Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Wooooaaaaahhhhh been a while since I have cruised THIS forum! You guys are still talking about the same stuff that the old Aus WARFS guys were talking about. Now I am reaching back into the foggy memories of about 2000, when there were a heap of us running about looking for lockers.

As I recall ...

Funny you shouldmention that:

"Wanna go for a drive in the Hilux kid?"
He starts giggling and blowing raspberries, bouncing up and down in your arms. (He is five months old.)

"Or do we wanna go in Mums lil car."
He makes a noise kind of a cross between a cat getting stepped on and a growl and ...

Thanks lads, being someone who is not mechanically minded at all, I just didn't know how hard it would be. Sounds like allot of dramas for what we are getting. Looks like I will just have to part ways with my Hilux...or the wife.

Nah the little fella might miss her.

Thanks again,
Muddy.

Guys and Gals,
I apologize if this question has already been asked, however I was wondering about transferring an Auto box from a diesel Surf or Prado into an 02 diesel SR5 Hilux. My wife and I have recently moved to an Alpine area, so we need the Hilux to deal with snow as well as lug wood about ...

Guys and Gals,
I have a copy of a Rocky workshop manual care of Big Stu and also an F-75 original owners manual. Seeing as I now have a Hilux I have no need for them anymore and allot of gear is being turfed in the recent move. If you want the manual or workshop manual, just drop me a line here ...

I had this problem with my Rocky, a few things decided it for me:

1. Cost: Daihatsu is pulling out of Australia, that is well known. For a long time I put up with the prices, however the final straw was when a set of rear wheel bearings took nearly two weeks to track down. I compared prices for a ...

The troopy would be a good choice as you can walk into just about any mechanic and get parts. Allot of Government bodies, mines and other contractors use Toyota's so parts will never be an issue. Where I live there are allot of people that travel across Australia as we have allot of major highways ...

Excrement. I will have to take a photo of Mahli and send it. She has grown quite a bit since last you saw her, she now weighs in at about 40kg. You remember how tall I am, well she can jump up and put her paws easily on my shoulders as well. She is however as gentle, lovable and unco as ever ...

(This ought to throw a cat amongst the pidgeons.)

I guess we just found a home for all that GM modified Canola getting about here and in Canada, because it is not like people will eat it.

Muddy

Good read, perhaps this might be considered though.

There is a road not far from here that leads to a popular water skiing spot and camp ground. Every weekend over summer it is packed to the gunnels with people driving everything from Winebago's, through fourbies to falcodores with boats and ...

I have heard that the layer of white rubber under the surface is not as hard wearing as the black rubber

I may be wrong but tyres are black because they add carbon to the rubber when they make the tyre.

Muddy

All I am thinking about is the one that is going to take my car off the road...


Obviously though travelling highways your less likely to hit one, whereas most of my driving is on trunk roads and back lots.

Muddy

Funny you should mention that, the mother in law can cut sheet metal at ten feet with that voice...

However went into work this afternoon and as I was coming back, another fourby on the side of the road and a dead roo lying a few feet back. Old mate didn't need any help...but they seem to be ...

We have had the small black ones fitted and we still had them launch in front of us...they clogged with dust real easy as well and fell off after a week. We have a particularly psycho 'model' of roo down here they hit the panels as much as the front. Two utes and a sedan damaged at work by side ...

Promted by a post in General chit chat and a number of roo strikes about here recently (3 between the wife and I, about 5 between a few mates...and we are meant to be in drought.) Does anyone have a shoo roo fitted or have experience with them? Does it work or is it just another hiclone. I am ok in ...

Sorry for hi jacking your thread.

Before you go out and drop a heap of money and time on extreme mods, head out and spend some time in your rig man. Get a feel for it and get some experience under your belt. There are heaps of guys on this forum and about that are happy to take you under wing ...

Coil over? You mean spring over right? Just bear in mind that this is a pretty gnarly mod and it is seriously going to screw with your on road handling as well as your insurance (it will negate it and is technically illegal in all states I believe if it is not engineered.) I don't know what your ...

Hey Gopher,
I had a 92 TD Rocky for about 5 years before it went to the big secod hand yard in the sky. When I was looking for shock and spring set ups I found it difficult... I ended up with a tough Dog setup from 4 ways suspension. (Opposite Lock stocks Tough Dog gear and would be my first stop ...

If you're in Gosford ring about, there is also All Coast down the road from the Edge as well as another 4x4 store near Brian Hilton Toyota in Wyoming, the name escapes me. Tell them what the other guys are doing for you and see who does a better price. Don't forget though that if you're doing Cape ...

I will also agree that it traps everything and is a pain. Still if you're dead keen to get one then the shops like Big W and k Mart sell filter oil cheaper than FF does. It has a motorcycle on the bottle. Living in a dusty environment it clogs real quick. Now my FF (from another vehicle) is sitting ...

Something about foam particles as it perishes pitting the blades of the turbo...though could be wrong.

Muddy

This may seem like a stupid question, but is there any drama's with mixing diesel specific oils, like say Castrol and Valvoline together?

Thanks,
Muddy

Yep, the guy who owns that vehicle is a member here and was a long time member of the WARFS NSW crew. I have driven that little beast and it is awesome, has the ceramic clutch and bits from Mark HOULTS vehicle and some items from Mike H's Feroza as well. From memory the front diff is locked as well ...

Remind all you want boy...walked into a well known auto parts distributor today and I could walk up to the counter and get a clutch, or a viscous coupling, or a tie rod end, accelerator cable or any other part right there and then. i am so chuffed right now that all the reminding in the world is ...

Well the day has come (or will tommorrow) the Mudwhumper is going to a new home. I have traded my sometimes faithful (other times shitful) steed in on a new vehicle. Muddy is now the proud owner of a 3.0ltr Hilux SR5 with all the goodies. Operation 'Lone Ranger' is already on the drawing boards ...

How far you will get a Feroza also depends allot of the driver as well. I have seen guys like Mark Hoult and Shane push their Feroza's into some pretty awesome areaa's that even a Hilux or Cruiser had trouble getting into. Still I think the thing that has ultimately killed the Feroza for most people ...

I tried the 90 degree ones on my Rocky and tossed them going back to the 45 degree ones. When the shaft is still on it is a PITA with the 90 degree ones if the thread is not just quite right...

Muddy

Ah yes been there done that and more than once. I was saved by my passenger opening their door believe it or not and it propped the truck up, till we could use the hi lift and pack stuff under the wheels. Bent the door, but that was easily fixed...plus my Rocky is a POS so I don't care how it looks ...

If you have any concerns about them, then just extend them you will not have to worry about it then. The breather hoses in mine are tucked away safe and I have played in the Mud allot, having even submurged my vehicle in rivers andd also tank traps and never had water in my diff's and never worried ...

Shall I wade in on a professional level? Nahhh. Let the kids sling sand in the sandpit.

One thing though, anyone who takes the word of someone on this forum as 'expert' testament is a fool. Unless they have a certificate hanging from the wall and are willing to put it on paper and a certificate ...