Here how it was when i 1st got it soon got sik of the coulor and da ugly rear bumper thing and needed some rust done

 

The next stage of the mission was to panel and panint i took my time in doing it to like a year just worked on it in the weekends so no rush

 

will post more pictures up of the finished part in the next day or so if anyone got any ideas how to lower the front more throw them my way a i was going to pull torsions out and turn them and put them back in on a different spline and the back im going to reset the leafs 2 more inches its still got the old 18r donker in it and 4speed colloum gettin a 4.1 diff head for it to as it reving its arse of at 100k

 

Cool truck man! Nice progress.

But to lower the 79-83 trucks is a pain in the arse. Because you cant use drop spindles or arms unless you swap over all the suspension components from a 84 and up truck.

Check my build thread for details.

 

not bad man.

is that the muffler?!?!

btw, looks like a tube bumper, not sure if its one of those offroad types...

Nice project though!

 

hey i will do a im wanting to get it lower a

 

hahaha yep sure is a im getting rid of it soon aand the bumper was home made joby it was real s*&T a lol. Yeh its gettin there a loving the looks atm a cause there like none of this year and model with a well side on it a

 

Got my diff head yesterday so im puting it in 2day ive had this painfuly doing my head in vibration so i started the elimanation got drive shaft fix new hanger new ujs and still there had a guy look at it and he could see the rear shaft at the diff end movin up and down so took drive shaft off and put dial indicator on it the flange is bent like 30 thou which i tought would make a difference. And i got one question does a g code diff fit into a z code diff ????

 

nope. Never heard of a Z code diff on our trucks...

interesting.

F is 7.5"
G is 8"

 

Getting there man, what colour will you be laying down?

There is plenty of knowledge that is shared over at MTNZ MiniTruckin' New Zealand for lowering/diff swaps etc

 

Its al painted now just having to go through photos to find thm.Heres a few more pix of it when i was in the process of painting it The colour over here is called Lemon yellow

 

Few more pix of it painted but more suspension work happning soon to going heaps lower going to get interior shots up soon too

 

thats what i thought a on my engine tag it says z32 on the diff code dont know a but the diff fitted mint a my vibration gone and broght my speedo back which reads correct now which is good
just had alook z code is 202mm a weird a

 

Sweet mate mite have alook on there

 

Looks tidy with the new paint, well done

 

Looks great!

 

Thanks i does look wat better im thinkin about makin a hard lid for the back t but have it black just to break up the yellow a little. here som interor pix

 

those are some mint door cards, are they original or from something else?
i would love to change my interior from tan to black, anyone in nz got any black interior bits?

 

yep they r the original ones a the clips are abit tatty tho they are the steel ones a im guna b redoin the dash an the near future to im not liking the grey a and paint my door cards black a mine used to be tan coluor a

 

Lookin good mate, pretty sure Ive seen this around the mount before.