KPR's 84 Hilux

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Discussion Thread

Yeah I brought another rusty Toyota. Farmer spec.

Actually is surprising how solid it is, panel work is super rough. but have had a good dig around and its the least rusty toyota yet. only surface rust in a few places, no holes!

Plan was to take it out in the mud then make a few changes. But found a few things needing some attention first.

Wheel spacers

Something not right here. hub gears don't exist inside. guessing they removed the guts after breaking it, then kept driving.

DICK's

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Budget officially blown.

Was not planing on doing this until something broke and if i actually like the truck.  Money was meant to go towards some sweet wheels and tyres,  but since the driver side hub was non existent and i hate fixing stuff. I'm throwing all the good stuff at the front axle while its apart.  hopefully never have to fix it again

 

Big brown box

 

Original 30 spline longfeild axles/cv's

Chromoly hub gears

Auto locker etc..

 

 

 

Been fixing the guards.  still look bit shit, but better than the rest of the truck.

 

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 W T F ?

 

 

limited edition chrome diff?

 

 

 

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I feel like this whole topic should be moved to fabrication cock-ups thread

 

turns out the crown wheel is stuffed too

 

sussed a hi pinion  front diff today.  in the correct ratio  ( 4.8 )

 

Just because you wanted to see it again,  some more chrome diff case

 

The ends of the case were pretty carved out. So have attempted to repair

 

Tried not to put too much heat into them

 

 

Have lost a little bit of diameter, but seals should hopefully still be tight enough.  At least they wont get carved out first turn of the wheel.

 

 

Tomorrow's  job. Make these bits go into above bits

 

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Auto locker installed

 

 

These bearing shells came out of the swivel hubs,  pretty tired!

 

Got a high steer kit to replace the horrible factory setup. Stock stuff was pretty worn out,  so its getting ditched while i'm under there.

 

Front axle back in, everything has been replaced. just need to rebuild brake calipers and its good to go.

High steer kit doesn't agree with factory suspension and sump. the black arm is just sitting there. will be hard up against sump when bolted on.

 

Picked up some parts off a mate,   ifs steering setup for the high steer, and turbo stuff off a surf, just for lol's

 

Moved diff forward 30mm for more clearance. 

 

 

 

Mockery  thread seems to be here :

//oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/44791-kprs-84-chromelux-discussion/

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So after buying the hi steer steering kit.  I did some research, seems its made to work with a 4" lift..   Not keen.

 

Cut the shit out of the sump, which gave just enough clearance, at full suspension compression.

 

Then tried to fit the ifs steering box, hmm thats not gonna work.

 

Best way around it was to drop the front spring mounts. seems to be a very common mod, for various reasons. 

 

 

Goes here.  Mounts are dropped about 40mm.  will lift the truck around 1inch i'm guessing. is a bit of a dick to get fitting nicely, as the cross member is a bit bent up

 

 

 

 

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Steering box fits!  

 

The mounting kit didn't locate the steering box in the correct place for my setup.  Angle grinder fixed the problem.  Tig'd the plates to the chassis.

 

Got it back on the ground, on the new wheels. starting to look a little less farmer spec

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Had to remove the wheel spacers on the rear!  They went all out and used spring washers.   These are all off one side

 

Need to remove the radiator, to finish some welding and make a bracket for the ps pump. then should be able to take it for a test run

 

 

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got it out of the shed. seems to turn okish without the ps hooked up. but are in the process of making a bracket while radiator is out.

 

should be able to destroy my paddock this weekend, all going to plan.

 

 

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it works

 

 

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Since na 2L's  are the most gutless engines ever created.   Dialed in a full turn on the diesel pump. now its slow and smokey.  At least now i can disappear in a a cloud of smokey awesomeness, when it gets stuck

 

 

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Today's mission was to  put the surf turbo setup on the 2L,  Seems Toyota changed the stud pattern on the turbo models, so only half the studs line up.  Thought about making a manifold or a J pipe and many other dodgy options.  5 mins later come to the conclusion;

 

Get out of my life 2L

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Arab sand drag truck.

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Engine mounts & manifolds underway.

 

 

Inlet manifold used to look like this.

 

Did not fit.  plus was going to build an new setup for trueno.  May as well cut it up one last time, before it goes in the bin/wall of shame.   Slightly shorter runners to get rid of the bend. Smaller plenum, as  throttle response was pretty junk. both gave more room that it needed to clear steering, at same time.  still running 2 rails but flipped the runners, so the 2nd rail is underneath, as the 2nd rail clashed with original  after shortening runners.  Shorter runners will push the power band up even higher, making it even more retarded offroad.

 

 

Collector  for new exhaust manifold. As the one off trueno also doesn't fit.  Plus it needs to be high mount for lots of reasons on the lux

 

 

 

 

Engine mounts.  Probably end up swapping to rubber bushes, as i suspect it will vibrate like shit. but these were free, so will do to start with at least.

 

 

Camera did not agree with  chrome diff.  but these are new mounts welded to chassis.

 

 

 

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Got the exhaust manifold tacked together.  Each runner has145mm of straight, 3 bends and enter collector in firing order.   Because you need every last bit of power and crisp exhaust note, coming from your 4age Hilux

 

 

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engine is starting to look a little less lost in there.

 

nuts and bolts and trying to get a 3" tube  onto the t2* flange, annoys the shit out of me.  V band housings are $500, so my friend on the right to the rescue again

 

Then a lot more grinding and welding.    unsure if its going to last.  but the exhaust falling off, is worst thats going to happen

 

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Cut up the turbo housing again.  I was originally going to weld the v-band straight to the housing, but the diameter of the housing was too small,  so welded the reducer thing ^ on first.    "Cheating" the 3" bend off the back to turbo was annoying the shit out of me,  so was the few cracks that appeared in the exhaust housing.   Built up the housing with stainless filler rod till the v-band would fit nice,  then glued it on.  welded a lot better as was welding stainless to stainless for most of it, no cracks.   plus looks a whole lot better

 

 

 

Fits without having to chop ass out of bend now.  Has about 20mm clearance. probably put a small heat shield behind it to stop stuff melting.

 

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Rear sump, extra deep. It's 2 16v sumps cut up to make one.

 

 

 

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Still waiting on parts, so can actually finish some stuff.   But got  a shit job out of the way, while waiting

 

Was thinking about using a fuel cell,  but thought i would at least try cut up the existing tank first

Its not even the right tank. someone had rangi'd it in there. didn't really fit so well, pretty close to diff, sat low etc..

would have liked to make it smaller than this, since its massive.  too much junk in the way meant i could only cut out a small section easily. 

Still, its enough to let bottom of tank up past chassis rails, so wont get wasted so much.

 

Since i didn't blow up or catch fire. Didn't really have much use for my fire extinguisher .  That got cut in half also.

 

 

Was gonna put a baffle around pick up,  but this seemed easier at the time . will use existing pickup as a return

 

looking at this, i probably could have used a pot. maybe would have saved some grinding.   its not pretty,  but tank/turd was past polishing

 

 

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Oil pickup for rear sump

 

3" drop pipe

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Got a bit side tracked  fixing a work mates gokart.  Then smashed together an exhaust just because.  Surprisingly it went quite a bit better, plus sounded cooler. 

 

Done a little bit on hilux. China intercooler mounted

 

Wastegate mounted and a bit more pipework