[pickle2589]

This is most likely one of the most stupid questions ever, and i apologise. is there a difference between a NT and a WT body or does a WT just have wider flares? The reason that i ask is that im looking at buying a windsreen surround to fit to my 85 1.3 LWB sierra.

[Scrawny]

NT and WT 1.3 bodies are the same, just wider flares. 1L bodies have a smaller trans tunnel.

[pickle2589]

Awesome. thanks heaps. so it wasnt such a stupid question after all.

[steve]

yerp mostly the same...

although the only difference i can think of is that in the early NT bodies, they didn't have holes for retractable seatbelts, and then later they just had a drivers side hole, then later in the wide tracks they had rectractable seatbelt holes on both sides.

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[flexedup88]

does this mean that a NT drover body can be fitted to a WT chassis ??

[Scrawny]

Can't see why not flexedup88

[flexedup88]

well that would certainly make a WT conversion alot easier i can buy a wreck from auctions strip it and build up a wicked chassis and running gear then just transfer the body on over a weekend

[zuki]

pickle2589 wrote:

This is most likely one of the most stupid questions ever, and i apologise. is there a difference between a NT and a WT body or does a WT just have wider flares? The reason that i ask is that im looking at buying a windsreen surround to fit to my 85 1.3 LWB sierra.

there is a difference between the windscreen surrounds, wipers, arms and mechanisms are different. NT have a shorter gap between the wiper arm and the windscreen squirter. WT have a bigger gap between the wiper and the squirter.
Having said that if the surround is complete including arms and mechanism's then they are interchangeable as complete items but if the surround is bare then it will need to be the same as the one with these parts in it.

David

[lump_a_charcoal]

Aren't spring mounts different as well?

[hutch]

lump_a_charcoal wrote:

Aren't spring mounts different as well?

I believe they were talking about the bodies.

[2stroker]

flexedup88 wrote:

well that would certainly make a WT conversion alot easier i can buy a wreck from auctions strip it and build up a wicked chassis and running gear then just transfer the body on over a weekend

True, but if it were me I would stay with the NT chassis and spring position and fit WT diff housings, which will make it a much better off road vehicle with better flex and articulation

[lump_a_charcoal]

hutch wrote:

lump_a_charcoal wrote:

Aren't spring mounts different as well?

I believe they were talking about the bodies.

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