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Nice shed decorations haha

Looking sweet man. Love the axis bar!
Curious to see the driving lights installed in the bar. Are you using aftermarket or the standard SR5 fog lights?

skirex wrote:Nice shed decorations haha

should be some more ornaments to hang off the shed roof very soon...

jaybags wrote:Looking sweet man. Love the axis bar!
Curious to see the driving lights installed in the bar. Are you using aftermarket or the standard SR5 fog lights?

Cheers mate - the Axis bar is an awesome piece of hardware. Matt from Monster Rides arranged solid infills for this bar.
Standard fog lights are way too big to fit in the wings but these fit:



Fitted with lens protector. Still some cutting/widening to do to allow better horizontal adjustment and fitment.
Difficult fit with the infill sweep back angle and bar work behind but possible

Looks neat. Had been wondering if anyone had managed to put lights in them until now.
I had the idea of doing a small led strip or something, but unsure how that'd look.

Your rides coming along nice man.

Cheers JB.
Here's a couple images to give an idea of how much room there is to play with behind the infills...


I reckon a strip would look good. Installing a LED strip would have been heaps easier but limited light throw of a strip and difficulty directing the light where its needed made me go with this option. Once I cut the infills a bit more I can direct the lights straight ahead for the highway or adjust them down and outwards for offroad work.

Ahh less room than I thought there'd be. Good point about the light, guess it comes down to practicality.

I like to learn form other peoples mistakes - only fair to post my own monumental f up...



yes - I even read this thread http://www.newhilux.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7923

Did you get it off..... If not use a long chiesel and smack it in the middle of the nut ..

These are awesome!

http://turbosocket.com/

Thanks guys - got the bastard off

Had drenched the nuts for 1 week prior to attempting to remove
1st mistake was not using an impact socket
After I felt the ring spanner slip I knew to stop before the nuts were completely rounded
Borrowed a 12mm short impact socket - the base/neck of the socket was too fat to get in there hitting the dump pipe.

Off to the shop to get a 1/2 drive deep impact socket set (considered buying a turbosocket set off eBay and waiting a week or two for for it to arrive as there wasnt a set in town)

2nd mistake was using a 12mm 1/2" drive socket - below you can see how tight it is to get a 1/2" drive set in there.
The socket couldn't seat on the nut because the socket was wedged between the trans housing and the dump pipe itself jamming it 10mm short of the nut. What I really needed a 12mm 3/8 drive socket + 3/8 extension bar.

Got it off after cutting the pipe in half and smacking the dump pipe with the worlds smallest heaviest hammer I could swing for 2cm. Came off easy after hours of wasted time





I now have one of these ready for the turbo upgrade later on

Persistance pays. There's a lot to be said for using the right tools Glad it worked out for you in the end.

I feel your pain mate, had issues getting that nut off mine as well. This is what I used http://www.metrinch-tools.com/website/i ... anguage=gb

The actual stud came out when I went to undo that nut on mine. Once the stud released the nut just wound off like it was loose.

Rocket55 wrote:Persistance pays. There's a lot to be said for using the right tools Glad it worked out for you in the end.

Thanks Rocket. Cant agree more - Persistence, determination and stubbornness all required in the absence of the right tool for this job!

09lux wrote:I feel your pain mate, had issues getting that nut off mine as well. This is what I used http://www.metrinch-tools.com/website/i ... anguage=gb

Cheers mate. I reckon a metrinch would be easier to use than an impact socket for that last nut. My new dump pipe is even bigger leaving even less room between the nut and pipe to fit a socket into. These look reasonble:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/METRINCH-SPANNER-SET-10-PIECE-MET-0110-/331021576688?_trksid=p2054897.l4275
Cheers

That's the exact set I have mate. Used them quite a number of times since too.

09lux wrote:That's the exact set I have mate. Used them quite a number of times since too.

Sold! Just clicked "Buy Now"
Thinking of pasting some of this on the studs to make things easy next time:

Installed a Beaudesert system a little while ago





This is the long ranger tank compatible muffler. I told the sales rep I didnt need one as my aux tank isnt a LR but received one anyway



Cheap version of ceramic coating - ceramic exhaust wrap.


Magma wrap


Crazy downward angle bend

nice mate the best anti-seize is copper coat, its a better formula and can handle over 1000' c, I sure both all the time at work.. and piles at home to use

Thanks Swinny. I might get a small tube of copper coat. Already have 3/4 tub of 771 but you can never have enough anti-seize products!

So the final exhaust bend will possibly cause some problems on departure out of creek beds, getting bogged in black soil/sand etc. I don't really want to go to an exhuast shop to get modified so after some ideas.
1st pic:The red line I estimate as being a best case scenario departing an even/flat and solid inclining track. The yellow line worst case bogged up to the axle. Black line - a cut compromise between the two.


2nd pic most common likely scenario - tyre buried in either rubble or sand up to bottom of rim exiting creek bed crossing.

I'm leaning toward a cut following this red line rather than the black 90 degree/straight cut in the first pic.

Not sure why Beaudesert put this final bend in - PITA! If anyone can enlighten me in regard to the logic please do
Both pics taken fully unlaiden so this will influence cut...
After opinions of those who either have a BD exhaust or do a bit of steep track work
Cheers