My project build - 2003 HZJ105 diesel (1 Viewer)

[e34croak]

Are you near Queensland by chance? Landscape is beautiful!

 

[Ali FJ80]

That is a great truck, very nice work! It reminds me of the ones we had growing up in the middle east. I dont think I had ever seen one with an automatic transmission till I came to the states. Had a 4 door hilux diesel when I first started to drive till it was taken at gun point.


Also, what type/brand of roof rack mounts are you using? Thanks.

 

[muzza01]

Are you near Queensland by chance? Landscape is beautiful!

Yeah, good pickup e34croak. I live on an acre near Cairns which is Far North Queensland. It's quite tropical, we are surrounded by rainforest coverered hills and mountains. Here is a couple more pics if you are interested.
First one is our front yard view, second is our back yard view.

 

[muzza01]

That is a great truck, very nice work! It reminds me of the ones we had growing up in the middle east. I dont think I had ever seen one with an automatic transmission till I came to the states. Had a 4 door hilux diesel when I first started to drive till it was taken at gun point.


Also, what type/brand of roof rack mounts are you using? Thanks.

Sounds like one hell of a story Mate, I presume it was the middle east where you had your Hilux taken. Whereabouts in the ME?

I got my roof rack from this place about 6 years ago.
http://powerful4x4.com.au/

 

[e34croak]

My mate at work is from NZ originally but he lived in Mackay, couple towns over. I'm jealous I've been all over NZ but I want to bang over to aussie for a bit. Keep us up to date on that choice LC you scored!

 

[muzza01]

Mackay is a nice spot too. It's about 8 hours drive south from here. I have traveled around both islands of NZ too, also a great place to explore.

 

[Ali FJ80]

Sounds like one hell of a story Mate, I presume it was the middle east where you had your Hilux taken. Whereabouts in the ME?

I got my roof rack from this place about 6 years ago.
http://powerful4x4.com.au/

It was in Karachi, unfortunately quite a common occurrence there.

 

[MCbuilder]

Nice work on the truck. I picked up an 06 HZJ105 for our growing family a year ago and am slowly trying to de-Africanize it. Your pics from under the hood are helping me see what some things are supposed to look like!

 

[muzza01]

Any pics from under your bonnet MCbuilder?

 

[MCbuilder]

Here you go. I was mostly talking about the mounting of the fusible link block. I figured it didn't come from the factory with zip ties for mounting and wires twisted together...

Here's a view of the inside showing the nice local workmanship (by the way the cover is held on with drywall screws):

I've spent a lot of time this past year tracing down electrical problems and replacing fuses that had wire twisted around the two blades. Still a ways to go, as you can see. Otherwise, been a great truck, and has pulled a lot of loaded dump trucks and supply trucks through the ruts and mud to reach our place.

 

[muzza01]

Wow. Looks very ordinary, but not too hard to fix.

 

[muzza01]

So I installed a centre console and passenger bucket to the Cruza recently.

Also relocated the light bar and spot light switches to the console as well as a twin USB.

Couple of pics of the outside and one with the camer trailer.

 

[Greenbean]

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Just beautiful! Absolutely beautiful!

Appreciate you posting up here mate,