Outer Limits 4x4 Board

hey toomey are you putting it in place of the aircon pump? if ive sold me motor ill give ya the bracket for it for a carton of rum.

spose you want it in before red dirt though haha

adam

Increased linespeed will decrease the pull on the rope - you'll be less likely to snap the rope with the same given motor when running higher linespeed gears.

Yep, but the fact is that you have two 12 volt 6HP motors being fed 24 volts. That sort of power from the motors can make sort work of a ...

bit of a thread jack here, im lookin at going the gigglepin top hat soon. whats the most common ratio getting around these days for winch challenge? hoping to get over from WA to compete in the ATECO this year.

i read they make something bullsh*t like 60% faster now :D now thats all well and good ...

zac there was a bloke on here trialing a stronger one but dont know if it went any further, was a fair while ago now. could have been chad from dobins engineering (think its called that). just go to wreckers and see if they have any spares kicking around.

or try getting in contact with guys like ...

cheers for that turbo

im looking at scrapping the aircon anyway so that bits not a problem. where abouts did you weld the new mounts to? any chance of getting some more pics up. as for the radiator hoses did you just get them from the turbo non intercooled model?

cheers

hey turbo gu can you chuck up some photos of the mods you had to do tofit the wider radiator in to get more clearance, im looking at doing the same thing when i get my tube bar made up for the ute.

anyone get any pics?

was gonna say, any of your mates been by your car lately. one of me mates at work ran a wire from my indicator to my horn, cheeky bastard! everytime i put right indicator on the horn would go off each time it flashed. was gold! took it off when i got home. next day his top tray in his toolbox was ...

gday fellas

well im startin to seriously think about doing the ute up for OBC and other similar events. in regards to engine upgrades etc what is the main go? i figure bigger turbo would be the main one but what to get is another thing. had a look on garrett website and theres about a million ...

gday steve

mate i was actually thinking that after i posted, im putting me multimeter on it today to see how she goes.

cheers

gday guys

im in a bit of a pickle here and fuk knows why its doing it. ive wired up 4 extra spotties on me ute. making it a total of 4 XGT's and 2 170's. problem is when i go out for a drive with all the lights on the fuel gauge goes down. you can actually watch it moving down. when i turn the ...

i think its about time to revive this thread :D mine just ticked over 90000 04 Gu Ute with plenty of kms to go!

got a mate with a gq thats done over 850kms hasnt rebuilt it. uses it as his roo shooter buggy and it looks like biggest heap of shit ever! he rekons it goes as hard as it did when he ...

yeah mate i had the same thing happen on tuesday fitted 4-5'' dobinsons
was 40 mm lower on the drivers side it was the panhard rod take the rear off and push it from side to side you will soon see how it effects it .. and dont forget to put the longer coils back on the right side ..

yeh right ...

Tomo_89 wrote:my patrol does this as well... have you checked that the top spring mount isn't bent?

yeh mate checked em they look flat and normal, none of the welds were cracked on the mounts either

madrolla68 wrote:Has anybody thought about the extra weight on one side.

Matt

like i said matt i took everything off the tray and it was still doing it.

undo and retighten all the bolts on the car suspension(should be done when doing a lift anyway) front and rear including draglink (front one) and panhards.
do you still have swaybars? if so undo them on the chassis end (this can pull the car down)

take out your shocks and check them aswell.

if ...

yeah mate i had the same thing happen on tuesday fitted 4-5'' dobinsons
was 40 mm lower on the drivers side it was the panhard rod take the rear off and push it from side to side you will soon see how it effects it .. and dont forget to put the longer coils back on the right side ..

yeh right ...

what rear shock was it 92mav?

When you first installed your springs, you said it all looked level. Did you actually take measurements?

1. Try disconecting your panhard rod front and rear, then take measurements. You may need to buy adjustable ones.

or

2. Measure from the chassis to the ...

hey guys can any of you figure out whats wrong with my patrol its got me and both 4wd shops in town f*cked.

i fitted a 4" lift to my ute about 3-4 weeks ago was all good looked level and everything. Now heres where the problems start, i noticed that the driver side has dropped the other week. So ...

300 is a f*cking joke for 1 mirror! :finger: yeh i should have mentioned its for a ute. think my best bet is to go out wheeling where i went on the weekend and see if i can find it otherwise keep my eye open on the forums and ebay and see if i can pick one up cheap. not like its made of gold or ...

was out in the scrub on the weekend and managed to lose my lefthand side rear vision mirror on my GU, dunno how it fell off. Theres no damage to the door mount for the mirror so that was the good thing about it i guess. Anyway went to the wreckers today and he said a new one was going to cost me ...