Sheepers buys a Hilux.

[sheepers]

I needed something to get building materials and generally haul shit around with. 

I had an 80 series when I built our last house and it was invaluable for getting shit done,  should have never sold it...

Anyway,  life story,  get to the point. 

My new truck is a KZN185

96 hilux surf, turbo diesel.

It's done 340ks which is up there but I've had a few toyotas with high Ks and it doesn't seem to affect them to much. 

This truck drives really nicely,  even with the big tyres it doesn't seem to have that shaking vibration thing that modern rangers etc have. 

 

[sheepers]

So,  what am I going to do to it?

First thing I did was clean it because it was fucking gross.

Think used chewing gum in the door pockets, center console full of dried moldy coke, at least a full medium fries down the side of the seat and LOTS of dog fur. 

I took the whole interior out,  including the headliner,  and scrubbed it. 

The front seats are pretty bad and I'm trying to buy some others because they're so gross I don't think cleaning them will do much. 

One of the seat mount captive nuts was broken so I made up a plate with a nut and welded it in. 

[sheepers]

what next?

ive ordered most of the stuff to replace the AC system because it doesn't work as well as id like. coming from rock auto is a new compressor, condenser, TX valve, drier and a full o ring kit.

other things to do include a new stereo, full oil and filter change, order a bunch of clips and bits from Amayama, new steering wheel (current one is through to the foam at the top so wont get a warrant like that) probably new front seats?

 

and if i get really carried away i may paint it. 

i purposely bought a red one because  it would be the most sun fucked (read, cheap) and I'm keen to paint something that doesn't require 8 months of rust repairs and panel work before painting. 

time will tell if i ever get around to doing this or not......

[AllTorque]

Don’t get it too clean. You’ll be too scared to use it in case it gets dirty again. I’m sure you don’t need to be told to make sure the cooling system is 110%

[sheepers]

yea cheers for the heads up.

i may put a new radiator in it. i have no idea what state the current one is in, ill know more when i change the condenser.

it "looks" like the water pump is fairly recent but again, for what its worth ill probably just put a new on on it. 

[sheepers]

oh shit also, i forgot to mention but i need to put some roof racks on it.

its got rails but i don't know what type of rack mount will fit into the rails. 

[tortron]

5 minutes ago, sheepers said:

oh shit also, i forgot to mention but i need to put some roof racks on it.

its got rails but i don't know what type of rack mount will fit into the rails. 

I believe they are called track mounts. 1999 ford Explorer has the same thing. 

You can look up rhino leg track mounts

[sheepers]

Cheers man. 

[JustHarry]

1 hour ago, sheepers said:

yea cheers for the heads up.

i may put a new radiator in it. i have no idea what state the current one is in, ill know more when i change the condenser.

it "looks" like the water pump is fairly recent but again, for what its worth ill probably just put a new on on it. 

Any history of a head being done?

When the diesel pump starts to leak its a o ring in the top housing of the pump that's a mega cunt to change without putting plastic through the pump and wreking it 

 

[Raizer]

Injector rebuild ASAP.

 

Even with an immaculately clean cooling system a sad injector will easily take out the head, learnt that the hard way.

[sheepers]

Good idea man,  I'll get on to that

[kiwi808]

If you go for a hoon to Hyper Drive they will (probably) have all your roof racking needs.

Our surf was the shape before but (apparently) the viscous fans on these is a weak point. More Barry surf’s might know more.

A nice set of Reccaros buckies will look good up front.

[sheepers]

Did the 185s come out with recaros?

I wasn't sure if it was only the 130s?

[sheepers]

Id fucking live a pair of (factory) recaros for it....

[Raizer]

45 minutes ago, kiwi808 said:

Our surf was the shape before but (apparently) the viscous fans on these is a weak point. More Barry surf’s might know more.

Yeah can change to a thicker fluid in them, mine was fucked that even with super heavy fluid it wouldn't lock up.

Thankfully it only cost me a head gasket and a gasket set etc rather than the brand new head to figure that out.

Brand new one was cheap enough that I shouldn't have bothered trying to mess about changing the oil.

Also the 10 blade fan from late model 1KD Hilux is a big upgrade from the stock 7 blade, @GuyWithAviators is the man to talk to about them.

[4AG_Addict]

1 hour ago, sheepers said:

Did the 185s come out with recaros?

I wasn't sure if it was only the 130s?

Yeah they certainly did, had a headrest with horizontal strings, instead of the fishnet type. See them more often in the V6 Petrol models.

[Raizer]

On 16/02/2024 at 09:32, sheepers said:

 

 

How thoughtful was Toyota to fan force the drivers farts directly at the rear passengers??

[kiwi808]

Our Hilux had factory Recaro’s with the rear seats matching.

Was super lush!

[xsspeed]

Damn that's the same fabric as in my z31 recaros that I need to get redone, didn't appreciate it would be common

[yetchh]

On 16/02/2024 at 18:16, sheepers said:

Good idea man,  I'll get on to that

Also new glow plugs, they have a habit of snapping the tip off and banging around inside the cylinder..