Hilux 4x4 Forum

Some pics of my toy...

Hilux in action

Hi SF

Nice ride and welcom to the site

Thanks

I was active on 4xForum last year until it went belly-up...
I see a lot of familiar names here.

Welcome, good to see you here as well!

Welcome Andrew

The Van looks great

Very nice and neat Hilux 8) - Welcome!

Hi Sifu,

Welcome to the "Hilux" forum.

Great looking vehicle, seems to be in excellent nick!

-F_D

Andrew, was that flexing pic taken at Zookamma?

Welcome

Great Lux. I hope you enjoy your stay.

Hi Barto

Yes, just had to get out and take a pic :D

How's the Hilex?

My trusty Hilux - only 4000km in 4 years...more time spent getting modded than used.
What a great hobby :D

You guys at the Coast should be forced to pay an extra tax for all that mooi scenery and green grass. Here, we have dusty mine dumps, veld fires and brown grass and miles of sweet nothing.

"Dear Mr. President,

I would like to present to you a great new way to raise funds for our Country. ..... "



-F_D
<Fiendish Dog>

With V6 transplant, just run in after 10 months.

Looks very nice

Cheers

Geoff

Sifu-Lux wrote:Hi Barto

Yes, just had to get out and take a pic :D

How's the Hilex?

Should be on the road again soon....

Replaced my front flexible brake lines yesterday with new ones which are 50mm longer. After looking at some pics of a cross axle at a recent outing I saw that they were at their limit. Anyway, they were 18 years old, so time to go. Also took the time to make a heat shield out of 1.5mm aluminium plate (old shelf from a fridge) to protect them from the exhaust manifold heat.

mooi, nice welcome

Hay Andrew

Not a bad idea What sort of money are we looking at? And did the brakes bleed ok

By the way we must chat sometime got a few ideas

Looks Stunning and welcome to "the Hilux Forum"....enjoy the lux !!!

Justin, I payed R 110 ea from Ferrobrake (CBS). Mechanic at work organised them for me.

I had Powerflow make me a new set of manifold downpipes for the V6 today as the old downpipe on the passenger side used to touch the chassis when running downhill under compression.

They did a great job. Now I have a proper two into one connector, and a flange joint installed so I can remove them if I have to remove the gearbox.
Going to TweeWater with Barto tomorrow to play.

The hilux impressed everyone again at Twee Water.

Here's my trip report:

http://www.ec-offroad.co.za/trip-report ... ember-2009

Decided to get a new engine spec plate made, long overdue, as its been 3 years since I did the conversion.

Etched in stainless steel plate.

Came out quite well if I do say so myself

Looks Great

The etched s/steel plate is a nice touch man

If only more conversions were as neat as this nê, you've set the bar high my friend

Well Done Andrew

How's it running nou

It's all in the detail - you take more time when you do it yourself. No one to blame if it looks bollie :evil:

Running sweet Rich Fed her last week, 5 liters of Delo 400 and some new antifreeze

Will have to anesthetise her for the axle move :wth:

Well Andrew is well on his way was there last night and the front axil is out already and I am sure the van will look awsome when complete

With the axle move done, I was bored today

So I decided to clean up the home made underbelly guard which protects the bottom of the radiator/power steering pipes and pulleys. I removed it to fit the adjustable torque rod.

I originally made it out of aluminium chequer plate from an old BOB autoteller machines floor.
Somehow the FNB blue colour never really matched the rest of the vehicle
So I gave it a clean and resprayed it. Now it looks much better.

Looks really funky Andrew

Yello MTN

OOOOMS wrote:Looks really funky Andrew

Yello MTN

One of these days the HILUX emblem will be replaced with CATERPILLAR !

Ha Ha. You joke, today when buying the spraypaint (sunshine yellow to match the OME shocks ) I see you get "Caterpillar Yellow" as well.

It actually looks very close to the CAT colour ... but yes, of course I was joking.

I have been meaning to do a few minor jobs on the Lux, but the axle move has kept me busy, so today I finally got around to tackling them :)

First off was to fix the weak rear braking. I have read about modifying the LSPV rod height on the Lux to fix this problem. I did my OME suspension about 3 years ago, but never really got around to compensating for the increased rear suspension height. My Lux's rear lifted about 50mm after the new springs were fitted.

I used my spare bits I had and cut the threaded section off the bit that fits to the axle, and then welded on a new longer threaded section I had made.
I then fitted the new part and adjusted the mounting point of the LSPV rod about 50mm higher.
After two test drives and a bit of adjustment, the rear brakes are now better, and the Lux brakes a bit better overall. Not perfect, but an improvement.

With the brake mod done, I then set about cutting some aluminium sheet and made up a heat shield for the drivers side exhaust manifold downpipe. This area gets quite hot, so this should protect all the wire, fuel lines and speedo cable.

I used the existing threaded holes in the chassis to fasten the heatshield, and placed two chassis washers behind it to space it slightly away from the chassis rail.
With that done, I also made up a heat shield to reduce the amount of heat on the spare tyre. The 265/75R15 tyre I use as a spare pretty much takes up all the space and is very close to the exhaust. I cut some slots in the aluminium and then bent them slighlty inwards to create an offset so the shiel stood away from the mounting points. I then fastened it with to hose clamps.

Works like a charm :D

8 ) .. ... And no rattles or resonance from these plates throughout the rev range? That exhaust is very close to the tyre ... good idea!

Will check for any resonance tomorrow. I haven't driven it yet

If it does resonate, often you can overcome this by putting a crease along the edge of the plate, or a slight fold, maybe even just top and bottom (stiffens the plate - less flexible). Hope you don't have any hassles!

Had a good play in the sand and on the back tracks behind Summerstrand in PE this afternoon after the Recovery demonstration put on by EC Offroad Adventures.

This gave me a good chance to test the new setup on the Lux, and the performance of the 33's.

My Lux performed faultlessly, not even a resonation from all the heat shields

The 33 MT's definitely performed well on the sand. I had a chance to check a bit of the wheel articulation, and got no rubbing yet. So this looks positive.

All in all, a great afternoon.

Looking good and good to hear that there were no 'issues'.

On the continuing efforts to reduce noise, I bought some 10mm thick SPX33 foam rubber from Sondor today, and lined the bonnet. I also bought some plastic clips to fit into the factory holes in the bonnet to secure the lining without having to use glue.

The SPX can take 120 Deg C, so lets see how long it lasts without shrinking

i see you have a a/c can you take a pic of the brackting a spacing for me please i wana put a/c in but iam stuck at the pump thanks

Hi Franco, I am catching some rays in Mauritius this week, will have a look when I'm back

Hi SIFU LUX
Weet jy dalk waar kan ek bellhousing kry vit Toyot hilux 1998 gearbox na ford v6 engine.

Dankie

Hi, sorry don't know. Google "Gilo Engineering" I remember they used to do these, good luck

Sifu-Lux wrote:I also bought some plastic clips to fit into the factory holes in the bonnet to secure the lining without having to use glue.

Where did you get the clips please?

Midas I think