My GU tourer

[Reddave]

Pulled the hubs off and found my problem, the auto engagement wasnt working properly and was just spinning on the shaft machining the end of it.




Whacked my spare set of manual hubs on it with my Racebred 4wd strengthened hub rings, this should be better.



Would still rather crap a hub than a CV, makes it a lot easier to replace on the side of a track lol

[Stropp]

Welcome along mate, the build is coming along nicely.

[Reddave]

Bar didn't work out like I wanted, so there goes a bar

Rang Raslarr and ordered one of their competition tube bars with headlight hoops, looks like this:


This will fit the highmount as well as a lowmount, hopefully be ready to pick up before Australia Day weekend

Did a sneaky drive to Shepparton last night to pick up a Safari DTronic chip, fitted it this morning and went for a drive, WOW is all I can say.

The flat spot off idle is gone and I have torque available on tap now throughout the whole rev range, once I get a bigger exhaust the benefits will be even more

[Reddave]

Look what turned up:


Hopefully this should give it a bit more poke, 3" exhaust, replaces the whole exhaust from the back of the turbo.
Fitted the exhaust, doesn't sound any different but turbo spools a lot quicker and it feels a lot more responsive, especially in the mid range.

Drove up my test hill on the way home from work, normally by the time I am halfway up I have dropped from 80 to 60 and EGT's are well over 500 degrees C, with or without the chip.

I can now accelerate /keep a constant speed up the hill and EGT's sit at 400 degrees C

I should have put the exhaust on years ago!!!!

Now just need to find someone that can fine tune the Safari and get as much as I can from it

[Reddave]

Went to Toolangi last weekend:


New bar fitted, Rob at Raslarr was a pleasure to deal with
Winch fitted today and got some eyelets for beside the winch to hold the hook

Winch is all wired up, just went with a normal hand controller for now.

If I spend all winter winching then I'll be wiring in-cab controls, but for now just trying to keep it simple.
Spooled on 30m of rope off the low mount until I can afford to buy longer rope.
Fitted 4 new speakers, patrol speakers are crap and work when the want to!!
And picked up an alloy Rhino tray, about 3/4 length, just need to get some cross bars for it and then I won't need to put firewood in the back of the car anymore (got sick of cleaning out sawdust)

Still got a small list to achieve before Easter when I take the kids away, and then a trip to Haunted stream over Anzac weekend

[mudski]

Reddave. Remove the muffler in your Reback exhaust. I have the same system and removing that muffler made another good improvement. Not noisy and very little droning too. And I drive my troll every day.