KillaMav's SWB Maverick - Overdue Update

[KillaMav]

I have been on this forum for quite some time now but have never put my mav in here as it was nothing special. I bought it stock back in feburary this year and have been slowly saving money for upgrades and modifications.

Here are some photo's of it when I bought it - minus the XGT'S.

[G man]

Clean looking unit youv got there. Happy modifying.

[KillaMav]

Originally Posted by G man

Clean looking unit youv got there. Happy modifying.

I'm still not finished puting photos up yet as its modified I'm just going through its stages of modifications.

Fraser Island













I have issues with water.

[KillaMav]

My first real offroad day with the mav that was not on the beach.

[KillaMav]

I have spent the last two months researching suspension and tyres and I have ended up getting 3" Dobinson lift with 4" dobbinson Shocks. This combination works well and at this point the coils do not fall out. I also fitted 33"x12.5"xR15" Maxxis bighorns on 15"x8" Black King rims in a landcruiser offset.

I had had some problems with the tyres rubbing on the flares and here are some photos of the small ramp I found to find where it is rubbing. I know the mav has more travel but its rubbing too much at the moment.

[Andy_b]

Nice work! When are you going to give the rig a workout with the new kit.

Andy

[Josho]

Mate looking good! when do you give the new suspension a run?
When i had just 3 inch lift and 33's mine never rubbed. but i didnt have the flares. id look into changing the flares to a flatter based design. that will get rid of the scrubbing tyres issue.

[KillaMav]

I'll post some pictures latter but I have cut the bottom 15cm of the rear flares off. ei the rear flares are cut at the back and front and the mud flaps had to go too. the rear just doesn't hit the actual metal anywhere. the front is not and issue but it becomes very close on a ramp while turning and I have radius arm spacers to put in today.

I have had it up that little ramp all week trying to cut everything off to stop rubbing but on Sunday its having its first real test run at glasshouse.
http://www.4wdmonthly.com.au/forum/f...ovember-43867/

[G man]

Good pics. It looks sweet.

[KillaMav]

Guards/ flares and cut and rear mudflaps removed. does anyone know if its illegal without mudflaps?

[4bdan]

Cool Shorty mate!

[yamaha__308]

Nice mate, looks the goods, they sure will help in the slippery stuff.
Mudflaps have to cover half the tyre and not be more than 300mm off the ground.

[KillaMav]

The test run when well with one problem. The rear couldn't handle the weight. So today I installed 30mm coil spacers to the rear and it has fixed it. I will load pic later but my computer broke and I'm on the friends computer.

Thanks about the mudflaps. I will buy some rubber this weekend.

[4x4boi]

dam that stuff you did on fraser island is crazy! i bet there was some brown on the seat after that! beaut patrol btw mate!

[KillaMav]

Originally Posted by 4x4boi

dam that stuff you did on fraser island is crazy! i bet there was some brown on the seat after that! beaut patrol btw mate!

????? The fraser island stuff was not crazy!!! the Glasshouse stuff was crazy. Need to also now post pics of my 4wd course. It was great.

[KillaMav]

Did a 4wd course with P7 offroad and had a great time below are some videos of the day.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

[terra88]

Killa I can hear the poor mav rusting from my place .... Hope your've got some good rustproofing

[terra88]

Hey also where did P7 take ya.. looks good

[KillaMav]

Originally Posted by terra88

Killa I can hear the poor mav rusting from my place .... Hope you've got some good rustproofing

Yep coupler tec, heavy duty in a SWB. Should work great.

The p7 course was done on a property outside of childers and theres 15km of tracks. The instructor person is on this forum called chopper. Very intelligent bloke. Have you done a course??

[KillaMav]

The 4wd course I did in November with p7offroad








Found a large dirt mound. Swaybars are still attached