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bogged wrote:

60_series_united wrote:i know every one says rancho's are not good enough for cruisers or patrols but has anyone acutally seen one F*%k up?

yes.. me 3 times... yes nutha board member, 4 times. both Patrols.

yes.

lexan is a lot better but more costly for automotive use..

best road based tyre i have ever had. I had 315 75 16 on my GU.


I have also had:
BFG Mud
BFG all
Goodyear MTR
Swampers
Cooper ST
Interco Trxus



The Xterrain was the best by far for all rounder, only tyre better offroad was the swamper.

great mileage and AWESOME on wet bitumen.

LOCKEE wrote:Loved my Q78s.

Great all rounder off road.

agreed. Beadlocked Swampers are the bomb..

love em, great value... can't wait to get another 4wd thats capable enough to warrant some.

I ran mine 5 years ago and they are a fantastic offroad tyre, not too flash on wet tar, but offroad they are great. solid sidewalls too, good ol interco thick rubber in the sidewalls.

i had 285 75 16 on my 120 series prado

More Sanding today on the doors and the firewall. The door skin on the drivers side was particularly bad having a strip of fibre glass in the bottom section to badly cover a rotten door skin. It might be easier to replace the ddoor skin here. The Firewall was wire brushed to expose some rust ...

I am building up a SIIA Ute at the moment, where in melbourne are you...

We might be able to group buy parts I am looking at getting some from the UK..

Steve

http://media.offroader.com.au/photogallery/20070625GuardsOff/20070625GuardsOff-Thumbnails/1.jpg

Oops, The guard fell off :)


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Managed to get the roof off by unbolting the back wall and undoing the wndscreen butterfly nuts. The Roof is now off

The floor is now completely out, havng to unbolt the clutch and brake pedals. Unfortunately the brake line won’t unbolt frmo the master cylinder

I have undone the bolts mounting ...

Woop wrote:Steve, there is a 2.6L S2A at Pick Pay and Go on Heatherdale Rd in Melb with a good firewall--would need modding as 6cyl has deeper center section than 4cyl or just leave as it....

Nick

Might have to check it out, there are a few other parts I need...

More work to strip down the body:

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Floor out - removed passenger seat.

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Thanks the lord for the air ...

inner guard removed, floor out, the door tops are BADLY rusted... the work continues

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Safari do a kit, don't think it is available in AU but they export to the Middle East.

Might be the easiest route.

Steve

srowlandson wrote:

muddydigger wrote:interesting Ill be watching, but I spy a nice xj Jag!!

correct, my old mans xj coupe....

Oh, and is a Daimler, not a Jag

jsttry wrote:I take it you're John's brother?

Correct, i have taken over the project ... it was my idea anyways...

muddydigger wrote:interesting Ill be watching, but I spy a nice xj Jag!!

correct, my old mans xj coupe....

Just started the restoration of a SIIA Ute.

Full details of the vehicle / restoration here:

http://steven.rowlandson.name/photogallery/20070615LandroverSIIA/20070615LandroverSIIA-Images/10.jpg

This one will be pretty much back to stock, with a few mods to make life easy and a set of spare tyres ...

my brother has ordered a new rav4 cruiser to settle a bet with a mate

there is a track in the vic high country that his mate said he couldnt get a new rav4 up

so RAV4 is ordered , currently on a boat

mini swampers are about to be ordered


BRING IT ON!

in 6 months he'll order something else ...

I've got tomorrow off. I'm going to go to Vicroads and find out for sure.

Enough of this conjecture.............

(Might have to park a few streets away :lol: :lol: :lol: )


Just remember, there are still cars being engineered, and with mods suited to what we do, and all you have to do is ...

I think the moral of the story here is those who have aquired a 'dodgy' engineers Cert to certify things that they Engineer knew wasn't legal, will soon find their certificate isn't worth the paper it is written on.

And if you're ascessing the different contenders on speed alone, then you'd be hard pressed to beat Air Up. www.air-up.com

But as far as 12Volt compressors go, the BOSS sounds very impressive!

Air up is EXpensive to buy and expensive to run, takes up a lot of room and is next to Useless once the ...

Under our constitution wouldn't deregistering a car because it no longer complies with the law entitle you to a buyback or some form of compensation?

If what you say is true bogged, VicRoads could be facing a massive class aciton suit.

Tell them to get some legal advise, pronto!

Why?

you car ...

I have a simex Jt
Procomp Muddy,
BFG AT.

surely someone has a dead tyre out there I can have for some research !!

Steve
0419304176

Howdy,

I am looking for some different brand tyres to slice n dice to expand a feature we did on the BFG MT Vs Goodyear MTR. Specifically the strength in the sidewall / compound etc.


If anyone has some old tyres which we can have to chop up and feature in an up and coming update to our article ...

My Advice for anyone thinking about Mongrels is this:

Look at tread depth. Mongrels are half the price, but have the tread depth.

The sidewalls are the same POS muddy that the donor carcase is from. Simex have strong new casings.

a Second hand set of Simex are better than new mongrels, and about ...

When those instructions were written, I bet they assumed the engine bay was a dryish area, not subjust to road spray etc.

I don't get the fuss :? behind the bullbar is subject to the same spray as the engine bay no more :?

I just have to be wary if I want to wade some water that the things aren ...

I had a set of these on my Prado, did 30,000 km's on them, and they are a damn fine muddie.

The weight of the tyre is an indication of how strong they are, the side walls are thick and strong, they clean well, and a re well suited to the victorian clay mud.

Bruce, if you can tell how good a ...

CRUSHU wrote:oh yeah, i can see in the background, it is the showroom of the cabinet makers he shared office space with.