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Yes. The concept is sound, but the logistics don't work. A pic of what causes the problem.

I have spent a fruitless few days attempting to add a Prius electric steering unit to the ute. The unit itself attaches fairly easily to the standard steering box. However, once on, there is 75mm or so of the input shaft and housing entering the cab through the firewall hole. The problem with this ...

Yes, I have a spare set. PM me some details and I'll pop it in the post.
Brett

Hi Stephen, I don't pretend to know about these things, but wonder if beefier coils don't compress as much as standards, so you pick up a bit. Maybe HR fronts sit diffently to standard too. Who knows? It does the job well, luckily.

Stephen, it's got 2inch shortened but thicker steel front coils, back is original 6 leaf and probably a bit flat after all these years. The 80 profile gives it pretty close to the original crossply diameter. Handles very true on the road, not skittish in potholes and not the slightest bit ...

The only bypass is the barbs on the side of the lower housing, which run the heater, but the heater is controlled by a ball cock, which is usually off, besides, I don’t think the heater cor is big enough or gets enough air flow to have a significant effect.

I put it down to the combination of a ...

Thanks Neil. He is going nicely as well. Engineer and I chewed over the Prius power steering upgrade. He came up with an interesting option that I would never have thought possible. And then made me promise not to tell.

My money is on either incorrect or faulty thermostat housing or some unusual hose plumbing- given Clay says he has checked 2 thermostats already. Presumably in a saucepan of water on the stove with a thermometer.

Hi Clay. If the thermostat is closed and the water circuit is closed, there is no alternative to the water in the head getting hot because it can't move. If it isn't getting hot, then either the thermostat is not closing the circuit (you have tested that it is closed and opening at temp, so not that ...

Hi Stephen.
6 inch wheel width and 13 inch diameter. Tyres are 185 80 13's. No idea what the offset is, but it works
I have tubes in mine as they all leaked air too.

I also have trouble getting it to run over 70, with no shroud. This time of year I need to block off 2/3 of the radiator surface to get it to run in my target range of 80-90C.


FB ute fixer upper, EK van on rotisserie


I just read this and it seems to me that for this to happen thermostat is ...

Trip to Gundagai and back today to get my certification paperwork updated by the engineer to reflect change to Celica 5 speed.
Stopped at (very unsettlingly named) Bookham for a rest. Ute kept up with the best of them on the Hume.

Not a billet type, but Project 2 goes into some detail (with pics) about what was required by my NSW engineer for a collapsable column and the fitting of an early 70s holden column. My engineer was absolutely catagorical that I could not modify the inner shaft in any way ( it slides into intself so ...

I mean that first gear was like a normal second- whatever you call that in terms of low/high. Could do 70ks without even trying.

1:3.36 diff on my 186 powered ute with Celica 5 speed. 2550rpm in 4th at 100km/h and 2150rpm or so in 5th. Plenty skippy in first, 2nd and 3rd. Happily sits in 5th on most hills too😀. 13inch wheels with 185.R80.

Wasn't so happy in first gear with 4speed M20, but pretty sure it was a fancy M20 with ...