Thread: 1980 V8 Rangie Build Up.

Excellent buildup. Love the matt black and will be doing the same to our old girl.

Where did you get the new gauges from?

excellent project done some great work can i ask where did you get you spark plug lead seperators from been every where and they have only got them for 8mm leads not ten and made out of yellow plastic zacc

Yes nice build up.

How have you found the Matt Black. I was thinking of doing my ute in a Matt color but was told that matt was a lot harder to clean and was not as hard as a gloss enamel so scratched easier????

Fantastic stuff... certainly making my thing look really bad

I recon mine will be close to 5gs with gas, but still got stock diffs/axels. So I recon another 3gs would bring it up to your specs too. Considering how much a newish 4x4 costs these days, anything under 10gs is a CHEAP 4x4.

Carlos

Originally Posted by Rockrover

Excellent buildup. Love the matt black and will be doing the same to our old girl.

Where did you get the new gauges from?

Just the local spare parts place, Ordered them in for me Cheap too.

Originally Posted by cazzz12000

excellent project done some great work can i ask where did you get you spark plug lead seperators from been every where and they have only got them for 8mm leads not ten and made out of yellow plastic zacc

Local Performance place mate, Cost about $11

Originally Posted by walker

Yes nice build up.

How have you found the Matt Black. I was thinking of doing my ute in a Matt color but was told that matt was a lot harder to clean and was not as hard as a gloss enamel so scratched easier????

I had a few ppl tell me that but so far its been good, Gets muddy as just broom it off and touch ups are easy as if any damage is done.

Originally Posted by stooge

Fantastic stuff... certainly making my thing look really bad

I recon mine will be close to 5gs with gas, but still got stock diffs/axels. So I recon another 3gs would bring it up to your specs too. Considering how much a newish 4x4 costs these days, anything under 10gs is a CHEAP 4x4.

Carlos

Thanks Mate, My plan was to build a good offroad (weekender) for under $10 so far i'm doing alright but would love to get a front locker aswell.

Installed a new dizzy i pick up for her and she goes heaps better, Also some wheelin pics from today.

Well It's been ages since i updated my Thread and have done a fair bit to the old girl and spent way to much aswell.

After i installed the rear maxi drive locker i went to Beat this hill that has been beating the rangie for ages and anyone else who trys.......Its Does not look that steep but you could bearly stand up trying to walk up her... It seems at the steepest point the ww2 stromberg floods and she dies which is fine but the master cylinder **** it's self so i had no brakes rolled back up the ledge and nearly rolled her.

So i decided to spend some more hard earned on her....



A tip for the New Version of the Arb locker i was the first in oz to fit, The main Problem i had was were you fit the Carrier bearing to the ARB locker the Spindle size has changed from the old lockers so after a bit of stuffing around we got the right size bearing and advised Arb of the Problem which they had no idea of even know the had allready made about 1,500 of the new lockers and i was the first to fit one, Also the carrier bearing cap on the side with the actuator had to be machined down so it would fit, Bit off mucking around but ARB were great and covered "some" of the costs