Landcruiser Park

[bungie]

Was up at Landcruiser Park over the week end. This was a first for me.
Have some videos of a couple of the boys, moving others up to youtube over the next day or so.

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[bungie]

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[BenDover]

ha ha, once again lower tyre pressure, some better tyres and a front locker and he could just crawl up that hill. Good to see you having some fun bungie!!! How do ya think your hilux will go?? And drop me a line if you still need your front fixed up!!
BD

[Brett1907]

That does look like fun. I am going to have to get out there soon!! Haven't been to cruiser park yet but want to try the lux out on some of those harder climbs.

Brett

[GBC]

Brett, those are just side tracks. You'd really hate your 'lux if you tried some of the 'harder' climbs. The running gear just isn't far enough off the ground for that.

But if you want to try something like the claw (not claw gorge), I've got a whole crew only too happy to drink beer and cheer you on:P .

C.J.

[Brett1907]

That is the problem with newer 4bies, you can't get BIG rubber underneath. 32's are the biggest I can go without a body lift or the Snake Racing 4in lift kit. Even then it's 33's max.

I've still got the OEM alloy side steps on, so if I bend them that just means I get my rock sliders earlier!! The missus and kids need steps to get into the ute with.

The lockers make up for a lot of the shortfalls with the new 'lux, but ground clearance will allways be an issue. Now if I can only get a new ute for the boys I can start hacking into the 93 hilux I've got at work. Lexus V8, auto, coil spring conversion, 38's or more... now I'm just drooling.

Brett

[BenDover]

Yeah, im thinking of doing the same Brett. Getting an old basher and getting the grinder out!!! Ill make a good 4bie but i want mind if i smash it up either. Funny enough i just put coil springs and a 3 link on my boat trailer :).

[Lucky_Phill]

All previous issues aside, Brett, I'm still keen to have a run to Cruiser Park. Maybe I'll get to see some of it other than the Pig Pen. ::) :-X

Phill

[bungie]

Had a ball in the Hilux, I’m chasing the other boys trying to find some footage of me playing silly buggers. If I find some I will post it up here so folks can have a laugh at me :)
It was great to have some blokes who knew what to do and give advice; I had the ute in places I had problems walking :)
Looking at the map of Landcruiser Park now trying to work out were we went, I now we did Jim's jump up as I got to with in about ten feet of the top, just could not get over a large hole. I think the other must have been the club rally circuit as we went through the Pig pen to get to Jim's.

[BenDover]

What colour is your hilux?? The pig pen stains lots of trucks hey!!

[bungie]

I stayed out of the pen, but as we came into the area a dual cab Rodeo (I think) had just driven sideways up a small mound and then opened his doors to empty out the muddy water because he didn't check the depth first, poor sodd looked like a right mess.

[finding_time]

Yep i reckon it's the top of the first run on the club rally circuit;) The only problem identifying them is one weekend to the next there never the same. all i takes is a bit of wet and 1 4x4 club and the run changes forever.


I still reckon a trip to levuka is the go. plenty of area's to test the vehicles but MUCH nicer camping.

Ian

[MY-TopEnder]

Man you guy in that GQ must either run a CV shop, or you just really hate your bank balance... cos i watched that movie waiting to hear one go pop.

Lockers really make all the difference, you could have walked that hill all locked up... infact with a rear in you could have probably even left the front unlocked.

I'd be keen as mustard to do a trip to Cruiser/Rover/Levuka... Rover has really good facilities.

[finding_time]

Man you guy in that GQ must either run a CV shop, or you just really hate your bank balance... cos i watched that movie waiting to hear one go pop.




You could be waiting awhile;) I think even the toyota's boys would agree , when it comes to drive train the nissans are the king!!


Agree on the lockers though;) you would only need the rear.


Ian

[bungie]

Nope, all it cost him was his battery, acid everywhere. :(

[birdman67]

That was mad, makes me wish i still had my old lux. Got a 80 series now in good nick & want 2 keep it that way. Thanks 4 the laugh, brought back some good memories.

[Brett1907]

BenDover, Coils, 3 Link, trailer?? You have a serious problem there!! LOL
That is my idea with the old ute too, doesn't matter if it gets bashed up. Finances aren't there at the moment though.

I'm keen to do a run out to one of the parks, maybe a M&G. What do you think Phil? I've heard Levuka is really good, but have heard that Rover is too dry, really dusty. Don't know if any of the rain down south made it that far up.

I think I'm going to have to set up that camera mount in the lux hey Phil, would have been good on that hill we went up at Mt Mee.

Brett

[Brett1907]

Ho Yeh, spoke to my panel beater mate yesterday. He reckons he can modify the front guards to fit 33's. He would be able to keep a nice line and a factory look to it, but got to find if the larger tyres will foul the suspension components. I hope not!!

This means that with a body lift I might be able to fit 35's.

Brett

[BenDover]

Been a cruiser boy all my life, i will be the first to agree that patrol drive train is the best!!!! Chassi on cruiser is better but everything patrol wins hands down, accept power :). Cant beat the rear centre mounted diffs. Even the lsd works well. But oh yeah, you can break cv's and drive shafts. I have even seen super expensive rehardened cv's go snap! I have even broken (a supossed) unbreakable full detroit locker in my cruiser. Smashed the spider gears to peaces. I spent heaps and put a 60 series front diff centre and re enforced 60 series front diff housing in (instead of the pissy hilux ones that 75 series have) and then bent the tubes on the sides that the bearing go onto. So ya just cant win..... If ya drive it like wild man, you will find things to break.!!!! Atleast i can have laugh....
BD
and yeah brett 3 link on my trailer :). But i used rhs and welded it all solid to the axle, so there arent any pivot points. It was pretty stiff suprisingly before i even put the panhard rod on. And NO :) "laugh" if your talking ifs hilux??? then no 35's mate. I had 2" body lift and 2 suspension and i didnt run flares and i still had to flatten the seem that runs under the door sils with a sleggy to run 33's. You can always go a superlift!!! Which just drops you lower wishbone arms under the diff centre and gives you 140mm lift in the front (but no extra wheel travel.)

ps. i luv hearing the cv's clicking and clunking when you get to the peak of the hill and it starts pig rooting :).

[bastard]

You could be waiting awhile;) I think even the toyota's boys would agree , when it comes to drive train the nissans are the king!!


Agree on the lockers though;) you would only need the rear.


IanYeah i to was waiting for the bang the gq cvs are no were near as strong as a gu.About the same strenth as a hilux cv.

[finding_time]

i didn't say they wouldn't go , just you could be waiting a while:o dont compare them to hilux ones::)gees !!! there actually not that bad in the hilux's it's just when they use them in the 100 series cruisers that things go haywire:-[

Chatting to robert at levuka one day , he reckons a 100 series does a cv every weekend of the year;D in the park

Ian

[MY-TopEnder]

Hilux CV's are weak as p*ss.... just about as weak as their diffs.

Fair call that the GQ ones are strong yeah, but nowhere near as strong as a GU one, and certainly living on borrowed time if its driven as hard as it was up that hill too often.

[GBC]

Not sure about body lifting the new ones Brett, haven't they got airbags?

I know snake have got 35's under one of them, but that was with a sas and a lot of cash thrown at it.

Their new kit is limited to 33's simply because they can't body lift 'em.

[GBC]

http://carl.outerlimits4x4.com/viewtopic.php?t=64676&highlight=hilux

Try this thread as a start for the new lux's if you don't already have it.

C.J.

[BenDover]

Hilux cv's arent too bad guess... But it all depends if you have 2 cv's (solid axle) or 4 cvs (Independant Front Suspension). Usually they break when steering is on full lock> then bounce, clunk and snap). Although ive seen a guy in a lux drive up this simple 2 metre hill and i heard a slight clunk and he rolled back down again backwards. I asked what was that noise and he said he had broken a cv "we both couldnt beleive it broke that easily". Having 4 makes them way weaker and adds to the amount of pressure applied to them.
Everybody keeps talking about having rear lockers. Personally id go rear locker first, then front. But really for 4x4ing you should go front locker first. As 90% of the time you can get your front tires up over something but dont have enough traction to pull yourself up and over it.

[bastard]

Hilux CV's are weak as p*ss.... just about as weak as their diffs.

Fair call that the GQ ones are strong yeah, but nowhere near as strong as a GU one, and certainly living on borrowed time if its driven as hard as it was up that hill too often.No weaker than a gq,haultech make a good cv,they modify the standard ntn cv and put a chromoly ring around it that hold it together,not bullet proof though thats why i run chromolies,and fingers crossed have never broken any.

[dewy]

great pics i hope to go one day ::)