Ben's white_hilux (sold) - My Bucks party camping trip pics

[white_hilux]

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[benzo]

Nice transformation mate

[white_hilux]

Nice transformation mate

thanks benzo

[TDog]

Ben, I see you have your Lux up for sale mate! Can't believe after all that hard work on setting her up just right you are moving on! Good luck with the sale mate. Hope whoever picks her up sees the value you have put into her. They will sure get a damn good buy!

[06lux]

ohh ben how come your selling her?
good luck with the sale though

[white_hilux]

Ben, I see you have your Lux up for sale mate! Can't believe after all that hard work on setting her up just right you are moving on! Good luck with the sale mate. Hope whoever picks her up sees the value you have put into her. They will sure get a damn good buy!

Thats for the well wishes tony. I have done a lot to her as of recent but now I can start working on a whole new truck

ohh ben how come your selling her?
good luck with the sale though

Im selling because I want to be able to seat 5 people in the car again and i will be buying a 105 series cruiser with the solid front end and doing that up

I should be able to buy one for between $20,000-25,000 and with what is left from selling the hilux I should be able to kit it out with all the goodies

Hopefully it will end up something like this

[09lux]

Moving to coils are we????


U won't look back

[white_hilux]

Moving to coils are we????


U won't look back

coils and the potential of 35's the only thing that concerns me is that ive read they can be very thursty. But apparently a turbo and 3" exhaust will fix that. It should also get better with an intercooler as well if needed

[Parr]

Ben the Austimages 105 cruiser only just sold, it had the 70 series single turbo 4.5l v8 in it. Twin locked and all the fruit, sold for 35k i think.

[white_hilux]

After all my thoughts on selling the hilux I have decided not to (at least for a few more years anyways). Cant really justify selling it, buying a new car and doing the build all over again. Will assess again when I think about starting a family.

So the new project is that I will be building a rear bar and dual tyre carrier for the rear of the lux over my christmas break. With the two spares mounted on the back I will then make a water tank and slot it in where the tyre under the car used to be. That is my plan over my christmas break. The tyres wont be mounted to a pivot like most conventional rear tyre carriers, but instead ive decided to go for the old tow ball slot idea so i can remove the tyres by removing the pin. Ive got some left over steel from when i re-built the canopy and will use some 40x40x3 RHS and slot it into some 50x50x4 RHS which is a nice fit. It will be something like below.



Also keen to get out 4wding again soon after new years

[rholm3]

How bout you come before christmas aswell...say 22nd this sat with me and a few other mates going to glasshouse meet at capalaba maccas at 8:45

[TDog]

After all my thoughts on selling the hilux I have decided not to (at least for a few more years anyways). Cant really justify selling it, buying a new car and doing the build all over again.

Glad to see you saw the error of your ways and decided to keep the Lux Ben!

[white_hilux]

How bout you come before christmas aswell...say 22nd this sat with me and a few other mates going to glasshouse meet at capalaba maccas at 8:45

sorry mate i cant this weekend. Im going over to straddie instead. Maybe another time. I do love the glass house mountains, its a really great place to go wheelin

[rholm3]

no worries, straddy is always good this time of year

[Tys91]

now

Very nice

quote="white_hilux"]
I also asked them to check out the squeaking that has been coming from the front lately. it turned out to be the top of the strut rubbing on the hat and therefore it had elongated the round hole and has also pretty much worn 1/4 of the rod coming out of the top of the strut[/quote]

Thats what i need doing. When i purchased my profenders from superior they dnt sell them with top hats. Well when i removed my ome strut the top hat had the exact same symptons as urs. Im forced to use it for now. But wi replace

[white_hilux]

here are some pics that i took over the holidays over on stradbroke island

[white_hilux]

well i sold my road set of 4 patrol rims with all terrains last week and on friday afternoon I bought a brand new (still has little rubber things on the tread) cooper stt 32 11.5 15 tyre with 15x8 patrol rim for $150 off gumtree, Bargain!!! I realise that the rim wont fit on the front but will replace with an infinity one when funds allow. The rim also has a -22 offset but will do for now. This will be my spare spare to go on my rear tyre carrier that im currently building at home.

As for the tyre carrier, I started it on saturday but didnt get very far as the weather has been terrible up so I postponed work until this weekend. Hopefully I will have it finished by sunday if all goes well

In other news, I have booked all my permits to go over to Fraser Island between Fed 20-27 have never been so Im really looking forward to it

[Tys91]

goodluck with the carrier and im jelous your going to fraser island! bet u cant wait. lol

cheers
Tys

[white_hilux]

Me and a couple of mates went to Double Island Point over the easter holiday and these are some pics that I took.

[white_hilux]