My girlfriend's Toyota project:

[offroadguru Solli]

Hello.

Here in Norway my girlfriend has startes a new projekt.
It is a HiLux 1986. Next season she will use the truck in the Norwegian version of rock crawling called Car Trial.
In Norway we have 6 classes, and she will race in the Light Truck class.
The frame and body must be orginal, but you can make your own bed.

We will use the orginal 2.4l diesel , put in a 4.70 Marlin kit, use Nissan Patrol GR insted of the weak Toyota aksles and Maxxiz Creapy Crawler 37X14.5X15 on beadlock rims.
And of course a full cage.

Here are a few pics:







This week the lift kit, crawler kit and some other parts will arrive from BG Nor. And we take a trip to Denmark to pick up the tires, beadlocs and the Nissan parts in desember.

[Colt]

I love offroading girls...

How wide are these Nissan axles? I want to make an SAS on my 1991 Hilux and still looking for axles...
Don`t you want to make an engine swap? The 2L ist very  I put in a 1KZT with enough torque.

Btw nice cage!

[offroadguru Solli]

The Nissan axles has the same with as Landcruiser 60.
They are realy beafy, and they have a manual locker in the rear. They also have disks on the rear axle. But, they are heavy....
We can buy a set in Denmark for less than a set of Longfields cost.
Yes, the engine is lasy. But it runs

[offroadguru Solli]

Here are a "Jeep" i build last year, here you can see the front Nissan axle. I used the orginal Nissan 2 link up front and the 4 link back.
In her class Light truck we must use the orginal suspension.

[46&2]

What do the nissan axles come off of? Patrols?

[offroadguru Solli]

Yes, from Patrol Gr 60. There are also Patrol Gu 60, but they are harder to find. They are stronger.
They have a 4.56 gearing.

[46&2]

Cool. Sounds like a pretty stout axle then. If you can ever got some shots of modified nissan patrols I would love to see em. We only got the Patrol in the states for a few years back in the 60s. I would love to see some modified ones though if you ever find any pictures. 

[bigarms23]

Sounds like an awesome build and I like thoses nissan axles they look really beefy

[offroadguru Solli]

What about this Patrol???

This is the Challenge Patrol owned by the man who sell these axles. He use a Jeep Wrangler body to save some weigt. The engine is a Lexus V8 and it have a HiLux auto.

[DTB]

thats bad-ass..... 

[offroadguru Solli]

http://www.jeeplex.dk/Profil
Call him or mail him if you want som Nissan parts. Or a Lexus engine. He import the parts from Malaysia.

[Yoat Goat]

Offroad girls are awesome! Patrols are nice too!

[offroadguru Solli]

We did some more work on the cage today:

[Fongs]

nice project ...looks great

[kneedownnate]

Lookin good

[offroadguru Solli]

[offroadguru Solli]

[4x4Haze]

thats a sick ass cage! i wish my girlfriend wanted to build a crawler   

[46&2]

thats a sick ass cage! i wish my girlfriend wanted to build a crawler  

My girlfriend wants me to build HER a crawler but she isnt interested in doing any of the labor 

[offroadguru Solli]

I'm wery proud of her.


And a cage is the best modifcasion you can do on a 4X4. Think safety first

[offroadguru Solli]

We are now in prosess with the other side of the "norwegian crawler"

And some new parts has arrived to the garage. 3" lift kit and the crawler gears from MARLIN

[DTB]

what are you doing on the cowl here?

[TIMS89CRAWLER]

thats what i was wondering too... looks good though

[offroadguru Solli]

what are you doing on the cowl here?

It's a 3mm intensification only to stop the cage if she turn the truck up side down. (I hope you understend, I'm not the best english writer in Norway....)
Are you on a competission in Norway they stop you if thats a weak point.

[TIMS89CRAWLER]

ohhh i c thats cool.... lookin good..

[offroadguru Solli]

[offroadguru Solli]

Now the cage is done, and tomorrow we give it som paint. On sunday we take it to a local area where it's leagal to drive offroad. She wan't to test it before we do the rest of the work on the rig.
The next job is to install the crawler kit from Marlin. Exciting , never done a job on a gear box before
But, theres a first for everything 

Lot of inspirastion on this forum, wish we could send us and some of our rigs over to you someday. A trip to Moab could be cool.
Maybe we win in a lottery somthime

[offroadguru Solli]

And some work on my brother's beater

[topar]

  Looking good 

[offroadguru Solli]

Thank's.

(I hope you don't mean my brother's beater )