Description: Hey all, in short my name is woj (voy) currently in my last years of study etc.. I bought my car a year ago now for a fair price of 4300 as you will see it in initial photos. One nz owner since 8o,ooo kms driven by a young chick for 8 years, came with full service history and all major stuff done post 200,000 kms.
I've been on this website since, reading all the good stuff on here..now the time has come to get involved and pick all your brains on what you might think I'm dealing with here: cv assembly issues
But first my brief description of my bighorn and what I've done to it:
1993 isuzu bighorn irmcher - 3 door 5spd manual in grey/black
Suspension: nitro raw 2" lift
Body Lift: 50mm
Tyres/Wheels: 16 by 8" black steel rims with -22 offset I think, with 285/75/16 kumho kl71's
Traction aid: manual front hubs and rear LSD in the garage ( 4.55 ratio) yet to fit and check current ratios
Bullbar: factory bighorn bar
Spot lights and Lighting: nothing fancy
Communications/GPS: nil
Dual Batteries:nope
Engine:3.1 tdi 4jg2
Exhaust:factory but would like a 3"
Sound system:cd player
External: wide body flares of plaiser to compensate for the tyre size
Internal: tidy minus drivers recaro rip we all know about
Others: factory basket and ladder waiting to be fitted
All mods have progressively been done by me, all fairly simple stuff though, the likes of blanking egr valves, snorkel, exhaust and ball joint flip are my short term plans..
This is my a to b but I have been heading out to woodhill with a mate and his ubs 55 when I can, have done 6 days out there now and only broke one (inner cv joint) on my last outing..which was a very slippery wet day where your gas pedal and momentum was your best friend! Ended up getting well bogged due to one wheel drive syndrome and needed all the help of the 2 safaris on patrol that day unfortunately.
I will post some photos later along with my cv axel assembly trouble I'm having.. But briefly my problem is that I can't seem to find a match for my cv assembly..been to wreckers and got given the axel which is 10mm shorter than mine, the inner cup housing also shorter by 5mm and for some reason my bearing balls are bigger also and don't fit the inner housing I bought with the shorter cv. Basically the whole unit is 15mm shorter than what I initially had. I'm worried that under suspension travel I.e ( full droop ) my inner might pop out? I'm wondering weather I might have wide body ones even thou I read they're 25mm winder than standard.. So maybe after market? But given both sides are they same Im not sure..I will post pics tar and hope someone on here will know...
Cheers woj