That looks awesome. I’m going to have to cancel work when mine rolls up
The tyre, rim and diff chop combo looks great
See what you mean with the trans clearance. Hmm you’ll come up with something I’m sure. Maybe try a powerglide in it
Funny thing about the “sunrasyia” rim. They were originally designed as a robust caravan wheel. Specifically called the TRAK2 for manufacture. Then sold as Sunraysia or whatever. Then people decided hey look they fit on 4WD’s too. Of course, they’ll fit on holdens and fords too as they were made for both stud patterns which caravans used either for the hubs. Made for the landcruiser bigger hubs too. Still to this day they have been copied and sold painted black undercoat for an exorbitant price when they only cost $10 ea to make. Chrome was an extra dollar each and sub contracted out. White was powder coated usually but some just paint. It changed over the years. They are a tough rim but the radial and lateral tolerances are large why you usually see a lot of wheel weights on them to balance them properly.
Thanks so much for your comments and knowledge on such things regarding rim sizes and designs.
I know I talk left handed Swahili a lot of the time, but I know that you are one of the very few people who get what I mean about replica scaled rims and offsets etc.
There’s obviously no such thing as replica 15x8 or 15x10 Sunraysia rims available online… but if you know, you know, and can get the gist of what I’m talking about
I guess I talk left handed swahili too It’s just txt can be hard to transfer the knowledge at times is all it is.
I was nearly going to delete the bit about the rims as pretty boring really. From a time gone by in my life, and in Australia too for that matter.
But you got Chrome ones and they set that model off with my favourite colour … Red. I think we might have some others joining the fray in the near future
Forget the left handed Swahili and NEVER edit your comments thinking that nobody is interested… because I know myself that I’m relying on your extensive knowledge of the industry to learn shit that can never be found from anywhere else!
I’m just loving the fact that I can get these old skool rims for my little Crawlers, and not limited to modern GUCCI looking crap that were NEVER a match for these old rigs that we owned and grew up with.
I couldn’t imagine a world where I couldn’t fit some old classic Sunraysia rims to these things… nothing else could ever bring back the same memories as those classic rims provide!
Having the original old “small triangle” Sunraysia 15x10 rims on my Patrol might also be swaying my opinions somewhat!
See that black paint on your Patrol rims. That is what I call the standard undercoat. Which it’s not really. At ROH we had a electrolysis paint dip tank. Send few hundred volts through the rim and the paint mixture would latch on to the bare metal. Tough paint. Then go in to the oven all on one chain. Took hour and 40mins to do a complete lap for the paint process and your rim is done sir. All standard steel wheels went through it. Holden, Ford, Toyota, Mitsubishi and aftermarket which is those on your Patrol without reading the stamps on them.
Some required silver was sprayed on top of the black(Pursuit rims) or Berlina bun sort of things. Chrome was sub contracted out and not painted went bare metal. Had a powder coating section as well to powder coat batches of aftermarket rims caravan etc.
Really was a big operation but only a small part of vehicle manufacture en mass. 300 rims per hour you wonder where they all go. Overseas to Toyota to fit on vans, camrys, hiluxes and landcruisers, Mitsu the same, then Holden and Ford. Toyota was the biggest job numbers wise. Just ahead of Holden and Ford.
The worst thing with the paint line was when a hanger roller bearing would fail and there’d be a dip tank full of wheels and shit hit the fan. Call electrician in to disengage the 3 phase power so we didn’t get zapped and pump the paint tank out, then you guessed it jump in there and throw the fkn things out. Oh well all part of the job.
I shake my head these days a younger mate of mine ditched his standard alloy rims on his Navara for $1400 set of these black “sunraysia” tyre and rim combo. Same tyre size as standard. I said what did you do that for you’ve gone backwards. The standard alloy rim is way better. He said oh it looks better. I said ok looks worse to me but each to their own. Was just he was had no money was the kicker. Whatever dude. Haven’t seen him for few years bit of an idiot. I said cool you’ve spent $1400 on a set of $10 ea rims that are hard to balance. The look on his face was priceless.
The toughest rim we ever made was what we internally called the Ford lightwieght. It’s a standard steel rim with small window holes that came out in the late 90’s. Tough as. We tested 1000kg each before we’d start seeing cracking and the run out on them was insane. Barely 10 thou max usually 2 or 3 thou… No wheel weights required. 6mm thick high grade steel. Engineers got the tooling right for that one. Pity about the rest
Same here mate, nobody can profess to knowing everything, and will always come straight out and say that I don’t have any experience in something that comes up in conversations… also doing the quick handball to someone else who is more educated on the subject than I am!
Sometimes it’s not what you know, it’s who you know. Then how to work with that instead of being a know it all fkwit met some of those. They didn’t last long.
White van rolled up again today, and couldn’t take me away as I was elsewhere in town!
Got the very last of the old original WPL C-14 HILUX type replica delivered, along with some electronics that I’m gonna muck around with to modify to suit what I’m chasing!
Got no idea why they all look so janky in the OOTB pics, Must be the camera angle making them look so distorted?
Soon as fitting all the accessories and taking further real life condition pics, they suddenly transform into exact real life relica vehicle’s somehow!
They are if you’re not living in a nanny state like NSW and Vic.
Some state governments know we’re grown ups and can be trusted with sharp objects. Other state governments ban certain brands of shit tickets because the paper’s too harsh and might irritate your delicate bungholes.
It’s just txt can be hard to transfer the knowledge at times is all it is.
good stuff 
