[ORE Welly] Back to Rallywoods trip

Cloggy_NZ · Post by **Cloggy_NZ** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:32 pm

Handbrake wrote:.....that allowed him to put a hole in his diff casing and leak oil all through the river!!

This is becoming a real Land Rover disease during these summer months eh? When there is traction they break those flippin' pins holding the spider gears. That's three in three weeks, first me, then Pookie_Boy, and now Turoa.
Pretty sure Brian Howatt hasn't got any more spare diff heads either.
The engineers at our work are making Pookie_Boy a new pin out of some toolsteel. Be interesting to see if that last any longer than the stock pins.

Post by **Mark** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:34 pm

Yeah that was a great day. We managed to get away with nothing more than a few more scrub scratches... which I'm quite amazed about. I thought for sure that there would be a little panel damage driving through ruts as high as the high top roof of the Safari!

Thanks Marty for looking out for us and not sending us to certain doom and destruction. There are certainly some great places to play in there if you have a well set up truck.

The river made a huge difference with cleaning up at the end of the day. At least I know that the engine and seals are pretty water tight after putting it in the water over the bonnet! I had to pull the front off to empty the water out of the headlights tho... :oops:

It was good to see DaveM and Renee up from the deep dark south for a play. I think they enjoyed themselves. He was the only bugger that actually had a camera with him (from what I saw), so hopefully he's got a few pics to post up when he gets home tomorrow.

Post by **Mark** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:38 pm

That's three in three weeks, first me, then Pookie_Boy, and now Turoa.

Ummmm, yeah.... you can probably remove Turoa from that list... not quite a problem with the diff itself aye Turoa? :lol:

At least it happened at the end of the day like Sams CV's!

jumper · Post by **jumper** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:31 pm

Great day

add broken tail light and bent left wing to the list

stinky · Post by **stinky** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:39 pm

I broke a nail if that counts :lol:

turoa · Post by **turoa** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:30 pm

I had cool fun. Apart from putting a hole in the diff housing, and overheating I believe I did well with the smallest and crappiest tyres there.

The only thing that had me confused was that the RR was running better IN the river than it had been the whole day, I thought it would have been cutting out. It could have been that I had sprayed CRC (thanks jumper) over all the leads and distributor a couple of minutes before in an attempt to get it going :oops:

Cant wait to do it again in the LR and conqueor diff dinger

WACKO · Post by **WACKO** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:01 pm

it was probly running well because of all the water flowing round the mtr cooling it off a bit.. :lol:

DaveM · Post by **DaveM** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:49 pm

Thanks to all involved for the trip, had a great time.
Sorry about the lack of pics, didn't really get any decent ones, but heres what I did get....

Jerry · Post by **Jerry** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:16 pm

Ok we need a nice little trip report for the newsletter....who's going to do one...or who got stuck the most or broke down lots?...

mroffroader · Post by **mroffroader** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:20 pm

cough *turoa* cough :lol:

Handbrake · Post by **Handbrake** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:22 pm

Broke down the most......my vote would have to go to Turoa!! :lol:

Or Wacko a close 2nd!

Jerry · Post by **Jerry** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:29 pm

Righto...Turoa is doing it by popular vote......(if he keeps having to do these then he may buy Mr O's Zuk :lol:

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WACKO · Post by **WACKO** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:50 pm

Handbrake wrote:Broke down the most......my vote would have to go to Turoa!! Or Wacko a close 2nd!

broke down the most? what you talking bout willis!!! i had to get extracted from places i knew id get stuck in but cmon.... but even so.. i think i was more likly third... remember jumpers crusier?

Handbrake · Post by **Handbrake** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:57 pm

Oops!!! Yes definitely. And it was more broken stuff that broken down hey! Yes Jumpers cruiser is a definite second, you have been relegated to the bronze medal! :lol:

turoa · Post by **turoa** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:06 pm

See the next offroadexpress monthly for my version of events :lol:

WACKO · Post by **WACKO** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:02 pm

theres a news letter? another reason i shouldnt write it... i dont get said news letter.

a cpl of good pics there dave. the one of my dent doesnt do it justice tho... and you know how i said there were tail lights on trade me for $30... cant find them now can i! :evil:

Jerry · Post by **Jerry** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:17 pm

Your turn will come around for the trip report for the newsletter.........I'll let you know when :lol:

WACKO · Post by **WACKO** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 5:21 pm

Jerry wrote:Your turn will come around for the trip report for the newsletter.........I'll let you know when

yeah.. good luck with that...

Post by **Mark** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:59 am

DaveM wrote:Thanks to all involved for the trip, had a great time.
Sorry about the lack of pics, didn't really get any decent ones, but heres what I did get....

Thanks for the pics Dave. At least someone had a camera!! I didn't realise you had got photos of us doing the river crossings... pity you didn't get a shot of the water right up over the bonnet... hehe

jumper · Post by **jumper** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:31 pm

the short cable in the drum brake was the offending handbrake part

WACKO · Post by **WACKO** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 11:28 am

WACKO wrote:i had a ball!!!!! damage to me was nice big dent by drivers door, smallish dent buy the right tail light. broken tail light and both cvs. glad the cvs went at the end of the day tho. thanks to all involved with organising the trip. cant wait to see daves photos!!!

damage update... had a flat tyre the next day and a bead off another tyre with a dented rim... and today it wont start, think its from sitting in the mud holes... :roll: