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Hey All,

Ever since I dropped the LR tank in, could never get the sender unit to work properly, as the unit wasn't suited to the depth of the tank, and it also kept catching on one of the baffles for some reason. I've managed to make do and just use km's as an indication of fuel level since the ...

fazza81 wrote:That was only in testing. normal driving is up to 3000 - 3500 and if you accel had it is still boosting over 15psi time to pull the turbo off.

Yeh I would be careful taking it to 5000rpm, those things hate being revved the crap out of (and you don't have no power up there anyway)

can you post a pic of where you installed the EGT sensor?

My 2.8td is running 15psi @ peak boost.

Mine no longer works so I am going to buy the std oil pressure sender(as the gauge senders are at least $90) and use the light on the dash to tell me low oil pressure.
As std the light on the dash does not work ! You have to rely on the pressure gauge !

Eek! I didn't know that! Cookie can you ...

with increasing the bost on the turbo, how do you do that? maybe i should leave that alone for now as i dont know how to do it...

You need a manual boost controller and boost gauge. Although I fitted mine myself, I suggest you leave it to the experts to fit and tune. If you feed it too much boost ...

I have a 2.5" system (dump-back) fitted to my 2.8td, with a small straight through muffler at the rear. Ideally, you should have a new dump pipe made to reap the full rewards. Didn't notice much of a difference in performance, and the noise level is fine. For $250 I can't complain.

hah sounds good, btw got 2 leaf packs of a falcon the ohter day, look very good nic, also got some steering bits and pieces ready, also got a 80 series pitman arm today, diffs arrive on monday and shackels on tuesday, should have diff centres next few weeks along wif brake lines and front drive ...

scottys triton wrote:and arnt u ranger j off memory, coz i was told u were banned from p4x4

No i am an extrovert paedophile who chases after young boys who drive tritons. Correction, you can't drive cos your still on your 'L's






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Yes and no your sources are misinformed, you will still find me posting on p4x4.

scottys triton wrote:just thinking whether i should put zook diffs uder her as i can pick up 2 pretty cheap complete with leafe springs ready to bolt stright in.
what urs reckon

personally, to put it politely, i don't think you have a fking clue.

Well the locking diff deal fell through. .. And frankly you guys have talked me out of getting another 3.0 axle anyway. I was wondering what has to be done to get my tail shaft to bolt up to the 9.5" diff and where would I get it done/how much extra cost?

At the front end I assume the entire ...

yeah just that i lifted the tosion bars and rear leafes, running 31s and it doesnt seem 2 be that high and flex much, so im getting hilux diffs next week and running a fully different leafe spring set up using a soa and square tubing to connect to the shackles 2 drop away from the chassis to flex ...

...cut the entire front end off the chassis and weld the Toyota Prado in.

OK - I give in.

After reading this, I thought I'd missed something, so I've just been back through the thread and can't find it.

WTF? Why the Playdo front end? Sounds like it's a live axle? I've never seen a Playdo with a ...

Hi cookie,

I have just fitted a new set of 2" Lovell HD coils to the rear of mine. The only complaint I have so far is bottoming out over large bumps with a fully laden vehicle. I'm interested to hear what responses you get as I will probably have to correct this sooner or later.

Cheers,
Jayden

265/75's are a good size tyre that will fit on standard alloys.

If your still begging for more, then jump to the 255/85. Not too many manufacturers cover this size, but BFG, Maxxis and a couple of others do.

A couple of pics of the current status of my Paj. Sorry about the shit photog skills.

yep i'm with Peter on this one, never driven a 2.5 but love my 2.8.

Not too much in the way of replacements:
-Water pump
-Fuel pump rebuild
and the usual diesel maintenance.

I give it some serious hell and just keeps on going, though I do keep on top of regular servicing.

Definately a great ...

bloody mitsi designed 3-link.

Yeh sounds normal.

Change the plugs and/or glow a couple of times in the morning.

I run MT/R's on my '94 and TOYO M/T's on my '99 and the TOYO's are at least 75% better than my MT/R's. The TOYOs have a thicker sidewall, more sidewall bite, more siping on tread blocks, taller tread blocks, and they have bead protection (like BFG's). My TOYO's get better traction than the MT/R's ...

Besides the pink - way cooler than my first car!

Love the way that you are building it up too - very good lesson for Hailey.
Least we know now she won't be one of those ladies who stand looking at their flat tyre waiting for some nice bloke to come and change it for them.

Yeah dusty I have fitted a set of GU wheels to mine - they are a reasonably good fit, zero offset and 16x8's.

what he said. Cheap and nasty.

Save the $$$ and go the TJM Airtec - quality and fits so much better with the lines of the Paj

If you were to fit and auto locker, it would be worthwhile fitting a set of free-wheeling hubs too - in the event that you broke a cv, you could still drive using the cv on the opposite side.

SCHWEEEEET!

All that work and only using a 3-link? Don't get me wrong, I mean anything is better than the IFS setup, but I can't justify the fact that if your going to SAS - why not go the full haul.

Cheers,
Jayden

Hi fellas,

I installed a second hand Lone Ranger Long Range Tank (140-150L) a month or two back in my NK 2.8TD. The gauge sender that came with the tank was faulty as I found when I plugged it in. Once I pulled it out and had a look at it, I compared it to the sender unit that came out of my ...

I think I seen this the other afternoon - turning right onto reid hwy from alexander drv.

I heard from mark back in mid december - he mentioned that the 2.85 gears would be ready to ship by end of February 2008

Yep, go for the patrol rims, they are 16x8's so you can fit 33's if you want too.

I got a set of series 1 GU rims - I mounted one up to see how much the offset differed from the standard GLS alloys - and I could barely notice the difference.