Outer Limits 4x4 Board

I wonder if it is there to make the air swirl thus throwing the heavier particles out to the side (via centrifugal action) and letting cleaner air hit the filter element, in much the same way as the good old Donaldson pre-cleaners do.
Of course this might not be it , but hey it's a theory.

It depends on who wants to buy it. What someone who wants to go rockclimbing or serious offroading considers an improvement, a person who wants to drive along a beach, tow a horse float or just drive around the city may see as a drawback and consequently they won't want to pay as much. Value, like ...

I did put a HiClone in my old 2H Landcruiser diesel and strangely enough it did help (seat of the pants feeling) with the way it pulled out of corners while driving up steep sections of the Gillies Range here. One particular section of range has a sharp corner into a steep rise and the Cruiser did ...

Hey Lordy, If you wanna turn that sucker by hand you are probably gonna have to pull the glow plugs. Remember your average diesel has a hell of a lot more compression than a petrol motor. Thats how they fire after all.

Lets face it if you are really worried about fuel economy go and buy a Daewoo 'Lunchboxo' with a teeny tiny engine, room for a newspaper and a very small child and performance that would put a nun to sleep. I figure that if I want the 4wd and power that I have then there have to be sacrifices. Of ...

I'm working in Darwin at the moment and surprisingly it is not snowing here . It's raining with occasional sun followed by clouds and rain then heat and humidity followed by sun and rain. Oh did I mention it was hot and humid . Of course the thing is I live in much the same climate over in Cairns ...

I have problems with people automatically blaming the vehicle or whatever for their own inexperience or lack af ability. The guys daughter has been driving 5 years. Not really long enough for her to be called an experienced driver. I know I have had some close calls in the old Landcruisers I used to ...

Without having heard exactly what is happening (my connection is too slow to download 11 megs without making me angry) could it be the front tail shaft uni joints? You have probably checked this but I thought I would mention it.

Craig

Mines a 90 Amp. I've had no problems with it yet. I agree with Frank, if it stuffs up the way to go is the Magna (Diamante) unit. It is bloody near as expensive to get an alternator repaired as to go to the wreckers and get a good unit of a late model car, and there are a number of late model Magnas ...

Frank I know you had a bad run with the TJM progressives but not all springs are the same. From my experience and what I have learned from others, springs from retailers (remember they buy them they don't make them) like TJM and OME are generally of one type, they don't have sets of springs tailored ...

I have Kings progressive rate coils in the back of my '96 LWB and they work fine (I'll post a part number when I get home). The originals would bottom out going unladen over a speedbump at the supermarket. Now even with a heavy load on the ball when towing the rear end sits nicely, no sag. They work ...

I'd be interested to see who makes the boots for Mitsubishi. A few years ago I replaced the diffs in a Daihatsu and had to buy the swivel housing seals. The seals in packets marked Daihatsu were around $120, to buy normal old NOK seals was $40. When I finally pulled the seals out of the diff housing ...

The thing is Doug these weren't news crews, the people videoing were just locals out with their camcorders. I can live with the fact that news crews are there to provide images to show the rest of the world what is happening but it is a different story when someone from another suburb cruises in and ...

I spoke to my sister in Canberra yesterday she and her family were lucky they weren't in the areas where the big fires hit. She had to drive through the fires to get to her horses to see if they were okay. Apparently the property where she keeps them suffered quite badly but the horses were moved to ...

G'day pajpwr, Is the sound definitely coming from the front? The reason I ask is that I have had a vehicle with a limited slip diff make horrible noises when the clutches in the diff started to catch. I would have sworn that there were teeth being sheared off. I did an oil change putting high ...

The capital of Tropical Oz...Cairns.

Hey Pajpwr what year is your rig?

Would probably be quite cheap to ship them sea-freight but they would take an age to get there. I know a mate had some Chev gear come sea-freight from the US and it arrived about 3 months after it was sent . There was a holdup through Customs and I think at the time there was a major wharfies strike ...

Found this brochure on the Qld Gov site. It is a basic guide to mods on vehicles in QLD.
http://www.transport.qld.gov.au/qt/driver.nsf/files/images/$file/Vehicle-Modifications.pdf

Craig

I did an advanced driver training course in Darwin a few years ago that focussed on collision avoidance. I was driving an 80 series cruiser for Telstra that had heavy duty coils in the rear and progressives in the front. One of the obstacles was to drive at 70km/h towards some cones and then swing ...