Shep
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That's a nice truck.
They had them stupid knobs to turn on front hubs iirc.
Manual FWH's are more desirable than Auto hubs, quite common for auto hubs to be binned and replaced with manual FWH's.Auto hubs on the later ones.
Tidy job you've done there, quite a fan of these myself. Between a few of us we have 8 of various shapes and sizes, including a rare pickup version. Bombproof mechanics but just a shame they rust so badly, especially the independent versions. The one above would be as good as or better than a new Defender or pickup in my opinion.
I bought it for my father to use but it's to good for a farm runabout .
My baby destined for the scrap yard called wales probably
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The cross member is only one of the problems daveGet it fixed , just had cross member done
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A lad near beverly ,east yorks ,breaks ,fixes fourtracks ,will have maybe 80/100 in yard , 07753628671Just bought a fourtrak as a project, the underside is fairly bad but very salvageable. I’m new to forums, I can’t wait to get stuck into it. Does anyone know where to get sills extra, any tips would be appreciated
the F50 was the one to have, had the strongest chassis ever put into a small vehicle.
was only let down by the poor metal in the body and a weak transfer box. would have a new one the same now if available
Thanks very much, I’ll give him a call. I’ll be doing the renovations in Ireland but I’m sure he can deliver.A lad near beverly ,east yorks ,breaks ,fixes fourtracks ,will have maybe 80/100 in yard , 07753628671
Of their time mind. You say they pulled well and for their time they maybe did compared to a landrover but i replaced my foutrak with a 3.0 hilux and the difference was night and day. Ok hilux technically doesn't tow as much but on a particular hill to test stuff on round here the hilux with 2.5 ton behind is as fast as the fourtrak by itself. Times move on and a shame that Toyota buying daihatsu saw the end of the fourtrak and not a major step forward and improvement of them.Clearly made for farmers. They were great trucks really and pulled well. You knew every time you saw one coming towards you it was a farmer or contractor. Not many other trades would buy them, unlike all the pick ups of today.