Big old 4wd time

[Richard Bernau]

This week I have mainly been buying a car. 
 

It survived its first 500km road trip to get home. Drives just like a Defender but cost 10% of a Defender.  Given 10 years in Japan before NZ it’s really clean underneath. Plenty of cosmetic wear and tear, so nothing to be precious about. 
 

Turns out my mate Hamish bought a gen 1 Pajero this weekend as well. Something in the water. 
 

Now we will be inspired by the Mohenic cars and we can get to work with a little pimping and hot ridding ready for off road, dirt roads etc. 

[World Citizen]

Nice truck,!

Can't recommend OME suspension enough, will transform the ride and give you a subtle lift too

[Richard Bernau]

Yes, needs new front shocks. Rears are only a few years old. Rest of the bushings look fairly good - which is a surprise. Apart from one side of the rear ARB drop links. 

[Northy]

Nice one RB. I had a Delica for a while, which is a Pajero with a minibus on top.  I loved it, and very capable. Mine was a series 2 and finding parts for it was hard work. Lots NLA. The earlier ones are much easier to find parts and simpler, presume it the same for Pajero? 
 

 

[World Citizen]

On 27/02/2022 at 08:04, Richard Bernau said:

Now we will be inspired by the Mohenic cars and we can get to work with a little pimping and hot ridding ready for off road, dirt roads etc. 

Mohenic are to Mitsubishi Pajero's what Icon are to Toyota FJ40's and what Cool n Vintage are to old Land Rover's 😍

 

 

 

Edited March 1, 2022 by World Citizen

[johndglynn]

Cool. How far away is Hamish? I see him on the boat on FB - nice to know he comes off it sometimes 🤪

[Richard Bernau]

He is in Auckland near the top of the North Island and I am in Christchurch in the middle of the South Island.  You could almost drive it in a day, like 16 hours including a 3 hour ferry trip, c.1100km.  Sailing is very much his numero uno pastime.

On 27/02/2022 at 23:50, World Citizen said:

Can't recommend OME suspension enough, will transform the ride and give you a subtle lift too

OME is for 50mm lifted and is made by Monroe.  Getting Monroe Adventurers fitted next week.

[Richard Bernau]

Officially the least interesting posting on IB...

Working through minor issues.  The old Paj has got new tyres, new shocks, a thermostat, radiator, RH headlight and gearbox mounts/crossmember.  We have green Raptor coated all the champagne coloured cladding and painted the bonnet.  I deleted the EGR system in order to gain approx one million horsepower.  I replaced the stereo with a bluetooth Nakamichi yesterday and that got the 4 front speakers working.  Today will see new dash speakers installed.  If you are going to go slow, you may as well have good sounds.

This thing is about 100 times easier to work on than a 911.  Everything comes undone without breaking for a start.

I know this is the commentators curse, but it is amazing how tough these are.  The radiator was so clogged that there was almost no heating because no coolant flowing.  It still ran despite almost zero cooling and survived two trips that included decent hills.

I have some more maintenance to do (eg., diff fluids) and need to paint roof and wheels.

[Beaky]

Nothing beats a grafty family hack SUV/4WD, just marvellous, capable, strong and reliable...and much greener than purchasing a new Electric car!