NZ4WD

On all fours

We 4WD enthusiasts are clear about how our vehicles work, aren’t we? After all, we were raised on the bicep-building pullback required to get a Land Rover into ‘low range four’, the build-from-factory sloppy ‘three on the tree’ manual shift of the old(est) Nissan Patrol, the massive effort required to loosen the equally massive wheel-nuts of a Land Cruiser ‘40’.

We’d dive under the front of a Nissan Pathfinder to pull the half shafts and replace CVs in

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