Hi, everybody! Since two days I'm a MUD-member and I thought it would be nice to introduce myself. We're a Dutch family, living for 5 years now in Suriname, in South America.
We drove a 1983 Hilux 2.4 diesel turbo, a 1996 Isuzu Bighorn 3.1 diesel turbo intercooler, and a 1998 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 5.7L V8, but in may 2010 we found, after a 1.5 year search, an LC HJ60, on my birthday. Nice present
. It was so rusty, that I could check the road through the floor of the car. It had been resting in a barn for two years and provided a home for a rat, a lizard, and an iguana. So the engine really must not have been running for a while. The owner brought two old batteries en we tried to start it. Within three seconds it started. We immediately bled the fuel system and the engine started to rumble like the stomach of my 300 lbs father, five minutes before dinner. Really as new. Besides a little vapor in the beginning, no smoke. We bought it for $3000 and drove it home immediately.
It was an almost totally standard and very rusty HJ60. 4liter 6 cyl diesel (2H). With the help of three Javanese guys in my village (miracleworkers) we restored the old carcass and changed it a little bit: OME 4" heavy duty Dakar lift kit with shackle reversal and OME nitro shocks and steering damper from man-a-fre, 1.5" home made teflon body lift, home made kinda ARB bull bar with small Warn winch, 35x12.5/R15 BF Goodrich KM2 on 8" alloy wheels, and a home made roof rack. A half hour after we fitted the last bolt, three 'o clock in de morning, we left Suriname with it for a short trip to Guyana, Brazil, and Venezuela. We love the beast and called it Methusalem because we've never had such an old car. Below you'll find a picture from when we bought it, and two pics of the new Methusalem. As soon as I learn how to place more pics on this post, you'll get more. Still enough work on this dream of ours, but eventually...
Enjoy the pics,
Wim
We drove a 1983 Hilux 2.4 diesel turbo, a 1996 Isuzu Bighorn 3.1 diesel turbo intercooler, and a 1998 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 5.7L V8, but in may 2010 we found, after a 1.5 year search, an LC HJ60, on my birthday. Nice present
. It was so rusty, that I could check the road through the floor of the car. It had been resting in a barn for two years and provided a home for a rat, a lizard, and an iguana. So the engine really must not have been running for a while. The owner brought two old batteries en we tried to start it. Within three seconds it started. We immediately bled the fuel system and the engine started to rumble like the stomach of my 300 lbs father, five minutes before dinner. Really as new. Besides a little vapor in the beginning, no smoke. We bought it for $3000 and drove it home immediately.It was an almost totally standard and very rusty HJ60. 4liter 6 cyl diesel (2H). With the help of three Javanese guys in my village (miracleworkers) we restored the old carcass and changed it a little bit: OME 4" heavy duty Dakar lift kit with shackle reversal and OME nitro shocks and steering damper from man-a-fre, 1.5" home made teflon body lift, home made kinda ARB bull bar with small Warn winch, 35x12.5/R15 BF Goodrich KM2 on 8" alloy wheels, and a home made roof rack. A half hour after we fitted the last bolt, three 'o clock in de morning, we left Suriname with it for a short trip to Guyana, Brazil, and Venezuela. We love the beast and called it Methusalem because we've never had such an old car. Below you'll find a picture from when we bought it, and two pics of the new Methusalem. As soon as I learn how to place more pics on this post, you'll get more. Still enough work on this dream of ours, but eventually...
Enjoy the pics,
Wim
