Recent content by andrewfarmer

Hi Guys I'm Faith, Andrews wife. I've been blown away by the comments from this forum. Andrew is, or rather was, a very quiet chap. He kept to himself a lot and few people knew him very well. I knew he was helping folk out with your conversions, but didn't realise how many. It does explain the...

I used 16mm bolts, but turned them down to 15 where the bushes run on them. A wee bit hard getting the thread through the bush but has worked well for several years...

Anything light - white grease works as does engine oil. Pull the inner, lube it, wipe it almost all off so there's only a very thin film left and you're done.

I made my own - see the ROTW link. I put an extra 4" into it and that's really only just long enough. Owners of 'stock' 45 cabs can chime in but I recall having seen lots of listings about problems with head room, leg room etc in the std cab because Toyota made it just a bit too short...

As most wear is on the end of the gears and the end plate/housing, you can get the gears, housing, end plate machined at resolve a lot of the wear issues. I've swapped end plates over between older and lewer pumps OK - but it's also easy to gently trim the baffles to suit the later type...

80 series front has the smaller crown wheel, reverse cut, hi-pinion from memory and these can often break especially under high reversing load. Out here - for serious off road work, they get re-engineered with a full size rear crown wheel and pinion - but it involves some rework to the...

For those you really want the 3C-TE - and yes they go really well :)

On my 40 I've found that propane gives around 90% mileage compared to petrol. Since I've increased the compression to use it better they run about equal. And I've never had heat issues. I've also run a number of vehicles on CNG but it does have a much poorer milage ratio to petrol. A...

Too small. Prone to cracking heads.

SOLD. Health reasons force me to sell Gertrude. All deatails in my ROTW thread. I'm looking for around NZ$13500 (currently around US$8000) Don't know about shipping but there seem to be a lot coming in from Australia at present so it could be a viable option for someone who wants a...

Just remove the residual valve from the m/cyl.

I like Precision. Very happy with them. I used to get Yukon from Randy's until they sent me some lo grade Chinese gears instead (without telling me) and wouldnt refund. I wouldnt fit 5:29 personally - seen too many broken because the pinion gets too big. sure someone else will fill in...

Sounds like he's talking about removing the transfer case??

With a front extension, depending on flex and tyre size you may have clearance issues with the lips on the front on the front fenders - and also problems with the tyres ripping up the wiring into the front indicators. But I didnt find this until I went to 35s from memory - but it might have...

The steering rods can get bound up on full compression when the diff is at it's most forward position.