Is there Zuki funs?

Thanks for link

Thanks for links

Willem
Your still young and skinny.....

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Yerrrr....Doug

Thats the best thing I have heard all year......LOL

Willem,
Theres a 1993 Suzuki Traytop at Oororoo in today's trading post:
88,000k. You could get into traytop camping :-))
Trading Post Link

Willem,

Why no point in diesel conversion? Understandable that most modification what we doing (let along conversions!) have nothing to do to economy, but well so often just for fun. Zuks going anywhere as they are, but if put small turbo diesel they became absolutely unstoppable! I have found that quite a few kits exist to convert Zuks to WV 1.6 or even 1.9 TD.

Cheers
Serg

Serg
Bloody BIG trees will stop em, ..... Like most accidents today they always have to hit a tree ..or pole, even if it's the only one in a 1000Ks someone will hit it.

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Doug,

Bloody BIG tree or pole for this merit will stop anything except tank. Even if we call our cruiser “tractor” I would not try if it is stronger then tree!

Cheers
Serg

Phil

I am one ahead of you. Been there and done that

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Serg

There is not point in converting a Suzuki to diesel as the cost would be prohibitive and there would few advantages to doing it. The early Suzuki's, before they became grand cars, were the best power to weight ratio small 4x4's around with the cabability of going places where other 4bies found it difficult to negotiate the terrain. If the manufacturers deemed it necessary to build one with a diesel engine I am sure that they would have.


Cheers

Willem,
I like the Suzuki, not sure about the sunnies and the speedos.......:-)

Hahahahaha......
Willem in budgie smuglers...now Ive seen it all!!!

LOL

Like my young bloke pulling a toyota out of a bog hole,He had to drive through it to get in front. Image Could Not Be Found

Carbutt,

Yep, they unstoppable. I call this class “Mountain Goats”. Main reason why they so good is because they very light – 1.5t fully laden vs 3 or even more with my LC! I been seriously thinking about one 12 year ago when I was about to get my first 4WD. Reason why I scrap them from my list been because they small and 2 of us plus 2 kids plus all associated cargo simply would not fit. But now when only 2 of us remains because kids get older and have their own way of having fun idea surfaced once again.

Dave,

And who is in Toyota? You? It does not look bogged that bad, neither bog looks that massive, so your son has better driving skills! LOL!!!

Cheers
Serg

Serg,
No it wasn't me, Just a bloke we came across down the road from our place,He tried to drive through with out locking in his hubs & when he did finally because he had road tyres on just dug himself in deeper.

Cheers Dave....

Dave,

It was a joke – you suppose to be in GU. But it is really funny how people can put themselves in deep 5h1t in very pedestrian situation!

Cheers
Serg

Willem,

Did you ever have a two stroke one? I wonder how many have survived.

Matt.

Matt

The first two photos are 2 stroke Suzuki's

I had 4 two strokes over the years

The next two photos are 800cc's and the last two 1.3lt

Never owned a 1lt.

Great little cars.

I have a mate on a station in the Flinders Ranges who bought a two stroke for $1500 a couple of years ago. I can't even fit behind the steering wheel...LOL

Cheers

Willem,

Great little cars. How were the two strokes to drive/maintain?

Matt.

Matt

I was living in Surfers and one day my old Fairlane broke down for the umpteenth time just opposite a caryard, And there was this Suzuki on a ramp looking at me. Cost me $2000 in 1977. After thay we decamped back to the NT and there I joined the Suzuki Club and we went bush every payday.

Maintenance was high but not expensive. After a weekend of mud and sand you had to pull the hubs off to clean the brakes out. Wheel bearings had to looked at quite often as I recall. The 40lt fuel tank sat too low on the vehicle and we often dented them so that the fuel intake was blocked. A simple remedy of fitting an air hose to the fuel breather under bonnet pushed the tank sides and base out on many an occasion.

You will see home made flares in the second photo as there were no flares to be had in 1977 as by then I had upgraded to 15inch Armstrong Rhinos. Later I shod the cars with Dick Cepek Mudders and eventually settled on BFG Muddies.

I sold my soft top after I took it for a swim in the flooded Fergusson River in 1978. It lay under water for about 4 hours. Had tp remove all the fuel lines to get it going again. Then I traded it. It was a good little car having towed a 1.5ton trailer all the way from Surfers to Darwin. I think it only has about 50,000 on at that time.

There's more....lol. Lots of hair raising Suzuki adventures over the years

I must write all of this down sometime :-)


Cheers

Oh yes...forgot. You could cruise at 75/80kmh and very rarely would you get up to 100kmh.. The upside was you could drive around a bogged Toyota/Nissan in the same mud, stop, get out and have a yarn and then take off again...lol They also went into creekbeds and over rockledge where no large 4bies would dare.

Willem,

You been DzukMan for years, even decades. So why you finally rid off them? As far as I can see they have only one disadvantage that is directly came from their main advantage – they have luck of space and useful load ability. But if doing it “light” it should be plenty of space for two as far as I can see.

Cheers
Serg

Motor_head, thanks for post – it is most direct answer on my questions.

Cheers
Serg