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I wanted it in kit form and they are the only people that do it

fair enough, also where did you get you factory look spotlight switch from?? I asked at toyota and nearly fell over when they wanted $140 each for them.

Just reviewing this again and I liked the non slip tape on top of the slider


Got me thinking now. Might steal the idea!

thats cool Rod i got it from Bunnings it is made by 3M

Diegothecat wrote:fair enough, also where did you get you factory look spotlight switch from?? I asked at toyota and nearly fell over when they wanted $140 each for them.

I bought it online from a place called NEW PRO TECH its also where i got my turbo timer from.

cheers just found it on another thread.

It doesnt rain it pours

Hey guys just a small update, i have ordered a straight through section piece of pipe to bolt between and replace the muffler section of the exhaust for a bit louder note from Stirling Exhausts.

KTM525EXC wrote:Hey guys just a small update, i have ordered a straight through section piece of pipe to bolt between and replace the muffler section of the exhaust for a bit louder note from Stirling Exhausts.

Ive had mine for sale in the classified sectio for a while...we could have worked something out.....doesnt matter.....its just sitting in the garage at the moment....as much as I loved the sound and the chubby it gave me driving the hilux.....I didnt want to risk getting pulled over by the law and getting shafted for it......epa fines are pretty expensive.....

that being said, thats not a gurantee that it wont go back on one day in the future again.... I miss it.

mmaaxx wrote:

KTM525EXC wrote:Hey guys just a small update, i have ordered a straight through section piece of pipe to bolt between and replace the muffler section of the exhaust for a bit louder note from Stirling Exhausts.

Ive had mine for sale in the classified sectio for a while...we could have worked something out.....doesnt matter.....its just sitting in the garage at the moment....as much as I loved the sound and the chubby it gave me driving the hilux.....I didnt want to risk getting pulled over by the law and getting shafted for it......epa fines are pretty expensive.....

that being said, thats not a gurantee that it wont go back on one day in the future again.... I miss it.

really?????? i had a look there but couldent find it i thought ya must have sold it. oh well. yeah knowing you max it will be back on b4 christmas lmao

you been spying on me?

you know how I think.....LMAO

Here is a couple of small updates:
firstly here is a pic of the new section of exhaust that replaced the muffler section of the exhaust, once again i put a couple of coats of flame proof paint to keep the rust away.

next is my new scan gauge i havent worked out where i want to mount it as yet. Im still working it out how to use it as well lol

Another thing im working on atm is making the brakes work better, ive ordered new DBA slotted 4000 series rotors with Bendix HD pads should be in on monday hopefully fit them during the week.
Ive also been playing around with the rear brakes as i have found that they didnt work real well, untill now. A test i preformed was raise the diff on some axel stands and start the car and let it idle in first gear and press the brake pedel. As i suspected it didnt even load up the motor.

I cant remember who posted that test on this forum but it works well. Thanks who ever came up with the idea.

I then manually adjusted the drums with the brake adjusting tool through the top hole (first removeing the rubber grommet) in the back ot the drum. Then preformed the test again. It did make a differance to the load on the motor, it also adjusted my hand brake from 11 clicks to about 4.

Still it wasnt enough to be around 30% of braking preformance, so i then extened the LSVP rod higher with a piece of threaded 25mm long rod i had, it then was about about 50mm from where it was at standard height before i lifted the lux. Which would make sence as i lifted the rear of the lux 2inches. Once again i preformed the above test now this did make a real differance to the load on the motor to what i thought would be around 30%.

Now this is a theory i had, at standard height i recon the drum brake self adjusters work as the lsvp valve has the correct amount of braking prefomance to move the adjusters. Now once we lift our luxes we dont move the LSPV valve rod high enough eg: 50mm lift = move the LSPV valve arm 50mm higher. Previosly i had it set to the top of the standard rod, now the LSPV arm is around 20mm higher than the standard rod.

The real test was on the road, straight away there was a huge preformance gain. The lux pulled up so much harder than it did before.

and my handbrake holds on a steep hill now yeeeeoooowwwww!!!

Cheers for that KTM

My mechanic mate did tell me something about moving the LSPV valve, might ask about it while they have it tomorrow, its handy knowing a service manager. hopefully they can sort something out. If not the only person that does the job right is yourself.

Another update to the lux is my JVC KW-AVX826 dvd player. This model has the hands free bluetooth like the standard hilux one but works and connects soooooo much better. The main reasons i bought it was i wanted a reverse camera coz reversing the big lux in a small carpark was a pain in the a@#e. Also the factory bluetooth was giving me the s@#ts.

Another thing ive been meaning to do is get some pics up for a member (Drew84) who wanted to see how i sealed under my hardlid, so it dosent leak water or dust in. Sorry Drew that ive taken so long. All the seals and rubbers i sourced from Clark Rubber.
In the first pic i replaced the toyota seal (which didnt seal very well) with a thicker high dencity foam / rubber. It has adhesion on the back so you just pull off the paper and stick it where you want it. The size of foam / rubber is 10mm thick x 24mm wide.


Here is how i sealed the tailgate using a push on style rubber seal.


These are the 3 types of seals i used:

The far Left is a lower dencity foam / rubber, (easier to compress) the dimentions of that one is 12mm thick x 24mm wide. I used that for under the infill panels of the roll bar.

The middle one is the stuff i used to seal the hard lid and a bit under the rollbar infill panels which was the higher dencity foam / rubber (harder to compress) which measured 10mm thick x 24mm wide.

The last pic is the push on style rubber seal for the tailgate.


This is under the roll bar infill panel, its not a real good photo because its hard to show, but you can just see the seal under there.

Nice mate, i like the push on seal idear look much nicer arround the tail gate than my sticky back foam

KTM, This is looking great mate.

cheers guys

yeah its getting there lol im looking forward to early new year where im going to have another spending spree, which will hopefully be my new muddys and rims, chip which at this stage Rods VMS chip is leading the way, the LOKKA for the rear and a few other things

Have you decieded on your new wheel and tyre combo mate......? I would also be interested in hearing your thoughts about the muffler being replaced with pipe with your exhaust....