Originally Posted by
Mauser308
Haha, I had two - the first was a bloody great LWB high roof, the one that comes with it's own accessory micro climate (complete with clouds and rainfall). The second was a SWB, brought it for less than a K off a farm up north, both front quarter panels rusted, firewall rusted and a few other bits needing tidying. Had about 750Kg of prime northland cowturds through it, took a while to get it cleaned off. Found about 5 or 6 spare keys wired up underneath it in various places, the old fella that owned it went a bit lala I think and kept wiring spares up. Only 2 were any good, the rest had dissolved from the cow shit.
That thing wound the dyno off the chart at the old Dr Repower outfit, found out later that it had a black top motor compared to the usual silver top. That's the one I wound the fueling up slightly on the pump, man it could bogie off the line. 5th gear, pull anywhere the only thing that stopped it was altitude. Around town it was unreal, just crazy. Spin both back wheels on a damp roundabout and face the wrong way crazy. Sold it to my uncle for next to nothing, he's still got it. Recently tried to claim a warranty on it, radiator fell out. Oops. Told him to sod off, should have painted the radiator support haha.
It was really interesting, one of the first things I did was replace all fluids - and noted next to nothing in the rear LSD. Around the first corner, boom. Unlocked the clutch pack... Next corner the other way, Bang unlocked the other side. Mean, didn't know it had an LSD - change the fluid for the right one and away we go!