Vossie

Taught my 10yr old to drive for the first time. The vehicle of choice was a no brainer.

Being familiar with doing tile work, I opted to use a grout saw to take out the old seam sealer. HF had one with a saw blade that looked interesting…for $3!…so I bought it. Made a few passes with it for depth, then switched to a matte knife. 20...

Thats the plan if I need to basically. Thats why it's I h8 mud, isn't it? :grinpimp: Another fair point. Again I'm hoping it's not too much of an issue. Ive always been a guy to try and get the mud off my boots before getting in a car, but it...

Stipple or checkering.

Those look awesome but they will be mud traps for sure. Excellent work on all of your build!

A fair point. From the testing I've done i think they will be OK. That double layer with the cut outs actually adds a nice amount of grip, but that is something to think about. If it does prove to an issue, I have a few ideas, but hopefully...

While they look great I would worry how slick they would be wet.

And then a bit of a side quest, pedals. Sorted the clutch pedal position and stuff, but decided I wanted to spruce it up a bit. Laser cut 3mm Polished up Then stacked and welded, then welded to the actual pedal arms. A bit of paint and re...

Back to the main job, getting the h151 behind the 1uz. Adapter plate in and fly wheel on. Had to clearance the bell housing just a bit on the bottom 2 bolts for the adapter plate, but other than that, went straight on Then clutch pack, then...

Added another to the herd. This was a customers truck, we did many projects for him including a fresh hub to hub disc brake axle w/powder-coated parts, 3FE (a local shop installed) in front of an new H55F/split-case (with park-brake) we built...

I cut a sleeve out of 2mm tubing, and slit down the middle of that. Now to weld it all back again. Ain't no way on earth that's ever moving! And in the vehicle. Very happy with that now. Now other errant thoughts can distract me whilst...

Well now that the body is in its place, all we need to do to move it workshop is sort the steering shaft out. On the previous version of the build, I had to lengthen the shaft, so it had 2 welded joints in it. Now, I did these properly, and...

Got my adaptor plate cut, as well as new body mounts. Went to bolt the adaptor on, and, although it fits, I need bolts to do it. And it's a public holiday, so no dice today. So let's do something else constructive. Body mount time...

Do this for both gear boxes. Then cross measure all the bolt holes, throw it on the computer into CAD, print templates, check, adjust, print, check, adjust... you get the idea. This is how many revisions I went through. And here's all the...

Time to start getting this gearbox onto the back of the engine. New flywheel on. Isn't it pretty Then the clutch went on so we could see what sort of gap we are looking at for the bell housing. Measured out at various points around it, and...

Engine and gearbox out of the chassis And chassis back down the hill Still a few things to pull from it like the fuel tank, but otherwise, that's pretty much it done on the good old hilux surf chassis. It did good. It did really good...

Well, finally have all the bits to get this done, barring the custom bell housing i need to make. Its a weird combination, flywheel from a 2uz, clutch plate from a dyna, pressure plate from a 1hdt 100 series and throw out ans pilot bearings...

The moment has come to move her into the garage—my next project officially begins.

Have daily'd a 1uz and a650 combo in my rig for 2 years. Loved it. But I'm in the middle of ditching my a650 for a h150, the 5 speed manual from the 80 series. It is possible to use all toyota part numbers for this conversion, as there were...

Input shaft cover off next. Bearings look good. Next is to split the transfer case adapter. I guess this is where being a knife maker comes in handy! Looking alright here too And finally, the whole thing apart There's the rust. Im...

STILL waiting for my new flywheel. Might as well start tearing down the gearbox. This box stood out in the rain for who knows how long with no rubber boot, so I'm expecting there to be some rust. Let's see how bad it is... Transfer shifter off...

Still waiting for the flywheel to get here, so busying myself with small things. Guess I need a third pedal again. Im keeping the surf steering column as it's already in place and does everything I need it to do, but it does get in the way a...

One thing I paid a lot of attention to when I first did the IFS build was getting the front wheels correctly placed in the front arches. Nothing ruins a build more than messing that up in my opinion. And I think I nailed it. So, going to...

Finally got my loom out. Boy what a mess. When I first built the rig, I paid alot of attention to keeping the loom neat and tidy. But I guess 2 years worth of adding, taking out some stuff, adding more, changing this and splicing that makes for a...

Drove it for the last time, then ripped it apart.