Thursday, Apr 21, 2005 at 14:13
Greg
Ours has been everywhere in Oz with the exception of the CSR, across the SD quite a few times, gunbarrel, Anne Beadell,
kimberley, arnhem land etc etc so has proved to be very robust and reliable.
With a few basic mods(mainly strengthening) it will go for years in basic form. If I was you I'd just do what I've done and keep it light, the heavier it gets the harder to tow and the higher the wear factor.
I've modified ours and quite a few others over the years, when people have seen how
well ours has stood the
test of time.
I basically trussed the existing drawbar, welded braces to the chassis ouriggers fore and aft of the wheels, spring over if not already done (some were and some weren't), lifted the chassis off
the springs 100mm (raised the whole thing except for the running gear), fitted a solid axle (again some came with a solid axle and some didn't), welded a 40 x 75 mm RHS right from the front to the back underneath attaching all the crossmembers to it, fitted a tow hook to the rear of the tube, fitted a ring coupling instead of the ball (pintle hook on the truck), and fitted 14" holden rims and LT steel radials.
If you email me direct I'll send pics and diagrams or (I'm in nsw,
sydney) I can do the work if you wish.
pjames3 at bigpond dot net dot au
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