Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Bighazza wrote:

bilby wrote:

Bighazza wrote:Hey everyone im just looking at my options of my first 4by

I was just wondering what you guys would chose, why and what mods can you do to them

any thoughts would be greatly appericated

depending where u are there are heaps of GQ,s in brissy for sale at the moment ! i got mine for $12 G awhile back.

What about the 80series

Buy mine NOW!!!!! Bargain and everything done except Money buttons!!

Bighazza wrote:Now why didnt we get this

Because its howlin ugly???????

patrolmad wrote:Dream on Macca. 40's were never any good. I owned one from new. Rebuilt the transfer at 30,000ks and the 2F at 60,000ks. Thank god most have returned to their natural state!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so i guess the one that i bought with just under 1 million k's on it (according to the log book kept in it from new), with reciepts for a 2f swap on it at 450 000k's, and as far as i could tell, original tcase till i dropped a stupid burnout. (70 thousand k's on it from when i bought it) is a fluke.

patrols, cruisers, i don't think you'll lose too much with either, as long as you check out the individual cars for issues.

as a first time 40 owner, mechanical n00b and 4wder (the rav4 definately didn't cut it) the 40 is a great place to get started.. I can 2nd most of what has been said before but a few pointers of my own:

pros (swb)
- 5spd, air con AND p/s on late model bj40's
- bj's are diesels!
- decent off road performance
- less than perfect on road performance
- n/a deiselgreat off road performance
- heaps of accessories
- not many issues when getting bigger rubber
- plenty of spares /parts
- versatile (you can have BOTH a hardtop AND a softtop!!)
- its so old crooks wouldn't wanna steal it
- paint damage is less of a concern on the trail
- they are tough
- it looks seckzi
- its a big lego set (easy to fix/mod)
- goot approach angles and ground clearance

cons
- after a yr+ the choppy ride is starting to get to me if i could choose agains id seriously consider coils (ride/handling/flex)
- rust (the one thing you really need to look for)
- its no burnout monster and long hills suck hard
- choppy roads SUCK!! (40kms south of woodenbong.northnsw for example )
- maybe short wheelbase (easily modded with 60 springs,etc), it gets a bit awkward at times
- km range (only get about 400kms on a 55-60lt tank of diesel, additional tanks available tho)
- dust ingress / rattles, etc

thats about it for the cons, after the first few it was a bit of a struggle to think of stuff.. unfortunately i have no basis of opinion to comment on the neeesan..

GO THE 40!

Just fitted lux power steering to my 40, IT ROCKS.

Simple conversion, all bolt on all I need is some 20mm plate to space the steering colom and I a done, it is so damn light it is funny

Busiboy wrote:Just fitted lux power steering to my 40, IT ROCKS.

Simple conversion, all bolt on all I need is some 20mm plate to space the steering colom and I a done, it is so damn light it is funny

don't want to hijack the thread, but can you give more details of what you did, what parts to use(i.e. stock column or 55 series column?) what tire size you runnin?

patrolmad wrote:Dream on Macca. 40's were never any good. I owned one from new. Rebuilt the transfer at 30,000ks and the 2F at 60,000ks. Thank god most have returned to their natural state!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ash to ash, rust to rust