Oct 21/22/23

[turoa]

I was marshalling a hazard for some of the afternoon and was recovery vehicle for the rest of the day. Pulled many a dead vehicle back to the pits and had to pull several dead ones up a very slippery hill that some competitors were having problems with. Aired down at 5psi they didnt even spin. They pulled wacko up a slippery hill that he couldnt get up, and my sister (who was driving at the time) didnt even notice he was there. They performed very well on some hills at the end of the day, where I would get up as far as I could, flick in the lockers and they'd keep climbing. I was very impressed as its the first time we've had them down that low. I think I may buy a set for the rover.

Oops, now it looks like a review

[mudchuka]

We went over the old man range from piano flat up the rock staircase then turned off and took a different track that went all the way to roxborough. we refilled ,then had a beer at the shingle creek pub and went back over the old man range ,waikaia bush road and found 2 very stuck vx cruisers, bogged to their doors the pair of them, i winched both of them out then hooked on my 15tonne bungy and pulled them down to the road. we then carried on about 2 hours to piano flat. a great trip.

it was interesting that one of the cruisers had 35inch wrangler mtrs, they were totally useless in the peaty soil up there.'
i wouldnt have them.

[krawlr]

ive found any tyre is crap under my 80....

you wouldent work either if you weighed 2.8 tonne

[doddzee]

ive found any tyre is crap under my 80....

Did you ever think it wasnt the tyres and maybe its the toyota?

How many cars do you have krawler?
Work hilux? play surf, an 80 and do i remember correctly you have a GQ and a 40 aswell?

Wish i had that many!!!

[krawlr]

well nothings changed we still got the ump with toyotas

4wds is just a small interest....

how the ute go dozz?

[krawlr]

by the way is that youre old mans beaten up s line ?

[doddzee]

The utes still not finished ive had a few hold ups, it will be off to the sparky next week then it is all go.

Yip the trusty old orange/green s-line is my dads.

[krawlr]

if you cant make money fron an inter youre doin something wrong!bloody good old gear .....we call them the million dollar trucks cos every contractor made his fist million with an inter

[doddzee]

That old trucks a member of the family is still going strong, i think the million part of that truck relates to the k's, its gone round the clock and is back up around 400,000 Still can easily haul up the gorge with the EX120 on its back.

[krawlr]

na dude as in made the 1st million dollars....


ex120 isnt that cute

truck thread oooooooooh yeah! what under the hood doddz 855 or l10 cummins ?

[doddzee]

na dude as in made the 1st million dollars....


ex120 isnt that cute

truck thread oooooooooh yeah! what under the hood doddz 855 or l10 cummins ?

Yip knew what you meant, not shure 350hp Cummins i think.

[Moriarty]

Put it this way, at least you know its a 10 min job to lock them in if they play up again in th future

Did the engine start to turn off properly once it dried out

Yeah, left youse guys, and trawled off to Rotovages for COFFEEE!!!!!!!! Wild Bean was F#@%D so wandered on to Cambridge, drank caffeine there.

Restart was cool had forgot it even had had a prob.
Truck in service bay even as we speak.

Gonna ask AVM if there is a conversion to manual for the 100 series auto hubs.

[Jerry]

ive found any tyre is crap under my 80....

you wouldent work either if you weighed 2.8 tonne

You could always upgrade to a 1 ton Suzuki !!!!!!

[Moriarty]

ive found any tyre is crap under my 80....

you wouldent work either if you weighed 2.8 tonne

You could always upgrade to a 1 ton Suzuki !!!!!!

Is that an upgrade?
The zooks do make a lot of noise......

[baxter]

Poped up to Chch and had a good play around the Waimac and tons of places down highway 72 on the way home.

Only had baldies on the front of the mighty Lada so didn't get to carried away (or indeed stuck) and the rivers were looking fast-ish and high, but good fun none the less.

Some of you guys must be running pretty tall tyres by the look of the ruts in the designated 4WD recreation area!! I might have to bring my tractor tyres up next time.

I'm almost jealous of the rivers you canterbury guys have to play in...

[Moriarty]

Got truck back today.
Seems as there was a tiny speck of "stuff" in the rubber blocky thingie that does stuff to the vacuum to drive hubs.

Was limiting the amount of air travel to pull suck a vacuum, hence not going in. Selby (Allison) took airsuckvacumm from a different place in the line, works shithot now.

AVM's Agent, 4wd.co.nz, offered me a set of manual hubs for only $414 plaus $120 fright from Aus plus $9 fright to Wangavegas, good of them yes?

declined offer, especially wen I had wrote to ask them if it was possible to convert suck hubs to manual!!!!

Diff HAD flung front oil seal. No reason given, after all, it IS in the lowest place and does lead the way into stuff like water, mud etc etc

Dont follow Wopass
Dont follow Wopass
Dont follow Wopass
Dont fol.........


you get the idea, its all his fault.

[wjw]

SuperWinch manual hubs cost me $280 I think...

[BrentC]

Had a play in northland Labour Weekend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSqKtE9cSCA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47PLUQ1AkH4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwonBSvkx-E