Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Have a read here;

http://www.4wdmonthly.com.au/forum/show ... hp?t=55599
he uses this as his daily driver and flogs it, ignore the syntax and travelog crap from his illiterate mates.

and here

http://www.4wdmonthly.com.au/forum/show ... php?t=4201
he gave up on this one

The turbo diesels were / are renowned for failing big end bearings. To the point that they are considered a consumable item and changed at 100,000 km along with the timing belt. Before you buy it drop the sump, remove the big ends and inspect both the bearings and the crank. The bearings will be ...

A 2.5 inch exhaust and a minor pump tweak will give a boost of 11 to 12 psi, which I would call the limit without an intercooler, for longevity I'd say your call of 15 psi would be about the max..
I never checked the turbo outlet temps though.

i also understand at high speeds these cars are not the best...anyway to improve this...thanks[/quote]

What do you call high speed and what exactly is it doing?

mate,
Have a look here;
http://www.4x4wire.com/isuzu/tech/CVboots/?

it covers changing CV boots but your ball joints have to come out to do this, so it is relevant, and its on your side ofthe pond.
Goodluck with it.

Pete

Mate get out there and drive it. You'll quickly learn what it can and cant do. You may find that the driving you want to do exceeds the limits of your ute in which case start looking for a vehicle that will do what you want to do, or that it does everything you want and you'll keep it. The quickest ...

How deep are your pockets, nothing is impossible if you throw enough time and money at it. Look at a good tuneup, fresh filters and oil. Is your 2.6 carbed or injected? A set of headers and a 2.25" exhaust and tuned to suit would be about it without spending real money on port jobs and cams. A 2 in ...

Depending on your budget any of the 3 common ones seem to be fitted. Top mount, need to cut hole in bonnet and fit scoop, but is easier and has less turbo lag due to shorter pipe lengths, may suffer from heat soak due to position on top of the engine. Front mount, longer piping runs required, may ...

Look for rust along the top edge of the windscreen and worn drivers door hinge pins. Apart from that, all the usual things, good service history, good general condition, damage underneath number of KMs etc. Price? have a look on red book and,ebay and the trading post and see what they're going for ...

I got it off a mate at work who was selling his R9.
Its certainly not rocket science to build one as long as you can weld a bit and have access to someone who can bend 3mm plate.
I'm happy to try and courier it down to you but the price would then be prohibitive I think.

Depending on weight of right foot: Ive had 9.5l per 100 k, fully loaded sitting on 110kph Ive had a best of 11.2 l per 100km towing a 1 ton camper with 4 onboard at 90kph Ive had a worst of 17 l per 100 km towing a 1 ton camper with 4 on board in soft sand on Frazer Is. The actual figures are ...

Not sure if this is the right place, but here goes. Im looking at buying a 1998 normally aspirated diesel poverty pack manual 80 series wagon with 180,000km on it. A quick walk around it and a short test drive didn't reveal anything wrong, and it appears well looked after. Whats a fair price? What ...

I took mine for a drive up to MTQ in Toowoomba, $120 dollars later I had a new truck:)

Photo's man, we need photo's. The other thing to think about before you get it dynoed is a 2.5" exhaust with a high flow muffler. That and a dyno made such a difference in performance to mine that it stalled the intercooler project I was going to fit. So an intercooler + 2.5" exhaust + dyno, the ...

Mate , have a go at making your own mounting bracket for the actuator. Mount the bracket off the housing lock bolts as mine is at one end and design the other end to keep the actuator where it needs to be. They probably changed things around to save 10 cents a unit. Give a yell if you need pics of ...

And I still haven't gotten off my arse to do it....... With your problem, I just had a quick look at my turbo and the actuator is mounted on a bracket that is mounted by the bolts you'll have to undo to rotate the housing. I would suggest you back off the bolts that hold the 2 houseings together and ...

Direct injection as opposed to injecting fuel into a pre combustion chamber

I have a 1994 dual cab rodeo, while I don't have an answer I do have the same problem. The make of diesel doesn't seem to make a difference. I get a slight improvement if I can fill up at a servo with a sloping drive way and fill up with the filler on the high side. A possible improvement may happen ...

MTR's are good, a few blokes in my club run them and like them. For lift the usual suspects ARB, TJM, etc etc will give 2 inchs. They will also settle after a while, regardless of who makes them. ARB have at least 3 ratings of rear springs, work out what you will be doing with the vehicle regarding ...

It has been quiet on here hasn't it. Ok had a look at your photos, the last one of the underside of your truck, shows the exhaust coming from the left of your engine. The 4jb1t it exits on the right and cross's over to the left behind the gearbox. If the 89 jack had this engine see if you can hunt ...

Are you wasteing your time? Thats up to you. Have I done one, No. How good with tools are you? doing it yourself or getting a work shop to do it for you? Whats your budget? Talk to your states transport dept and see if your legally allowed to swap and whats required to make it legal and registerable ...

You might like to ask the same questions here http://forum.australia4wd.com/index.php? Scroll down to the isuzu section and post under jackaroo. There's a wealth of info there, should answer most of your questions They can have some issues with heads cracking, and the injector system as its ...

Youll find the boost will rise from whatever you have at the moment to around 11 to 12 psi. An intercoler will lower boost a smig as it will cool the air, cooler air = denser air at a slightly lower pressure. Diesels work somewhat differently to petrol as the MORE fuel you put in the richer the ...

2.5" Put on a free flowing muffler it will cut down some of the drone. Do the exhaust in conjunction with getting the boost aneroid on the fuel pump adjusted to suit. This will give useful boost from 17-1800 rpm rather than the 2200 rpm you have now, makes for a much nicer drive. Power increase ...

If you have spark from the coil and none from the dizzy, check/ replace the ignition lead from the coil to the dizzy and check the dizzy cap for damage and that the little spring loaded carbon button in the middle of it that contacts the rotor arm is still there and under spring tension and contacts ...

Damo, The Rodeo will go roughly 85% of the places the big boys will go, its the last 15% that require the big lifts, big tyres, lockers,crawler gears and CDF (common dog f***). The rodeo is a good truck for what it is and is probably as or more capable of any of the new release utes that all have ...

They will be releasing gu cv's with a breaking strain well over 13,000 lb. Makes you wonder what will break upstream of the CV with a 13,000 lg breaking force. CV's are a designed in weak point as they are relatively cheap and easy to access as opposed to diff centres and gearboxes etc. It seem you ...

I picked up the GU on friday last week, 2000 DX 4.2 TD. As usual the car yard gave just enough fuel to get out of the yard and it was a millifirkin above empty. Drove the 50 odd km to home and filled up at the local servo, it took 128.5 litres , the main took 95 and the sub took 33, not even a ...

Rainsey, a breaker bar is a bar of various lengths, it has a knuckle joint at one end that swivels 180 deg and incorporates a square drive for a socket. They come in 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4" drive sizes. They are called a Breaker bar as they are generally used to break the grip of very tight nuts, after ...