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DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:16 pm

Mean, looks like the Hamilton crew is heading down on Friday night with the exception of Dan.

So see the rest of you guys there on Saturday morning 9am at the HQ................ :twisted:

Ahhhh, all i have to do is change the wheels, fit new front brake pads, put the bed in pack the truck, grease the drive shafts and steering, check oil and water, throw the ropes on, fix the left hand side headlight, shut up the annoying noise coming in from the engine bay.............

Just as well i have tomorrow off work :lol:

Haven't heard rom DJ in a while, all going good?????

icekayak · Post by **icekayak** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:27 pm

how far from civilisation (fish and chips/supermarket) we gonna be whole weekend? ie do we have to bring all the food we want? water? Petrol?

Cheers
Chris

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:29 pm

well suzolla gave me the

2005 TOUGH DOG TOUGH TRUCK, T-MAX CHALLENGE 2 DVD SET

to watch so its gonna be a long night for me, be about 4hr viewing to get thru

.... bit of inspiration for the weekend to come :twisted:

allready put my big wheels on so thats one less Job for tomorrow..... i have the day off as well

4 day weekend !

wonder if i should give the old girl a tune up tomorrow...... been a couple of years since the last one....might do that :wink:

icekayak · Post by **icekayak** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:31 pm

wopass wrote:well suzolla gave me the

2005 TOUGH DOG TOUGH TRUCK, T-MAX CHALLENGE 2 DVD SET

to watch so its gonna be a long night for me, be about 4hr viewing to get thru .... bit of inspiration for the weekend to come

allready put my big wheels on so thats one less Job for tomorrow..... i have the day off as well 4 day weekend !

wonder if i should give the old girl a tune up tomorrow...... been a couple of years since the last one....might do that

maybe we should have a viewing down there

i'm sure someone has a laptop/dvd player they could bring...

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:57 pm

2 more sleeps.............

icekayak · Post by **icekayak** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 5:29 pm

how far food/water/Petrol? we gonna be?

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:21 pm

think they have gone,

take every thing.water food etc etc.may gas up closer to pureora...

brianr70 · Post by **brianr70** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 5:01 pm

Headed down from Tauranga to meet the crew at Whakamaru...the Surf did overheat a bit along the way....but no major drama...met the guys..was good to put faces to names...commenced our adventure driving along the firebreaks...however the overheating got worse...decided to head for home...about 12kms from Rotovegas the overheating got serious...pulled over to cool down and get some more water....then top radiator hose blew

...called Mr AA and he came to the rescue and took me and the Surf back to Tauranga...hopefully the overheating was not serious...but the Surf did throw a large amount of white smoke when we moved it off the truck....mmmmmmm :?:

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guppy · Post by **guppy** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:42 pm

awesome time guys,thanks.home safe and dry.

cheers wayne and amanda

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:17 pm

We're back........................................

Awesome trip, even better group of guys and gals, and the weather was unbelievably good to us, wih two heavy showers today both during road legs of the trip. It even stopped raining for us to repair a snapped tie-rod on Bens Cruiser this afternoon :wink:

Just a few pics from my camera, there were at least two cameras to every truck so there's plenty more to come

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:45 am

was an awesum trip !

i think my mechanical lessons went down well, had a cv replacement lesson on the first day at lunch time and then a refresher course saturday night for those that missed the first one :roll:

then a radiator repair lesson on sunday

and to top it off a mid track tie rod end replacemant lesson on monday

was good to meet you guys and i had a ball,was a bit chilly driving home last night in the pissing rain but well worth it. looking forward to the next one allready :wink:

now all i have to do is find some spares to top up my parts kit again :wink:

will upload the photos i have tonight

Moriarty · Post by **Moriarty** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:45 pm

Had a ball!!!!

The Wopass lessons were well learned, had to re-jig the auto hubs cos the vacuum system fell over. Thanks DB for the tools and advice etc.

Greeted with a big puddle of oil under truck after washing it Monday PM.
Still under warranty so I dont give a bugger!!!! LOL

all fotos are in my album. but here is a sample.......
Snapped in a hurry, sorry about the focus! Or is it Dixie thats blurred?

When's the next trip???????????????

Waiting for Brian of the tea-making radiator....

brianr70 · Post by **brianr70** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 2:56 pm

What a weekend....seems that the tea- making radiator was not the main problem

....looks as if the head is cracked....so as usual with the 2LT engine major $$$$...

..so if anyone is looking for a cheap Surf to do up just drop me a line...

Petemcc · Post by **Petemcc** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 3:07 pm

where are everybody elces photos? post links to your albums.
Cheers Pete

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:24 pm

new tread

http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/modules ... 5378#35378

turoa · Post by **turoa** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:31 pm

wopass wrote:new tread

You got new tyres? or did you get the simexes retreaded or something?

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:33 pm

turoa wrote:
wopass wrote:new tread

You got new tyres? or did you get the simexes retreaded or something?

tHread

pick pick picky pick...... :lol:

Post by **Mark** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:32 am

wopass said:

maybe if i send you the file you might be able to shed some light on the subject, and yes upload it if you can and post on ORE in the N.I SAFARI thread ? that would be coooool

Sorry about the delay there wopass. I did figure it out eventually and here is the Google Earth KMZ of your GPS track log.

http://www.presling.com/files/ore/kml/nisafari.kmz

Clicking on that link should open it up in Google Earth, otherwise you may have to save it to your computer, open GE and go FIle->Open to load it.

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 11:30 am

sweeeet !

cheers dude :wink:

Moriarty · Post by **Moriarty** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 11:36 am

Mark wrote:wopass said:
maybe if i send you the file you might be able to shed some light on the subject, and yes upload it if you can and post on ORE in the N.I SAFARI thread ? that would be coooool

Sorry about the delay there wopass. I did figure it out eventually and here is the Google Earth KMZ of your GPS track log.

http://www.presling.com/files/ore/kml/nisafari.kmz

Clicking on that link should open it up in Google Earth, otherwise you may have to save it to your computer, open GE and go FIle->Open to load it.

EXCELLENT!!!

Is now saved to my puter to show Siwsie.

You done a GOOD THING, Ben, buying us that GPS to log trips.

You know what this means now, dontcha?

if you go on a trip without it, you will be sent back to get it.

Well done too, to Mark for nutting it out and publishing it.

Thanks.

Itis just one more thing to add to the delights of exploring Gods Own safe place.

Moriarty · Post by **Moriarty** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:13 pm

Mark wrote:wopass said:
maybe if i send you the file you might be able to shed some light on the subject, and yes upload it if you can and post on ORE in the N.I SAFARI thread ? that would be coooool

Sorry about the delay there wopass. I did figure it out eventually and here is the Google Earth KMZ of your GPS track log.

http://www.presling.com/files/ore/kml/nisafari.kmz

Clicking on that link should open it up in Google Earth, otherwise you may have to save it to your computer, open GE and go FIle->Open to load it.

Mark, I been waffling on to Wopass over the GPS track data of the NI Safari.
HOW the fark can we make that data into a *.GPZ file so tumonz can see it?
PLEASE!!

You be in the bear and bull tomorrow night?

Dak · Post by **Dak** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 10:47 pm

I have a gpx file here for Tumonz, but I can't find any bloody way of attaching it here. If anyone wants it mail me at cb1300@kiwibiker.co.nz

Cheers, Jeff.

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