Hilux offroad build steps part 2 custom gauges

4. Custom gauges!
Remember offroad driving is much more intense than usual driving, you need to monitor every aspect of engine and exhaust, battery and more stuff if its possible, to keep your car and you safe!


Oil temp gauge - good if you stock Coolant temp gouge can be failure or thermostat catch fail. If engine its going to hot you can observe with this.

Oil pressure gauge - very important, no oil pressure can blow you engine up! Suitable for every car!

Exhaust temp gauge - very important gauge, it showing real temperature of engine, you don't need to wait until coolant or oil be more cooler that exhaust gas, this should be important if you are equipped with turbo.

Air pressure gauge - good to monitor if your turbo is in good condition and everything works well this is a must in turbo engine.

Old Toyota Hilux - worth buying?

Hello my Readers! I was recently thinking about buying older Toyota Hilux, let's say from about 1982 to 1989. They are fourth and fifth generation.

Equipped  with engines from 1.6 to 3.0 V6 diesel and petrol engines with turbos. So many options were available.

But right now not many people have to sell car like this.
Cool thing about those cars, they are pretty simple, you can tune it very nice. From custom shocks to bi turbo engines. But keep life of car in mind.
Spare parts depends on country where you live. Also in many countries you can have big discount on taxes if car is old and its called veteran car or similar to this.

Rust shouldn't be a problem. In those old cars you can just cut out rust pieces and weld new ones, spare parts or from another car that can suit. My friend do it all the time in chevys.

If you are looking for some hobby car that you can drive it for fun I think its a good choice!
Check out this monster truck toyota hilux from 85!