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ZUKIWORLD Discussion Forum => Suzuki 4x4 Forum => Topic started by: DirtDevil on September 04, 2004, 07:17:23 PM
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I just made a deal for an 86 LWB samuria, 5 speed 1.3L, removable hard top, shes bone stock, and needs a small amount of engine work,and maybe a new windsheild frame. It runs, but not so great :P.. what do u guys here at zuki world think of em ? havent seen many people on here with a LWB.  should be interesing now im use to my LJ80 buggy and jens tracker.. the guy I baught it off made me promise that ill keep its name "grover" lol dont ask.
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I say you give 'em $500 and then give me the Samurai ;D
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got pics?
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i just got a 91 LWB sammy with removable tops.we put a set of tyres on it,a 4.16 t/case,set of shocks.gew 9000 lb winch and we went out and WON our first winch challenge event.
ZOOK "90" f**king awesome!!
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no pics yet sorry
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If I had the money, I'd buy one right now ;D
Great little rigs.
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I've got one, I love the hell out of it! Well, loved, it is currently in pieces getting a serious makeover. They are an awesome platform to build the piss out of. They have more spring room, for example, I have Jeep Wagoneer springs on it all around, you know the fake wood trim leaf spring full size Jeep. The front springs are 10 1/2" longer than the sammy fronts(1 1/2" longer than YJs), and the rears are 17" longer than sammy rears(11" longer than YJs), and have plenty of wheel travel and rides all cushy and stuff.
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niice haha yep yep, and i guess losta room for dual cases and what ever else, plus u can go up steeper shit with out fallin back :P.. i think ill keep mind stock for a while, then take it off the road do a spring over and some other mods, im short on cash and will be for a while ::).. smart plan eh, lose ure job, go buy another truck a day after ;D
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The best suggestion that I can give you on the dual transfercase thing, go through OTT Industries in B.C. and use their kicker3 with a sammy case and kick trans. If you want to run the 1.3 with that setup, you can use the lucky13 from 4x4 Fabrication.
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the guy I baught it off made me promise that ill keep its name "grover" lol dont ask.
here's my LWB, its an 85 and I'd never go back to a SWB
oh and check out the sticker on the targa
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/szabotage/aug29quinntrail5.jpg)
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man thats crazy, whats with grover?? haha suitable lwb name i guess :P its wierd its the same year and everything too
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heres grover in his very stock form (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v455/trev_guy/mini-DSCF0019.jpg)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v455/trev_guy/mini-DSCF0018.jpg)
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lol you even have the dent in the pass, side fender like mine too! nice truck!
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wieerdd haha
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What you have is not called a sammy, per say. It is called an SJ413W, a.k.a. a long wheelbase sammy with SJ410 width axles. Just a little piece of info that I found out while researching mine.
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You just never stop learning something new here ;D
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the doors on my LWB read samurai super to match the pinstripes and the parts LWB I have has samurai JX badges on the side and the dashes on both have the samurai badge on it
also my parts LWB has the wider axles rather than the narrow ones I'll try to dig up pics if I got em
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heres, my parts truck
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/szabotage/pass_quarter.jpg)
and here's my grover in stock form
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/szabotage/LWBsidegrover.jpg)
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It might be called a sammy setup like that in some markets. But notice how much narrower the axles are than a regular sammy, they are the same width as SJ410 axles only with larger diffs. The telltale sign is the fenderflares. They are only about 1" wide vs. 3" like a sammy. Essentially the truck is just a narrow axled sammy. The rest of the truck all sammy.
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man, is ure gas cap missing in that stock pic? lol.. yea i kinda thought my truck might be the sj thing, also another thing odd about mine, auto locking hubs? does ure got that to ? doesnt look like it in the pic.
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It might be called a sammy setup like that in some markets. But notice how much narrower the axles are than a regular sammy, they are the same width as SJ410 axles only with larger diffs. The telltale sign is the fenderflares. They are only about 1" wide vs. 3" like a sammy. Essentially the truck is just a narrow axled sammy. The rest of the truck all sammy.
not all lwb's are narrow axled, my parts LWB has the wide axles like I stated earlier ( it's an 87 with 3.73's) same width as the ones on the other 3 SWB's I own(87 and 2 88.5's)
there was a brief period when the sammi came with 3.90's in the narrow axles( full size pigs) 85 ithink it was
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here's my parts kick again. may be hard to see the wide axles but look at the post 85 fender flare mounts, they are the bigger ones
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/szabotage/drivers_quarter.jpg)
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here's my 3rd LWB just for bragging rights, not sure what to do with this one, but the body is in great shape
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/szabotage/greenLWBsideprofile.jpg)
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man, is ure gas cap missing in that stock pic? lol.. yea i kinda thought my truck might be the sj thing, also another thing odd about mine, auto locking hubs? does ure got that to ?  doesnt look like it in the pic.
yeah I was missing a few things on that truck( stock grover) but all I used off of that truck was the frame and body. the rest is all sidekick internals and a 88.5 sammi t'case oh and the seats.
the hubs on grover were manual(85) and the the 87 parts truck were auto. Auto locking hubs were always available through most of the years for the sammi/SJ's
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kool, yea my gas cap got stolen and the gas syphend out a day before i baught it >:( lol... but the guy i baught it off made sure there was nothing in the tank and he put some fresh gas in.. nice lookin body on that green one, i know what you should do with it! give it to me ;D lol, just kidden minds not all that bad.
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hehe, I got a few ppl after it, and i came close to selling it one time, but now I decided to keep it, definitely not for offroading though at least the offroading that I do, that's what grover is for ;D
I'll prolly make it into my daily driver after it's over 20 years old (its an 85, no emissions test if older than 20 years here in Ontario Can.) would make a good winter truck up here
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i just got a 91 LWB sammy with removable tops.we put a set of tyres on it,a 4.16 t/case,set of shocks.gew 9000 lb winch and we went out and WON our first winch challenge event.
Careful you don't pull the Sammy in half. <g>
One of the Sammys in the 4WD club had a flat in the mud... couldn't use the jack. He tossed the cable over a branch & lifted the front off the ground. (Sad thing is, he couldn't get the winch cable loose from the tree afterwards. <g>)
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Careful you don't pull the Sammy in half. <g>
One of the Sammys in the 4WD club had a flat in the mud... couldn't use the jack. He tossed the cable over a branch & lifted the front off the ground. (Sad thing is, he couldn't get the winch cable loose from the tree afterwards. <g>)
Should have used a tree strap ;)
Must've been one heck of a good bumper to hold on that good.
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Should have used a tree strap ;)
Must've been one heck of a good bumper to hold on that good.
I didn't see it... just a story bantered around when he drove into the next meeting. The bumper was ugly... a channel iron... I didn't know there was enough meat to attach one on a Sammy.
"With the right tires, this thing'll climb a tree." (Just try to get down aftewards.) :D
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I hope the one you're lookin at near Toronto Canada isn't lime green. The guy who ownes it talks it up like it's gold. I drove 600 miles up there only to find it's a golden turd.
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hey capn, that sucks bout that 'limey' deal, sorry bout my truck, but I decided to keep it, I ended up selling something else for my lack of cash at the moment
I'll keep my eyes open for ya round here
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You really sounded like you wanted to keep it. ;) I'm not really looking for anything right now. I decided to focus the buildup on my current rig and if a decent LWB falls into hands then I'll swap everything over.