even fitted a 351 Falcon radiator and it still overheated on a hot day. Enter AU Falcon twin thermos ...

More power or less power?? I just went in and found out that the New motors have some weird new and improved sick ass injection system, so the conversion kit is completely different, therefore costs approx $5000 vs, the old $3000.... Also, valves? Usually how many k's would you get with gas before ...

If you have oil in the radiator, it is either a cracked head, or a head gasket blown. You have no option but to rip off the head. It will be pretty obvious if it is just the gasket, so if it is, clean up the surfaces and fit a new gasket. probably only about a 4 hour job and the only specialist tool ...

Any one have a idea of how many watt solar panel will run my engle 39l fridge. i think it uses max of 7amp hrs Cheers Rhett I trust you understand that you can't run a fridge directly off a solar panel, but you can use a panel to charge the battery which runs your fridge. Amp-hours is more a ...

Log on to www.ingram.com.au They are auto elec suppliers and you can get pretty much anything from them. They have branches all over Aus,including Melbourne. You will need some info from the side of your starter motor (Brand and part number)and they should be able to supply the drive you are after ...

It may be the ballast resistor for the ignition circuit. If it is close to the coil and its resistive wire across a ceramic block, it is meant to cut down the voltage to the coil. If it was wired up incorrectly, it can damage the coil, so replace it with a new unit and make sure it is correctly ...

Hey mate, This is a Leaf-Spring Gen1 4-runner chassis, with 2" dropped hangers lifted springs and ext. shackles and a body-lift. I've been helping Dave with this conversion. what you have posted about starting at the first transfer case and working forward is exactly what I thought. because ...

I did this conversion and the thing is to make custom hoses that have a comm pump fitting and toyota the other end. keep everything on pass side and make sure you get a new filter dryer and the tx valve is in the system also renew all your a/c o/rings, including the ones in the evaporator box under ...

Sorry, can't help with that, but I am wondering why you need one at all. With my Hilux, I was able to just get a shorter oil filter. Sideshow sells them for $20, but apparently filters from Subarus (WRX etc) have the same configuration, thread etc and are the right length. I initially was going to ...

Mate, try TIC. Ihle Werner. He's in Kirrawee, ph 0418551331 or 95450823. He is happy to come out to you and is very good. Just engineered a monster FJ40 for a guy in our Business units in Mt druitt and was very thorough and obliging.. I'll definitely be using him for my Hilux soon. Some of the guys ...

Your gearbox has the bell housing as part of the box, so I think you'll find the options are somewhat limited. After researching a lot a few months ago, I am convinced the standard gearbox isn't as weak as some people maintain and it would easily handle the 3lt V6 motor or similar, but from memory ...

I am trying to locate the cruise control ECU from an early 90s 4 Runner. I bought the steering wheel and under bonnet bits from a wrecker, but they don't have any idea where the ECU is located. Any info would be appreciated, thanks
Ric

Dude find another engineer. 1uzfe are fuel injected the oldest 1uz was made in 1989 they are from imports from japan that has tuffer emission laws then Aus. your putting it in a 40 series that would have to be atleast 10 years older then the motor if not more. Put in cat converter, charcoal ...

I'd be interested in measuring my speedo sensor. I've got a VP V6 in my old Navara and I've had appalling fuel consumption ever since doing the conversion 4 years ago. I got my sensor from V6 Conversions (Pat gardener), but I assume it came from Marks. Any idea if it is a design fault or just your ...

I assume the one you're looking at was the one on ebay last week. A 90 model. It looked good in the photos and with an opening bid of $9k, would be a good buy IMO. Hope he sells it. Would have cost him a heap more than that and he didn't get one bid. I'm getting fairly poor figures at the moment ...

I got sick of changing blown brake bulbs in my dual cab, so bought a couple of led brake/tail light globes. After a year all is good. Some people reckon the light is only visible from directly behind the vehicle because of the design of the leds, but the ones I have seem to be very similar to normal ...

They put 100kgs of explosive in the cabs and blow them up at some checkpoint.

I went into this a couple of years ago with dual cabs and came to the conclusion that they are the same. The chassis is totally different of course, but the bodies are the same. It is, however, difficult to find someone who really knows. Toyota was hopeless and wreckers were pretty unhelpful, just ...

It's worth noting that there are currently at least 4 different brands of injection systems available in Aus at the moment. I have spoken to Premier Autos in Mt Druitt NSW about fitting one to my 1UZ when I have completed my Hilux conversion and Steve has suggested that they are all OK, but the two ...

If you look on Lextreme, there is a huge build up by Cebby, I think. Somewhere in that thread, another guy, Mattmanx or something from NZ shows photos of what he did with that speed sensor, but basically he cut it down pretty well thru the centre. This left none of the locating splines on the inside ...

Have you thought of selling the 2.8 and buying another 2.7 motor. I recently sold my 2.8 (admittedy with g/box and transfer) for $1600 on Ebay. I assume a 2.7 would cost you more than that, but you also need to factor in the extras you'd need to buy to fit the 2.8, such as fuel pump, air cleaner etc ...

The chassis is completely different. As said above, you would need to buy a rolling chassis from a 4x4 and fit your body. The problem you will have is finding a rolling chassis. I looked into this a couple of years ago and rang every 4x4 wrecker in NSW. Most wrecks are stat writeoffs, which means ...

I totally agree with Guts. Quicker to get out and walk. Can't believe they are legal, they're so gutless.

Thanks, Guts. Over the weekend I completed the EL Falcon engine mounts. Turned out to be pretty fiddly because of the restricted space between engine and body, but it all seems to be good. Ended up having to heat the firewall up with the Oxy in order to massage the firewall enough for clearance. I ...

Hey guys, I'm also interested in what engine mounts you ended up using and photos would be good. Originally I was trying to use the Celsior ones, but they are very high and basically sit vertical, meaning I will have to cut off the Hilux ones from the chassis, fabricate new ones and weld them on. I ...