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G'day mate, Welcome to the circus ha ha ha!!! Love the truck, spoke with your old man today, great bloke with "truck" loads of experience on both sides of the fence. I gotta lot of respect for Hans. I'd love to own a beast like that, i bet she turns heads where ever you go. Chocko

Drop in anytime Wadey, Just call Billy Tea to make sure we're there.

Thanks mate, I think they'll be ok for what i want them for, maybe they wern't as good as Paul would've liked.

Hey mate, that's looking really nice.As for the colour, I'm a great fan of the Gal Dip look. Love the twin tank set up too. And sorry for the hijack.......

There are many to choose from, Kenworth, UD, Freightliner Fuso Isuzu etc etc. All of which are Dotars approved for ADR. DOT have a different set of rules for some circumstances, but in my experience, most carry over. The one that don't are things like padding etc

G'day everyone, I stumbled across this whilst looking at an OKA, and would you believe it, they do kits for an FG, easy fit too. Has anyone tried them, and if so are they ay good, and if so how long do they last and....oh shut up chocko...

It wouldn't be hard to retro fit a Hydraulic lift off say a freightliner or Kenworth cab over. All you would have to do is Airbag the back of the cab to give a nice ride!!! It would be easy!!

Sounds to me like you need a MAN or Unimog. They heve very high build quality. Take it from me, European stuff is built to last....

OOps, wrong planet perhaps:oops::Astrologist: hahahaha!!!

Hey I love the Dakar barwork, I don't think my little dude bus washers would though. Nice Job fellas, Just wish I could convince the ministry at work to spend the dollars.

But i've tilted a crewcab fuso?????? Just undo the rear mounts and craned it up with the little hiab. They still have all the tilt gear

I know it looks rough and ready, and I did have a few arguements about welding on the transitional stress points, but we were in a hurry, and we just way overspecced to get it done. Yes the supports are welded to the fish plates. It has done approx 120k (about 54000 of that on Cape York) with no...

The oversize fish plates are to compensate for the 4.5 mm that we are all so familiar with. It was adjacent to this point that the chassis tried to break in half. All bolts were upgraded to T16 caterpillar. I must also apologise for the poor quality images, the samsung phone isn't the best.

OK, here's some picture of the cross member replacement with a volvo x member. A you can see, not that i have mentioned, it took considerable modification to get the volvo one to fit.

I forgot to take the camera in today, Got a meeting with QT for a measurement in the mornig witha machinery inspection in the afternoon, but i'll try hard to get it done. Sorry guys, Chocko

I'll have to dig for the receipt, let you know tomorrow. I'll take some pics at work.

They seem more like mild steel to me.... Nothing like the chassis of yore.

I cut mine right out and replaced one with a Volvo X member, the other i just ground out & welded. both are still fine.

Cool hey?

Nah mate, both of mine are aluminium frame. Just make sure you get the mountings right for design regs.