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Looking for any advice from other T4 Synchro owners please.
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I am hoping to build this into a neat travel rig over the next year or so. This '95 model Doka was a gift from a very old friend. There was a bit of rust in the body and almost 600k'k's under it's belt so he decided to try to find a cleaner one. The truck had always been serviced but has done some very hard yards as a builder's work horse. To make it worse, he only lived a few hundred metres from the beach. Actually The rust is quite minor really....the underbody and rear subframe are as clean as a whistle.
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So anyway he ended up with this one as a worthy replacement. It's a naturally aspirated diesel model around the same vintage as mine. He just fitted these custom made rims so he could run 265/70R15's. I've currently got 235/75R15's but hope to fit 215/85R16's if that's feasible with the gearing but more about that later. Here's my mate's new truck . >
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So after getting it home I got the kids to start cleaning it out and we made some assessments. I wasn't real crazy about the clipdeck alloy tray so that came off. The truck is a 2.5L petrol model but fitted with a dual fuel system. I checked the LPG tank....about 10 years out of certification so I also pulled that off.
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You've got to love that wooden spare tyre board at the front of the tray. The LPG tank was actually bracketed up to the tray and not the chassis. What a pain to get that out......and it will probably stay off too I think.
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Words cannot describe the colour of the back seat where the dogs used to ride. Hahaha.
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Realizing the amount of rust in the body, we decided that a full repaint was probably the only way to go so started ripping the thing apart almost immediately .
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This pic was taken last weekend. Hoping to get it all covered in 2pak primer/filler tomorrow after school and then rub it back on Saturday.
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Some strange looking laundry hanging up.
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I am hoping to build this into a neat travel rig over the next year or so. This '95 model Doka was a gift from a very old friend. There was a bit of rust in the body and almost 600k'k's under it's belt so he decided to try to find a cleaner one. The truck had always been serviced but has done some very hard yards as a builder's work horse. To make it worse, he only lived a few hundred metres from the beach. Actually The rust is quite minor really....the underbody and rear subframe are as clean as a whistle.
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So anyway he ended up with this one as a worthy replacement. It's a naturally aspirated diesel model around the same vintage as mine. He just fitted these custom made rims so he could run 265/70R15's. I've currently got 235/75R15's but hope to fit 215/85R16's if that's feasible with the gearing but more about that later. Here's my mate's new truck . >
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So after getting it home I got the kids to start cleaning it out and we made some assessments. I wasn't real crazy about the clipdeck alloy tray so that came off. The truck is a 2.5L petrol model but fitted with a dual fuel system. I checked the LPG tank....about 10 years out of certification so I also pulled that off.
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You've got to love that wooden spare tyre board at the front of the tray. The LPG tank was actually bracketed up to the tray and not the chassis. What a pain to get that out......and it will probably stay off too I think.
.
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Words cannot describe the colour of the back seat where the dogs used to ride. Hahaha.
.
.
Realizing the amount of rust in the body, we decided that a full repaint was probably the only way to go so started ripping the thing apart almost immediately .
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This pic was taken last weekend. Hoping to get it all covered in 2pak primer/filler tomorrow after school and then rub it back on Saturday.
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Some strange looking laundry hanging up.
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