What did you do to your 150 today?

[Nik83 Member Find all posts View Profile Close Nik83]

Took my wheel cover off today... Much happier.

[Spilsy Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close Spilsy]

Test fitted the snorkel I got for my birthday today:

[trsmith Member Find all posts View Profile Close trsmith]

Test fitted the snorkel I got for my birthday today:

Shame you didn't get the model with the water purge valve at the bottom.

[jaco150 Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close jaco150]

Test fitted the snorkel I got for my birthday today:

Now that is one good quality snorkel - be sure to seal it properly onto the airbox

[jaco150 Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close jaco150]

Built a power-distribution box to install next weekend - to support all those ad-hoc power accessories.
Fits neatly into the open space between the airbox and fire-wall...

http://i1070.photobucket.com/albums/...psddzzc7fz.jpg

[trsmith Member Find all posts View Profile Close trsmith]

Built a power-distribution box to install next weekend - to support all those ad-hoc power accessories.
Fits neatly into the open space between the airbox and fire-wall...

http://i1070.photobucket.com/albums/...psddzzc7fz.jpg

Don't forget to use bootlace crimps on that earth bar (im guessing its your earth bar). The copper strands will just snap with the vibrations

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oops double post

[brogers Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close brogers]

Don't forget to use bootlace crimps on that earth bar (im guessing its your earth bar). The copper strands will just snap with the vibrations

Bootlace crimps....I must say I haven't heard of them before...but I get the concept and I will look that up, as the advice you give jaco150 is quite right...vibrations are your enemy, especially if you travel outback and on off road corrugations.

Thanks for your post.

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Bootlace crimps....I must say I haven't heard of them before...but I get the concept and I will look that up, as the advice you give jaco150 is quite right...vibrations are your enemy, especially if you travel outback and on off road corrugations.

Thanks for your post.

Fairly standard in the electrical control industry - Every PLC/Control cabinet is full of them.

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=B...2Snj8jaNrsM%3A

[jaco150 Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close jaco150]

Don't forget to use bootlace crimps on that earth bar (im guessing its your earth bar). The copper strands will just snap with the vibrations

Thanks for the advice - (yip, neg/earth bar) was thinking soldering the tips, but these may make the job better and easier. Will grab some from flea-bay

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Now that is one good quality snorkel - be sure to seal it properly onto the airbox

Will do. I was surprised that I could get a multi-coloured one out of the box. Very Impressed.

[trsmith Member Find all posts View Profile Close trsmith]

Thanks for the advice - (yip, neg/earth bar) was thinking soldering the tips, but these may make the job better and easier. Will grab some from flea-bay

Get the bootlace If you flex a cable it will almost always break where the flexible part meets the soldered (Hard) cable.

[mitchm Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close mitchm]

Hi guys,

I dropped my prado off for a 2" lift upgrade with Dobinsons MMR and a snorkel to boot this morning. Will be ready tomorrow afternoon. My oringal rear shocks were leaking so it was an a timely upgrade. Very excited!

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I attempted to fit Roadsafe recovery points to my 2015 Prado GXL with ARB Summit Bullbar (fitted by ARB), and guess what? The 4 simple bolts attaching the ARB Summit bar which required simply removing and then replacing with the longer bolts to account for the Roadsafe Recovery points turned out not to be simple at all. ARB had cross threaded both bolts on one side, (I didnt even get to the other side), not only were they very difficult to remove but once there were off there was no bite for the new bolts anteriorly, and posteriorly the bullbar holes and chassis holes didnt even match up (which why I'm guessing they cross-threaded everything). To make matters worse, the bolts that go through the holes further back were attached with a nut internally within the tubular chassis. Presumably these nuts further back were on metal wire, but ARB had chosen to cut that off, so when the bolt was removed the nut fell deep into the chassis not to be seen again, but fear not I can hear it rattling! So I was doing this at mate's house and promised him it would be an hours job or less. 3 hours later I've had to bodge the bullbar back on and have left the nut wobbling about inside the frame, and the roadsafe recovery points back in the boot where they have been for the last 2 weeks. ARB makes me mad. Last week when I put on Tin175's UVP I discovered they had not even tightened 2 bolts on the underside of the bullbar harder than finger tight. And this fitting of the UVP myself only arose becuase when I went to book in my Prado to have the ARB UVP fitted the services guy spent so much time waxing on about his Hilux that he ordered parts for a Hilux and not a Prado, so an afternoon off work wasted. He then had the cheek to say I told him I had the wrong car. Of course I never mentioned a Hilux. Why would I? He then told me that in any case they didn't have UVP for the latest Prado...which I dont think is true but I could have recovery points fitted front and back at a cost of $375 for each end, because I "should have had it done when I had the bullbar and tow bar fitted" even though this same man had told me previously that I couldn't ARB recovery points because they hadn't made them yet for Prado's built in 2016. You guessed it - he was talking about 2016 Hilux - his own vehicle. ARB.... ARGhhhhh!

[Nik83 Member Find all posts View Profile Close Nik83]

Ouch...

I took my baby to the watagans.

Did everything my mates' kitted out hilux and bt50 attempted, with road tyres. No worries mate. Such a capable car. Apart from one part where it looked like I'd get stuck on my belly.

Only issue is that road tyres struggle in mud haha luckily the silt was only so deep.

We were driving to our accomodation and just kept on seeing nice fun side tracks, took one and ended up having fun for 4hrs or so. Ended up in the middle of a little dirt bike/4wd fun park, completely by mistake. Quite a beautiful area - half of it was bush, the other half resembled temperate reinforesy, depending on the hills/valleys.