sidewaysickness

At the current rate of progress I would say that the Hilux will be ready for this. Mrs sounds keen too.

Forgot to mention machined up the body mounts out of 50mm Teflon bar. Gave her a 10mm body lift too

This weekends efforts

cut out rust and patched

Reunited cab and deck with chazzy

Repaired rust in drivers floor pan, undersealed cab floor and cab underside

Fabricated tail light surrounds and welded em in, fitted cheap tardy LED Tail lights

Finally got my NZ Zombie hunting licence 

I may let this spare guard go rusty but not sure yet? thoughts peoples? green or rusty?

Getting there

Happy Days

I use a 3.2 v6 petrol bighorn. Gearbox cooler added. Does like a drink while towing but i still love the look on diesel bighorn drivers as i pull away from them... While towing! . I went for petrol coz i don't use it enough to justify rego/road user charges.

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Had a rush of shit to the brain and managed to get some work done, amazingly only 2 snapped bolts and 2 bolts I had to cut.

Pulled out engine/gearbox/transfer box

Split chassis/cab/deck

and got my loctite rust convert on, gotta love that shit!

Sussed out all the areas of rust that require attention, 

This area started rusting where they had drilled and riveted the cert plate... good work guys!

Chassis rust *note someones been here before...

Todays result was this.

Almost time to switch the ratchet to tighten,

Much happy!

I have used You shop a few times now with parts from usa and Germany. Every time has been great. They will even repackage your item to make it smaller if they can. Also alot of US company's will offer free postage in the states.

Get the upholstery done.

Change of rims,

Tie rod ends and adjusters

A proper wheel alignment

Just remembered it's booked in for a wedding in October so maybe just get wof a bit earlier?

Land barge is coming off the road for moar upgrades... I will try to get hilux legal for hanmer meet. No promises yet

Exhaust stack for the Kelvin P2r, Also custom Stainless muffler inside, Even packed with custom cut s/s lathe swarf... works a treat!

Here's some things iv made for the Bosses boats 

Sorry for the horrible pics, cant seem to find the good ones.

I dont have any cats. The truck just seems to be a natural pussy attractant 

Thanks guys. Bike was honestly a log, hadn't been looked after its whole life. Glad to see it gone!!

Build thread:

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So here is after today's clean up/Can of Black Zinc

1983 Toyota hilux RN46 aka ZAV (Zombie Apocalypse Vehicle)

Ford v6 (Essex v6??)

has cert for v6 and extra leaf front and rear

So last night i swapped this:

for this:

As you can see work to be done!

Jobs on!

Discuss the Zombie Apocalypse Vehicle.

Are YOU Prepared??

I bet that corolla has some epic torque steer.

I could have a look on Thursday for ya. Do u know where in nelson?

Sooo...

I did the pre Nats run over Takaka hill for testing/tuning purposes.

Good news is the cooling system was fine,

Bad news is that I found out (the hard way of course) that my Mallory dizzy couldnt keep up with the mad power of a accell super coil.

Outcome:

Points blown to bits, Condenser not condensing. Side of the road with bonnet up. 

Thanks to all the people that offered help, got home eventually with the help of a coil from Riwaka garage. I was thinking on the way to the garage that if ANY garage would have a coil on its shelf, its got to be Riwaka!

Also cant forget the nissan forklift that gave up its condenser for me lol

Spent today remounting the garage coil and replacing points, Did some "By Ear" carby tuning.

Drove to Hira for ice cream! (btw Biggest ice creams in Nelson region...IMO)

Great success!!

I have just stepped up to represent!!

See you all there 

Damn! I didn't even know the show was on???

where was it? Pigeon Valley?