Outer Limits 4x4 Board

i was at ag-quip in gunedah and a fellow there (with a nice yellow zuke) was selling 'climax' 'drop shcakles' (is that the right term?) you pull a pin for 'off road' and replace the pin for on road... he claimed these were legal (in nsw anyway) does that sound right?

muppet_man67 wrote:

sierrajim wrote:
I did hear of a guy who bought a car that was "built", his steering shaft turned out to be a tent pole. Car was built by a workshop, not in a back yard.

I also heard that this car came with an engineers certificate.

maybe it was a thick walled tent pole?

Tim D wrote:I think, bigger tires=longer wheel base
smaller tires= shorter wheel base

fair point.... 32' being "smaller"?

at this point in time im thinking coil conversion... or spoa at the least (if it was good enough for my lux then it has to be good enough for a suzuki!) i for whatever reason dont want to body lift if i dont have to... there is something very "un-engineering" about block of alloy under the body :lol ...

Beastmavster wrote:Because the multipoint requires a different head as well as a different manifold?

thats fair enough

thanks already! ive done a lot of 4wd touring ... as opposed to 'wheeling' and want to have a dabble and have settled on a suzuki for the cost factor but it must be a 2nd car (i sometimes drive the princely distance of 1.5km to work when the weather is foul) ill be going soft top unless i find a ...

i have searched at length (and found many interesting threads) but i have failed to find any thread that suggests which serria is the 'ideal' one to start a project on so... if you were starting form scratch (as i am) is there a "best" serria to start a project on... 1lt, NT, WT or coilly (although ...

if multi point is an option, why would you choose single point injection?

i broke a series 3 with 33's they did cop a floggin but for 1200 or so u expect them to last a bit longer i still run a rockhopper now with the 37's it gets wheeled in rocks and is driven every day and they have held up luck of the draw i guess from the outside looking in... should a $1200 purchase ...

it looks like all three are on the way to new homes

pics available HERE

pics are 2meg+ so not modem friendly but you will get a good look!

2 look like they have gone... richard gets 2nd pic over a guy from vic

16x7 alloy wheels off NP gls/exceed no tyres

3 wheels sell together or on their own

$300 for 3 or $100ea

no damage past the odd scratch

Begbie wrote: you wanna swap for my petrol 99 NL Escape, i wont even make you give me cash to adjust...

hmm... ill just phone a friend

nah sorry!!

ive got a np did... i cry if it uses more than 10l/100km around town... and if it dosent fall to around 8.7l/100km out of town i wonder why if im in open country sitting on ~120km/h i wont fill up untill 900km comes up on the trip meter - that generally has given me a 75-80l fill up of the standard ...

thnaks for that... perhaps a fornt only is the way to go...

when you say gear driven lsd is it a torsen?

thanks for that... i would have thought that the IRS rear would be a quick swap - especially if you got the whole thing... that is at least if its like the old datto 1600 (etc) a diff swap was not such a big deal - hence the idea of the factory rear sounds "easy"

i think a rear would be more useful, if you've pitched the front in the air its better then even bet that both rears are on the deck for pushing duties + thats where most weight will be if you've got a load on board... but... i was more interested to find out if the factory locker was "any good ...

im sure this question must have been asked before but...

i know there is not arb locker

but get the impression that a factory locker is available in some markets, is this so?

and if it is has anyone sourced one? and finally are they worth sourcing?

thanks!

the cape hardly requries much to get there and back basicllay anything could get there... one of the magazines did in rav4's when they were first released... i did it running retreaded tyres (both examples ran the telegraph track)... a snorkel is a good investment though the time of year will ...