SO spill ya guts What did it cost

[Strange Rover]

You guys make me look like a tight arse my rig upto tuff truck owed me $5000 in parts but who knows labour cost.
I did it for love.

Farkin awesome effort. Best bang for your bucks - you got it.

Hey Sam what was your overall crawl ratio a TT and how did you get it.

Sam

[OVERKILL ENG]

I never actually worked it out.
Transfer 4.1
diffs 5.12
tyres 35
first gear ?? Toyota 4 speed

New Zook
transfer 6.1
diffs 5.12
tyres 37
first gear ?? Zuk 5 speed

[.MYTLUX.]

i paid $11000 it has no mods so that adds up to $11000, but ive spent about $400 on my never ending bobbed tray project + $40 on 2" body lift blocks that i havent put in yet. (damn exams)

[Ryan]

Gday all.. im new to the list and i own an 85 SWB MQ... soon to be sold/burned for a GQ this is what ive spent sofar on it

$2500 purchase price
$1000 sterio system
$500 crank bearings/seals on bottom end (L28 Petrol motor)
$150 Reconditioned head
$200 2nd hand camshaft
$700 engine repairs and new rings
$220 clutch
$12 rear main oil seal
$320 new bearings/seals in gearbox
$300 2nd hand front diff
$400 tyres
$193 brakes relined on rear axle
$225 front tailshaft
$130 tune
$250 Alternator
$130 front wheel bearings
$200 starter motor
and there is more..... havent even been able to mod it yet cause of all the repairs
ah well.... looking forward to getting a GQ now lol hopefully with less broken stuff on it

[Dozoor]

Don't know about the Toy 4 speed But your new one is 3.65 -1 for a sierra five speed sam,You will have 112-1. I reckon the toy would have been about 3.6 on 1st so it would have been about 73-1 overall.
Do you know the ratio for the high range on you new transfer case gears ? With your new crawler you will be doing 1050rpm @ 1.6kph. Exellent.
My Zook:
$11000 Zook only had 15000ks
500 rockhopper 4.1
300 2x 5.125 gears
400 8000pnd Hi mount
200 double battery alternator setup
50 4x15x8s
1100 4x32x11.50 tires
400 4x16x7s
840 4x35x11.50 Tires
150 Roll bar
400 for steel n sundries
Be lucky to be worth half that now ,But hay what a ball of fun.

[v8zuki]

my zuk was hand built from the ground up start with bare chassis braced and modified bunderra front diff 5.29 hilux 96 rear 5.29 holden starfire 1.9l trimatic 3500 stally vitara transfer marruti transfer custom 3 link based on rangie arms 4wheel discs 32inch tyres hardtop body for its first incarnation aprox 16000 then i rolled twice cut body down stretched chassis 16in redesigned rear end hilux power steer twin cases v8 253 35in tyres cost who cares must make sure bj cant follow without winching

[bj on roids]

oh cool, you went for hilux steering!!!

SOOOO that means, i can get the 60power box i was chasin the other night???

SCHWEEEEEET

[v8zuki]

u can have it for 50 but u remove it

[bj on roids]

SEEMS A BIT STEEP
might have to come up for a chat l8er in tha week

[hypo]

$50 BJ u r a stoner thats a good price 4 a farkin steerin box

[bj on roids]

$50 BJ u r a stoner thats a good price 4 a farkin steerin box

i have to take it off myself

[N*A*M]

My Sierra costs:
$1100 for car
$50 trailer
$50 fuel
= $1200 so far

[bobtail]

[quote="v8zuki"]my zuk was hand built and has a metre of travel


The only suk with that much travel i,ve seen was was mad engineer,s on it,s roof ( it's a zuk thing)

[moose]

bought it for $ 11500 , with 40,000k !!
first tyres = $ 120 , 235/75/15
suspension $100 , extended shakles & shocks !!
rollbar $120
wreck $1400 , complete - arb bar , muddies (sold $400) , good motor and running gear !!
swampers $300
air locker -FREEBIE
x-case-$200
seats - $80(pair)
more suspension -$200
reverse shackle-at work (freebie) :wink:
flares -FREEBIE :wink:
snorkel-$50 , + slab for powder coating !! :wink:
other bits & pieces $300 - $400 !!
all work done at home or work !!!!!

[Bundygirl]

Not a cent!!!! It's great just being "the other half"!!! But I must admit, i've spent HOURS waiting while he works on his car!!! Spends more time and money on that then me!!!!!!

[MissDrew]

Get used to it girl, my wife has finally after 9 years

[Cheezy4x4]

My wife ownes the Mav, I just lend it.
For TTC02 they made my wife send them a letter saying that she will let me use the Mav to compete. :wink:

[POS]

Chezzy now that would have been funny!!!!

"Why aren't you competing in australias toughest comp chezzy"

" me missus wouldn't lend me her car"

[v8zuki]

my darling wife has told me that the only mistress i can have is my zuk which only takes all my spare time but sometimes she comes out to help just so she can see me .think she might have lost her nerve after the second roll over but she keeps trying

[MissDrew]

Well I can easly add another 10g to what I`ve spent on my white pos, so that puts me up around $60,000.
But this is now over 11 years of owning this rig.

[PGS 4WD]

About 50k at cost price, no labour cost as I did it all. Turbo Gen 3, auto. Modified chassis, body, suspension. No fancy winch yet, maybe next year.

Joel

[cooki_monsta]

ok so here goes, on the 88' da mav.

Purchase $2700
Repairs to body from crash (bought as a crash repair) 300
Safari Clutch kit $560
ORC & Reg $750
Tough dog susp $1000
Body Lift $250
Solid Windows $200
Beadlocks $400
Tyres $600
Cheezy Bullbar $900
Lightforce xtg's $350
Ipf 800's $100
Warn m8274 /w rope $1200
Air comp setup $300
Ford Alt. $50
Car pc / touchscreen/ gps $1000 ish
Uniden Uhf $200

A car parked next to my house ??? Priceless, for those of you who read 4wd monthly religiously it was in readers write of issue 112 i think, august last year, and i won free radios woo for my superior parking job

[sloshy]

But if I was to go and buy another lux and build it up straight to where it is now without any of the steps in the middle I could do it for around $20,000 to $25,000.

Yeah, I learnt the hard way as well

[mule75]

i don't want to know .

i would say tyres and stuff are consumables so you cant count them. i've been through 3 sets of pedes, i set of claws and two sets of bfg muddies(old skools) but that doesn't mean i've spent about 8k modifying my truck when i have only one good set left!!!

plus owning a landcruiser gearbox, transfer and diff rebuilds can be in that category too.

[Thommo 73]

middy.

10,000 car
1400 springs/shocks
300 snokel/towbar
5000 1uz conversion
1500 after blowing the first motor up
500 in metal for bar work
500 xp low mount
80 slab to swap low mount for high mount
1500 mods for high mount
500 rope
1200 air locker
350 auto locker
500 seats
120 for new snorkel stuff
2 sets on ET2's
hours of time i'm not going to count.
and repainting and more suspension work ATM
rollcage, harness, and forced induction to come

[chikoroll_]

$15,000 purchase
$600 sliders
$800 bullbar
$400 tyres
$200 rear draws and roof console



+
$50,000,000 fuel

...so
$50,017,000

[Guy]

Well I can easly add another 10g to what I`ve spent on my white pos, so that puts me up around $60,000.
But this is now over 11 years of owning this rig.

Thats gotta be a dig for the record books ..

[mkpatrol]

Well I can easly add another 10g to what I`ve spent on my white pos, so that puts me up around $60,000.
But this is now over 11 years of owning this rig.

Thats gotta be a dig for the record books ..

What, his rig or the post dig?

[booflux]

Paid 35k for mine 6 years ago and then stopped counting

[GQ Bear]

$23000 immac condition 92 GQ Ti
$3000 4" lift
$400 2" body lift
$500 rear 1/4 chop & rear bar
$100 30mm coil spacers
$350 ARB compressor
$1300 front locker
$1000 31" bfg a/t's
$1000 33" sumitomo m/t's
$1300 35" simex et2's
$free 4xhella rallye 4000's
$free hella reverse light
$400 ARB winch bar (insurance excess after a smash)
$400 clutch
$400 head surfaced, new valves & springs and gasket kit
$110 l&r CV's
$100 full swivel hub seal kit
$200 various wiring, switches etc.
$800 fridge
$300 roof racks (paid $1100 a few yrs ago, sold $800)
$500 panhard rods
$250 r lower trailing arms
$400 cb and aerial
$350 alternator
$100 coil and leads
$150 crank angle sensor
$50 dissy cap and rotor
$500 other shit i can't remember
$1200 lowmount winch
$150 winch motor
$400 recovery gear
$1500 LPG
$500 dual battery
$400 2xreplacement batteries
$50 homemade rock sliders
$200 snorkel
$450 laptop gps
$priceless my labour
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$42010 FWARK!!!

Lot of money for a POS i'd be lucky to get 5 grand for