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An Interesting Comparison RTV vs 1987 Samurai
Mark, from a purely cost/benefit analysis point of view you're dead right.
From an off-road fun (utility?) buggy point of view, there is one (albeit a little more work) choice.
A really popular choice around here is to take a mid 1980's Toyota 4X4 pickup, remove the box (there usually rotten anyways) and shorten the frame until the rear axle is just behind the cab. Then they whip up a quick (usually dumping) light plate box with fold-down sides for the back.
In fact I'm thinking of doing one myself for up at the cottage.
By shortening the wheelbase they turn very tightly, and you just can't kill those little 22R engines. If so desired after market lifts and so on are very readily available.
They make an awesome hunting buggy, it's amazing where they will go, and a heated cab sure beats an ATV in the cold wet snows of fall up here.
The other advantage is the ability to leave it licensed for road travel, and Air Conditioning to defeat those mosquitoes in the summer.
Best of luck.
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Unless we're talking about two different vehicles here, I think there's a little "journalistic licence" being taken here.
We have had several of those vehicles, and in fact used them as 'work' vehicles. Yes they rusted, so did every other Asian vehicle of that same era, no more, no less.
As for "...a motorcycle engine that lasted less than 60,000 miles...", I don't know, we easily got in excess of 100,000 miles out of ours in hard service.
As for "...get pushed off the road with a 30mph cross wind." I again wonder about this, I have driven them lots in winds stronger than that with no problems, it is, however, a 2,000 pound vehicle, not a Sherman Tank.
Best of luck.
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The comment about the T-case and low gears just reminded me of an interesting truck on one of the jobs we did years ago.
The guy wanted a truck geared down to nothing, but couldn't find the gears he needed so did what he thought was the next best thing.
He converted it to Hydrostatic drive. He put a swash plate style pump on the back of the motor in place of the TX and a pair of skidsteer drive motors (working in unison) out of a wrecked unit on the input shaft to the T-case.
The result was 100% engine power at an infinite range of speeds.
It certainly was creative if nothing else.
Best of luck.
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