Outer Limits 4x4 Board

...Just to say that I have recently aquired one of two of the above GMC diffs (..from a Roadless Ford-'Ploughmaster' conversion) & will hopefully get some 'internal' pics posted here shortly..

....Think 243 series could be a little earlier than that Ben...?? We have 242 series down here (from around '61/'62) Export RHD; the corresponding CKD rhd export kits from same period commences at 243.... ( 241 is home market RHD, 244 is export LHD & 245 is export CKD..) ..According to this, 'petah ...

..Down here, we see quite a bit of 'compression' on the 110's that are up at the base for servicemen to hire when off duty.... (..They seem to have trouble staying on the road...) Result...They kind of compress all over really, 'bout as wide as a Suzi Heap, short as a 90 & roof level with bonnet ...

Adapters for doing this are available from Simmonites of Bradford in UK, & from at least two specialist fabrication places in US. Not that cheap....around US$240 per axle...but they just bolt-on.. I would'nt risk Suzi wheels on a Disco.....the vehicles must be rather different in weight are'nt they ...

can Hi...tuppence-worth from me here.......This thread took me back a few years..!! Whilst in NZ (..as an 'impoverished' ag student..!!) twenty-something years ago, I graduated from a 2.3 PA Vauxhall-engined '51 S1 to a tidy little '57 S1 88" Safari that had an H-series Monaro 186-S (..the one with ...

I think one of the prototypes is around there somewhere.....this might be it....???

..To be quite honest....that was on the 'suck-it-&-see' list...!! :lol: I had a chance to crawl all around & over 'Lofty' (or 'Fourtanks') as the Dunsfold 129" is known, at the Sept '03 w/end....got all the measurements & photos.....& I rather liked that flat floor... There's a Turner 'box under ...

Lexi, ....if you're in Scotland, it should'nt be too hard to track down an alternative pump, & thats a belt-drive vacuum pump....you can see the one on the pickup in the pic where it shows a vertical veiw of the diff clearance.....its the round silver thing up by the thermostat housing, with a black ...

The Perks have CAV DP-? Series too...I'll have to have a look & see what the suffix is... (Some have an earlier design with no electric solenoid port, the one in the Eager Beaver's like that; the 50-Series one has obviously been set up for it in earlier life, but in the L/R, its been set up for ...

Thanks for the interesting info on how to properly 'tweak' a pump Ben, thats most interesting.....could be useful for dealing with the various Perkins motors we have...! (..The one in the Hi-Cap has never heard of the Kyoto agreement, it makes a 'getaway screen' when you accelerate..!) Those baffle ...

Hi guys.. Just to muddy the water a little more here....(!!) As far as I know from the 4-cyl(UK) military models, they do NOT have the same front brakes as the 1-Ton... 11" they are, yes, but 2&1/4"... ...something like that..? (& they are the same on the SIII Hi-Cap..) The 3" ones seem to be on ...

....Just an extra one..

& the rest..

Right, here we go....

(..Some pics for Seamus ..!)

The Snowy Mountain Authority vehicle may have been ( or been based on ) the concept vehicle which Roadless built to trial the 'big -wheels' idea. It appears to have a Series 1 front axle (or swivels)....in some closer-up pics I have somewhere in a magazine, you can distinctly see the lever arms ...

...I know... :roll: ..its shocking...!! (I never throw anything away... ...can't walk past a skip on the sidewalk either....!! :oops: ) ( The wings are off a 172 father used to run,....went arse over head with a gust of wind up the tail one day returning from a flight...right outside the hangar ...

Hi Ben...

I have'nt any digital pics.....will have to try & take some....

( The pickup's easy to extract, but the safari's stuck behind a stack of sheep feed...!! )

However, you can just see it a bit in this pic of the ambulance we moved on last year....

Can't access the 'pirate' link....but guess its same as the ones we have. A couple of factory-built 1-ton style 109"safaris came down here (before the 1-ton itself was evolved)....one of them belonged for many years to my uncle who owned a neighbouring farm....We have it now, stashed away a-waiting ...

Thanks for that tip John, but I er, canned them already...!!!

Heres a web-shot pic of the tractor tho as fitted with this GMC axle..

(..in meantime..)

Yes Ben, its pretty much all sheep only down here, mostly wool, (but a fledgling meat industry commencing...)

We actually have Tasmanian 'Cormo's ourselves....

Hi Ben, I've heard of this having to submit plans for approval being required in some states in the US (...& it rings of the kind of beaureaucracy that rules supreme in many countries, in spite of the safety aspects it's intended to embody...) Actually, we have folk here who can't cope with the ...

Hi again.. Ben, the weather here is'nt always as diabolical as the media would have you beleive....it just pisses down every time a reporter or cameraman gets off the airplane... But the global warming affects us too & we are getting some weird seasonal changes, which makes it more difficult for ...

... :oops: ...I was checking back on where we'd got to on Roadless issues; ...as to those axle pics I was going to do & all that..! We had some horrendous computer problems a while back, & in the process of re-building, we overlooked saving our beloved Photoshop LE 4.0 pic editing programme ...

Lock-Rights are good value too...simple, fit & forget, tho you do have to alter your driving technique a bit to use them on pavement ...They mail through post..

But tyres need to be even all around if used with fulltime t/box.

...Seen that done too... :lol: :lol: :lol: You would'nt beleive how much diesel you can get into a Series3 swb chassis....bloody nearly a drum , I think it was... ..It only added about 400 lbs extra weight....which he thought was cool, as it rode better, ......until he had to try to jack it out of a ...

...Thanks for all the replies to my earlier query... I knew there were'nt many in Oz.....Theres also someone around Melbourne with a souped up one.....does daft things like drag-racing it, tyre-burnout demos....he was in a custom car mag I saw from UK where someone had been down-under for a car ...

One-&-a-Half Tonners...!! :lol: (...What you get when they're 'half-price..!!) :roll: ..& after we fitted new GoodYears (12.50x 18)....these are around 36" tall but are well suited to the gearing.. (..The engine..24v V8..is currently dead & going to be replaced with a Perkins 3.8)

Here's some pics of ours...

Hi, (..Don't get over this way very often these days....looks like everyones' still around though....) Do any of you (..in Oz..) know of any recent 101" 1-tonners being brought in (in last 6 months or so) from UK.....or know of anyone who might know...?? ...Just curiously 'testing' how small the ...