ke70dave Posted December 11, 2012 Report Share Posted December 11, 2012 Greetings, I mentioned this a few weeks ago in the offtopic, but here is a few pics. Plan to get it on the road and take it camping! details: 1985 holden drover (rebadged suzuki sierra) 1.3L of overhead cam 2 valve goodness. 148000km, owned from new by my grandfather! zero rust, interiour is in good condition, just needs a few new rubbers here and there. my brother found the bull bar for free on gumtree, so slapped that on. looks good i think. Funky little lion bonnet peice. mirror tint on side windows and rear window (not sure why...) i have not actually driven it yet, as when i got it it had a blown headgasket and front diff seals needed replacing. but i went for a drive in it not long ago, seemed to go alright even with the blown headgasket. currently the head is off and getting a once over at the machinist, hope to get the engine back together this weekend. I rebuilt the diff last weekend, what a messy job! freaking 8hrs of playing with grease. grandpa drove it SSOOOO SLOOW the pistons and valves were chock a block full of carbon, i was littlerally scraping carbon off the piston with my metal ruler.....at least 2-3mm caked on! things to be done for RWC: -new front brake hoses (probably rears too) -new front pads and discs -new sump gasket and maybe rear main (doing the front main wtih the head) -steam clean the underbody as the stuffed diff seals flung grease and oil everywhere proposed mods: -A CD player! -some tyres that might actually grip something -An in car UHF, i have a giant antenna already. -deck out the rear with some sort of draws for storing camping stuff, see how that goes. -remove that mirror tint! Anyway a few shocking camera phone photos: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rian Posted December 11, 2012 Report Share Posted December 11, 2012 Love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7shades Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 I had one of these! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleRedSpirit Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 -20 points for needing heavy machinery to roll over a zook with no motor or box. :lmao: Good score Dave, keep it in the family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's_AUDM_Yo Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 (edited) Put the biggest ariel you can find on it so you can do jumps.... Also I'm pretty sure they're Jimny's not sierra's Edited December 12, 2012 by It's_AUDM_Yo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyinwall Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 (edited) Put the biggest ariel you can find on it so you can do jumps.... Also I'm pretty sure they're Jimny's not sierra's i can tell you they are NOT jimney's as this is a jimney Edited December 12, 2012 by flyinwall 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's_AUDM_Yo Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 (edited) My bad its only in the japanese market where they are called Jimney's. They got a different name in every blood market. They were called samuri's in the US Edited December 12, 2012 by It's_AUDM_Yo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ke70dave Posted December 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 yeah they are all jimnys in japan. For some reason they called the early ones sierras around here, and saumrauis some place else. i belive that huge antenna is actually a fishing rod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towe001 Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 Sand flag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azza91 Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 turbo g13b in this bitch ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philbey Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 High roofed awesome. I want to buy one of these some day, blast around in it for two weeks til I get bored. My mate hat a Toyota Blizzard, rare as rocking horse shit, same platform as the daihatsu scat. Cool as but he sold it before I could get my hands on its mustard and teal goodness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ke70dave Posted December 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 oh i was just reading about that diahatsu scat/taft and the toyota blizzard. The blizard came with a diesel yeah? cool lookin cars. A mate of mine has a ~97 sierra, but its a soft top, great car, but man that soft top makes a racket on the highway. Glad i managed to get a hard top, and the high roof edition is a bonus, not to mention the lack of security in a soft top! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7shades Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 -20 points for needing heavy machinery to roll over a zook with no motor or box. :lmao: Good score Dave, keep it in the family. Wasn't so much 'need' more like 'I own a bobcat so I use any excuse to break shit with it' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ke70dave Posted December 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 Good news, just got a call from the machinest. Head checked out good, passed the pressure and flatness test. though wont be ready till next week :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ke70dave Posted December 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 Updates! everyone likes updates. spot the new shiny bit in this photo? Ignore the power lead.... Head is back on as of last night. have had a set back, grandpa was for some reason against the idea of coolant, only used water. Therefore, anything copper/brass in the cooling system is rusted...badly.... so ive got a few bits i need to replace, the main one being this coolant manifold thing that connects to the back of the water pump. Here is a reproduction one, but for the price I'm not too keen, ill try and track down a decent OEM one i think. http://www.suzistore.com.au/shopexd.asp?id=441 Radiator is pretty had it as well, on the hunt for a second hand one atm. water pump appears to be in ok condition, just full of muck. ill try clean it before i get a new one. Luckily the head and block appear to be pretty good for corosion, a bit of evidence of it, but quite minor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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