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I'm 22 and picked the old Gq up a year ago for $1500 with a seized TD.
Rebuilt the donk myself I'm not a mechanic but I've been building motors since I knew what a spanner was. Came with an old TJM bar and Warn high mount winch. Also it had 2 new desert duelers on it so to save some coin I just bought 2 of those not the toughest looking tires and only 31s they still have got me everywhere I've wanted to go.
Fitted a snorkel and a 3" lift kit courtesy of suspension stuff
Recently picked up an ally roof rack for $100
Other than that's she's fairly stock I've got plans to turbo but at the moment it's just my daily commuter and weekend fun bus.
Hope to share my mods and journeys here
Yew
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but theres a bloke stuck on your rear tyre.LOL
Just remember its a daily driver and treat it as such, BTW looking good keep the pics coming
04 ST 3lt auto, not enough Mods to keep me happy, but getting there
Yea the mechanics of the turbo upgrade are pretty simple and with any queries this forum quickly clears up any questions my biggest problem on the turbo upgrade is making the decision as to what's going to work best for me and what the budget is. Haha apart from the daily drive and weekend tourer I also have a speedway car and she will be towing an open air trailer so I'm leaning towards 18g and Gu pump but its just budgeting.
Nice rig. Simple yet versatile. If your looking for a small power gain until the turbo comes along look at tweaking the pump a little.. Get a little more bang juice in it and it makes a difference..
Great pics BTW, where was that snow one taken to?
Snow one is falls creek. After making the mistake of not getting alpine diesel (too excited to stop in mt beauty) we dug the truck out from a 65cm weekend then got it started only to have it suck dry and block the fuel up. In the end I got it running nothing over 800rpm and drove down the mountain in neutral by the time we got halfway down the diesel had normalized and I could rev the engine freely at the bottom I filled up with alpine diesel to get rid of any left over waxed up diesel
Moral of the story. No matter how excited you are for a powder weekend always fill up with alpine diesel haha
So gave the truck a service this weekend along with a new temp gauge since the stock one decided to stop working. But now she's all ready for the trip back up the high country next weekend.
So got back from a week of snowboarding got a few little tracks in and had some fun missed 2 landslides by a matter of hours one on the bogong high plains rd and to falls creek and one on the alpine way on the way to thredbo. Pictures attached are of a creek crossing at Tom groggin start of the Murray and some little trails outside of Jindabyne. One things for sure il defiantly be heading back to the high country in summer such a great place. Sorry for the lack of snaps.
Yesterday after servicing the big jigga and putting about 1/5th of a turn of fuel into the pump over its standard setting. It's running sweet. But after going for a bit of a drive yesterday I got stuck and went to use my winch put after plugging the controller in i hit forwards on the switch it made a quick fizz and now Dosnt work sounded like a short of some kind but I can't find a fuse or anything after pulling the cover off the relays they were a bit dusty and covered in cobwebs I don't really know where to start. It's a Warn high mount. Pretty old but has been used by myself before and the previous owner who's a family friend had used it twice in the 15 years he owned the car. If anyone has any advice on where to start would be great.
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