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Home from the trip, truck went mint. 143.98L over 1400.64km, so ~10.3L/100km average over the trip. Pretty happy with that, highway and a lot of hilly/winding gravel roads. Loaded up with camping gear, recovery gear, food etc. and 2 people, with the 31s Caught 4 snapper and 4 blue cod in the end, and discovered that the work tent I’ve had for a few years is now extremely not waterproof. Kayak fishing is pretty great but I need to buy a better inflatable kayak and/or an anchor      
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Noticed a subtle front end clunk. Thought it might be a wheel bearing. Jacked the truck up and pulled the wheel off, nope, it's the swivel hub bearings I think (kingpin bearings) Yaaaaaay
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Feb 14, 2018 02:17
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I want to laugh but I feel bad for you at the same time, it's like being at a clown funeral or something.
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Feb 14, 2018 03:14
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Ugh MESS No wonder it was loose  Got it stripped down and cleaned up and ready for re-assembly when my parts arrive tomorrow. In retrospect I wish I’d done this when I had the hub apart to do the wheel bearing, because that’s 50% of the labour already and it would have saved me loving around pulling it all off again 6 months later. As it is though I’ll be pulling it all apart AGAIN soon because I want to put rebuild kits in the calipers and new studs in the hubs and ugh gimpsuitjones fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Feb 14, 2018 |
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Feb 14, 2018 04:48
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And you thought the lower race was bad....
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Feb 14, 2018 06:01
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Parts all arrived. Got it all buttoned up in pissing rain, somehow managing to keep all the rain out of my new bearings. Probably. Then couldn’t find my 10mm socket (actually.) to finish up tightening the locking hub. Gave up temporarily as I was extremely wet and grumpy. Need to tighten that and hook up the caliper and bleed the brakes. 
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Feb 15, 2018 07:28
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One thing I certainly dont miss bout going from my solid axle Hilux to my IFS landcruiser is those loving knuckle bearings. Its awesome when you accidentally ding the inner axle seal and then 10K kms later the whole knuckle is full of diff oil and the grease/oil mix is pouring out around the knuckle seals and dripping on the tyre....
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Feb 15, 2018 12:32
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I've never seen that design of jack stand before, and it looks sketchy as hell 
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Feb 16, 2018 08:04
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Matches my mechanical work then...
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Feb 16, 2018 09:38
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Ballsack. Need sliders apparently. Happened during this trip. Also I fitted my winch which had been sitting in the garage for 2 months. 33s go well, good clearance on the rocky riverbeds. Don't seem to be too bad for my economy, the last fill up was 634km with 3 people & enough gear that the rear springs were flat, with a decent chunk of 4wd time, I got 11.3L per 100km.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5iRsxruIak
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Apr 1, 2018 05:17
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Also saw this rad BJ74 up the Edwards Valley track up in St James
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Apr 1, 2018 05:19
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I'd have that and worse without sliders on my Jeep.
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Apr 1, 2018 08:24
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It seems silly now that I don’t already have them... but up til now I’ve never been close to sill damage and they were on the “sometime this winter” shopping list..
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Apr 1, 2018 08:31
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I'm still envious.
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Apr 3, 2018 01:17
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So, I'm thinking about selling the BJ73 and upgrading to a 1991 HZJ73. The HZJ73 has dual factory diff locks, rust free, 6 years newer, 198,xxx km instead of 300+. Internally looks mint, has factory electric winch. Probably about $20k (NZ dollar) At this stage, I might get $5k for the BJ73 if I sold it. Dual lockers would cost me $4000, it needs $2000 worth of new suspension, the gearbox is noisy, there's panel damage, the windscreen leaks badly, there's minor but concerning rust in places that looks hard to find (sills, doors, seams around the firewall, rear arches). Paint and panels are generally rough. I was planning on turboing it, but that will cost something like $2-3K, including custom manifold, legal compliance, exhaust, etc and at the end of the day I'd have spent $10k+ to make my rusty $5k truck into a rusty $6k truck. I know the 1HZ is a slug (driven plenty of HZJ75, 79, 105) but it's fast enough for me, I don't really mind the 3B even. The HZJ73 has the high pinion front diff which is supposed to be weaker in reverse than the 9" diff on the BJ73. 1HZ fuel mileage might be worse than 3B but I doubt it'd be significant especially since I drive like a granny Talk me into or out of it.
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May 6, 2018 10:14
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You take your pet ducks camping with you? 
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May 6, 2018 17:33
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Applebees Appetizer posted:You take your pet ducks camping with you? They lived at the farmhouse next to the campsite, and were in danger of becoming dinner
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May 6, 2018 21:50
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gimpsuitjones posted:So, I'm thinking about selling the BJ73 and upgrading to a 1991 HZJ73. The HZJ73 has dual factory diff locks, rust free, 6 years newer, 198,xxx km instead of 300+. Internally looks mint, has factory electric winch. Probably about $20k (NZ dollar) Well no one talked me into or out of it but the HZJ73 in question had a suspicious odometer and some rust. So I am going to see a local panel beater and find out if the rust in my BJ73 is inoperable or not.
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As it turns out, my rust is quite fixable when you talk to a competent panel beater that actually wants to do the work. 2 in my town, 1 not interested and threw it in the too hard basket, 1 keen to do it and able to detail exactly how it would be done (properly). So I'm going to do that, and although it's going to cost me ~$3000, that includes fitting a new fibreglass windscreen frame, rust repairs, paint, and repairing my dented door sill - and it's much cheaper than spending $20k + on a new rust free truck - although the $20k+ would come with some bonuses like lower km and diff locks.
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May 17, 2018 23:17
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Yeah, but that $17k savings is gonna be more than enough for diff locks. Save your body, I couldn't save mine. 
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May 18, 2018 00:40
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Fermented Tinal posted:Yeah, but that $17k savings is gonna be more than enough for diff locks. Save your body, I couldn't save mine. Yeah - probably $5k for front & rear E-lockers though... and not much less for air lockers, but I don't want a permanently mounted compressor so air lockers are out anyway
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May 18, 2018 00:47
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OEM e-lockers here are more like $5k each for new ones. Used ones are hard to come across.
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May 18, 2018 01:02
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I'll be buying Harrop-Eaton E-lockers, Toyota OEM ones take some faffing to adapt to my axles apparently
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May 18, 2018 01:10
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I think for OEM lockers you just have to cut a notch in the mounting flange on the axle housing.
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May 18, 2018 01:13
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They're non-existent as used items here anyway, I think. Harrop-Eaton = $1990 all up for a kit for one locker, with switches etc. Tossing up whether I want a front locker as well as rear.
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May 18, 2018 01:18
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More boring fuel economy data: 9.96L per 100km today! Did just over 400km today to go hunting tomorrow. Pretty good economy for a 33 year old brick with 300+ k km on the clock and big chunky all terrains. First long trip with the 33s
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May 19, 2018 06:28
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The 100/105 guys here aren’t getting the greatest run of luck out of the e-lockers, broken parts, poo poo service, failures that just shouldn’t happen... ARB are flogging their air lockers for au$990 an end now, plus fitting. I think I paid bout $2600 for both lockers in the cruiser fitted to diffs, tho I pulled and reinstalled the diffs myself. They also make a cheap baby compressor purely for locker activation too.
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Is that the Harrop Eaton ones that are failing? Hmmm. I haven't heard anything bad. Might see what an ARB costs here, last time I checked it wasn't much different especially by the time you pay for a compressor to run it.
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Also... will a 13-BT drop in on your model? Might be the easier way to turbo it without pushing the poor little 3B too hard
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Ferremit posted:Also... will a 13-BT drop in on your model? Might be the easier way to turbo it without pushing the poor little 3B too hard I've considered that, but it's in the Too Hard basket with stuff like the clutch booster I have, would have to modify the firewall to use a different clutch booster, and my current 3B is in such good nick (just slightly gutless) When the 3B blows up I'll find a 1HDFT and put that in...
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So, the Cruiser has done a shitload of km lately. Did a 9 day trip down the West Coast to Queenstown, then Fiordland, then back up the East coast home via Chch. Then went up the Rangitata to St Winifred's hut for a hunt - probably one of the most remote huts you can drive to in NZ, maybe 40km of rough riverbed driving each way, with big boulders. This will be the last it does for a while though: failed WOF (roadworthy) on a few things that are going to take some time to fix - the rust around the windscreen frame mainly. Going to have to replace the windscreen frame, all the seals etc, which is going to cost money and take time. The suspension is also totally shot and needs replacing. So the truck is off the road until that and a few other things (leaking power steering box, wiring fault in the left rear corner, etc) are sorted. Whether or not I get onto my big list of modifications that I want to do at the same time is uncertain. Mavora Lakes  Boundary Hut up Mavora     All the puddles (like 1-3 foot deep) on the track up to Boundary hut were frozen solid with 5-10cm thick ice on top, had to smash through it which resulted in a broken indicator lens and big chunks of ice getting stuck places (and the ARB sticker on my bullbar got ripped up, boo)   You have to drive up the lake shore in places to get up around the Lakes at Mavora and it can be pretty sketchy when the lake is high, low as in winter with the snow though  Saw this heavily modded BJ73 in Te Anau - SOA, bar work, big tyres etc  Did the Thompson's Gorge Road which was a bit greasy, would be nothing in summer but slightly dodgy with the snow/mud in Winter     Gutes!  Ahuriri base hut & valley   Milford Rd & Milford Sound   St Winifreds/upper Havelock in the snow   
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Jun 24, 2018 01:19
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That's some gorgeous country. It's kinda crazy that it looks so much like western Montana, though, despite being on the other side of the globe.
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Jun 25, 2018 17:15
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When I did a trip around the South Island of NZ I spent a couple of days in Te Anau and did some kayaking in the Milford Sound. It's so pretty around there, but the sandflies were a loving nuisance
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Jun 26, 2018 00:19
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God, I miss NZ. You lucky bastard, getting to see that scenery. I also was shocked at the few numbers of Kiwis who had traveled around their own country, instead they all went to AUS or the loving UK. Why anyone would fly from NZ to the UK to go sightseeing is beyond me.
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Part of me wants to stick the 100 on a boat and ship it over there and spend 6 months exploring the South Island, but the other part of me realises that by the time I clean the car enough to meet quarantine on each side of the ditch I may as well just buy a 4wd in NZ and sell it again afterwards
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Ferremit posted:Part of me wants to stick the 100 on a boat and ship it over there and spend 6 months exploring the South Island, but the other part of me realises that by the time I clean the car enough to meet quarantine on each side of the ditch I may as well just buy a 4wd in NZ and sell it again afterwards The steam cleaner at port only costs $125 an hour. So budget wisely.
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Ferremit posted:Part of me wants to stick the 100 on a boat and ship it over there and spend 6 months exploring the South Island, but the other part of me realises that by the time I clean the car enough to meet quarantine on each side of the ditch I may as well just buy a 4wd in NZ and sell it again afterwards Better off with your own truck. You know it's good, can ship over all your camping gear etc inside. I’ve looked at doing the same for Oz... gimpsuitjones fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Jun 26, 2018 |
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Jun 26, 2018 22:59
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Anphear posted:The steam cleaner at port only costs $125 an hour. So budget wisely. AQIS are absolutely ANAL about anything coming into the country. Dad stepped on a port jackson fig flying home from NZ to australia and customs took his shoes off him. You just about have to dismantle the drat car to prove to them that its soil and plant material free.
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Jun 28, 2018 08:44
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I don't believe that's true as thousands of cars get imported here every day and the only time they get taken apart is when they're inspected for roadworthiness long after they've left port of entry.
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MPI inspects everything at the port and IIRC if they see anything they don't like the onus is on you to prove the vehicle has been properly cleaned.
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