Ooops, forgot the date - Saturday, April 12. Starting at Piopio I think

contact Mike Wagstaff 07 878 7128 or paerua@worldnet.co.nz to register by Apr 9
$60 per person picnic lunch and bbq evening meal. Fundraiser for Hillview home Te Kuiti.
Shiny safari I think over mostly farmland, all new scenery tho - hasn't been done before.

The HT section of your ignition is where you get all your spark power from, so a good feed and coil should provide a good spark. HEI (high energy ignition systems?) systems are ok but others are as good. The low tension side is just a trigger (as in HEI also), it has nothing really to do with the ...

mercutio wrote:
i don´t need a SOA i have coils

A HA!! there you have it, technically your springs ARE above the axle
All you coily guys therefore are SOA by default and therfore SOA must be good yes?

Gooonne - all gone. So if anyone see's it doin bad things up Thompsons, where the young fella from Hams is keen to use it - it's NOT me

skid wrote:
As the title suggests, I don't like springover

So one of the the most popular and best selling 4wds ever in NZ's history is built all wrong. You're a Toyota man but you don't like Hilux's ?

Ohh thats right just 40's :cyclops:

BrentC and others, be carefull not to paint these guys as the villans, they were just driving a track that was there, they WERE NOT the ones that created it, they have not strayed off a formed track, there is no indication that Doc does not want that track used and it has been there for as long as ...

Some allways will say its the V8s with 35" tyres that do all the damage -- but is it

I've not checked, but the Doc / private land boundary will be thru there some where - which makes it no better

I've actually always wondered why there was two going up let alone three?

^^^^ All that looks familiar.

Ben, DB was looking for the map of the block tracks, I have'nt gotten round to dropping one off but you should be able to down load it from that site - sing out if you cant.

yep small stream right behind that hole (dont know whether I would drink it straight tho). The toilet thing is more than likly going to be sorted at the camp site by Doc and taupo/King Country 4wd clubs. Doc have certain criteria for toilets that they need to strictly adhere to. It will happen as ...

Not coming, slowly giving up the 4wd thing. yeap got a map of the block tracks - can drop one in your olds letter box next time I'm up that way PM their number as I'm round the corner at my olds a bit. I wouldn't take a rifle if you cant even find the stream at the camp area in the block - It's ...

Bla bla bla.............. Hey, anyone goin to be offended if i a take a rifle to pureora incase theres anything to spot light?? There is no fuel, pubs or supermarkets near by, so come self sufficient for three days, the nearest place with a servo and a 4 square would be about 45 mins away from the ...

Na we still wanted to do another stage. Scott said the the pucker hill was there so we were into it. we seemed to come out at the right spot (low and sandy intersection?) then headed out. how many others were keen and took on the big winch hill after the rain started? After we saw a couple of Patrol ...

And whatever happened to that great invention called 'non return valves'... it seems they haven't heard about those yet either! They've heard of them. Put a non return valve on your diff breather and interesting things may happen If its got a driveshaft hanger then my vote (without experiancing it ...

m you can get all the boundaries etc and zoom in real close thru this site, use the parcel layer (but it doesn't tell you who owns them). You'll see theres some interesting surveying on the track itself in the bush at the big corner. It also shows that the short track to the summit isn't part of the ...

Did the Rere run - much better than watching the rain out of the window at home. The rain didn't really affect that pumice country much anyway and when Scott says it's gonna be a harder track than last year you get a harder track!

http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/images/albums/album490/DSC03933.jpg yep ya got me skid. I wasn't game to take my wifes camera out in the rain - had my hands full anyway. Scott and the rest of our hosts looked after us well - cheers. There was some hard out winching there allright - some wicked ...

It's a fund riaiser for the local primary school DB, therefore you might be missing the point of the whole event really

You're not coming over very well in your posts about cost - when it looks like ya trying to save money while didling the poor little school kids out of their quality education.

I'm entered again . Probably be my trucks last hoorah as it's going on the market afterwards (if its still going)

I'm cool with the price after seeing the effort the ladies put in last year and the work on track set up. It's a time consuming exercise

I havent sat down and read through the conservation act for 8-9 years but my understanding was it is already written into the act that any vehicle (as interprited by the transport act with or with out wheels), vessile or aircraft (less than 500m? above doc land) requires a permit to access doc land ...

I've found that the load sensing valve normally works ok. Firstly make sure it's actually working and not seized as they sometimes are -no point adjusting it if is.
Any suspension lift on your surf will affect that valve too of course.

Nah temp gauge works all good so don't think it could be sensor related. Think i'll just tidy it up, sell it and get something else thats not Land Rover. Ya never know it could be sensor related, more often than not the temp gauge sensor is separate from the ecm temp sensor. If its overall a good ...

its british..... im surprised it revs past 2k hey hey, naughty boy try and isolate which cyl it is (might narrow things down abit), yeah could be a vacuum leak. you've covered most of the spark side of things but lowbox has a point. The only other things I can think of quickly is a bad injector ...

yeah about 5500. I don't normally take any notice of the revs (maybe thats why its starting to blow a bit of smoke now) But one day I was blasting up a slippery slope full noise I did happen to look down and it was sitting at 5500 and did'nt go much further (for about 30 secs )

thats a "how longs a piece of string" type of question.. A bit like Ford or Holden Seriously my advice as a ex mechanic is go with the best individual vehicle you find - they are both good 4wds. Don't buy a poor example just because you've decided that make is better. Did that make any sense ...

In the 60series Hilux I've been told that the 2wd cab is the same as a 4wd cab the main difference is in the front gaurds (so just swap 4wd ones over)

Just thought that might help broadern your options a little and you might be able to pick up a rust free tidy 2wd cab easier than a 4wd cab

I have a .85 - .9 mm plug gap with a Bosch GT40 coil I think. Out to 1mm gap would work I reackon. Unless theres some crap getting in the carbs It's hard to say why it was running ok for a start? Float levels etc don't go adjusting themselves (unless the valve is wornout or float sinks) :scratch ...

electronic ign - no condenser Twin carbs on 3.5V8s are on a dual plane manifold, each carb feeds 4 cyls of its own - thats why it's important that they're balanced. So yeah I spose if one carb is dodgy you are gonna get 4 sick cylinders. Is your modded P76 manifold still dual plane. maybe bite the ...

Hi Guys, Engine is a Leyland P76 V8 fitted with an early P6 V8 timing cover and dizzy, and manifold adapted to take SU HIF6 carbs. Symptom: misfires under revs and load but idles beautifully. timing is ok, new plugs, leads, coil and just fitted pertronix ignitor electronic ignition kit. Nothing ...

I think mudzilla meant right through not just up. theres a big difference. (I'm interested to know also)

Katikati side is the only part that I cosider to be the "track" and you haven't really done the "track" until you've made it thru from end to end.