Recent content by blacklisted 550

Just one thing which a bloke from Caloffroad alerted myself to, is the tie rod angle at fall extension. It's prob's the weakest link in reliability issues up front. Considering making up some form of downward travel bumpstop, and for $70 off eBay, purchased a pair to live in the spears box

made up my lil gizmo box and used it over easter, made me extremely happy. is still a shit transmission in general, unless it's under load, shifts can be quite jerky i.e. just leveling out after a steep decent and you wonna bang it up a cog, it'll give out a lil clunk and lunge forward, up hill...

actually don't have to be 550 owners, sorry, but the greater 4x4 community will defiantly get on board, and we keep trying and posting until somebody listens

how's about we somehow round up all the 550 owners on the site, and somebody with enough smarts drops the Nissan Australia FB page a post explaining the issue and its associated dangers, and see how many 'likes' and comments the post generates, like some sort of petition, dunno, may get their...

you're not alone there mate lol

been around boats most my life, never owned one till last season, loving it! bought an American import Malibu flightcraft, bit long in the tooth n could use a good spruce up but I said right from the start, it was not gunna turn into another money pit lol. got an uncle in Dennie on the Edwards...

the blacklines are fitted with an eclipse touch unit, claimed to have HEMA maps installed so the tele and sales brochures where saying at the time. couldn't get anymore further than the truth! my unit uses an SD card for the navigation side of things, as far as sourcing a compatible 'real' HEMA...

pink lakes, Crosbie think it was, just above Underbool, awesome part of the world to wake up in. made a brew n dragged the misses outta bed for sunrise, walked directly across the pan from the camping area, the silence was deafening. will be back up that way in a couple weeks for a Wyperfeld...

took a drive over to Brown Davis HQ and had a long range tank and 3 piece underbody guard set fitted

So how's the RnD going people? Playing with circuitry is not one of my fortes, all I have to offer is "keep up the great work" lol. I will have to put something together before to long, anybody keen on earning a few bucks and knocking me up a device?

G'day guys n girls, old hand in the 4wd's, first time owner of a Nav. Bought one of those Blackline editions back in April, been searching through the forum on a frequent basis ever since, researching/building, thought it was about time I signed up n said g'day, so here we are :hello Will get...