Mudboy's (David's) 2008TD Prado

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David's 2008TD Prado

Just purchase kaymar rear bar hopefully fit in a couple of weeks

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just updated previous post with pics

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nice prado mate, its official , i am jealous.......... i like the fat tube on the rolla rack... and the look of the kaymar rear bar..
:?: will you get the rear bar color coded like the front :?: butane

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Mudboy's (David's) 2008TD Prado

Hi the roof cage was Cheep only about 200 from repco a couple of months ago

The kaymar bar will be colour coded, I may leave the wheel carrier off to make it easier for wife to get into the back

Plan to also install rear spot lights and better rear camera

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Nice Prado there David, there is no limit on what can be spent on these vehicles :mrgreen:
Its certainly looking different from Toperi :P If the rear bar disappears when parked at Woolies dont look at me it may migrate onto my 120:lol: :mrgreen: :lol:

Keep it up mate

Cheers

Ryan

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I may leave the wheel carrier off to make it easier for wife to get into the back

Ummm.... :|

:shock:

Oh, wait - now I get it... :wink:

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Re: Mudboy's (David's) 2008TD Prado

David, can u give us some feedback on the KM2's, onroad, offroad, noise etc.

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Nice Prado there David, there is no limit on what can be spent on these vehicles :mrgreen:
Its certainly looking different from Toperi :P If the rear bar disappears when parked at Woolies dont look at me it may migrate onto my 120:lol: :mrgreen: :lol:

Keep it up mate

Cheers

Ryan

Yeh it's changed a bit since then still more to do

I'll have to keep an eye on my rear bar at toperi this year .. Hope to have it painted in next couple of weeks

David

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David, can u give us some feedback on the KM2's, onroad, offroad, noise etc.

The km2 are excellent tyres , they are by far the best I have had off road and better then the previous mud tyre

I am happy how they handle on the road, actually better than what I expected, good I. The wet also

Noise they are a mud terrain, you can defiantly here the tyre noise in the cab, but does not concern me too much, I am not sure if better or worse than other mud tyres

Off road they are very good, one of the best mud tyres I have come across, I have friends have them also and they really like them as well

The good news is they are back in stock in Australia now

If u were closer to me u could take it for a drive to see what u think

David

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Thanks david, for the feedback. the rig looks sweat.

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Ihave finally got around to doing a few jobs that I have been putting off for some time, fitted duel battery monitor properly, so it does not fall off, hate double sided tape, I used the plug and groved a whole for wires to go through and used hot melt glue to fit, I also fitted the carling switch for the spot lights and added more 12volt plugs at the back. Also had fited the Rhino alarm, which give you another 3 points for the imobilser, also has inbuilt turbo timer.







I still have the following things to do over next few weeks
- fit mud tyres to steel rims, and put original ones back on the alloys
- paint and fit Kaymar reer bar
- Also rear work light
- fit compressor under bonnet
- rear door table and maybe draws if I feel like the challenge
- refit digital TV as blew a fuse somewhere and it must be behind stereo, so have to pull it all out again
- Diff and gearbox breathers
- maybe lockers if I decide to drop plans for comp car

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Fitted the compressor, made a plate up from an old battery tray, so i could fit the winch controller and compressor in. it fits in there nicely



Thats all from this week

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Hi mate
What dual battery monitor are you using?
Cheers
Marc

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I am using the arb one, but I know a lot of people run the redarc one, they are quite a bit cheeper and do just as good a job.

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Well, just had the prado into Toyota for a few things fixing before the warrantee runs out, replaced drivers power window motor, as it was noisy, also had rough idle when cold ( so check posts here and it pointed to engine mounts), so i was glad when they diagnosed it also and replaced both mounts.

Also swapped bfg's km2's onto steel Toyota rims and put the original ones back on the alloy rims, I did this myself at a friends workshop, the bfg's were harder to take off and then back on compared to standard tires, balanced them myself, so I know they are the best that can be done.

Next thing to do is extend all breathers and also install an oil catch can.