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FWIW the best front and rear CV shafts I've had were genuine/original shafts that I nabbed from wrecker cars at U-pull it then got rebuilt locally at a reputable CV shaft specialist. Definitely not easy to tell if a shaft is genuine or not, sometimes they have ribs cast into the inner joint cup (for...

Thanks Bennie, I was leaning towards something like that BUT! I don't have any spare front L series shafts or EJ shafts to play with or mix n match. If I took the ones out of my car to play with then that would make it non-drivable after I change the inner CV. Maybe not so bad if I was doing the gea...

I do recommend a front LSD. My gearbox is a complete hybrid and uses the 25 spline EJ output stubs. Not an issue though as the L series had two models that used the same stub axles and the CV joints are available off the shelf! The MPFI manual touring wagon and the MPFI RX turbo both ran a 25 splin...

This has been on my to-do list for a while, although my desperate bodge job fix from months ago had held up surprisingly well. There's a rod for the L series 5 spd shifter linkange that has bushings in each end. My bushings were in multiple pieces and earlier this year I managed to buy 4 new genuine...

Agree, and they're also the first ones to scream blue murder and get angry at "the greenies" when places like this are locked out/shut down due to mis-use/abuse. What I don't understand is this; they go to these remote/beautiful natural locations for recreation be it camping, fishing etc. But then t...

I hope you gave the Silverbullet a good wash on the underside after this trip! As much as I could, yes. Jammed a high pressure hose nozzle into the "chassis rails" washed a bunch of sand and sea-shells out. This was after I go over the whole car, engine bay, door jams, underside, top to bottom with...

Take two electric boogaloo, it was time for the annual 4WD club fishing comp to the Coorong! Can't believe it's been a year already. And you wouldn't believe it but, I won it again! :lol: Now I've been fishing semi-seriously for 3 or 4 years off and on, always land based. I still contend that succes...

Day 7 still I went to Mt Remarkable N.P via Pt. Augusta to get some supplies, visited the arid lands botanic garden. Got into Mambray creek campground around 5 PM. Not enough time to see Alligator gorge. It's an 8km walk one-way from Mambray creek or more than 1 hour drive by car. Still, managed to ...

A typical view from inside Gammon ranges, mostly only accessible on foot (there aren't many roads in the park) https://i.imgur.com/6TXXAUd.jpeg Day 6 went on a 12km bushwalk that turned out to be more than 15km in the end, my fault :roll: Didn't take enough water and nearly expired in the heat. At t...

So I did crawl back to Marree at 40, sometimes 25km/h hitting bump stops on every corrugation :cry: Got back into town after 7pm, the hotel owner was very kind and let me have a room for another night at such short notice. So day 5 at sparrows fart I set off back towards Leigh creek banging and scra...

Shortly after takeoff, this is far north SA. Yes, it is pretty dry and desolate https://i.imgur.com/3XUlogI.jpeg The lake still had close to 2m of water at the deepest part, but evaporating by the day as evidenced by the white salty shoreline. It won't be there for much longer. https://i.imgur.com/x...

Back on the black top https://i.imgur.com/4kUxpL7.jpeg I think this was a roadworks section, otherwise there is bitumen all the way to Marree. Pretty isolated! https://i.imgur.com/7onLwWJ.jpeg And just as I rolled into Marree from the south, so too did the Shitbox rally from the north/west! Over 250...

Same day as the Trezona hike (maybe a mistake :lol: ) the Mt. Ohlssen bagge hike was 2.7km almost straight up to 900+ meters of elevation. I nearly couldn't do it, many stops to catch breath but the view was totally worth it, Wilpena pound is breath-taking. https://i.imgur.com/NpthRVt.jpeg And back ...

Lots of pics in this one, a lot of ground was covered :biggrin: This was a first for me, going this far north. I spent 7 nights "on the road" so to speak from the South Flinders ranges to Marree and then Gammon ranges and Mt. Remarkable. Probably close to 2k kms were travelled, a lot for an old car!...

Pyrenees looks nice! Looks like Wooded native forest, not enough of that here in SA to explore. Todays drama; broke the clutch cable! Was just creeping into the driveway at work this morning when it let go, bunny-hopped into my parking spot and stalled it :lol: Very lucky it was just the very end th...

Black it was! Prepped, primed and painted all in the same afternoon :lol: Gotta be careful of fingerprints on installation. And it got a serious workout last weekend being our October long weekend. 4WD club trip to a private property near Peterborough, very southern edge of the Flinders ranges. It w...

Looks like a fun day out! Where there any major scratches? I find the Brumby/MY platform is great for navigating scratchy tracks as they're so narrow compared to modern fourbies.

This weekends project had some urgency, going on a 4WD club trip next weekend. Only noticed 2 weeks ago when I stuck my head under there that the moustache bar was bent like a wet noodle :o Yesterday I started before 9AM, got the car back together after 6PM so it was a big day and I am very sore tod...

Found a decent substitute for long-perished/broken slider knobs, cheap and plentiful on ebay. Was watching a YT 4wd'ing channel and an interior shot of a LC79 Landcruiser got me thinking... They fit! Pretty tight, don't go in 100% of the way but still good enough to use, makes the sliders easier, lo...

Nothing much to report with the old blue wagon, it just works :biggrin: Still need to replace the sagging rear torsion bars but for now I just wound up the adjusment bolt which has stopped the rear tyres scrubbing over big undulations in the road (there are many around here) The gearbox is being its...