Pov Pack Project, canopy started

[Thunderbolt]

Goodbye faithful old truck. been to the Cape 3 times, Coburg peninsular, Port Hedland, all over NE Vic mountains, been up Oodnadata , Finke and Tanami track



winch and Ralleye 4000's have been removed for the new truck,
Has ARB lockers,4.88 diff gears, 33x12.5 MTZ's, body lift, winch bar cut and lifted etc,

The new replacement, poverty pack SR 2006


Pulled off the alloy bar and factory bash plates, cut off the factory crappy mild steel tie down points



Making some mods to the Axis mounting plates so I can fit recovery hooks and will lift lines before deciding how to do new bash plate, Thanks to all the guys that have done these mods before ,I'm just copying your work

Cliff

[kyle300exc]

Look on the bright side Cliff you'll be a bit more comfortable getting around now. Plenty of us with sr's mate no shame in that

[Thunderbolt]

Look on the bright side Cliff you'll be a bit more comfortable getting around now.

This one has air con and a little hole in the radio to plug in my iPhone so I can listen to tunes

Cliff

[TDog]

Look on the bright side Cliff you'll be a bit more comfortable getting around now.

This one has air con and a little hole in the radio to plug in my iPhone so I can listen to tunes

Cliff

Show off!!! My 2003 still has original Toyota tape deck!!

Look forward to watch the new one take shape.

[Thunderbolt]

Trail fit of brackets. Just a bit of grinding and a squirt of paint, turn up some crush tubes, and I can look at fitting the Axis bar



Cliff

[Thunderbolt]

Undercoated the bullbar mounting brackets this afternoon. Her's a pic of the Axis bar bracket with the extra lug and holes for the recovery hook



I think I should service the winch next while it's off and then I can start bolting bits on the new truck

Cliff

[Thunderbolt]

Servicing the winch was fairly simple. Motor was fine and just needed blowing out and sealing. The gearbox had some rust in it but a good clean with petrol and a little time with some fine wet and dry on the free wheeling surfaces , lots of grease on the gears, and it was good to go. I'm going to replace the steel cable with plasma rope so painted the drum with two coats of cold gal while it was aapart. Got to fit the winch in the bar and fit the bar to the truck today and discovered that the plastic liners and funny factory brackets supporting them look crap and will need chopping, Also may do some sort of guard for bottom of water bottle. Will add some more pic's when I get the spotlights mounted on bar.
Cliff

[Thunderbolt]

Drilled a couple of holes in the bar and mounted the Hella 4000 driving lights and decided to take the dog out for a swim



It's screaming out for a big lift and some fat wheels...I'm no.6 on the list for DMS coil overs

[Thunderbolt]

Well it's coming together slowly with Xmas and my daughters engagement party distractions. I also got in a bit of flyfishing too
Pulled the grille out and fitted the winch and new plasma rope and as I have the long cables decided to mount the control box in the engine bay. After talking to Steve at KSP I came home poorer and with a new lighter more compact solenoid box that I mounted near the battery on a bracket I fabbed. Also fitted and wired Custom Rocker switches for driving lights, in cab winch control and battery isolator solenoid over ride. Got the ARB air locker switches and wiring in too.





Also removed the factory brackets that hold the plastic guard liners below the wings of the Axis bar and trimmed the corners off the steel bits hanging out there was going to cut it back to the top line but changed my mind


I made up a small bracket to attach the plastic liner to stop it flapping and annoying the shit out of me.
Bracket in place and a bit of trimming with the angle grinder and a splash of black paint








Has anyone relocated the washer bottle? As I'm running my second battery under the tray I was thinking of putting an aftermarket washer bottle in the space where the dual battery usually goes

Nice and clean under the bar wings but looks weird with stock wheels

Next week diff drop bracket and DMS coil overs

[Wazza80]

Axis bar looks the goods.
Awsome job with the recovery hooks mate. Exactlty what i had in mind of doing.
Easier to get the snatchy on quicker when filling up with water

[Thunderbolt]

Easier to get the snatchy on quicker when filling up with water

exacery!!

Also I only run a 8000lb winch and if I need a double pull with a snatch block I can hook each end of a drag chain on the two hooks, hook the return line onto that, and that distributes the load evenly onto the nose of both chassis rails

Cliff

[Thunderbolt]

Now that it's cooled off a bit I got a couple of jobs done on the truck. Stuff working in 40 c heat !!
Got the MR diff relocating brackets in with just a little bit of swearing. The hardest bit was getting the diff in a position where I could get all the bolts started. Seems I was being too gentle, you need to tell it who is boss



Woohoo!! DMS struts in place. Also did a bit of linishing for boot clearance (thanks for the tip Steve) and fitted the UCA with extended ball joints



I will be refitting the sway bar after I make some low profile relocation brackets

[Thunderbolt]

I have made a little progress. Made and installed the sway bar relocation brackets



Made some extended shackles



Also did a cut and shut on the towbar brackets to lift it about 100mm



The piss poor departure angle in stock form is only about 23 deg. By just adding extended shackles and lifting the tow bar it gets up to a reasonable 29 and this will be increased with larger wheels and reset springs




New wheels

[kyle300exc]

I like what you have done with the tow bar. I haven't refitted mine since I changed to a tray. May do something similar

[packeteer]

what's the new rubber?

[Monster Rides]

Nice work Cliff... This truck of yours is coming along nicely.

The tyres look like Summit Mud Hogs?



Cheers,
Matt

[Thunderbolt]

Thanks guys, yep Summit Mud Hogs in 285x75x16 on Patrol rims. I'm running almost 3" lift in the front and with the plus 10 offset I have no rubbing issues with everyday driving. Will now have to flex it right up and see where I have to trim inner guards. The tyres are from Jappo Donks in Wodonga. Cheap too, saved enough to buy some MR rear shocks when they come out

Cheers
Cliff

[bailey762]

Hey cliff looking real good cant wait to see more
Ash

[tomdrivesahilux]

Nice single cab man

[Thunderbolt]

Went to my daughters on friday and took and the muts for a ride in the bush. Headed up into the snow gum country to see how the truck mods perform. It was mostly 2wd forestry tracks with the last climb only needing 4L.


Check out the killer guard dogs


Did a little flexing up to check clearances and definitely need more droop in the rear, still running stock springs


Still have about 40mm between stop and chassis. Will need to cut out tie down rail and shift mud guards out and kick them up a bit



Didn't try real hard on the front as I haven't done any trimming in there yet but so far the plus 10 offset wheels are allowing the tyres to clear on most of the bush tracks. I did get a rubbing sound from a front tyre when I did a three point turn on a slope



On bush tracks in 2H it's awesome, however the dickhead Toyota engineers that selected the ratios for diffs must have been on crack. Why would you put a 3.5 diff in a 4wd What I could crawl up in 2nd or 3rd gear in 4L in my old 2.8 now requires 1st gear and minimum of 2000rpm. My old 2.8 had more grunt from idle to 2000 than this thing. My style of bush driving is to put the lockers in and crawl up to and over obstacles rather than charge and bounce with the engine in boost rev range. 4.1 or 4.5 gears are going in the lockers for sure!

Generally I'm pretty happy with it all but still lots to do and money is always in short supply

Cliff

Edit to add: got a bit of dog food on the way home so the truck has now been chistened with some mud and blood