ashley river trip sunday 2nd.

kiwipete · Post by **kiwipete** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:48 pm

Someone want to tell us the story here..........

PR · Post by PR » Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:52 pm

On the last good water crossing on the Okuku the Nissans made it :wink:

and a zuki made it :wink:

and I had to pull out all the Toyotas cause they all got stuck

PR · Post by PR » Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:55 pm

kiwipete wrote:Someone want to tell us the story here..........

Yea crazy women decided to try and take the VW 4x4 so I pulled her out :wink:

they had been stuck for 45 minutes

fweddy · Post by **fweddy** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:53 pm

Except for the zuki - who else didn't get a tow - especially of the 8 trucks that went from ranggoon up?

Might be proving something for zuki - except he almost got swept down stream at one point!

I was trying to figure why I was struggling on the slippery boulders in the water, but have realised since getting home that my tyre pressures are way too high. I was going to air down before I left home but forgot all about it.

Also looking at going to 33 MTs if any one has any good deals they know of. Was keen on the mudzillas on TM but they just sold for $1,268

petefj40 · Post by **petefj40** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:12 pm

PR wrote:On the last good water crossing on the Okuku the Nissans made it and a zuki made it and I had to pull out all the Toyotas cause they all got stuck

If I was there with MY Toyota, not all the Toyota's would of got stuck!

So I guess you never got stuck then?

See you at the Sheffield mudplug? Lets see who's laughing THEN :lol:

kaney · Post by **kaney** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:23 pm

petefj40 wrote:
PR wrote:On the last good water crossing on the Okuku the Nissans made it and a zuki made it and I had to pull out all the Toyotas cause they all got stuck

If I was there with MY Toyota, not all the Toyota's would of got stuck! So I guess you never got stuck then?
See you at the Sheffield mudplug? Lets see who's laughing THEN

yea he got stuck...well and truely
i didnt see any toyota stuck...only nissan, izuzu, and rugger.

....even if i did only watch for a min or two. before dissaprearing

fweddy · Post by **fweddy** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:41 pm

kaney wrote:
yea he got stuck...well and truely
i didnt see any toyota stuck...only nissan, izuzu, and rugger.

....even if i did only watch for a min or two. before dissaprearing

so that was you!

He actually got very stuck more than once - first time he had to winch out. Infact every single Nissan on the trip today had to be towed :lol:

(as did nearly every one else!)

hulux-happy · Post by **hulux-happy** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:41 pm

kaney wrote:If I was there with MY Toyota, not all the Toyota's would of got stuck! So I guess you never got stuck then?
See you at the Sheffield mudplug? Lets see who's laughing THEN

yea he got stuck...well and truely
i didnt see any toyota stuck...only nissan, izuzu, and rugger.

....even if i did only watch for a min or two. before dissaprearing

that cause we just pulled the 4 door hilux out, so so other had a go. it was a great day and thanks for the rescues after finding out why i need to lock the front diff now.

thanks pr for the second part of trip up from 2nd bridge. awsome to learn more about the new trucks real capablitys. can wait till sheffield now

.
this safarie puts the surf to shame. yeh i got stuck but there were so many times where i would of been stuck in the surf where the nissan just ploughed on thur it with no sweat. cool guys i will post pics in folder soon. thanks to all for turning up.

cant wait to do the other bit from oxford down pr

cheers guys

Aza · Post by **Aza** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:45 pm

Yea was good and only got stuck once!

Cheers

fweddy · Post by **fweddy** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:45 pm

What tyre pressure were you running Hulux-Happy? You seemed to have the same struggle as me on the loose slippery boulders?

BTW I just shot down to look at that dumped trailer. Was thinking of checking for a numberplate and seeing about obtaining it - but all that's left there is a pile of potting mix.

hulux-happy · Post by **hulux-happy** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:51 pm

i was running 50 psi all day. i seem to go ok like that. i wont say to much bad stuff about the toyotas they went well and there was a good variaty of toyotas aswell. me just happy with the day and last bit was real cool for checking snorkals for leaks. i checked my aif filter after trip and still dry

tallsam66 · Post by **tallsam66** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:56 pm

I didnt have any problems with my surf at all...but only went as far as the Rangiora bridge though.
I was running 32 in my tyres...seemed fine.

PR · Post by PR » Sun Sep 02, 2007 10:08 pm

The first part of the trip I got stuck 3 times :roll:

2 in some really narly mud holes which I doubt any truck would have got through due to the big tree roots that I and anyone else would not get traction on :wink:

50psi shit :shock:

I was runing at 30psi and I thought that was too high I should have been running at 15psi :wink:

I will arrange an ORE day trip in October from oxford down

PR · Post by PR » Sun Sep 02, 2007 10:52 pm

More photos up now :!:

Cheers happy hilux

kaney · Post by **kaney** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:19 am

fweddy wrote:
kaney wrote:
yea he got stuck...well and truely
i didnt see any toyota stuck...only nissan, izuzu, and rugger.

....even if i did only watch for a min or two. before dissaprearing

so that was you!

yep that was me (orange bike)

petefj40 · Post by **petefj40** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:59 am

hulux-happy wrote:
kaney wrote:If I was there with MY Toyota, not all the Toyota's would of got stuck! So I guess you never got stuck then?
See you at the Sheffield mudplug? Lets see who's laughing THEN

yea he got stuck...well and truely
i didnt see any toyota stuck...only nissan, izuzu, and rugger.

....even if i did only watch for a min or two. before dissaprearing

that cause we just pulled the 4 door hilux out, so so other had a go. it was a great day and thanks for the rescues after finding out why i need to lock the front diff now.

thanks pr for the second part of trip up from 2nd bridge. awsome to learn more about the new trucks real capablitys. can wait till sheffield now .
this safarie puts the surf to shame. yeh i got stuck but there were so many times where i would of been stuck in the surf where the nissan just ploughed on thur it with no sweat. cool guys i will post pics in folder soon. thanks to all for turning up.

cant wait to do the other bit from oxford down pr cheers guys

You're to excited about your nissan bro. Settle down now settle down.

Nissan putting the surf to shame? When you owned your surf you couldn't say enough good things about it!! :shock:

How's the toyota/nissan poll lookin?
:lol:

Looks like everyone had a good time yesterday. GREAT! :thumright:

fweddy · Post by **fweddy** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:25 am

hulux-happy wrote:i was running 50 psi all day.

That makes sense because you seemed to be having the same trouble as me at times. I was running about 28-30ish (haven't checked for a while) and figure that with the type of tyre and the high pressure I was too firm to grip the rocks - after i bought the truck and was running at the pressure the last owner had I could get through those places much easier and was wondering what my trouble was yesterday.

PR wrote:The first part of the trip I got stuck 3 times. 2 in some really narly mud holes which I doubt any truck would have got through due to the big tree roots that I and anyone else would not get traction on

I'll have to agree - the more set up the truck the more rough terrain you take on...

But I got stuck in a deep water hole with loose shingle that me and anyone else would not get traction on :lol:

Sure I took a wrong line to end up there... :roll:

Good fun tho!

Really enjoyed the day and the truck now has all the doors open and I'm waiting for the sun to come out...

Steve_t647 · Post by **Steve_t647** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:53 am

I ran 50 psi all day too on 31" AT's, I would also like to thank Happy-Hulux and PR for such a great day, and Bubbles, PR, BillyVan and others for getting me unstuck.... well it didn't look that deep.

And thanks PR for the one man power pull to get out of the pea gravel who need's a safari top pull you out when just the driver can do the job! :lol:

Also good to see RangiMotors (Dave) out for a bit of a play, and trademe.

billyvanboheman · Post by **billyvanboheman** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:12 am

I also would like to thank all who participated in the day, it was a good little trip, I am just sorting out some video I took to add to the album, most of it is of PR :roll:

he just seemed so photogenic on the day :twisted:

I will post when it's up and running.

I think special mention should go to Bubbles :lol:

the first part of the trip for her consisted of, watch PR get stuck, pull PR out, watch him get stuck again in the track beside the first one.

Wait for the call from PR "HONEY"

Tell PR to get stuffed, get your self out. :lol:

Travel the trail a bit, recover Hulux-happy, then Steve_647, then me, then Aza.

At this point I thought she should have Bubbles Towing on her truck :!:

I did get to repay my favour later, but Bubbles was a great help, keep up the good work

hulux-happy · Post by **hulux-happy** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:21 am

You're to excited about your nissan bro. Settle down now settle down.

Nissan putting the surf to shame? When you owned your surf you couldn't say enough good things about it!!

yeh im really excited about it. i could never say enough about the surf cause i didn't no anything about 4wding and it was my frist truck. then i got the nissan and well i have done everything in it that i did in the surf but where i got stuck in the surf , the nissan seems to go straight thru it all no problems. yes the hilux is a great truck and once i put the new turbo in i will take it for another run. its just the nissan has more grunt and strenth. plus it has a rear lsd so thats why im not getting stuck as much.

at the end of the day. they are both good trucks and i just keep on learning. thanks again to pr for the second part of the trip as that was a real learning trip for me.

cant wait to do it all again

petefj40 · Post by **petefj40** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:59 am

hulux-happy wrote:
You're to excited about your nissan bro. Settle down now settle down.

Nissan putting the surf to shame? When you owned your surf you couldn't say enough good things about it!!

yeh im really excited about it. i could never say enough about the surf cause i didn't no anything about 4wding and it was my frist truck. then i got the nissan and well i have done everything in it that i did in the surf but where i got stuck in the surf , the nissan seems to go straight thru it all no problems. yes the hilux is a great truck and once i put the new turbo in i will take it for another run. its just the nissan has more grunt and strenth. plus it has a rear lsd so thats why im not getting stuck as much.

at the end of the day. they are both good trucks and i just keep on learning. thanks again to pr for the second part of the trip as that was a real learning trip for me. cant wait to do it all again

Yeah ok Steve. :roll:

And how IS that toyota/nissan poll going?
Speaks volumes mate. Says it all. Majority rules.
Sorry.

PR · Post by PR » Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:03 am

billyvanboheman wrote:Tell PR to get stuffed, get your self out.

I will rember that BILLY :wink:

billyvanboheman · Post by **billyvanboheman** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:43 pm

The videos are in the album.

Can either click this link, or they are in a separate folder at the end of the album.

The PR video show

These are the only vids I took, so sorry I didn't get any of anyone else, not that easy to drive and be video operator as well. :roll:

Enjoy

QUADRACER · Post by **QUADRACER** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:44 pm

Good to hear positve feed back, next time I take the Zuki out, will need to weight it down, you were right it did start to float.
just another thing to sort out.
right after getting more power and a snokel

billyvanboheman · Post by **billyvanboheman** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:29 pm

Can someone please confirm the videos from the above link are working OK.

It's the first time I have used this camera, and had to download some different codec for it, just want to confirm other PC's are able to open it ok. :roll:

Cheers

hulux-happy · Post by **hulux-happy** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:49 pm

its working fine for me, im usind media player classic. in vista.

nice vids

billyvanboheman · Post by **billyvanboheman** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:38 pm

hulux-happy wrote:its working fine for me.
nice vids

Cheers for letting me know

Bubbles · Post by **Bubbles** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:45 pm

Thanks for a great day

i had heaps of fun

ill be happy to do it again

There will be a sign put on the back of my truck saying bubbles towing co with all prices .

by the way who is pr i dont know him :roll:

PR · Post by PR » Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:35 pm

Im the poor bugger that wakes up in the morning next to you :roll:

Steve_t647 · Post by **Steve_t647** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:43 pm

You do or you used to and now you live on the couch? Remember you could also fit under Bubbles truck.