Popular Post kpr Posted July 10, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 10, 2016 Went back to this possum palace place again, super muddy and slippery. Only one way to get around the place, max rpm. I also mowed their lawn, since im such a good cunt 38 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kpr Posted January 15, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 15, 2017 Had this thing out a few times. Last time out managed to break the cross pin in the auto locker in the rear. broken pin at the bottom of pic. The short bit kept sliding out and the pinion was blending it, didnt loose all drive so managed to get home all good. Pretty sure there is nothing wrong with the auto locker. the pin is factory part and could just throw a new one in. but decided to run a welded center for now, so doesn't happen again. Enter Glitter special 4.88 diff, this one got the extra preload treatment on the side bearings to reduce crownwheel deflection before it went in. The driveshaft seals in the transfer case were a bit leaky. This kit came with the 2 seals i needed.. 4.7 ratio low range gears. stock is 2.28. most of the time the truck never made it out of 2nd gear, all the mud hole bashing was in 2nd gear which is near 60kph wheel speed. will now use 3rd or 4th. 4th will give a touch more wheel speed and 3rd should give a bit more response. plus it goes really slow in 1st for tricky stuff. only real draw back is reverse is bit slow, but no major drama to chuck it in 4wd high. Chucked my ali action cam (sound is bad) on to see what suspension is doing. seems to be legit, the lock out ring for the harder spring on coilovers seems to be in about the right place. At the end is some sweet spring wrap on front leaves 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kpr Posted February 11, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 11, 2017 Finally decided to do the coilover setup in the front, after forgetting how much work the rear was. But yeh the front is going to even more work, mostly because there is so much stuff that needs to be moved and shuffled around. Unless i was to do it half assed. Had to get in and chop a few things up before i could even order the coilovers, to make sure everything was going to fit, with the coilover length i want. Turbo was the first thing in the way. cut up manifold to relocate turbo closer to engine. Manifold is done. still need to finish sorting out the airbox and exhaust. After thinking the drivers side was going to be easy, turns out the brake master was going to be in the way. Had a wilwood reverse mount pedal box hanging around, i had brought for the trueno that didn't really fit. Looks like it will solve the problem in the hilux though. should fix the brake bias issue also. Still gotta make another bracket to mount to fire wall but this is where it will sit Ends for the link setup. 22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kpr Posted February 15, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 15, 2017 Coilovers installed. I needed to weigh the truck to give me a starting point on what spring rates to run. Also to give the guys building the shocks, some idea what valving to put into them. just measured spring compression times the spring rate to give a rough idea. 440kg on the front corners 248kg on the rear corners 1376kg total inc mud tyres/wheels (guessing it could go at least 50kg either way) not that bad considering each wheel weighs around 40kg. and compared to the weight of 2wd cars around same size. 64/36 front/rear. yeah its basically a race car,... 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kpr Posted February 18, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 18, 2017 Got the pedal box mounts finished. firewall mount is the back plate off the original pedal box with new brackets welded too it. picks up 7 bolts in the firewall, along with the top mount which picks up the last 2 factory pedal box holes, its solid as shit Was fairly straight forward compared to the setup in the starlet. since Hilux has a separate mount for the steering column, But that also meant the fluid reservoirs had to be remote mounted, since said steering column cross brace was in the way. I had originally planned mounting them in the engine bay, but lack of fall said that idea was a fail. which was making me think the whole thing was a fail. but eventually come up with this.. Stuff sticking through the dash is yuck. but. This thing used to have the roll and alt meter thing that alot of 4wd's have. will put a blank face in it to cover it all up. Just need to plumb it up and hope my master cylinder sizes are correct. Cant wait to try this out on some 4wd Barry's. Hopefully it will shoot some flames on the limiter 30 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kpr Posted February 25, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 25, 2017 Turbo pipework all welded ready to go. 26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kpr Posted March 1, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 1, 2017 These arrived in record time. 14" travel, thats about 900mm eye to eye fully extended. or about to the roof on your average oldschool.co.ng ride 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kpr Posted March 12, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 12, 2017 Gone all Roman dave science with the link setup. plugged the numbers into a calculator Tricky to get all the numbers in the acceptable range while working around the chassis, engine and wheels that need to turn. main compromise is chassis mounts on the lower links will hang below the chassis rails a bit. but still will be a touch above the transfer case x member, so shouldn't be too much drama. had to do this to get enough up travel without the links hitting the chassis rails, and also to get the roll steer numbers down. The rear is pretty text book since there wasn't really anything to work around after cutting and modifying the chassis. Done it without using a calculator, just following a guide some geezer wrote. putting the numbers in the calc, looks like got lucky and nailed it. can dial the anti squat up to 100% with the adjustment holes. but this is how it's setup currently got some springs for the coil overs 175lb top 300lb bottom. both 14'" long. shocks should be at 50% travel with the weight of the truck on them. 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kpr Posted March 14, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 14, 2017 Its started, hours of grinding. Lower links. the tube adapters were for some usa spec "dom" tubing. machined them down a few mm to fit sch40 1 1/2 pipe. Have cut all the existing mounts off the diff and tacked the lower link mounts in place for test fit. will do the same with the top link before finishing and welding them. Lower link chassis mount, will be trimmed and braced more, as they will likely get a bit of a hiding Its kinda working. lower links look like they will be ok. still trying to find some more up travel. easy way would be to run the truck at a higher ride height, but want to make it work at stock height, to keep it stable as possible. current things spoiling the fun are: sump, alternator, engine mount and the floor.. 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kpr Posted March 15, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 15, 2017 Today's effort. New (half finished) gearbox/transfer case cross member. Lower links don't agree with the old one. new one will have a tower for the upper link with some adjustment holes. +50mm shocks look pretty short. 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kpr Posted March 17, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 17, 2017 Top link mounts made and tacked in place. Next on the list is a brace/mount off the link mount, back to the chassis rail. will bolt it through the chassis with a few decent bolts. maybe something similar on the other side also, as the factory x member bolt locations are kinda limited, since the lower links take up the space needed to build something solid off them 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kpr Posted March 26, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 26, 2017 Nothing too exciting going on with this. just working my way through all the stuff in the way, to get the extra up travel. Driver side engine mount got chopped off and new one made higher up to clear the top link. Alternator had to go as well. will use a fwd bracket to move it up. a new inlet on the water pump should make it work with the rwd pump. Last thing giving me drama is one of the steering links and the the sump. if can get another 30mm clearance between the 2, this will be max up travel on bumpstops. kinda lost count but got around 3 inch more up travel than the leaves other than that just been welding... bottom chassis link mounts are on for good. i forgot to drill the lightweight hole in this one. Crossmember was way too much to weld with tig, and was to lazy to drive an hour to my old boys to use mig. Arc it was. still got a little work to go on it 21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kpr Posted April 1, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 1, 2017 Manged to squeeze in a panhard rod today. may need a few tweaks, but should work. Will leave it half finished till get the coilovers mounted, to make sure everything works together bit hectic under there, yep. 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kpr Posted April 15, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 15, 2017 gasser Its way less finished than it looks 21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kpr Posted April 16, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 16, 2017 failed hard, cant get bolts out of cross bar. yeh the towers look ugly from the top, but wont see them once done v2 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kpr Posted April 22, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 22, 2017 mounts all on the diff for good. cant paint over the chrome.. 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kpr Posted April 24, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 24, 2017 Chassis end panhard mount. Yep the drag link goes through the middle of the bracket Ive given up on the whole offroad thing. going stance spec still got about 3" of droop and 2" up to go. need a forklift. likely have to go softer on the front springs, will see what happens once all the junk on the tray goes back in the engine bay 30 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kpr Posted April 29, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 29, 2017 Got the fwd alternator bracket to work with the rwd water pump. this lifts the alternator up out of the way of top suspension link. and bit further away from mud and crap. just had to modify the top mount to bolt to top water outlet and waterpump. also make a new inlet for water pump fwd bracket already had some racing holes in it from when it was on the starlet? Started making some towers to go around the towers. getting the sheet to do what i wanted wasn't much fun,, but turned out alright after being thrown on the floor a few times not much clearance to turbo is main issue 21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpr Posted May 4, 2017 Author Share Posted May 4, 2017 new parts arrived today 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kpr Posted May 6, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 6, 2017 So if you were wondering what those things do, they are 3" travel hydro bumpstops. If there are any hidden objects hidden in the grass, whilst rounding up the cows. these will prevent occupants of said vehicle, from cranium to moldy hood lining contact. or just doing skiz cunt jumps. pretty much overkill for this truck, but while im under there.. 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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