Outer Limits 4x4 Board

hey have a mate who drives a 3 liter petrol gq and he wants to no if 20 liters every 100kms is expected and what is the best way to save a bit of cash, is gas in a car this large and thursty werth installing on can you point me in any the way of some fuel saving ideas. thanks in advance EDIT: title ...

yer well i am goin off what my mechanic told me and its not the axels because they both spin when either one is lifted off the ground and it is not locked

i have enuff tools to open a work shop yes about 4 rattle guns
grown up working on motor bikes and car engins but sadly not diffs

i have a 2" straight though exust with extractors and a straight though muffler and extractors on a 1.6 carby and its a very quiet system commpered to the twin cam engins single cams are extremly quieter you could tell as soon as you disconect the exust from the manifolds and if you are considering ...

hey guys i drive a swb vitara and i have hade a very loud noise in the back end, took it to the mechanic today and he says there is a good chance i have a broken spider gear if this is so is it a hard job to replace, i will do it my self or am i beter off getting a complete second hand diff center ...

hey guys in process of buildin a zook as a toy i am going to be running a 3.8 v6 with the comodor 4 speed auto hilux transfer and gq rear diff and 60 series front but with running this combanation will it have low gearing to easily turn 35-37 with out transfer reduction gears

yer it has the 4 speed auto out of a commodor as far as i have been told and if i was to get a rover transfer case or i was origonaly tinking the 106 hilux with hilux diffs would any one be able to suply me with a adaptor template as i have all the resorses to build the template i will post pics ...

hi guys just picked up a sierra with a commodore 3.8 in it the plans are to turn it into a dedicated comp rig (it will take a while on a appretice wage) i was wondering what transfer case people use ( because it dosent have one) and i am also planing on putting 60 series diffs under it but do you ...

i have a swb vit and i have a very loud nocking noise coming i think from the back but nuthing is visable lose so i have orded in some wheel bearingsto see if that will fix it do yous have any other sugestions.

has any one removed there rear wheel bearings with out a slid hammer if so how.

i no the first thing that pops to your mind would be a blown head gasket but no it is not it is not lowsing any water or oil but even after a 50km trip there is some sort of liquid coming out of the exaust so it is not condensation either, if any one would have any help full sugestions please ...

hey time to up date from my tinny little vitara i want to get a 4wd ute to pull a ski boat but not sure if i should get a old 89 v8 hilux or a 94 2.7 leter hilux.

would the 2.7 have enuff power to pull 19 foot ski boat

(the vitara was not the tow car)

it may also be the starter motor i had the same problem so i pulled it out and clend it with electrical terminal cleaner and it works fine

if it is just clicking give the starter moter a tape with a hamer and it should fire up if it is a starter moter problem

thanks for the heads up i may still put the marine greas in and i dont get what you mean about the disk breaks because thay are on my boat trailer

just wondering is a job like this hard to enginer and how much would it coast to get passed

just blow a wheel bearing due to rust from water getring in from a river crossing and i was wondering wound puting in marine grade wheel bearing grease seeing that boat traliers are always going in the water and seem to last a while.

hey guys i just purchesrd a 32/36 webber carby for my vit has any one ealse installed one if so how did you go at making the air filter water tite and bloking off all the unnesasery vacume lines

hi i have a 1990 1.6 carby vitara it drives like a charm but when i get up to around 1000m above sea level it seems as if it is suffering from not enough fuel geting in to the engine has anyone had this problem or heard of it any suggestions on what to have a look at would be appreciated. what i ...

i must admit it did get weaker when i but the muddies on it

yes the pads are fine they have been on for about 3000ks and yes i have adjusted it via the cable addjster but still not a stronge hold

hi guy i got a swb vit and i can never get the hand breake strong enuff to hold on simple hills i am sik of having to turn it off and leave it in gear so i can just open a gate or some thing simple how can i fix this problem

any help would be appreciated

i think you would find that those traliers are made for golf buggies haif the weight of a modded zook

dont mean to take over thread but can you but a 16 valve efi on a block that origonal has a carby and how hard is it (other than the wiring)

yer but i want to do a body lift and i cant figer out how to change the captive studs in the mounts just infront of the rear wheels so i can put longer bolts in for the body lift

hey guys i have a swb vitara and i cant find the top of the body mount bolts that are just infont of the back wheels it seems that there are two differnt skins on the body and i have been lookin for ages but just cant find anything any help would be greate as i am going to do a body lift as so as i ...

hey guy i have a 1990 swb vitara with a 2" lift but the front stuts that are in it are at almost full extension when parked on flat ground what other struts are on the market that will help me get a little more travel

any help would be awsome.

thanks mate that is a good idea i will try and change my design to accomidate that

just wondering seening this car is my every day driver isnt it illegal to weild to the chasy

hey guys in the process of building a custom bullbar for my swb carby vitara but no to keen on the factory mounting points has any one mounted there bars any differnt if so where to and do you use it as a recovery point/winch bar

any help will be awsome

thanks

i run the same tyres as mitch on a manual 1990 model vitara (carby) and at 100 kmh on the gps i am running close to 3500

i had the same problem with my vit so i pulled the hubs apart and found that the spring in side had just sezed up so after i cleaned it all up and regreesed it it waorked perfect

i have a 1990 swb vitara and i have been to 3 auto shops but none of them where able to find out what type of oil my transfercase uses
can any one inform me on what oil they use and rufly how much went in

thanks