Offroad-Express

meece4x4 wrote:now to find out what that "click-clunk" is when i accelerate away from the lights
or the wonk wonk wonk it has at exactly 70kph not 69 not 71 but wonk wonk wonk at 70

Possibly the u-joints in the driveline somewhere (most likely the rear pinion one).

I just bought a new toy for my wife, her trusty old Honda was starting to be not so trusty. Nearly gave me a scare during the week with one cylinder dropping off completely for some reason (really bad vibrations as it was running on three cylinders). She just drove it like that all day long Cleaned the plugs and all that I could at 8:00pm with a little bit of drizzle, problem went away. Then spotted a few rust spot developing as I was looking for the problem. So off it goes (not worth spending the money to fix rust, it all comes back eventually).

So on Saturday, we traded it in and got another Jeep (for her this time).

friday went up to my new hunting block, had to do a bit of trimming to get to the top tho. dont think any 4x4s had been up there in years.


then stayed in gladstone on friday night, woke up to a frozen truck.



but turned out to be a good day, got some more more duck for the frezer

KiwiBacon wrote:

wopass wrote:

MATT4U wrote:how about we cut the power link to the north?? that would fix all the problems

AHH... no that would make it much much worse for you down there.

Nope, if we don't drain our lakes feeding the north, there'd be plenty for the south.

Interesting that Otago gets the windfarms. The already have the Biggest hydro electric plants in NZ. How about we share it around a bit

went up the bush with a few mates , had a good day as always , got out about 9 i think, no ones to sure ,meet some other jeeps not sure where from but i think they had fun by the looks of it,need to clean scudo a bit so can take to te kuiti next week end for our club day/trials play day.

and trying to get this painted for sth waikato club day later in july at same property, somee late nights coming i think, sick of towing with mates cars all the time so i better finish the old bitch and use it.

vaughan

lookes like a neat camp sight good to the littil rigs out

spanky wrote:went up the bush with a few mates , had a good day as always , got out about 9 i think, no ones to sure ,meet some other jeeps not sure where from but i think they had fun by the looks of it,need to clean scudo a bit so can take to te kuiti next week end for our club day/trials play day.

and trying to get this painted for sth waikato club day later in july at same property, somee late nights coming i think, sick of towing with mates cars all the time so i better finish the old bitch and use it.

vaughan

I woke up this morning in my nice warm bed and wandered to the shitta for a whizz in my nice warm house as the heat pump had warmed it nicely and then had a nice hot shower and got dressed for work in my nice toasty warm clothes and then wandered outside to see a mean frost and thought how COLD it must of been overnight for those fullas who were tenting it up at Rallywoods, coz whatever the temp is at my house would guarantee to be 5 degrees colder in the bush. OUCH.

Harden up SKID

Jerry wrote:

I woke up this morning in my nice warm bed and wandered to the shitta for a whizz in my nice warm house as the heat pump had warmed it nicely and then had a nice hot shower and got dressed for work in my nice toasty warm clothes and then wandered outside to see a mean frost and thought how COLD it must of been overnight for those fullas who were tenting it up at Rallywoods, coz whatever the temp is at my house would guarantee to be 5 degrees colder in the bush. OUCH.

Harden up SKID

was it cold Jerry
did ya weener fall off

skid wrote:tis a long weekend and all is quiet on the ORE front

everybody seems to have better things to do than sit in front of a screen during along weekend

can't believe how few people are logged on everytime I visit over the weekend

can only mean one thing..............................

lots of stories and pics come monday evening

Just as soon as I sort through the 782 photos that I took . I will do some posting

curly12 wrote:

skid wrote:tis a long weekend and all is quiet on the ORE front

everybody seems to have better things to do than sit in front of a screen during along weekend

can't believe how few people are logged on everytime I visit over the weekend

can only mean one thing..............................

lots of stories and pics come monday evening

Just as soon as I sort through the 782 photos that I took . I will do some posting

cool, 782 pics of frosty trucks

did our learned friend from vegas front up ?????

Did you not have enough MAN points to come up to Rallywoods SKID?

Played in pureora. Got next to no pics as my co-driver/photographer was my 6y/o lad.


[reason for edit, got geographically embarrassed and forgot where i'd been]

xj wrote:Played in minginui. Got next to no pics as my co-driver/photographer was my 6y/o lad.

poor excuse

my 4 and 1/2 year old daughter uses the digital camera quite well if you like grass shots

Jerry wrote:Did you not have enough MAN points to come up to Rallywoods SKID?

couldn't bear to drag myself away from the heat pump which cranking a nice warm 24 degrees all weekend, so I suppose you could call me a girls blouse if you want, but at least I was a toasty warm nana

spanky wrote:went up the bush with a few mates , had a good day as always , got out about 9 i think, no ones to sure ,meet some other jeeps not sure where from but i think they had fun by the looks of it,need to clean scudo a bit so can take to te kuiti next week end for our club day/trials play day.

and trying to get this painted for sth waikato club day later in july at same property, somee late nights coming i think, sick of towing with mates cars all the time so i better finish the old bitch and use it.

vaughan

They look like Tararua 4x4 boys?

mroffroader wrote:They look like Tararua 4x4 boys?

tararua boys play with the big truks dude, not those baby ones that take a hammering from moving truks

At least Mr O has a "Truck" dude not your 2WD thingy (and he's not afraid of the coldy woldy like you either)

skid wrote:couldn't bear to drag myself away from the heat pump which cranking a nice warm 24 degrees all weekend, so I suppose you could call me a girls blouse if you want, but at least I was a toasty warm nana

Bloody girls blouse

Come on Skid, man up, or are you afraid of the Mudbrake Boys showing you up??



They didn't seem to mind the weather

curly12 wrote:

skid wrote:couldn't bear to drag myself away from the heat pump which cranking a nice warm 24 degrees all weekend, so I suppose you could call me a girls blouse if you want, but at least I was a toasty warm nana

Bloody girls blouse

Come on Skid, man up, or are you afraid of the Mudbrake Boys showing you up??


They didn't seem to mind the weather

I'll give your 80 a tow up with my Shiny prado next time if you are worried about getting stuck

Got my winch modded a tad on the 60. Chopper payed for his engine by doing the work on it.

Whipped the headlights out of the parts truck but haven't swapped them over as I might as well do it at the same time as the extra bodylift, avoiding doing it twice.

Swapped the (four) trucks around to get the only usable one into the garage. After putting the trailer up the back of the property found I had enough room to squeeze one more vee-hickle in the driveway, so on Monday went down to Murch' to look at another parts truck.

My wife is not overly impressed!

Picked this up for $200

Dak wrote:Bah, just get one of these,

http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news-toshiba-micro-nuclear-12.17b.html

should get one of those for rallywoods then skid could use his heat pump

Gotta love being on holiday

Have spent time every day in the past week, including all three weekend days in the shed working on the toy. Upshot is all the new brackets and mounts are now fixed to the chassis and axles, primer is on and tomorrow it'll all be black .

Only suzuki cross member left is the centre body mount member. New engine mounts, new suspension mounts (coils), integrated winch mount/front cross member, shorterened rear.

Plan is to get it back together and the body on tomorrow. Then onto sorting loom and rollcage. May start build thread soon.

Went down Haast way on a cub trip. Friday we drove out to Barn Bay, real beautiful spot, never ceases to impress me even though the drive in is getting easier. Saturday we went along the cattle tracks along Jacksons river, again another good day, raining all day but fun none the less playing in some serious mudholes, all trucks requiring winching, that is those that didn't take the chicken track Sunday we went into coppermine creek, had a look at the hut, drove up to the gorge and back down through the mudholes. Again serious mudholes but throuh tight trees this time. Left at 4am this morning and back in CHCH by 1130. If you ever get the chance to head in there do so, you will not beeive how beautiful the area is. Oh and you need a winch.
Al