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SAS and coil conversion question

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Post by spazbot »

rule no 1 of mods, what you think will take a few months and cost 4k will take a few years and cost 12k
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spazbot wrote:rule no 1 of mods, what you think will take a few months and cost 4k will take a few years and cost 12k
last time i took it off the road to do some mods....... i was looking at 3 weeks off the road........ no probs!! ended up off the road for nearly 3 months :roll: This time i will research it properly first and make sure i have all the bits i need.... you and i both know what will happen eh! :roll: thats why i am waiting until i re-register it to start it all
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did some checking and measuring...... with standard height GQ springs, i will get 7" of lift :shock: The GQ diffs are about 5 1/2" wider than mine, and the chassis (at the front anyhow) is exactly the same width. i forgot to measure the rear, but i can only assume it's the same. All the spring mounts and linkage mounts will/should weld easily to my chassis. I was going to go for 3" lifted light duty springs.... but i would need to run 38's to make it look half decent..... I have got the whol;e chassis off a GQ from Dave at Hardcore4x4 so i can sort what i need to cut off it when i get it home and compare them both (no i'm not going to dump the Rodeo cab on the chassis :roll: ) Dave is also going to supply me with a set of 4.8:1 after market gears for the diffs.... that should help runing 35's also got a RTC thrown in :armsup: all i need now is for somebody to donate some wheels :? This thing will probably be the end of my marriage :lol: the wife thought all it was going to cost was the purchase price of the diffs.... she didn't take into account the wheels, the engineer, the shocks, the slabs of beer to get mates here to help, the body mods to cover the 4" of extra width each side...... hehe gotta love it!!! :D
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Post by Elmo »

this is gunna be an awesome beast mate, i cant wait to see you rock up to one of the club meetings, phil and john and all them are gunna sh*t them selves when they see this

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are you in my club? have we met? lol and mate.... i need ALL the help i can get.... i'm gonna buy a few slabs and a shit load of steak when i take it off the road and have a working weekend and invite some local guys (Hunter Valley)... to help get all the underneath off it, and get the gearbox out and change the rear engine seal..... many hands make light work :D
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Post by grimbo »

Don't M&M Engineering have a solid axle front Rodeo. maybe worth going over and checking it out.
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grimbo wrote:Don't M&M Engineering have a solid axle front Rodeo. maybe worth going over and checking it out.
they ran one at trials last year with lux diffs from memory
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apparently there is a Rodeo in Sydney with nissan diffs..... but's more a mall crawler than anything serious off-road. there are a few around from what i am told with leaf fronts..... not many with coils all round though
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It's started..... got stuck into it saturday and got the body off today........ got a long way to go, but i have got a start and it should start to take shape in the next month. here is some pics......

Some of the crew hard at it....
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New tyres on the left, old ones on the right :armsup: 35"
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What we got to on saturday........
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Stripped to the chassis......
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Cab in it's resting place for the foreseeable future
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Washing a shit load of mud off it..... (no that isn't me)
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In the carport ready for work next weekend..... pull out the running gear and chop off all the old brackets
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I'll keep ya updated as i go :)
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btw.... i ended up getting 3" springs for it..... and i will be buying shortly 2 air lockers to go in when i do the 4.88:1 gear sets. i accidently bled the aircon gas out ;) endless air coming up :armsup:
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Post by GOT MUD »

RoeDao wrote:apparently there is a Rodeo in Sydney with nissan diffs..... but's more a mall crawler than anything serious off-road. there are a few around from what i am told with leaf fronts..... not many with coils all round though
were do they all hide ive never seen one any qld and never seen pics of any except Yarnos project and from overseas
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personally, i have never seen them either, but i'm reliably informed they exist :roll:
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