-busted windscreen due to bonnet not being shut fully and flipping up at 110km/h on a freeway
-worn axle threads on front hub area that made hubs wear out very quickly, many replaced hubs..
-captive nut totally destroyed, and body separation on three points of front passenger lift kit areas, customized a hole in the passenger floor so i could bolt a plate of steel to one underneath, worked great! totally dodgy..
-gearbox totally killed itself towards the end, it's dying day it was going 5km/h with insane whining metal on metal noises, ahah, poor thing..
i had awesome fun in it. it had a 2" body and strut lift, toyo 13" snow tyres, and king springs all round. No low range , so i had to drive it fast at bumpy hurtful hills, hence the extreme damage i did to it! heaps of custom vinyl graphics was added over the few years. a bit of a psychedelic nightmare,
heres a vid and some pics..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EQrPBd1kBY
i went with my mate to a few wrekers to try and carefully bust out a windscreen, but broke three.. so we gave up.. then i saw her...
i pretty much bought her there and then, $750 delivered. I didn't even try and talk them down in price, I was blinded by stoopid excitement. 1988 DL1800 with low range, metallic silver with tinted windows.
needed to
-take out a defunct immobilizer,
-replace clutch (that was fun, will take out engine next time after reading a few threads!)
-new bushes all round (hilariously fun job without a press or vice.. my brother came up with this awesome customized tool make out of a wheel hub and other bits.. i'll take a photo sometime..)
-fixed rust around windscreen and back windows, nothing major.
i then customized my old subaru 13" rims with some sacred geometry and added a black vinyl to the entire lower section of the car to make it two tone. i added a steel bullbar, (alloy not strong enough for recovery point), 110watt spotties, new brigter driving globes (highly recommended) and a goats skull.. (this has got some serious attention, lol)
i then bought a plotter to make custom vinyl masks to spray with colour changing chromopaint.
with 2" strut lift (body lift going in this weekend i hope!)
future plans are 14" 6 stud hub conversion, exo-cage kind of thing for falling tree limb protection when stormchasing and fog lights.
