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Someone on the Surf site has just transplanted a 3.0ltd and put the prado intercooler on and put it into a dual cab lux, all fits perfectly with a bit of fiddling, will see if i can get his contact details.

Cheers
Dan.

Lots of people have used lots of different ones. The WRX are a popular one, and the Nissan skyline one and the Mazda RX series. There some different setups here: http://www.toyotasurf.asn.au/techsite/performance.htm All on surfs but similar setup on the lux. They start about half way down.

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I had a similar thing in my Hilux, I had an engineer mate make up some new rails by moving the runners out about an inch, using solid steel.

http://www.hiluxsurf.net/Images/seat3line.jpg

Blue line is the origional mounts on the seat, you can see i put some cross bar in and bolted the runners to ...

Uni joints, or a bent tailshaft, or unbalanced tailshaft. I had a vibration in my surf and it was the tailshaft, had lost a weight, had Repco engineering in bris fix it.

Cheers
Dan.

Hey Mick, hows the fridge going !? good I hope.
I contacted the company called michelle's sacs like currentlyoffline posted above but they were asking something like $400 or more for the sac which I thought was nuts !!

As for tie downs on the fridge, I used to use those rubber tie downs with the ...

Thanks mate, will head to autobarn in springwood, there probably the best for parts ?

Cheers
Dan.

anyone know anyone that stocks these parts ? am stuck, have tried supercheap etc but no luck, didn't really want to buy a whole new rack

This is the part that I am after the mounting leg, or just the threaded bolt with allan key on it, it has a flat mounted piece on the other end to hold the leg that hooks under the door frame. sorry i don't have a more detailed pic of it hope someone can help.

Cheers
Dan.

Heres a nice one on Twistys Suzi



Cheers
Dan.

Anyone know where to get parts for these from ? I'm after some new mounting brakets that hold the rack onto the body (this is for a surf/4runner) where they hook under the door sills, mine are looking a bit sad and wanted to upgrade to new ones as the old ones are rusty, anyone know a company in ...

Brisbane tuning know their stuff, they dynoed and tuned my surf for me a few years ago as well as putting on a 3" dump and 2.5" exhaust, John really knows his stuff, and I got close to 80hp at the rear wheels ! and heaps more tourque ;) I think it was around 400/420nm, i've got the dyno report ...

Hey Mate, welcome to the surf club :D
Check out the following site, should have all the info you need:
http://www.toyotasurf.asn.au
Forum: http://www.toyotasurf.asn.au/forum

A lot of us use the gregorys manual for the aussie hilux just it has no info on the turbo which is fine. There are some ...

It could be tappets, My Surf does the same thing, or only with fresh oil for the first 1500k's on fresh oil then the noise dissapears, haven't attempted adjusting the valves on them, don't think they are adjustable on mine ?

aah you found us Nev Just trying to get some more info on this problem, thats why i posted here, wondered if any other hilux's had had it ?

Cheers
Dan.

Nope, I have coils in the rear of mine. The pinion angle was a lot more when I had 4" lift in the rear and taking the big springs out and putting 3" in there has brought it on, so am thinking it may be a side effect of this ??

we don't whine ! :lol:

I am wondering if it's the gearbox now ? my syncro seems to be playing up....hmmmm I'll get Ray to have a look and then see from there.

Don't worry Sniper, wouldn't drive it with just the front locked in and no back, doubt it would do it much good.
Cheers for the info guys ...

Thanks for the input guys, Saint I am thinking it may be the diff in need of some help :cry: Will get Ray to check it out and see aswell :)

If you take the rear shaft off you won't get drive at all ? so then obviously you won't get the noise/vibration ? or is that to check that it's not in the ...

The surf was left to sit for about 4 weeks when I went overseas and the rear pinion started leaking when I got back, so it kind of started after that. ????

Thats why I am trying to sort the vibration, don't want it to bugger up the rest of the driveline.
Cheers
Dan.

Ok, heres a quiz, I'm at a loss here......I had a second hand diff put in the rear of the surf about 6 months ago to change my ratios, diff looked in great condition, no marks or wear. When Diff was in it worked a treat, no problems with it. A few months after having it in I installed a 4" rear ...

everything from the 2.4 will bolt straight up to the 2.8 so you shouldn't have a problem, the only thing to get re-jigged will be the pump, so highway diesel will know what to do. I have heard you can use the surf pump and just change the resistors in the pump, some of the surf guys in Perth have ...

You could try flushing the gearbox aswell, I had a similar problem on my lux a while ago, flushed the gearbox and changed the slave cylinder (which i think is around $38) and it made a big difference.
worth a try

cheers
Dan.

Guys am after a good Diesel engine shop or a competant engine re-builder to check out my 2.4lte surf engine, has a ticking noise with fresh oil, not sure if it's tappets or what ?!
Anyone recomend a good shop that knows diesel engines. I tried a few of the big Diesel shops and they have said go to ...

Hey Brett, welcome to the 4x4 club :cool:

I have a surf and had the origional unit changed when I bought it, it used to have a double din CD unit in there from factory but that died not to soon after buying it so replaced it with a single din unit and put a UHF underneath, or you can put a pocket ...

Guys if your after some DIY tips check out this site:
http://www.toyotasurf.asn.au/techsite/body.htm There are 3 types of home made tanks in there using patrol/jackaroo tanks. even though it's for surf/4runner it may be similar mounting for standard hilux's. I've got the patrol tank in mine and it ...

Mate, you should get in touch with TWISTY_TOY on this forum or on 4wd monthly, he's put the V8 in his with his origional hilux box, think he had over 200,000k's on it and it's been fine.

Cheers
Dan.

Well just spoke to the guys at 4wd systems, can't fit the carrier with that towbar, so going to fit the carrier and scrap the towbar. They said the towbar is very easily modified to fit once the carrier is in place. The carrier uses the sem mount on the outside of the chassis as the towbar. Anyone ...

I may do that, was just saving a phone call. I rang them to get the instructions and they faxed them to me. so will see how i go

Cheers
Dan.

Can anyone clairfy this for me: I got my mount cut ready to be modified, went to trial fit and it looks like I can't mount the carrier with my towbar ???does anyone here have a 4wdsystems carrier and a towbar fitted to their vehicle ???? wonder if the mount will fit inbetween the towbar and the ...

Hey mate, yep, going to use hi tensile bolts.
Yep I did make a carrier, but it's too heavy when the truck is loaded up, the 4wd systems one is much lighter, plus it was relativly cheap second hand.

A few people have borrowed that design, it works well.
Cheers
Dan.

Guys, Have got a 4wd systems carrier which i am modifying for a 2" bodylift on my Surf. I got the instructions fax'd to me from 4wdsystems and they are bloody hard to understand, anyone shed some light who has done it, whats the easiest thing to do.
The mount didn't come with any bolts or anything ...