willthompson
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- Nov 5, 2018
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So i bought this 80 series off @Tommy345 nearly 2 years ago.
Its a 1993 Hdj81 with just shy of 140k on the clock, he was reluctant to let it go but after nearly buying one off his brother that needed a lot of work to get to the standard of this he let it go.
The following is just some of what tom had already done to it prior to me.
N4 winch bumper
N4 skid plate
Come up winch
Iron man 4 inch lift
Iron man snorkel
Tecinox exhaust
BIT Turbo
BIT Intercooler
Fuel pump upgrade
Injector upgrade
EGT + Boost gauges
SuperPro lift control Arms
OEM Aussie Sub Tank
Manta wheels
+ much more.
First big trip in it was to Austria for snowboarding truck performed amazingly no faults what so ever. Unfortunately after a month of being back i was driving on the twisty roads of the B6255 in yorkshire and the gear box over heated burning smell in the cab, would not select drive and was wanting to reverse instead of driving forward, after an hour of letting it cool down i managed to get it into drive and limp it to where i was going. Next day all seemed well it although it was not selecting the final drive as it was before. Dropped the oil which was all burnt and black flushed it the best i could cleaned the filter out, drove for about half hour before it packed in again, this time to get it to drive you would have select 2 then when moving put it into drive. After a month of deliberation and trying to flush the box out and clean the solenoid's with Paul at West Coast the price to rebuild the auto was silly and he had all the bits to put a manual box in it as this was something tom was eventually going to do also before buying the truck i wanted a manual so we went for it. Its drives amazingly now, after the first clutch slipped straight away we decided a heavy duty terrain tamer was in order and now it pulls like it never has done before only thing i miss is the cruise control.
Next on the list was tidying it up, although it was great condition body and chassis wise it was starting to get its age related marks. Lacquer on the bonnet was none existent, the same had started on the roof above the front and rear windows, small spots of rust had started to appear and paint bubble around windows, getting on top of this before it got worse was a priority and the dreaded slow windows and other rubbers perishing away. So over the past 6 months i have started to collect a whole load of trim bits and rubbers etc to bring it back to its former glory.
Stripped the truck down 2 months ago for some paint, found a hole in the front inner wing and outer wing so i rebuilt that and got it off to the painters. Two weeks after it was in the paint shop i broke my back so everything has been a bit slow but i got the truck back on Monday and i am pretty much back to normal as long as I'm doing no heavy lifting and nothing strenuous. I am big fan of the smooth body of the FZ's they have in the states so all the moulding was pulled off as well and filled in for a cleaner look.
Lots more to come......
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