Hilux 4x4 Forum

In '95 best mate and I went through Zim in my '88 2,4d lwb with an old venter trailor, scariest and best memories of Siyabora rd round bottom of Kariba poor trailor had all the paint sandblasted off the front.
9000 Kilometers in 3 weeks without even a flat.

A red '83 Ford Bantam 1300 that Pops kindly supplied when I finished matric and waved me off to my Holiday job in Sedgefield that he had organised. Was in great condition well looked after from a mate of his and supplied amazing memories of road trips with my surfer friends around the Eastern Cape( ...

Very important topic and very worrying as most of our concerns are surfacing as this process continues, Golder is not independent and merely going through the motions to adhere to current legislation. Farmers concerns are not being addressed and the most burning/damaging anti fracking questions are ...

had one in our bathroom too the 3rd time I found it back gave it stern warning not too be back or mrs was gonna squish him, seemed to work as relocated to wood pile.
To remove place a bottle over spider and slide a magazine underneath easy as pie.

dunno bout the slip thingy but please boikot Shell and Sasol as they planning to do hydraulic fracturing in the Karoo for shale gas amongst a couple of other oil companies.

Is an article on popular mechanics site on this issue and according to them there is zero benefit!

please do not generalise as am farmer and am very caring towards my vehicles but then do have a 84 2,2d isuzu 4x4 for all the "heavy lifting although does remind me of recent comment at hunting competition; "jus maar hierdie bakkie werk hard,ook maar goed dis 'n toyota" this was from ...

echo the sentiment check the radiator cap as was problem with my 2.4d also check for calcification in the housing cleaned mine and all was hunky but not a fan of 2,8 as my dad had one and was endless trouble with motor being redone and still overheated was a sorry saga.

Gatswaai at speeds above 100 on corrigations unladen has scared me shitless a cpl of times now getting the slag will be changing rear shocks when they need replacing. Other than that just love the bakkie as is first petrol I have owned and been pleasantly surprised now if only it was a dbl cab as ou...

I c we have become toyota or isuzu ,well all depends on the district I guess, Murraysburg definately Toyota country but then Cradock is mainly Isuzu but neither will be 90% more than other. Did notice up north cpl years back was mostly Toyotas, but both very good bakkies Isuzu definately better on d...

To spit is as easy or complicated as u wanna make it, have done quite a few in my time and always been a success.Methods differ but on an open fire will take quite a while here in our region most folks use a closed system so works like an oven these take approximately 3 hours, have had the pleasure ...

if q20 has failed try immersing whole lock in diesel overnight.

yip the trick is to keep ur foot off that gas pedal, my mrs moaned about bakkie sukkeling to start, since drummed this rule into her no worries and I have never had a starting problem.

hey there quite a few of us souties around and growing.

Should be possible but more viable would be the american aloe that they make tequila from as can be harvested at any time of year.

bought vehicle with solid shaft from bak which goes through wheel nut hole and a heavy duty lock secures it.Unfortunately do not know name but is definately aftermarket.

Be careful of when u have to claim....know 2 folks who were only paid out after threatening law suits and another lady that was bullied into withdrawing her claim.
An independent assessor friend recommends to only insure via a broker.

Eish ja was wondering bout that but so far not run out of fuel(touch wood)and wot pray tell wizards of the forum be the tank size on a 99 2,7 sc raider ?

ja and 200 grand buys a hell of a lot of petrol!

This is an old system dating from the 80's and was called a bog buster (from Aus i think) easy to do just run seperate cables from back wheels etc,and yes it does work .

Am led to believe rat poison in a brandy bottle left in the car works like a charm!

Stem saam sit liewer 3.0d in, 2.8 in my opinie was 'n "dud" nie baie meer krag as 2.4d nie en gee probleme veral met verkoeling en dus "heads".

Have been round the farm cpl of times so far just need some rain to get it all muddy.

here goes the pic.

Will post pics soon as i get resizing thingy figured.Plenty of 4x4 trails around actually got a 4x4 "bergklim" 2 weeks time to raise money for old age home ,as for camping not so sure but reckon lotsa farmers willing to offer u a shady tree,why not check out the Murraysburg website.

just bought a 99 2,7 4x4 raider with 58000kays had not seen a dirt road ,well it has now.