Sept 7-9

MAHINDRACJ4A · Post by **MAHINDRACJ4A** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 10:23 pm

well what can i say, tried to take the engine out of the starlet got half of it done so pulling it out soon, got my 1g-gte engine on Saturday and that's about it, and sold my sj410 back to my friend who i brought it off, says hes going to make his own stainless body :roll:

MATT4U · Post by **MATT4U** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 11:49 pm

Weekend was ok, drunk far to much, there was F all to do so did some playing....

mud_slinger · Post by **mud_slinger** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:59 am

well i finally got the mu runnin and the alt i brought charges now gotta get a speedo cable which is comin this week and she pretty much good to go.........for a wof :roll:

skid · Post by **skid** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 7:52 am

spent the entire weekend at the Taupo 1000.
The boys built the truck in 9 days, and arrived at the event with an untested truck. they finished after rolling on both days and we had to put in a few hours on saturday night to straighten it out.

There were only 3 entries in the winch truck class and they all finished. Unfortunately the G Guy motors entry of Rogers didn't finish both days and Jono's hilux now has a hole in the block.
Awesome weekend, recommend it to every one to get involved next time.

wjw · Post by **wjw** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:20 am

Spent the whole weekend painting my boys room.... should be finished by the weekend... oh and I hate sanding paintwork!

hosehustler · Post by **hosehustler** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:34 am

monaro427 wrote:had a tinker around the surf today to try and get it firing but wouldn't looked at every thing changed the dizzy,leads, and even the spark plugs in the end found a blown fuse so off to ripco got a couple replaced turned it over and it semi assed fired so just gonn a put the exhaust back on and give it another blast and see what happens moved in to our new rental in papamoa #### it's good to be able to work in a garage with nice floor and room to move, a few littles things left to do got to fit new bar in rear chassis so i can mount the tops of the shocks and do the bottom as well

If you mount the rear shocks in the front side of rear diff housing you can use the crossmember that is already there, that's where mine are :mrgreen:

although they look better mounted on the back side, That's what Dad did.

By the way............when are you coming back down

My weekend consisted of two days at work, 9 callouts, 8 of them medicals

nuts · Post by **nuts** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:41 am

got some maintainance done on my truck ie repaired breaks and cleaned up the section.
after thursdays track maintainance found out i had siezed up my rear breaks lol .
since im off wrk every chance i get im going out clearing up some of the tracks we use so we can keep them open for use .
over the last 3 wks have been on quite a few trips clearing up tracks and am continuing to do so in the hope that this will apease the powers to be to ensure our vast selection of local tracks stay open to use for further use in the future :wink:

tintin · Post by **tintin** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:58 am

xj wrote:
tintin wrote:went for a blast up thompsons track today on the bike to sus out the loop,
very slippery hills, passed 5 jeeps having there own little problems only to make it to where they are logging and find they have dropped trees
over the track on purpose and no way to get around, told the jeep drivers
and they said the had a chainsaw, good luck to them they probley still
there cutting fire wood

5 Jeeps???? descriptions please?????????????????????????

4 wranglers like yours, 1 blue, 2 red, 1 white and and old red one that had broken a front axle or knuckel something is now 3wd when i last saw them it was wedged against a tree, and one had a little tauranga diesel sticker on its window

billyvanboheman · Post by **billyvanboheman** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:50 pm

I spent Sunday at the workshop, watched a tip trailer hoist go bang when it was fully lifted, not cool :shock:

finally got some progress on the snorkel.

Started with this.

3 inch stainless

Which was turned into a starting point of

And finally this.

Just some cleaning up of the welds, and some mounting brackets to sort, plus the join tube from air cleaner, and its done :roll:

I will update the page for the whole project soon but here is the link

Home made Snorkel 4 Isuzu Bighhorn

doby · Post by **doby** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:57 pm

That snorkel looks grate! Wont to do the same thing for my safari, got eney tips?

xj · Post by xj » Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:06 pm

tintin wrote:
xj wrote:
tintin wrote:went for a blast up thompsons track today on the bike to sus out the loop,
very slippery hills, passed 5 jeeps having there own little problems only to make it to where they are logging and find they have dropped trees
over the track on purpose and no way to get around, told the jeep drivers
and they said the had a chainsaw, good luck to them they probley still
there cutting fire wood

5 Jeeps???? descriptions please?????????????????????????

4 wranglers like yours, 1 blue, 2 red, 1 white and and old red one that had broken a front axle or knuckel something is now 3wd when i last saw them it was wedged against a tree, and one had a little tauranga diesel sticker on its window

The "old" red one stayed there saturday night, the owner went back to Whakatane, took an axle out of his wifes wagon, and returned on sunday to fit it and get out.......

"It's a Jeep Thing - aww shit not again!"

Should really get a spare couple of axles myself......

Clint · Post by **Clint** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:29 am

skid wrote:spent the entire weekend at the Taupo 1000.
The boys built the truck in 9 days, and arrived at the event with an untested truck. they finished after rolling on both days and we had to put in a few hours on saturday night to straighten it out.

Yep, great effort from the boys in 899, they came in 3rd in their class.

After being told by an Aucklander that they'd never have it done in time there was never really any doubt that the Nissan would be on the start line :lol:

Cheers
Clint

Sept 7-9

my weekend