For the Daihatsu enthusiast

[spark plug]

Just 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

I've replaced sills on a few of these, but used 4” x 2” box section makes a tidier job than you would imagine and gives you some decent metal to work away from.

 

[Mounty]

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.

I was talking about pulling well for circa 1990. Not comparable to anything of the last 10 or 15 years

 

[Farmer_Joe]

I thought they were woeful heaps of junk, my dad had 2 and they were both gutless, more comfortable than a lsndrover though. I just got a pajero of the same vintage for a lambing car, now that is a cracking motor much better than the dihatsu and loads more grunt and better off road, shame we never got one when they were younger instead of the dihatsu

 

[Farmer Roy]

I’ve only ever seen a handful of Daihatsu here