mikes 1995 Bighorn

[scruff123]

and did you have and mods to do the body lift, and you you need an extra flare with tyres tha wide. sorry for so many questions but am kinda new to this and brain is like gaint sponge......very dense

brought the body lift blocks of trademe, and bolts etc from engering place up here, intaled it al myself, easy as.

Yes im ment to have extended flairs on it but just got a warrent without them and no rear swaybar in haha, the joys of living in the far north

[scruff123]

Nice truck, looks well tough
I looked at a few Plasiars, shoulda got one instead of the wizard haha
what did you make your snorkel from, they dont look like the normal downpipe fittings

yea there good trucks, i love mine, heaps of room.
its 90mm wast pipe, strong as, and it got 2 pressure clamps rivited 2 the body to hold it on.

[oompalompa]

hi dude,

was wondering if there was much involved in doing the tank lift. was having a nosey under there the other day and cant see any major probs, was that the case??

[scruff123]

heres sum photos from the trip afew of us done on saturday, went up through the crunchie trail out in the gumfields in Ahipara, was a great trip with perfect weather.
truck performed very well with new shocks and only got 1 new dent in it

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[scruff123]

heres a link to a quick vid, had to take my mates hilux down afew steep bits for him, was his first time 4weeling. this is a great track and is always a good day up there, if anyones cming up north and keen to catch up and go through here just let me now. cheers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdHB3Dxbjac

[oompalompa]

looks awesome. wicked flex in the back end. jealous lol have you done some mods to the back end at all aside from the shocks? what sort of shocks?

[Captcol]

I had a look at some of thsoe tracks when I was up there a couple of years back, they looked awesome

[scruff123]

looks awesome. wicked flex in the back end. jealous lol have you done some mods to the back end at all aside from the shocks? what sort of shocks?

was a great day, yea im stoked with the flex of the rear, disappointing how restrictive the ifs is, still manage to go most places tho. no mods to the rear apart from new 40mm lifted coils and extended shocks, they are raw nitro's. and the coils are Dobi's, can get part numbers if you want

[oompalompa]

that would be cool if its easy, dont stress if its hard. IFS is the downfall to all 4wds i reckon. often think about doing the solid axel conversion and use coils instead of leaf springs. it can be done using the toyota front axel and leafs but then by the time you add the cost of the conversion, may as well just get a toyota!! would be werid having a hard front and a soft rear. dont know if it can be done with coils in the front but cant see why not.

[scruff123]

that would be cool if its easy, dont stress if its hard. IFS is the downfall to all 4wds i reckon. often think about doing the solid axel conversion and use coils instead of leaf springs. it can be done using the toyota front axel and leafs but then by the time you add the cost of the conversion, may as well just get a toyota!! would be werid having a hard front and a soft rear. dont know if it can be done with coils in the front but cant see why not.

yea shure is a downfall, im happy with the way my truck performs, ive never liked the hiluxs, to hard to get in and out of for a tall person, and i seem to be forever pulling them out haha.
part numbers are:
front shocks-G6031BY - Nitro Shock
rear shocks-G6029Y - Nitro Shock
rear coils- C21-165V

any BNT automotive store should be able to get them in,

i payed around $650 all up

[oompalompa]

feel like your sitting on the floor in a lux. im short and feel like that lol wouldnt really trade my bighorn till i found a better one.... unlikely. cheers for part info, they looked like thy performed well

[FORGE1]

Thats a pretty impressive truck you have there mate. Im starting to do stuff like that to mine but onece the rego expires then its off the road for 3 months while it gets a lift and rear bar work done. Im in Whangarei and will be heading upto Ahipara over new years so might check out that gumfield track. Will PM you for directions etc.

[scruff123]

Thats a pretty impressive truck you have there mate. Im starting to do stuff like that to mine but onece the rego expires then its off the road for 3 months while it gets a lift and rear bar work done. Im in Whangarei and will be heading upto Ahipara over new years so might check out that gumfield track. Will PM you for directions etc.

here afew pics of the front shackles you messaged me about

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[FORGE1]

cheers for that mate. It will give me something to work on over the next couple of days. Thanks heaps.

[mattmannz]

Nice truck man, going to do something similar.

When you did the body lift did you have to remount the radiator, extend steering shaft?

What sort of lift did the springs give you? I am tossing up between OME springs and shocks and something else at the moment.

Cheers
Matt.

[scruff123]

Nice truck man, going to do something similar.

When you did the body lift did you have to remount the radiator, extend steering shaft?

What sort of lift did the springs give you? I am tossing up between OME springs and shocks and something else at the moment.

Cheers
Matt.

i have a custom full aluminium rad with electric fans, if using the original tho it is a good idea to lower it, because then you can still have full function of the fan shroud and you wont have any overheating problems, or leave it were it is and put high qaulity electric fans in and get rid of the viscios one alltogether. i would go electric as you can switch them off wen going through water. my viscios fan took big gouges out of the original rad lol.

didnt have to extend steering shaft, only fuel lines and brake booster vacume hose, also the fuel filler hose if u done do a tank lift. if its manual ull have to bend the gear sticks, if its auto just loosen off the gear selector linkages before doing the lift, you may need to bend/adjust the transfer case stick to get into low4, i just cut the boot a little.

spring gave me about a 50mm lift or more as the old springs sagd heaps but they only give 40mm lift from stock/factory hight. depend what you budget allows, if i had the extra mony i would have gome ome, but the dobi springs and raw nitro shocks seem to do the job very well and wer only a fraction of the price of ome. i only paid 600 all up and ome was well over $1000.

[scruff123]

hey guys, just went up the crunchie trail again on satuurday, this time it was nice an slippery from 2 days rain beforehand, we had one 1st timer in a standard bighorn wich was a heap of fun, and my mate ended up tipping his mu over, only damaged the front fender tho. heres some pics and a link to my video

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0gcAaPZWCE

[Captcol]

looks like a good day, the standard biggie did well

[oompalompa]

wicked dude!!

[4x4SWANNY]

The vid been removed dam.......Bugger on the tip over.. Have come close but never done it yet....
The bighorn would not come off to good i would fear....