Thread: 89 Rangie Project & pics

Thats an awesome link there thanks a million mate!!

no worries, glad to help. Keep us posted on how you get on.

Well - finally got tyres lol 265/75/16 - fitted fine!! Buckshot Mudders from Maxxis.

Next two weeks see's it off to Jamie at all Ranges, shipping a bullbar & some flexi-flares.

Following two weeks are road wrothy / rego & then off road I go!! (Almost forgot! CB radio as well!! lol!)

pics!

Sweet rig. I recon you will NOT be dissapointed with it in the rough stuff, very capable beasts. My bro lives in Chelsea and is just fixing hes 2 door rangie (small stuff) before heading out to hes spots. If your interested in hooking up with him for future trecks, PM me your details and ill PM you hes. Hes father in-law has a 80 Series too

Cheers

that would be cool I will be keen as chips to get in to it. Probly about a total of 4 ~ 5 weeks off, First place will be toolangi haha - I'll be sure to put up a post so members can come along to laugh & pull me outta stuff... IF I get stuck haha

I was re-reading a thread tonight where I was asking about tyres & speakers as I undid the driver said front & rear door panels today to suss out the speakers & wired up a new head unit. Also yesterday I had to move the rangie & there is a heap of mulch - so I decide its a good I idea to drive right up on to it all good I thought, it sat there over night in the rain & then was moved today. However I noticed later that the driver side rear tyre mud lugs on the out side were sliced through!! probly about 5mm deep in to the tyre & about 10mm in. Only the top & only about 1/2 way around.

So I got to thinking, it was either me driving up & then back off the mulch heap of I also got some fuel & didn't slow up as much as I would have with the old tyres as the entry & steep... either way - that rear tyre has traveled up & rubbed on the guard, I had a look & there is a metal lug of some sort there & seems to be the cause of it, @ $250 a tyre I wasn't totally happy but now I knew to have fun with a grinder now

Anyway - the threads about the radio I was mainly posting at the time due to being bored & not being able to go pull things apart and getting to know the forum.... but now I can play hehe near kicked myself for seeing how easy it was to figure out

Thanks for all the info tho guys as it did help knowing what I should be seeing. I think I can fit rear door speakers but with a spacer - have to measure as I want a speaker in each door, the ones up at the rear of the roof all run via an AMP and also a boxed sub as well... so will be fun getting all that going. The front door ones I can see what you all mean by getting a small magnet lol

So - today saw testing of a new dvd head unit which I got as a bargain! and undoing some door panels working out my speaker system as I go.

She's also booked in to Jamie at All Ranges for work & road worthy.

TJM bullbar will be on its way this week as well so should have that in a week or two
CB Radio from prestige will be bought in about 2 weeks time as well & hooked up.

From there I just have to pick up some recovery items, spot lights I want spare tyre, with hope get my roof rack and the amp & speakers.

Getting closer!!

copied from the electronic section to keep with the project


Well didn't get to finish today due to lack of light - but the head unit install is 95% done.



I decided to use plastic terminals to wire up the radio. I later found that down the line of wire there was a plug for each wire... but then someone before hand had cut wires to wire in another head unit. Anyway - decided to atleast do the terminals since I got them.


I taped up the wires leading to & from each terminal & around the terminal it self.


I also put a fuse in - just in case & made an extra plug which will be used for the CB I reckon


Lots of RCA plugs for audio out for each channel, Subwoofer, Video out, as well as Audio & video IN puts.


And... this is what I mean by 95% done
It was a good idea at the time to use the plastic terminals... but now I have to tuck them up as I put in the radio unit & run the rca plugs for later use. Since it got dark I decided to leave it resting in there for now & tested it out. Works great, plays Divx & MPEG4 movie's plus DVD's & MP3's. Which is wicked as I can throw on a 4WD'ing DVD with some rock music while I am doing my own 4WD'ing hahah!

Update...

Well... I have learned a few things in the last week. Like that coolant can turn to acid...

As such I also found out the welsh plugs in my current engine are not in good shape at all. Coolant leaking at the back of the engine as well, torque converter seal to the engine leaking, enough rubber mounts stuffed.... Bit of rust in the floor which is never good and to top it off... slow seep at the bottom of the fuel tank.

Doh huh?

So that was all totally unexpected & from approx 1.5 ~ 2 years of sitting... tho of course, some of these problems could have been around for sometime.
Faced with all this work needed just to get to road worthy, I thought about getting another rangie & pulling bits from my own... or the other way.

In the end I didn't pay anything for the Rangie bar a PC I fixed up & traded for it lol So... if I end up spending 4 ~ 5g on it - I can look at it as slowly buying a really good 4WD that I will know inside & out all part of the project really - however I never expected it to go this way.

So since thats all bad news... here is the good stuff.

Big thank you to Alex from Tassie - He shipped me over a TJM bullbar for the rangie & man its sweet Got it now sitting in a back room nice & safe for now.

Looking for second hand engine's Seems there is a 3.9 in Tassie which looks good but also waiting to hear back about some in NSW a 4.4 would be nice

Kinda bought up a question about the ECU - since the current is a 3.5 - would the current ecu work with 3.9, 4.4, 4.9 etc, etc??
If not I'll just get the Wolf 3D I was going to get anyway

Didn't end up buying my CB radio - its on hold till the engine & other problems are sorted.

This Saturday I will be picking up the rangie from Jamie with a full list of what needs doing. Once its cooled down & home all fluids will be drained & the process of pulling it all apart will start WooHooo!!

Also good news is a heap of mates have put up hands to help..... not that any of them know anything about a Rangie - but we should be able to work it out with the full manual. Two offer's from friends to get a engine hoist so that's cool engine stand is something I wouldn't mind getting to work on my engine & find out how badly corroded the engine is.

Apart from that... this will be what I will work on 100% of the time from now. How long will it take? no idea

My plan at the moment is to unbolt everything I can to prep removing the engine. Either way this must happen to correctly find out where the coolant leak is coming from & the find out how bad the cooling jacket is in the heads & block. Rubber mounts & torque seal come in to play when a new or fixed engine is fitted back in

So if you have any tip's in this area throw them to me