So on the advice of Ratbag, I have decided to start a build thread for one of my projects. MODS FEEL FREE TO MOVE THIS IF IT'S OUT OF PLACE BEING NOT SUBARU
It's a 91 Y60 "GQ" Nissan patrol, it started life as a 4.2 petrol wagon, it belonged to a friend of mine, he only had it for a few months before the lack of maintance from previous owners bit him in the donkey. He bought a dual cab 89 GQ and used the wagon as a parts car to get the dual cab up to scratch, then sold it to my brother for the princely sum of $50. After my brother tore out the power windows for his ute and then the front diff housing after he bent his, he gave it to me.
Here it is after I striped the body off and was ready to drag it home.
I love the oxy set
The next day I pressure washed the frame and left my poor HQ Kingswood out in the weather to make room in the shed for the GQ. Over the next few weeks (I'm lazy) I cut off all the unnecessary brackets and the rear two rows of wagon body mounts then began welding the tray mounts on. (in case you haven't worked it out I'm converting it to a ute)
In following with the quality setup in my brothers truck I am fitting "long arms". I don't know the technical terms but when you give it a kick in the guts it squats hard and drives, it also crawls over things a lot better.
The arms are made from 40mm mecaval hollow bar, the bush ends are 65mm hollow bar machined out to fit the standard bushes. The mounts are the original ones moved forward 275mm with new crush tubes through the chassis.
You can see the size difference between the original on the left and the new one on the right (these arms are for a mate and they don't have the big bush bosses).
Bigger on the left and stock on the right here.
Length difference
The arms will have a 20x10 flat bar strong back stitch welded to the top of it.
You can certainly see why these piddly little stock arms bend so easily.
It's a 91 Y60 "GQ" Nissan patrol, it started life as a 4.2 petrol wagon, it belonged to a friend of mine, he only had it for a few months before the lack of maintance from previous owners bit him in the donkey. He bought a dual cab 89 GQ and used the wagon as a parts car to get the dual cab up to scratch, then sold it to my brother for the princely sum of $50. After my brother tore out the power windows for his ute and then the front diff housing after he bent his, he gave it to me.
Here it is after I striped the body off and was ready to drag it home.
I love the oxy set
The next day I pressure washed the frame and left my poor HQ Kingswood out in the weather to make room in the shed for the GQ. Over the next few weeks (I'm lazy) I cut off all the unnecessary brackets and the rear two rows of wagon body mounts then began welding the tray mounts on. (in case you haven't worked it out I'm converting it to a ute)
In following with the quality setup in my brothers truck I am fitting "long arms". I don't know the technical terms but when you give it a kick in the guts it squats hard and drives, it also crawls over things a lot better.
The arms are made from 40mm mecaval hollow bar, the bush ends are 65mm hollow bar machined out to fit the standard bushes. The mounts are the original ones moved forward 275mm with new crush tubes through the chassis.
You can see the size difference between the original on the left and the new one on the right (these arms are for a mate and they don't have the big bush bosses).
Bigger on the left and stock on the right here.
Length difference
The arms will have a 20x10 flat bar strong back stitch welded to the top of it.
You can certainly see why these piddly little stock arms bend so easily.
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