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Re: new to everything

Post by twiss » Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:27 am

(I let kwik fit at it once... only to fit a rear exhaust section... and only because I had a recently dislocated thumb!!!)
never again :)
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Re: new to everything

Post by ROBBIE » Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:42 am

howdy :welcome: sounds like a good truck 8-)
i had a mate got a job at kwik fit he knew nothing about cars :shock: he was the most skilled employee they had at that branch :twisted:
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Re: new to everything

Post by Wispa » Wed Jan 12, 2011 6:19 pm

ScottieJ wrote::lol: :lol: :lol: I wouldn't let any kwikfitters near my truck :lol:


Sounds like your pretty much there before you start breaking things on a regular basis and will be able to go places bigger 4x4s on 35s can't :mrgreen:

Apart from your list of stuff you want the only thing I would suggest is a rocklobster transfer box to drop the low box and sort out the gear ratios.
Rockwatt in the traders section is these guy you want to talk to about that he builds them for a good price and his work is to top quality. All you need to do is send him a 410 and 413 tbox.

Are you going for an internal or external cage?

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yeh i went around some woods and it went pfft to everything i put it through! i got stuck once and that was thick mud that completly coverd the wheels and up to the floor which is 2.5ft, i did eventualy drive out of that took an hour to do so but i had no help from anyone else which im quite proud of :smokin:
ill be making up my own external cage, just need to find some good materials and ill be rolling around all over the place

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Re: new to everything

Post by Wispa » Wed Jan 12, 2011 6:22 pm

heres a reduced size clean truck pic as the other one turned out alot bigger than i thought 8-)
cheers for the greetings lads :beer:
i see that everyone has huge trust in that place then haha
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Re: new to everything

Post by Edweird » Wed Jan 12, 2011 7:24 pm

I wouldn't trust kwik fitters to make me a cup of tea. They'll employ anyone with opposable thumbs and arm all of them with a hammer. :lol:

I've never seen someone fit Pirellis to a LR 16' with a sledge before........
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Re: new to everything

Post by Russ24 » Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:56 pm

hi and welcome..
thats a nice looking sj

another tin top.. i thought they were rare.. clearly im wrong.

bloody hell thats tall.

drip tray easy.. a you could get a skip under there... i thought mine was tall.
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Re: new to everything

Post by Russ24 » Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:57 pm

Edweird wrote:I wouldn't trust kwik fitters to make me a cup of tea. They'll employ anyone with opposable thumbs and arm all of them with a hammer. :lol:

I've never seen someone fit Pirellis to a LR 16' with a sledge before........
i fitted my axles with a crowbar haha
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Re: new to everything

Post by Wispa » Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:15 pm

crowbars on axels.. understandable.. but sledge hammer needed to fit a tyre?!? must be doing it wrong? probs got the tyre size wrong :beat:

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Re: new to everything

Post by Edweird » Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:29 pm

Possibly, but it looked to me like he couldn't be bothered to lift the rim onto the machine, as it was the one he'd taken the tyre off first, then taken the other off, rather than doing one at a time.

By the way, he wasn't swinging the sledge, he was using it to push the other side of the tyre on while he stood on the one side.
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Re: new to everything

Post by Wispa » Thu Jan 13, 2011 7:22 pm

thats what lever bars are made for :poke:

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