LJ Project Sandy

[badnuz]

chur coolios

[Dr_PC]

chur coolios

Yo do know that nobody likes a skite, Good work now need a rally for it to compete in

[badnuz]

? im not skiting on anything lol!

chur

[Sadam_Husain]

whatever the paint colour is it looks bloody awesome chris

[Smurf]

That is an awesome looking Zuk, well done

[lincooln]

looks awesome as, but damn it that was going to be my colour for my zuk but in a matte finish. haha, oh well, onto my backup colour.

Choice work too mate.

[UBZ]

This is a better representation of the color






Also many thanks to Mudslut @ Supreme Panel and Paint in Hamilton .
For all the support , advice and help.

[zukmeista]

Dear Santa...

[UBZ]

maden 4wd Drive trip for a play in the dunes

[muddyhilux]

nice.but were you up there by yourself?bit of a gambler ae

[niblik]

well done... project sandy out in the dunes... woot!

[Sadam_Husain]

maden 4wd Drive trip for a play in the dunes

good bit of photography there... those photos will be keepers

[mercutio]

awesome looking great old skool suzukis are awesome

[Dr_PC]

good photos but sure is little out in all that sand

[lincooln]

so so cool. Well done. Awesome inspiration

[UBZ]

Picked up sm Tahs
Monster 205/R16 Maxxis Trepadors suppose to be 29.3"


So had to get stuck in and get my off road set of 16" rims cleaned up , just need a final black top coat know


partners in crime.

[niblik]

very cool wee line up there ubz.. any other plans for it? makes me want to get a little suzuki.. heh.. but i'd bastardise it with a rotary..

[UBZ]

very cool wee line up there ubz.. any other plans for it? makes me want to get a little suzuki.. heh.. but i'd bastardise it with a rotary..

Chur , I'm trying not to molest this one. maybe a slightly lower geared transfer if I can find one.
And it needs to be set up properly in the back for camping / shiney touring .

No more projects for know........ , but DB and I have offten talked about a rotary powered ,rusty ranga bared up bush LJ .

[wayfastwhitee]

really nice set of tyres you chose there, they'll look good on

[DieselBoy]

very cool wee line up there ubz.. any other plans for it? makes me want to get a little suzuki.. heh.. but i'd bastardise it with a rotary..

No more projects for know........ , but DB and I have offten talked about a rotary powered ,rusty ranga bared up bush LJ .

The Rotary Ranga bush hack LJ is still there in the shed waiting for enthusiasm and time

[DieselBoy]

I have some pic's I have been sitting on untill UBZ let the cat out of the bag and showed the fresh Sandy to the world

It went down like this:

UBZ showed up at mine one Friday arvo with Sandy on the trailer and the back of his surf bursting with panels.

Everything was pretty well primered and ready for a sand. A date had been booked with Mudslut the next day to sneak into the spray booth for its final coat.

Sandy stayed on the trailer, but the surf got unloaded, doors, windscreen, tail gate, bonnet was amazing how many pieces of LJ fit in the rear of a Surf!!

It all looked good as we started sanding.

2:30am came and went. 3am we ran outa sand paper so had an attempt at blowing the caked on white dust off ourselfs with the air duster and called it a night.

6am rolled round and it was time to load the parts into the Van and head into the shop.

More sanding required.

Then it was the hell masking mission. Don't like masking much, you put all the effort in to getting that tape perfectly in the right spot, only to peel it all off again later.

It was pretty bloody late by the time we escaped the panel shop, we had to put two batches through the spray booth/oven as the doors just wouldn't fit with everything else. It was pretty bloody late by the time we left

Sunday was up again and at the shop by 7am. The reason for the rush was that we had decided that the best way to get all the parts back to Auckland with the fresh paint intact was assemble as much as we could.

Was pretty bloody exciting, even if it wasn't my truck!!!

Sunday we were greeted with this:
















Can almost hear the thoughts going on:

Mudslut:"dam, did someone say YELLOW. Bloody strange Suzuki drivers."

UBZ: "holy shit, can't believe its finally bloody painted. Now I gotta remember how it all goes back together"



The fun started when stuff got bolted back together and it looked like an LJ80 again for the first time in alot of months!!

Front Clip on:



Bonnet on:


And the grill just for the sake of it:


Very cool to see her out and on the road

[zukmeista]

Bout time for some new pics! Wouldn't mind seeing what those Trepadors look like on it.

[UBZ]

Treps on


Road Tripping round Rotorua Lakes

[zukmeista]

I am so jealous right now, can't wait till I can get my hands on one!

[mudbugga]

That's an amazing little truck!!
Awesome work guys.

[PuddleJumper]

Looks awesome! Can't wait to get stuck into mine

[UBZ]

Wow been a while since i have updated this thread

Its Summer , so Sandy has been getting lots of use .

A couple of New additions to the fleet at home .

Landladys New Jimny


Suzuki Service Time

Early December 2013, I had to drive down to the capital (Wellington) for my God Daughters Birthday .
A 1300km Round trip , the weather was good , the Landrover broken again So Sandy was up for a road trip.
Got some Windows sewn into the softtop to make the trip a bit more enjoyable.

The Plan was to Camp the night ,about half way down to break the trip up and fit in a little wheeling along the way .


Lunch break Day 1, at one of my Favorite road side stopping areas .

Of course I procrastinated , and dordled my way down at about 80km/hr so arrived at camp at dusk . This meant I had to rush around looking for some dry wood to get the fire going . The Fire diddn't want to play and after a couple of hours of trying to get really wet wood to burn I gave up and had a cold dinner .
I was a clear night so i slept out under the stars and was rudely awoken in the middle of the night when the fire decided to relight itself and burn away happily . :pissed:


Camp in the morning .


I spent the morning down by the river relaxing .


Found a great example of our Native Water Spider hiding under a big rock . These spiders can run on water

Then I went and checked out one of the local tracks over to a water level monitoring station.


In the Native Beach Forest .


The River from up on top


Down at the Monitoring station.

Stopped off in Waiouru for some lunch


Leave a girl alone for 5minutes and she chats up a Tank

Made down to Wellington with no dramas , used a little oil , but other wise she ran flawlessly

The Next day I went for a drive on the beach around the south Coast , unfortunately my phone died so only one photo that day .


South Coast looking towards the South Is

Had a fantastic time catching up with Friends and Family but 3 days later it was time for the return trip north to Auckland .


Kapiti Island

Made it back up onto the Central Plateau and decided to stop and have a bit of a play around the mountains in the alpine desert.


Mt Reuepheu


The Road to Mt Doom (Mt Ngauruhoe)

Then I decided to go down and check out another of our camp sites , mainly to see how the access track had faired after all the rain we have had recently.


The Track in to camp , no one had been in and our track maintenance work had done its job well.


Down at the river camp site.



I wanted to stay but is was getting late in the day , so i high tailed it down to Lake Taupo for some dinner .



Trusty co-pilot

Went the fastest i have ever been in a LJ down one of the big hills



Stopped just outside Tokoroa for a break


This is where things started going wrong
Engine suddenly lost power , started missing / back firing .
I put it down to some bad fuel or a bit of crud in the Carb , as the problem was coming and going intermittently.

Stopped to get some more fuel and she wouldn't start again, getting dark now .
Manged to get the engine going , but would only run well at full throttle .
A 100km more and the back firing was getting really bad , I was lighting up the road behind me with the fashes .

A hour on the side of the road , Carb seemed Ok , Plugs looked ok , timing was ok , was started to get frustrated and tired . Working by torch light in the middle of nowhere , i suddenly realised that I had no points gap at all . The screws had come loose and the points were moving around on there own

Set the point gap and I was away again . Had to do it 2 more times before I got home , as the screws wouldn't stay tight .
Arrived home very late and very tired , but very happy .

The next day it literally only took me 10minutes to swap the points dissy a SJ413 electronic Dissy - Should have done that ages ago , what a difference

[zukmeista]

Some cool pics there. Good to hear you found the problem, and eliminated the chance of it ever happening again 100km/h in an LJ must = lots revs

[PuddleJumper]

Wow your keen - Trip to Wellington in a LJ Cool story. Looking for SJ413 Dissy for my LJ to if you know of any kicking around (just finished an engine/Gbox swap to a F10)

[zukmeista]

(just finished an engine/Gbox swap to a F10)

Good to hear yours has a decent motor back in it again.