Frits Metz

[Frits Metz]

Frits Metz (Actually Friedrich Emil Dirk Metz)

Vehicle details 1996/7 80GX petrol 1FZ-F.

Vehicle Specs
VHF radio
Burnco rear bumper/spare wheel carrier
Home made sliders
Burnco Bull Bar
OME coils & shocks in the rear, Dob's in the front.
Cooper STT's 285/75R16 - interchanged with MTR's 33/12.5R15 as needed
Hellroaring battery manager, with NL monitor for dual batteries
Home made drawer system
Fini compressor mounted
Long range tank
Serious spotlights
Jos Hartog headlight upgrade :cheers:

Experience Trips etc
Many Western Cape trails
West Coast
Mozambique
Lesotho
Namibia
Botswana

Other Interests
Scuba, woodwork, numismatics, photography.

Picture of vehicle to follow

 

[Paul]

Welcome to the forum

 

[Andrew Prince]

Welcome to the forum, Frits!

Quick question about your 80 - I see you mention R15 Goodyears, which presumably are play tyres. Obviously your 96/7 model accepts 15" rims ok?
The UK never really got a GX model in an 80 - the lower spec to a VX here is a GS, which still has most of the modcons (permanent 4x4, 3x difflocks, A/C in most cases, e/windows, disc brakes all round etc etc) but cloth seats. Anyway, the UK 80s switched to the bigger brakes around 92/3 so pretty much all 80s here from that time on came with 16" rims.

Cheers,

 

[Frits Metz]

Andrew,

I used white epoxy rims with those 15" tyres. I did have to grind off about 2mm from the front brake calipers to get them on. Even then, when driving loose terrain, I often end up with a horrible noise when gravel gets stuck between the rim and caliper. I would not know how 15" mags would fit.

I have since resorted to the 16" OEM rims, as I kept on buckling the white epoxy rims on the Namibian drifts. I guess the 900kg rating of the rims is for smooth road only I have yet to experience any problems with the OEM rims - they are excellent.

 

[Andrew Prince]

Ah ok, that explains it! Same concept as the guys on 120s wanting to run 16" rims and grinding the calipers down a bit. Not that it matters but do you run OEM steelies or alloy rims?

Cheers,

 

[Gary Stockton]

Welcome Frits - hope you have fun, and don't laugh at the weather here - hope you're getting some great diving done in Papua!

Cheers

Gary

 

[Ecoman]

hi and welcome aboard

 

[Ecky Thump]

Welcome to the forum Frits

I read your first post about fuel and couldn't understand a word

 

[Frits Metz]

Welcome to the forum Frits

I read your first post about fuel and couldn't understand a word

Ecky, I apologise for the S'êfriken English

 

[Ecky Thump]

[quote="Ecky Thump":y2y1eibz]Welcome to the forum Frits

I read your first post about fuel and couldn't understand a word

Ecky, I apologise for the S'êfriken English [/quote:y2y1eibz]
It was nothing to do with your English, which is superb by the way.
It was the post itself and all the tech speak Yeah I know, I'm hopeless.