three wheels on my wagon

You should have more faith in yourself. We all had to start somewhere with the mechanical side of things.

I taught myself by re-building a nova gte into a non rotten shell. The wiring loom and every component transfered across or replaced, every nut and bolt. Then sold it soon after I had created a new car in essence!

Martin's guides are accurate and useful, give kingpin bearings ago to start with as most other jobs on the front axle are similar.

I've not done the rear disc conversion yet due to lack of time. I didn't want to start and not finish for Tong! It'll only take a day or less but there have been other demands on my time. All the parts are sat on my work bench.

It's a job for January now. But then it'll snow and I'll need to use it to get to work! Sod's law and all that!

I keep meaning to call KAM diffs as they planned to have them done by now.
I wonder how much they'll be.

A front locker with those tyres will snap a shaft or do a cv every now and then!

You must like your off-roading hardcore!

Looking forward to seeing you and your truck at Tong!

Kirkynut

It does make me smile to get up something that a green oval can't

U did stuff crawling at tick hill that I saw a disco take at speed and snap a half shaft twice on that day!

Yes, I love being able to do things that a green oval can't but without lockers and without really aggressive tyres it is rare that we can.

We get viewed as the underdog all the time by our Greenoval loving club members and they don;t expect us to do well, so when we are able to follow them it is nice.

I could do with more aggressive tyres but fear damage to the CV's/shafts and have held back a little. My Mrs can have a heavy right foot sometimes and I can get a little red mist and insist on trying something when it's unlikely we'll be able to do it. The Rocklobster puts more torque through these bits too.

There is the argument that you won;t spin the wheels up with more aggressive tyres but then we'll just go on to do harder stuff and want lockers, so I'm wondering where to draw the line at the minute.

Kirkynut

Update

Front axle is back together apart from the manual hubs - two bolts sheared off
Need to clean out the rear drums and fit the breathers for the axles
so should be ready for Tong