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looks like you finished your front bar there mate, looks good. Ive been watching your thread for updates but havnt seen much lately. looks as though your on your red P-plates again, that must suck. anyway your trucks lookin good mate, keep it comin

Yeah it's pretty much finished, done it the ...

Well I got good news and bad news. The good news is I got the Triton back and everything is working again....bad news is it cost me another $300, was worth it tho.

Turns out the auto computer gadget thingo for the glow plugs is cactus, which we knew. When I bought the Triton I hooked up a switch to ...

I just wish if it was rooted they would of told me b4 they "fixed" it and slugged me $150 to do so. Gonna take the Triton there 2night and drop it off so they can check over everything incase it's sumfin I've done.

Here's the one I'm thinkin bout. It's 120amp, biggest I can find. I guess bigger is ...

I just wish if it was rooted they would of told me b4 they "fixed" it and slugged me $150 to do so. Gonna take the Triton there 2night and drop it off so they can check over everything incase it's sumfin I've done.

Here's the one I'm thinkin bout. It's 120amp, biggest I can find. I guess bigger is ...

My alternator (4d56) has been dodgy since I bought my Triton about 9 months ago. About 2 weeks ago I finally decided to rip it out and take it in to an auto electrician to get new brushes put in it. It ended up costing me $150 as they had to put new seals in it and do some soldering as it was pretty ...

Thx Scott. I wonder how many people who do the conversion actually go through all that and get it legalised?? I think I might just go with the majority (well wat I assume would be the majority lol) and just drive it. It's not gonna be a daily, just a toy. Hopefully have a suss at it on Sunday....it ...

Just rang a guy from Regency Park and he said I'd need to submit an "Application to modify a motor vehicle" form with all the details on it. Then they send out paperwork which includes everything which needs to be done, then it has to be inspected.

Has anyone done this b4? What needs to be changed ...

I'm looking at buying a Hilux which has a 253 in it. Wat's the go regarding legalities with it? When ya put a 253 into one do ya need to get it engineered or anything? I'm in SA to.

Cheers.

My bro's replacing the head gasket on his 1984 Hilux. It has a 2L donk in it. All the head bolts which come out were one length. He got new head bolts, but only 4 match the length of the old ones, and the rest are about an inch longer, which won't go in all the way.

They're Nason bolts, part number ...

I've bought 3 Mongoose alarms off ebay bout 1-2 years ago (was a legit shop). Bought an M80, and 2 M60's. Haven't installed the M80 yet (bought it for my project car which still isn't finished), but the 2 M60's I put in and had no drama's with.

Why don't ya wanna buy off ebay?

Bash plate looks killer mate. Is 7mm a bit overkill or is that wat they're normally made out of? I was gonna use steel plate for mine and was thinkin of using something around 3mm, not sure wat thicknesses it comes in. I guess steel would be stronger then alloy tho so should be ok.

I pinched my ...

i will need to take out the torsion bars and turn them a few notches to get more lift, am i right about this part?

Yeah mate works a treat, just done it to my Triton. I moved mine prolly 1/5 the way around (prolly 4-5 splines) and had to get the jack under the bolt which ya do up, then jacked it ...

Looks good mate, top effort!

Keep the updates coming!

I've only ever worked on holden straight 6's and v8's....and well with them it's about 5 bux for a pack of valve stem seals and the cost of a vrs kit if ya decide to take the head/s off to do them. Not sure about other motors tho.

Anything that gets passed the seals while driving normally isn't ...

When does it blow smoke? Just driving around normally? When it's workin hard? Normally stuffed valve stem seals only make it smoke on startup. If it's smoking while you're driving, it could be a few things, rings being one of them. Maybe do a compression test and see what the compression is like in ...

Gotta finish the front bar, then wanna make some rock sliders. Got a few oil leaks to fix (the power steering leaks pretty bad), and gotta change the front diff and possibly the transfer, as sumfin makes a loud banging noise in 4wd, which is getting worse. A respray is on the cards soon, as the new ...

That's not a huge drama, maybe just try bending it back into shape somehow, but might be difficult. There shouldn't be any oil inside it, if there is it could be the front seal around the input shaft, or yeah the rear main seal in the motor....or oil which has leaked down the back of the motor, say ...

Unfortunately we don't have many places here that do wheel alignments, prolly around 5 or so, and out of them none really 'specialise' in 4wd's. I'm getting a wheel alignment done on Friday, from the same place that I got my new treads from, as it was included with the price, but I told him I was ...

Just realised now the passenger front wheel has a fair bit of camber. What would cause that? Is it the torsion bar on that side wound up to much?

Here's some pics I took 2day......can't really see the camber in the pics tho.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/vhpirie/MJ_TRITON/DSCF2647640x480 ...

I have an MJ Triton 2.5 turbo diesel. Just wondering wat other transfer cases will fit without any modifications? Apparently the 2.6 petrols run the same transfer case, does anyone know of any other models, even the Pajero's maybe?

The reason I ask, is I desperately need another one, and I can't ...

Thx Jonezy, me and a mate done the torsion bars 2day......ended up taking the whole bump stops out.....might have to chop them up and put them back in tho coz every little bump hits them lol. Ended up turning the torsion bars about 8-10mm around. Had to get a jack under the end of the bar where the ...

Not sure if they're rubbing on anything else yet. Had to cut out a bit of the front gaurds, just behind the wheels, also cut off some bits inside the gaurd at the back, and also heated the panel up and bashed it back a bit. Now we're all good. Wanna re-index the torsion bars tho to jack it up a bit ...

All up it cost me $1200 for the 4 33x12.5R15 Bighorns, fitted, balanced and a wheel alignment. And the 15x8 black sunnies were $64 each new.

Only drove the Triton home which is a 2 minute drive from the shop which we got them thru so not sure about the noise......altho me bro only just got a set in ...

Not sure wat offset. The guy said he got them to suit the Triton, but got them in the 8", as the extra inch is on the front of the rim so will make it fit better.

I think I wanna try and re-index the torsion bars to jack it up a bit more. It's still lower in the front then the rear, so will give ...

The 33's don't fit properly, but only require a bit of panel to be chopped out at the rear of the front quarters. Chopped some out, but need to go more so I can turn properly.

Also the start of me new front bar.

Talked to the guy I'm getting them through, and he's gonna get me some 15x8 sunnies, and hopefully they'll fit with no drama's. Will be here 2morrow, fitting them up 2morrow night...will let ya's know how they go.

What would be the best offset wheel to use on my Triton to make the 33's fit the best? The guy who can get the Silverstones isn't very quick at getting prices, and was gonna be a 2 week wait anyway, so now gonna order some 33" Maxxis bighorns.

My next problem is rims. Only spare sunnies we got are ...

Short vid of a few things we done yesterday...including me ripping the door skin half off haha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyWBxmCDlmY

Just an update....had a look this morning at the transfer rubber mount and it's absolutely shagged, nothing left of it.....new one will be in 2morrow, so hopefully that fixes it!

I lost me licence a while ago and still got a few years to go, so it's mainly just for offroad. Me bro drives it around sometimes, but we live in a small country town, so mud tyres on there aren't a huge issue. Other then that it's just the occasional drive to Adelaide which is 2hrs away.

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