BADGA's Daily/Tour (with racks)

[badga]

After looking around deciding which dual cab to get i finally decide on the hilux.
Picked up this 05 sr only a week ago for a good price with only 85000kms.
Such a nice car to drive around, plenty of poke and runs on an oily rag.
My plan for it is only a workcar/long distant trip ute, as i have a shorty patrol which has all the good bits on for serious off roading. However took it to the beach the other weekend and it ripped up pretty hard, quite surprized how well it went!!



it came with a lift kit (yet to identify)
tow bar
bunny bar
side steps
245/75/16 goodyear wranglers a/t on mags

So far i have installed:
sr5 sports bar
Dashmat
off road floor mats
seat covers
And in the process of fitting a tonneau cover.

[Dave]

Nice one mate, do you have any big plans with it ?

[badga]

umm always but over time and money haha

Wishlist:

bullbar
spotties
uhf
lift front up to match rear (its like 100mm difference?)
sliders
limo tint
tv/stereo head unit

[pisso01]

Any Idea what brand flares you have on it.. Looks nice...

[jakelux]

Well done on finding an '05 with less than 100 cliks on her!.. Looks in good nick too.

[badga]

Finally got around to doing the fold down back seat mod tonight, only took like 30mins! hurray for extra room!

Got a few things on the list to do on the gurl before April, as im planning a trip to Broome via Kalbarri, Exmouth and Karratha. Spending a few days in each.

So i think i will need the following to have a happy trouble free time.

-Dual Batteries with aux outputs behind seat and in tub.
-Cruise control, need some comfort doing 4000+km's
-Snorkel, nice cold air
-Spotties, will need to brace the bar as its rather flimsy
-some slim line roof racks, to put a rod on there
-Dark tint, to hide from the sun
-front coil spacer, to make the front less saggy then the rear.

Also i notice on the rear spring both front bushes are flogged out so will be replacing them soon.

So if you know any deals on the above items it would be great

Cheers

andrew

[badga]

Bit of an update,

I finished the dual battery setup this weekend.
Ended up going the olds skewl way, which i think its best. By using a 4 way switch (cole hersee battery switch) As this way i can manually control which battery is been charged/used or off if i need to isolate.





I also added a auxiliary dual cig outlet with constant power so i can run the engel over night on the 2nd battery which is a starter/deep cycle.


Made my own battery tray out of ally and painted it black with rubber on the insides to stop rub through.



Also featuring 5% black tint on all windows and a strip across the windscreen, makes it such a cool car to drive in on a hot summer days after a hard day at work


more to come

[badga]

Installed an ironman snorkle kits


finally got my cover back with shorted elastic loops on the sides, as the sr5 ones are longer



while i had the wheels off perfect time to test my 37claws haha


Now just need spotties and maybe an uhf before the trip

[Hilux Max]

can ya bolt the 37's to the front?

Even if you need the jack underneath to lift it up...just to see what it'd look like.....put one on the rear and one on the front (with the jack lifting ther vehicle) and snap a pic...it'd look tuff az!

[Jack S]

Max you better not be getting any ideas!!

[badga]

haha yer doubt it would even fit :S, but next time ill try

Well while i was under the car on the weekend i noticed the rear drivers side shock had oil all over it, so i wiped it down and now its still got oil dripping from it. So to fix my problem i need new shocks right? At this time i cant really afford a whole lift kit, so i only wanna buy rear shocks atm. Only problem is that when i brought the car, the guy said it had a lift kit in it. looking at the suspension components it looks aftermarket. However everything under the car is painted in chassis back grrr.... so how can i identify the springs on the rear? is there a measure ment for a stock 4x4 hilux i can compare mine to? as i wanna get some decent shocks that will be able to handle what the future holds for this car.

Thx guys

badga

[amitch888]

Any photos of your shorty mate?

[badga]

got a bit hot one day to decided to go swimming lol

[OFFTRAK]

Awesome Shorty! The Lux is tidy too...
Do you have drift cars, too, or maybe a different Badga I'm thinking of?

[badga]

yup i use to have drift cars too so im pretty sure im that badga

[OFFTRAK]

Ohh, well there you go... Funny how the World goes around.
I met you at Ultra Tune Kalgoorlie many years ago. daSilvia.org

[badga]

That was ages ago :O howdy mate!

well i picked up some lightforces the other day and fitted them to my little bunny bar.

[Dluxv6]

Badga
regarding rear dampers
take one off and measure compressed and extended length and fittings on either end
Give Brendan from Ultimate (forum sponsor) a call or your preferred suspension outlet there will be plenty of choice out there
Koni, bilstein etc

Drew

[badga]

cool thats one way of doing it
i searched here for stock ride heights, and it seems that my rear has a 2inch lift but the front is only an inch higher then stock. maybe its saged? but i did notice the front shocks are old man emu N167s

today wired in the spotties and added in a small fuse board for other stuff




nice matching headlamp switch, and what is the 'PWR HEAT' button do :S?

[helmut79]

cool thats one way of doing it
i searched here for stock ride heights, and it seems that my rear has a 2inch lift but the front is only an inch higher then stock. maybe its saged? but i did notice the front shocks are old man emu N167s

today wired in the spotties and added in a small fuse board for other stuff





nice matching headlamp switch, and what is the 'PWR HEAT' button do :S?

The "PWR Heat" button is for if your in cold/snowing conditions when starting up. It rev's the motor higher