yes yep ...stouts are alive & well in western australia,
there is a lot of old bush & wasteland here ...some of its rare fruit





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lite stouts 67 & 68

 

more stout magic

 

The post 7/1967 models of the lite stout do not officially exist and yet another arises, In my research on the stout the lite stout was not built at the same time the hilux entered production as they were built in the same plant, although on even less evidence they were still being built in south Africa as late as 1971 as stallion with extended wheel base receiving 12r engines possibly never ending production until the mid 70's

 

This is a south African stallion rk44 with a factory 5r, the owner thought it was a 1964 but everything suggests it is 1974 and the lite stout based stallion including the full stouts ZA production finished 1978-79.

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The rear load decks were Australian made on these south African models

 

rusty running 3r
White running 12r

 

The 12r never started production until 1971, the 3r/5r engine mounts locations were different to the 2r and 12r and the rk43 lite stout were 2r engines only

 

Gave tie rod a couple of twist but no luck with reverse
Perhaps I will give it a couple more turns ...

 

The rusty one is a 2r and the white one has had a rebuilt 12r from a corona put into it at some stage.
I will start up my own thred deely at some stage once i get my head around this computor thing.
Luke.

 

Ahhhh 2r i have a memory like a sieve

 

lumpy cam for 5r ???
any thoughts or experience

 

All in all no matter what you do a 5r is just a low revving engine that offers an output in it's basic format that was impressive for it's time and the only real improvement that could be done is a centre point fuel injection system, but then is that an improvement or a step backwards. There is really nothing that can be done, the engine naturally struggle to do much more than 4000rpm due to industrial design of them, the exhaust manifold has awesome flow the carburetor are adequate even under load so it only leaves pointless ignition and the rest of the engine is stock such proves little. So when it comes to serious power increase and what the engine can actually handle comes pointless ignition, NOS, a small supercharger or turbo. I found my stout quite quick on take off to about 80km/h and then the sound of a low revving engine being up in it's revs gets to me and so ponder the 4.1:1 diff ratio ditching the 6.1:1 and dropping down tyre profile to I think I have 205/65/15 on two of my stouts rims to see how things look and ponder such with this
Tire Size, RPM, Speed, and Differential Ratio Calculator

The original rk101 tyres were 700 15 which were 28" diameter, in the photo I have on the stouts rims a pair of 33" and the 205/65/15 which are the 24.5" diameter and I have the original hub caps

 

Thanks just trying to get an overview of ideas... What super charger you running

 

The options were the toyota SC12 SC14 and they are about $500 each and personally I would prefer that option to turbo
When I was getting rebuilt an 18rg "the" parts supplier in Queensland when asked for his honest opinion he said not to waste your money on an 18rg that a supercharger on a standard junker 18r was a better option and more daily street drivable (18r-c in Australia are like 20r in the US).
Recently I was talking to an old backyarder that came highly recommended and his opinion was the 4.1:1 diff as soon as registered and lpg (propane) and get the head shaved to up the compression if possible "he didn't" and you won't regret it and that's when he said he still thought he had doors off his old one




And I change all my tyres myself with my self made scrap metal bead breaker, it's nothing flash but dose the job

 

And either sc12 or sc14 will fit 5r

 

SC or super charger 12 or 14 is flow per rotation 1.2 or 1.4 litre most common on the 4agze which I personally think is an awesome engine swap for a lite stout, then there is legality under ncop

 

this weekends find more...they keep on coming

 

Diff& gear box oils for stout recommendations ... Are there any flushes available to get rid if all the old oil

 

good good

 

I can tell you that mine has been knock back for RWC in vic because of the rust
under the dash near the vent flap. Dont know how you will go in WA though?

 

Shiiiiiiit feel like I will never get this stout on the road