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Re: Scottie's Zuke

Post by ScottieJ » Tue Aug 13, 2013 11:12 pm

Almost there, trans fluids left to fill and transmission tunnel cover to fit, then might throw some new brake pads on the back?

Tonight I ran it up to temp to bleed the cooling system and give 'er a tune up now that Its not sucking air through the brake servo vacuum take off on the inlet, the "well known" company who made it used a steel take off pipe in the aluminium inlet manifold and really badly brazed it in or something, don't really see why they didn't just use an aluminium pipe and tig it as they tig'd the SU conversion anyway :er: well I didn't notice it until I pulled it out trying to remove the vacuum pipe so a temporary liquid metal repair has been done :lol: runs loads smoother now :smokin:

Then I made some new arch extensions for the rear out of some of Dans conveyor belt to make it all legal, damn they are wide :shock: doesn't look to bad though.

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Re: Scottie's Zuke

Post by Jordi » Tue Aug 13, 2013 11:19 pm

Guess you're now "Fat Ass!"
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Re: Scottie's Zuke

Post by turbo-tom » Tue Aug 13, 2013 11:22 pm

Wide? More like mental wide! Does look awesome though. :)
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Re: Scottie's Zuke

Post by ScottieJ » Tue Aug 13, 2013 11:32 pm

Jordi wrote:Guess you're now "Fat Ass!"
Are you saying my ass looks big? :hahaha:

Not sure whether or not to widen the front ones as well? There's quite a big difference between the front an rear :lol: if I do I might also make some mud flaps for the front to reduce the mud spray onto my doors and windows :thumbup: best get the important MOT stuff done first though.
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Re: Scottie's Zuke

Post by suzukisteve » Wed Aug 14, 2013 7:57 am

id say go for it mate, the wider it is the more stable it is. plus the back axle looks siiiiick! :rockin:
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Re: Scottie's Zuke

Post by turbo-tom » Wed Aug 14, 2013 12:21 pm

So is that a sammy axle with 15x10 wheels?
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Re: Scottie's Zuke

Post by ScottieJ » Wed Aug 14, 2013 12:31 pm

turbo-tom wrote:So is that a sammy axle with 15x10 wheels?
It's a samurai axle with a full float conversion and 15x10" wide wheels, the full float makes the axle 3" wider than standard, It's an awesome strength upgrade and makes the back axle easier to work on but I don't really like the extra width when combined with these wheels. I don't really want to fit wheelspacers to the front to even it out otherwise I'll kill wheel bearings at a silly rate so I'm going to get my bronco's fitted on some narrower 16" GV wheels and fit those on this SJ.
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Re: Scottie's Zuke

Post by turbo-tom » Wed Aug 14, 2013 1:08 pm

Ahh I see I thought you had spacers and the wheels. Not to realise the full float makes it 3inches wider.
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Re: Scottie's Zuke

Post by Tramp » Tue Aug 20, 2013 11:48 pm

What's the offset like on your wheels? If the mounting face is offset positivly could you reverse your back wheel rims to get negative offset, bringing your tyres closer together? although it might not fit over your rear disk conversion?

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Re: Scottie's Zuke

Post by dan_2k_uk » Wed Aug 21, 2013 8:00 am

He has way to much offset for that Luke.

Would probably work well with some of the narrower wheels.
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