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Ah good, you can teach my boys how to fix their walls that they broke from wrestling.

Yep I am expecting do do several items such as lifters, balancer, rear main etc. It has a full service history though and none of those issues present yet, except I haven't check the rear main seal. No brake shudder, drives straight, 225xxxkm but a good price for what it is, 14k on the road.

Fair enough, haha nek minute you're kicking a hole in the wall

It's already lowered, haha you should see a stock one. It has some type of exhaust, catback or something, so you can hear it. My VN sounds better though but it has a hectic cam. I will be extensively modding this car, it's been bought to do LS tuning and development. Only difference is I wont be breaking parts as frequently as the Territory, hard to hurt an NA car.

Here's a pic

sounds about right for an isuzu

Yeah I'll post a before and after. I think it'll go from nothing in the mid and 65kw up top to plenty in the mid and 65kw up top.

may have allegedly lost traction for a bit last night

Drove it boost and bass FTW

Eh new house means lots more work. I'm sure you'll be back to skids in no time

Have got another Rodeo in, this time for an alternator. I noticed a few missing vac lines which will be making the car an absolute gutless slug to drive. He wants me to sort it out and do a before and after dyno run. I think he will be pleased with the result.

Ha, here's one for ya... Why does a chicken coupe have 2 doors? Cos if it had 4 it would be a chicken sedan 😆

So the transmission is all back in. This time, it went in very smooth once I got the transmission bolted on. The difficult part is getting it onto the jack. I saw a video of just using wooden blocks. Somehow on my first go, I actually did this, using many small wooden blocks stacked near each other to raise the trans. However it's a poor way of doing it. Had to figure out a better solution. I realised that I had little to no spread of force and tension across the bottom of the transmission with small blocks and my jack. So I made a wooden bracket at the back and front of the transmission using some M10 bolts from wood I had lying around the garage. It worked really well. One thing to note is you need to make the bracket at the back long enough that when you stick the transmission jack under, the supports aren't blocking the path of the jack to go under the trans pan. The photos may explain this a bit better. https://imgur.com/dGBzcyY To get the height I needed, I used some big pieces of thick wood. Originally they were going to be used as car raising blocks but they've come handy for many things. You can see the support at output shaft end. Just used two existing holes to bolt it up. Used the lower mounting holes on the bellhousing for the front piece as well. You get the idea. My original piece was too narrow and I made it longer by 15cm on each side. Front of car looking back https://imgur.com/undefined THEN JUST A MATTER OF GETTING IT HIGH ENOUGH AND THEN PUTTING A WOODEN BLOCK UNDER THE PAN TO JACK IT UP. ONCE THE TRANS IS SUPPORTED BY THE JACK, MOVE THE BLOCKS AWAY. You may need to have one hand around the trans to balance it a little occassionally but it should be good if you have at least most of the support covering the back 2/3 of the transmission. This time I used some threaded rod as a guide for the two M10 holes on each side of the bell housing to help line the transmission out. Once I had all the bolts in, I puts the transmission in and it slotted straight away. TIP WITH THE TORQUE CONVERTER: As posted in this thread before by Puff, make sure the nose of the torque converter sits inside the bellhousing. I pushed the converter on and it clicked on what I thought was 3 times but it was twice as the nose was still outside. If this happens, continue spinning the transmission clockwise whilst putting some pressure as you push (doesn't have to be excessive). Eventually after 6 or 7 rotations it will just slot in again and move further back and be seated. You'll definitely know when this happens and the nose of the converter will be inside the bell housing

Yeah I bought a cheap electric one. It works fine and does the job if you keep on top of it. Much more power with the petrol version though.

yeah, I'm still just doing 3 days per week full body, but always thinking about doing more

I only need 3 days per week, full body, at the moment. I'll swap to a split when I need to but that wont be for a while.

Yay Saturday and yay Sunday Looked after some dogs this weekend. There was this one male chihuahua, he was literally smaller than my cat, an old boy but so friggin cute lol. The missus and girls wanted to see him, so I took them over and the dog just started snuggling the hell out of them. I also hand fed him the dog loaf cos he didn't want to eat off the ground... don't ask lol.

Why not both

Went from a weight that last week was a 3rm, to the same weight today of a 5rm with 2 rir. Muscle memory ftw lol. Looking forward to getting under some heavy iron in a few months. I have a gym buddy now, he has a massive frame but not strong yet. We all start somewhere and I know that he'll get strong af soon too. After just 4 workouts he's gone from 50kg for 6 squats to to 75kg for 8. That's just the nervous system learning a movement pattern, we all plateau after a few months but pretty cool to see happen nonetheless. Good times man, we're both natural lifters, I'm mid 40s, he's late 30s, pretty sure he'll overtake me eventually, but we'll farken see how it all goes

I am very impressed with the way you are getting stuck into new, complex jobs and getting through them. Well done!

Thanks, if it wasn't this car it would be another and if it was 200 years ago I would be feeding steroids to my horse and putting wider wheels on my wagon.

Looked at the Territory today as I was driving out the driveway. That's about it.