I cut my d1 bar with a plasma cutter, but could easily do it with an angle grinder and may be a holesaw
So I remembered I had not updated here for a while - reason is facebook is easy to spam...
Anyways... new things added to the girl;
First up was new shocks, Terrafirma 4 Stage Adjustable shocks matched with their heavy duty springs. Very happy with them!
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Sanded back and painted new Winch bar and fitted up new winch along with my bash plates and diff protectors
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Grabbed a VMS GPS and got Ozi explorer rocking along - very happy with this unit and used on a recent trip in to the High Country
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New rubber on - Achilles Desert Hawk X-MT's - highly recommended! 265\75\16 and yes, I modded the guards a little for this.
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And so after all of this I decided to throw the fridge in and go to the High country....
Trip Idea;
Recreate my first true 4WD trip - from Sheep Yard Flats across the top to Dargo, 8 years ago in my old Green Rangie that had a 4.6lt V8
Trip Plan;
- Get to Sheep Flats for first night camp
- Go up Bluff Link track
- Then King Billy Track
- Zeka Spur Track
- To Wonnangatta Station for the nights camp
- Next day headed to Wombat Spur track
- Then down to the start of the Collingwood Spur track (Steepest track I have ever done, with a rooftent on as well!)
I wanted to be able to do the trip alone so I bought a chainsaw and a few other things. We were in low range for most of the time finding the tracks much more chopped up then it was 8 years ago.
Turned out to be the most epic trip I have ever done. If not for the rock crawler gears and rear locker, it would have been winch work for sure!
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Good on you, it's so nice to see a Classic being used like that. How did the springs and shocks go, especially with all the extra weight?
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Hi Davo,
They went really, really well. I got those tires fitted up and didn't check what PSi they were set to - figure they were for road of course - hit the dirt roads in to the first camp and it... felt smooth as silk.
Thought wow - these things with the shockers on soft are doing well. Stopped and decide to air down a little... they were at 45psi! I thought wow! Check max psi rating to 85psi! ok light truck version - put them down to 26 on the front and 25 on the rear.
So having them at the 45psi was working the shocks and springs - full load for all of us and it did it like dream
Thanks for that. It's always interesting to see what someone else thinks of a product. Do you have any part numbers handy? I've got some used King Springs and Koni shocks on mine, (they came from a wreck), and they've been great, but perhaps a bit saggy on the back. It's good to have some other options.
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Sure do as I have the Terrafirma book handy;
For heavy duty springs - rated for plus 300kg on the rear for constant load or additional equipment (IE; Long range tanks, draws, fridge slide, rear wheel carriers and rear roof load) Front is rated +100kg for winch bar, winch and bash plates; Not having this stuff would have it sit higher than the 2" lift.
Front - TF015
Rear - TF027V
For the 4 way adjustable shocks for +2" lift;
Front - TF174
Rear - TF175
You can get these in +3" and +5" as well
The travel on the 2" is awesome - so awesome that one side let the spring pop out very easy. Which we suspect could be a bent sway bar... but for now have a plate on the outside to let it relocate if it does drop... is has and does relocate well I could put cones on - but I got polybags in to level out the load as well. This could be due to the coil conversation over the air suspension - we also swapped over the rear for the defender rear shock for a little less travel - on that recent trip it work perfect - didn't lift a wheel at all.
I should also add I had those same Koni shock and king spring setup on my old Greenie V8 Rangie - these **** all over them - had the whole lot done for about 1600
Now that's what I call a helpful post! Thanks very much, I shall look into this.
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wow - 5 months on from the first post and shes nearly done...
I am all excited to see when my fridge slide and custom drawers are sent - can not wait to see them... and see if the $$$ was worth it lol
Have also got a set of Terrafirma Rock sliders ready and waiting for pickup and fitment.
Mean while I fitted some rubber flexi flares but not ones using the lip, but ones that screw right on the side of the guard.
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The idea being I wanted them to protect the car a little from rocks being kicked up and mud - worked a treat so far.
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Have fitted a reverse camera from Park mate which links to my GPS for the screen. The camera is mounted up on the roof rack looking down so I can see if anyone even kids are close to the rear of the car.
I didn't connect this to the reverse lights, but ran it to a switch so I can turn it on at any time and so it won't come on automatically.
I also bought a Kings \ 4WDsupercentre GPS heads up Speed display - which works heaps better than I thought - more so in the day as I am not using the plastic film included with it. Works fine on the windscreen.
Solves the issue of guessing my speed with the speedo being a little out with the muddies on.
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Last things to get done are;
- Get other rear bar sand blasted and painted same to wheel carrier & fit up
- Fit draws and fridge slide
- fit water alarm & x guages for water temp, oil pressure, boost and EGT's
- Setup third battery and clean up all wiring
Not far off now !!
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