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Good stuff!

Correct! Heavily modified is right, Top Gear has had a few dealings with Hiluxs over the years They're basically a religion over here.

Yeah, its the newest vehicle I've owned, yet has the same leaf sprung agricultural chassis as the old one. So bumpy and slow! I love it.

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Can you confirm this? Your measurements sound a little off if I'm honest. But yes, stud pattern should be the same, but offset and width may vary.

I have this problem currently after a little incident with my 1400. Except whats left of my key has moved enough to stop the barrel from turning. I'll update with my solution sometime :-)

That was very sweet, loved the brumbys inclusion.

I have no money, but just for my own reference, what width are these? Good luck with the sale Ross

I would kill for a hard bed cover like that. KILL I tell you. Do they hinge from below the window?

That looks AWESOME. So fresh so clean.

Just FYI, the spare tyre size is the same as the factory tyre size. 155/80-13. Awesome tyre :-\

Found this for sale in JPN, thought you might like to see it. http://page9.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/k141212285

Sounds like you need some Brumby/4wd struts. Heres a picture with them in the front of mine before I had the struts shortened. Note - This is Brumby struts, with brumby springs, with 3 coils cut off. I had to cut 50mm out of the strut to get it to a height I wanted.

Cheers! I fitted new shocks into the back & front at the same time as lowering, They're gas shocks intended for the front of a Nissan Vanette. So are hopefully a little stiffer than what was in there. The shocks that were in there were too long and a Toyota shock, they were bottomed out at that height. Here they are at full droop. Compared to the old shocks I had thought about air adjustable shocks to stiffen things up a bit, and to get the back higher when I have a load/passengers, but I don't think they make anything that short.

Yikes! I have sighted ~150-160km/h in my GSR once or twice (just shy of 100mph) at something fun between 6000-6500rpm.

Cheers for the nice words guys. Dirk, I think that I might definitely have trouble sliding something like that through a wof, and I'm unsure if theres the room. Clever idea though. Overall it handles fairly well now though once you get it settled into a corner and have your line set.

Also I found a set of 13x5.5 enkei wheels at a massive wreckers in the Central north island. They for some reason have had 'Cheviot' centre caps put on them. I did not purchase. I also found an ea82 wagon with some 13' wheels I hadn't seen before, but I could only find 3 of them, the 4th had gone AWOL. I have some more random pictures, I might start a new thread.

Dragging up an old thread I know, but I finally got it done. Used '81 Brumby front struts and springs 3 coils cut from springs Struts shortened by 50mm below the spring perch Toyota corolla gas strut inserts (ae92?) Roughly 30mm more removed from struts above the spring perch to get insert captive. And another 20-30mm taken off the shock shaft to get the springs captive. The adjustable spring perches of the 4wd struts mean I can wind the height up to get it above the legal minimum height at inspection time. In the rear I just went down roughly 2 splines. Shocks are for a c22 Nissan Vannette with the ends modified. The front is nice and stiff and responsive, but the rear spring rate is unchanged (read - soft and wobbly in comparison), I was hoping to try and fit Gen1 4wd torsion bars to my 2wd trailing arms in an attempt to stiffen the back up a bit. Does anyone know if this is possible?

Just two for comparison, went on a holiday and happened to take a photo in the same spot as previous.

Just some closure for this, I ended up getting the two rack mounting bushes custom made, and the round 'rag' joint bush the same. Just had to very carefully measure EVERYTHING, they came out pretty good. Company here called 'Autoline'

Heres a few pictures of mine. Both in a bit of a state these days but hey, Its nice to look back. My car next to a giant carrot Brumby at sunset

I'm not much help, but I can say that the difference between Stage I and Stage II AFAIK is the bolt spacing, stage two has one bolt further away from the center. Could also be keen on stage I prices/shipping etc pending.

NLA also? I will try a bit more with some aftermarket stuff, will post up part numbers/brands if I have any more luck.