troys 86 patrol

[troyhaima]

hey guys thought it was about time i did this.
it has th l28 engine. brought the truck off my dad about 5 years ago for my first car. when dad owned it he brought it from standard and has slowly done it up since then he owned it between 2001-2009. have had to hava a looka round to grab som photos from back then.
from what i can remember this is the very first trip same day we brought it.
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and afew more through the stages of up grading it.
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has had a 30 mm body lift,rear shackels lifted to have truck sitting level, all bars home made and welded, took old flares off and put rubber ones on, put a safari snorkel on but did not last long because engine was not getting enough air flow. so it held the butter fly valve open reving its head off. ended up being some down pipe from guttering and sitting on 31 at tyires. next we put in a roll cage at the back to take roof off plus to get rid of the old lap belts. some time between those years we also replaced the sound sistem and put a uhf base mount in it.
next upgrade was moving from 31ats to 33muds goodyear wranglers and changing the roof rack to a smaller one.
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this is how i brought it 5 years ago. has stayed the same since then till now.
last few months have benn busy planning on putting new slide bars on instead of the originals. there a bit beat up and broken. plus i have got rid of the front seats and put in my old seats out of my mr2 sw20. kept the old seat bases and put the seats on them plus put a spension base down for drivers.
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ever since we owned the truck we have always been snapping the front leaf springs so i thought id try militry wrap back of leaf spring so you have it on both ends now. got them made up plus had to get new bracets made up to fit them in.
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after many years of geeting hung up ont the rear diff finally decided to go bigger and better. so brought some old rims ground the rust off them and chucked some 34 simex jungil treckers on.
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from this
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to this
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really stoked with how well it turned out. now just need to get a winch and rock slider bars and sometime in the future a rear locker. but at moment lsd dose good

[threedogs]

Pretty when they are new , try greasable shackles best mod ever for a leaf sprung 4x4.
You can get flex from leaf springs also put in anti inversion brackets
keep the military wrap or next time try parabolics.
If you put 2" extended shackles in the rear it will only lift it
one inch just enough to give you a slight down hill look

[troyhaima]

yea already has the greasable shackles.
have already snaped a pair of parabolics, anti inversion brackets are in
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this is how big the rear shackels are
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[NoRush]

nice looking beat mate ! looks like she gets u plenty of places!

[troyhaima]

ill admit its surprised me were iv got this truck. at times iv got it throught chalenges that a hilux on 38 simex extremes and lexus v8 couldnt. but thats probably because of the wranglers with about 3mm tread though soft shingle. lol

[troyhaima]

so finaly got on to start building new rock sliders with a mate of mine. got a little way through it before i had to stop to start studying for exams.
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also few weeks ago got some new head lights from my parents for my 21st. flipin ausome wee things.
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this is what the old lights looked like
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this is the new ones hell of a difrence
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so trucks slowly getting there give me a year and migh have some rear lockers lol

[troyhaima]

found some rust in my rear guards so got it cut out and put a l peice of metal in ther to screw the flears on to
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also past week have started to build the wall behind the frount seats so i can take the canope off permintly
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cut some cardbord to make a template to cut out the fiber glass panle.
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planing on getting some perspecs to put on the top half so i can still see out the rear.