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I'll check with the outlaws jackaroo, but I'm sure they dont have a seperate chassis, therefor no body lift possible. They are quite a good truck thou, Isuzu make a good engine if looked after. I am asuming the lack of bonnent scoop means no diesel engine? If I'm wroing and it is diesel...

The car pc is running centrafuse. It's freeware and downloadable from MP3Car.com It has good large buttons on the touch screen (I was running a 7" and everything fitted perfect) and played all types of media. The GPS took alittle to get sorted with Australian maps but all in all it is great...

Toyota 60 Series, 1983 Good Points I own it!! And the sound the 6.5 chevy diesel makes through the twin 3" pipes Bad Points Going back to leaf springs. What mods have you done? Nothing, was all done when I bought it. But here goes. 6.5 chevy diesel V8 and 5 speed, front...

Well the 80 is now dead!! I hit a 8 ton truck that was doing a illegal U-turn at a set of lights at 80km/hr Caved in the left side bull bar, bonnet and dented every panel on the left side. This bounced me across a island in the middle of the road and I over corrected and put me onto the...

The center diff lock diverts drive torque to both front and rear diff's. With it unlocked you can lift one wheel and the whole car will not go anywhere. Lock it and you have to lift one front and one rear before you stop forward movement. HOWEVER. Gearing for the RAV4 is all for on road use...

Capt Bligh is killing QLD. Both her and Beattie, spent billions of dollars on projects QLD just didn't need and still haven't worked. She has sent QLD bust in a boom, now times are down she will rape every man,woman and child in QLD for the next three generations at least to try and keep her...

I have always walked and marked where to go if needed. Nearly came unstuck once, at a 4wd park and walked the crossing behind the camp site after some rain. A bit of a crowd formed when some noticed what I was doing. Noticed a bit of a drop off so got a stick and marked it, mentally telling...

Most drag cars use autos because of the speed of gear changes. When doing 9 sec passes or less taking up even 2 sec's for a gear change is just not on. And a 2 speed powerglide is totally different to a 4by gearbox. Most 4bys are coming out with slushbox only is because that is where the...

True, It's kinda like claiming holdens better than ford because it won the V8 supercar. (Or vise versa in the ford falcon TV ad) However, If you look at the industries that rely on a 4wd in nearly (If not totally) standard form then you will always see landcruisers. Even though the...

I've got my touchscreen mounted in the double din space in the 80 series. I had to dismantle the screen and mould the dash surround to fit nicely, but it all works well including all the old buttons. The only thing that I took out was the infra red thingy for the remote system as I would never...

My setup for the carpc ges through a seperate stereo. So when I put the DVD on for the kids, the computer will put out the dvd sound, via earphones, while a seperate stereo will play normally for me. I run a VDO headdeck that is MP3, bluetooth (for handless phone) with the usual SD card slot...

I'm using media impact for a front end (Free off mp3car.com) with oziexplore for navigation. I trying to find local street maps so I can run the street navigation side of the front end. The front end is quite good, easily run with large buttons for the touchscreen, although the ability to...

I too have a carpc in the 80 series. I'm just running a 1Ghz motherboard, mini atx power supply and 40gig Hdd. Controlling this is a 7" touchscreen I mounted in the standard double din spot in the dash. I have all the electronics mounted in the glovebox at the moment, will work on a box...

Dont agree with this at all. About the only thing stronger in a patrol is the diff's. Most people buy them for comp rigs is because they are cheap. Alot of cruiser comp vechicles have the patrol diffs under them and the rest standard toyota. Because in all other areas the cruisers are a...

I am a fan of the auto's, but with the steep area's I go to, and towing hte off road camper at that, the manual is the way to go for me. The auto just doesn't have the down hill engine braking when towing the camper that I want. Also get slightly better fuel economy in the manuals.

Dont agree with it. The way our government is run we'll end up with all Nat parks closed because somewhere 500kms away is having a fire ban. And having been caught in a bush fire before, I take many precautions when choosing camp spots and I always have a rough escape plan sitting in the...

If I was looking just for a basher, where I'd look for a GQ. Coil suspension is better off road than leaf and will cost less for ungraded/lifted springs. I love the 60 but with the 2H and leaf springs, but I beleive the GQ would be a better off road machine. However, if you can stretch...

Just thought I'd share this bit of info. I have a Mio C310 Street guidance sat nav unit. With touchscreen etc. Found on the net how you can "Hack" it so you access the built in windows CE thats already preloaded and by doing this, you are able to load Oziexplore CE via a SD card with all...

A base model 80 series cruiser, patrol diff's and gearbox at boths ends. And the new toyota V8 twin turbo diesel under the bonnet. A capable truck, that could take on anything, comfortable as you can get with the economy of a DD that would make an awesome tourer. I've got everything but...

Snorkels assist in more ways than just water crossings. When traveling on dirt roads the snorkel sucks in cleaner air, so the filters last longer. The air it is sucking in is cooler are it isn't being sucked in from a hot engine bay, even if sucking in throught the guard the temp will be...