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I got a nice surprice when I started mating together the Volvo auto-tranny and the Bronco ll t-case: Both happen to be manufactured by AISIN and the transmission output shaft fits the t-case input sleeve! :armsup: :armsup: :armsup:


That makes the whole combo much shorter and the adapter will be ...

Nice ´wheeling!
Judging from that vid, I think you should put the lockers at the top of your priority list,,,, then some gearing,,, then some flex,,, and on and on and on!
Keep it coming!

A vacuum cylinder! Gee, I never saw anything so advanced!
Seriously though, thats just an autamatic control over hot/cold air into the air-filter. No doubt to save fuel and if that control unit is left intact, my tip about feeding cold air into the HOT air hose would be counterproductive.
Come to ...

That hose is ONLY for cold weather operation. There should be a lever where the hose connects to the air-filter intake, marked hot/cold or summer/winter which closes off that hose when set on "hot".
In hot climates it might even be used to up performance slightly by disconnecting it from the exhaust ...

Too bad we´re so far apart Steve, otherwise I could get you a LHD box and you could get me a RHD one :)
I´ll check out the Vitara box, there´s plenty of them around in Iceland.
I don´t need to worry about "stock looking"; my Zook will be so far from stock it won´t fool anyone. But of course, a pro ...

Thank you guys.
Now I have something to work with.
I take it that the RHD (UK) 4Runner would have the steering box mounted on the outside of the frame rail, thereby meeting my requirements for inside mounting on the left side?
Plenty of LHD 4Runners in Iceland and Celicas, Crowns and Cressidas were ...

Thanks. I don´t know about kicking ass, but if everything that´s whirling around in my head gets done to the Zook, it should perform quite well.

I think I was very lucky when I found this particular Zook: No deep rust anywhere except in the floor of the bed; that is badly rusted. Lots of surface ...

Ok.
Now I´ve got the front axle ready for installation as well, apart from the brake lines and hoses.
I ended up swapping my LJ70 axle housing for a Hilux one, but I´m keeping the high-pinion diff centre and the behind-the-axle tie rod. In the bargain I got an LSD for the front and a spare 4.56 ring ...

Unfortunately it´s not feasible to order a relatively heavy object like a steering box all the way from Oz to Iceland where I´m doing the buildup.

I need to find something that comes from a common, left hand drive japanese or european car = CHEAP! This is, after all, a low budget project.

Maybe I ...

Thanks.
I should have said that my rig has the steering on the left side, so in effect I could use a steering box that sits outside the frame rail with right hand steering. But I guess that most car manufacturers build different boxes for left and right hand steering and parts that are specifically ...

Hi you guys!
My I-Zook project is coming along slowly but surely.
I´ve run into a potential problem with the steering box; I had planned to use the one I got from the LJ70 ´Cruiser but that box mounts to the outside of the frame rail and with my Hilux front axle I will need to mount my springs ...

Cj is right.
I might add that as a rule of thumb, for at least 4-1 headers, for low end torque you pick headers with long, narrow tubes and for max, top end sceaming hp you choose short, wide pipes.
This is just basics, like they said: It´s an art, some magic even and in an engine everything is ...

Cheers mates! (Its saturday night up here!).
Things are happening at last!
I got my Zook up here to Iceland during the week, loaded far beyond legal capacity with the Volvo engine, transmission, radiator with built-in transmission cooler plus an extra trans cooler which was for heavy duty towing ...

If the case or body of the starter is of a different diameter I doubt that it can be used. The rotor and body of an electric motor must match exactly!

The way I hear it, Mitsubishi makes most electrical components for japanese cars, so its no great wonder that some swapping can be done, but there ...

I laid the same info out on a swedish Zook forum and one of the guys there said that there were two kinds of starters in the SJ´s; the other one probably being the same as the Swift starter, which as far as I could see when compairing in the shelves at the wreckers, had a narrower body.
Then again ...

This table should cover most questions about stud patterns.
Not about rim offset though:

YEAR MODEL BOLT PATTERN LUG NUT SIZE PART NUMBER PART NUMBER
JEEP
84-02 XJ 5on4.5 1/2 545-1 GOR91983
97-04 TJ 5on4.5 1/2 545-1 GOR91983
87-96 YJ 5on4.5 1/2 545-1 GOR91983
02-04 LIBERTY 5on4.5 1/2 545-1 ...

The starter in the I-Zook, ´86 413w, gave up on me, and a reserve was nowhere to be found within the time limits I had to fix it.
I did some scrounging among the shelves at my used-parts dealer and found a starter from a Mitsubishi Colt ´89 that looked, and was, exactly the same, apart from the ...

This is neat!
If I were to use a grille like this I´d wire up the outer lamps to work as normal headlights, with alternately low or high beam, and on the inners I´d wire high and low together and use them as extra lights. I´ve done it with some jury rigged extra lights and they were very effective ...

I hate to sound arrogant or nationalistic or anything Nic, but duh........
they were stuffing in Volvo four speeds between transmission and t-cases in 4bys in Iceland already 25 years ago. Old news mate!
But seriously, still a very good tip, thanks.
I´m going to check out the feasibility of using a ...

Thanks for the info.
The Vitata t-case is a valid idéa, but I´m afraid that 1:1 high would be too tall with the rest of my driveline, unless................. I could ADD a Vitara t-case to the driveline and have a choice of 1.409, 2.268, 2.564 and 4.13 gearing! Now THAT is an idéa!

How is the ...

You´re right Pete, and if I was going to build the I-Zook to be used in Iceland I would follow the advice of by friends over there and go for 38´s: "You´ll end up with them anyway, better build for them from the start". They are, understandably, stuck with thinking "snow-wheeling" where you need ...

Do you guys know about anyone who makes a lower gearing kit for the 413 t-case in the 3:1 - 4:1 range? I´m not looking for any rock-crawling ability and I´d rather not lower the high range. I´d just like a bigger gearing step down to the low, something like 2 or 2.5 times the high gear reduction ...

Thanks for the positive input guys.
I will be taking the I-Zook to Iceland for the buildup and give it the "Icelandic Treatment"!
As most of you, who have seen icelandic trucks on the web would know, the rules there are quite flexible; very strict on safety but othervise fair.
The plan is to get ...

I had the same problem on my I-Zook: The choke didn´t open.
Instead of fixing the problem, I went around it; I installed a Manual choke kit. Maybe not the best fix there is but it works and in any case I´ll be changing engines soon, so I took the easy route. Had a bit of a problem though finding a ...

Thanks Mark.
Yes, a softtop isn´t the "hottest" thing to have up here where it gets down to +25 degrees centigrade BELOW zero in the winter, specially with an ineffective heater as in the zook. I really hope the ingoing Volvo engine will run a bit hotter than the little zook spinner.

ingthorsson.

Now why on earth does the forum Do this?! Show the pics in opposite order when prewiewing as compared to how they come out when submitted?
But okay, now I know!
To continue, here are more pics, in correct order this time, I hope!
Everything got fastened together with short bodyscrews and a few self ...

Hi there guys ´n´ dolls.
It´s been awhile since I´ve been on the thread: I was working 12 - 14 hours a day before Christmas but now things have been happening!
Maybe I should have made a new thread titled "Goodbye softtop, hello Plus-Cab" ´cause that´s just what´s happened as seen in the pics ...

Santos, please don´t you ever call me swedish again, I might get very offended; I only happen to live in Sweden.
I´m pure icelandic! Hence the "I"-Zook. (It is of course also the initial of my name, and if you think in Roman numbers..............)

And about the engine; For a light car like a ...

I´m sorry to sound foolish; but how, and why, do I crate a "members thread"?

And about the I-Zook; I´ll go SPOA, for me that´s so obvious I didn´t even mention it. (Kinda obvious also with 35s planned).

Ingthorsson.

At last I´ve bought my own Zook! :D :D :D
A 413W ´86, bone stock, with a soft-top going all the way back.
I paid what equals 1.340 Aussie bucks for it: 8.000.- Swedish kronas.

I´m going to sell the soft-top (it´s almost new) and make this into a pure pick-up, or utility as you Aussies say ...