maverick 5L

[MAV50L]

Originally Posted by peachey80

Very nice looking bus MAV50L. The old Patrol's are pretty much unbreakable hey.. I used to have one myself.
Can I ask wy you didn't keep the serpantine belt setup ?
Did you need the scoop for it to fit, or is it for looks ??

I actually have the scoop to get a lot of hot air out of the engine bay quickly. With the AU thermos pumping it doesnt over heat even when doing a slow rock crawl. It works better then I expected when I did it.
We got rid of the serpentine setup so all the pumps , hoses etc are all over the counter Maverick/Patrol ones. I have had a few customs setups on the past and its always the customised bits that die in the middle of nowhere. When I say custom I mean like lines from a Holden steer pump to a Toyota box etc.
All the brackets on mine are custom made but all the parts that can fail are straight factory items. The plan in the future is to head to Birdsville and across the centre and I wanted a setup that if something fails I can just have parts sent in and be bolted straight on while Im drinking beer at a pub somewhere!

[ashbilt]

Originally Posted by MAV50L

I actually have the scoop to get a lot of hot air out of the engine bay quickly. With the AU thermos pumping it doesnt over heat even when doing a slow rock crawl. It works better then I expected when I did it.
We got rid of the serpentine setup so all the pumps , hoses etc are all over the counter Maverick/Patrol ones. I have had a few customs setups on the past and its always the customised bits that die in the middle of nowhere. When I say custom I mean like lines from a Holden steer pump to a Toyota box etc.
All the brackets on mine are custom made but all the parts that can fail are straight factory items. The plan in the future is to head to Birdsville and across the centre and I wanted a setup that if something fails I can just have parts sent in and be bolted straight on while Im drinking beer at a pub somewhere!

did you have heating trouble before? i had the ef v8 in it for 3 or so years before i got the au one an it always sat an still does on 80degrees an up to 90 in sand giving it a hard time, i notice you run a petrol radiator i swaped for a diesel one so i didnt have to run the botom hose alll the way across the rad, an have ef thermos.

[ozrunner]

Originally Posted by ashbilt

hey mate ar you in perth? do you have the sr5 stickers on the doors changed to SR5 V8, an have eb50ho plates?

Check your PM's

[peachey80]

Originally Posted by ashbilt

Nice bus mate.

Whats with the of a windscreen wiper motor ? haha

Nice setup though. Where do you have the MAF ? What air filter box do you have ? What did you do for a bellhousing ?


Cheers,
Peachey

[MAV50L]

Originally Posted by ashbilt

did you have heating trouble before? i had the ef v8 in it for 3 or so years before i got the au one an it always sat an still does on 80degrees an up to 90 in sand giving it a hard time, i notice you run a petrol radiator i swaped for a diesel one so i didnt have to run the botom hose alll the way across the rad, an have ef thermos.

Nah no trouble ever. The scoop went on when the conversion was first done.
I think the issues I had with overheating in my old V8 4 runner were fresh in my mind then.
Yeah I just used the petrol radiator as it was in the car , nearly new and worked. I got to run a fairly generic type of hose setup then too.

[XH5LWEPN]

Originally Posted by peachey80

Whats with the "dick" of a windscreen wiper motor ? haha

Haha, nice spotting.

[ashbilt]

Originally Posted by peachey80

Nice bus mate.

Whats with the "dick" of a windscreen wiper motor ? haha

Nice setup though. Where do you have the MAF ? What air filter box do you have ? What did you do for a bellhousing ?


Cheers,
Peachey

no maf mate as i run microtech ecu which has a bilt in map(part of the reason for aftermarket ecu).

air box is that custom made one behind the passenger headlight that i made, it has the biggest k&n pod in it that i could find at the time.

the bellhousing is from dellow automotive in sydney they were prett good help

[XH5LWEPN]

And the suspect wiper motor is................ ????

[ashbilt]

hahaha yea i locked my mate georgie in the shed an thats her way of bein funny, once i put it up i noticed it but was too late to edit, so i guess her joke paid off

[XH5LWEPN]

I think it did mate Make sue you advise her of her success lol.

But why the wiper motor? lol

[ashbilt]

lol will do mate, as for the wiper motor i'm not sure.

[ashbilt]

Originally Posted by MAV50L

Nah no trouble ever. The scoop went on when the conversion was first done.
I think the issues I had with overheating in my old V8 4 runner were fresh in my mind then.
Yeah I just used the petrol radiator as it was in the car , nearly new and worked. I got to run a fairly generic type of hose setup then too.

mate do you have any idea what sort of power output you have with the earlier motor in it?

[ashbilt]

take that as no?