Category: Suzuki Tech

Aluminum Door Handles with Bill Johnston On a cold winters night, with the wind whipping through your jacket chilling you to the bone, it’s time to run to the store and pick up those last minute Christmas presents. Coming out of the mall, arms full of presents, you try not to slip on the ice patches […]

    with Jeff Pollock Roadless Gear Polyshield While driving home from my last trail ride a huge thunderstorm with high winds hit. As I proceeded down a stretch of narrow, winding road a tree branch reached out and smashed my Zook’s windshield. It’s funny, I wheel all day and no breakage and then on […]

    with Donald Roberts Samurai Power Steering Conversion Photos by Donald, arms by Popeye He’s strong to the finish ’cause he eats his spinach, he’s Popeye the Sailor man! So goes the Cartoon song. With the new 33 inch Baja Claw tires mounted on my samurai it took all the strength I could muster  […]

Petroworks 2WD Low Option with Bill Johnston You are driving down the trail in 2wd, nothing tough yet, you haven’t even locked the front hubs… coming around a corner you are confronted with a hill that you KNOW is going to be tough in high range.  You know you could make it in 4wd, especially […]

  with Jbird  The Swap Sunday morning was the point of no return. I knew that once I removed the air box from the top of the carb and started removing vacuum hoses there was no going back. I removed every vacuum hose connected to the carb and unplugged all of the wire connections. When […]

    with Jbird The Problem Ive owned my 1988.5 Samurai for 6 years. The very first modification I made was installing 235/75 tires. After a few years and a few inches of lift, I added 31×10.50 tires. Even though I had stock gears and a stock engine I was still able to use 5th […]

    with Bill Johnston On Board Air – Air Conditioner Conversion When you have old air conditioning parts in the garage and an air tank sitting there staring you in the face, what do you do? You build an On Board Air System! I wanted to make it simple yet functional. I also wanted […]

  with Larry Harris OME Rear Springs @ All Corners Many conversations around the campfire are about the rough ride of the short wheel base Samurai. This is not unique to the Zook, it applies to all vehicles of this type. Most acknowledge that hands down the OME is the best riding spring on the […]

  Tracker Nine Inch Suspension Out Back With Jim Mazzola Out Back: The rear suspension control arms in their original location, due to its drastic lift, rotates the tire right into the front side of the wheel well. This coupled with the fact that with 9 inches of lift on an 18 inch lower control […]

      with Larry Harris additional pictures Chris Meredith Looking to add a full interior Sport – Cage to my Samurai I wanted to install something that was well built and functional. My search for a product that would fit my needs lead me to Petroworks Off-Road Products. In talking with Gary Munck  I […]