Offroad-Express

I don't care WHAT anybody sez, Skid, you are a good man.

Saturday, Richie (#1 son) and I replaced all five glowworms, $241.00 delivered to door. Makes starting LOTS easier.

Sunday, we went up to Rallywoods and we had a look around, his first time up there, didn't do anything spectacular, neither of us are really competent at offroad driving and recovery, so just stooged around, went up to the trig. he was suitably impressed at what Wellington has at our back door.

watched the warriors play the best game this year, the storm couldnt do anything.. awesome weekend of rugas

Spent the weekend at "The Farm" Oakura with four other trucks.
Kev in his winch comp truck having a shakedown before the Manukau winch comp.


Kelvin in his very nice V8 Safari.Had a great weekend and good to get some seat time in MYZOOK as she hasn't seen any mud for months

suzookyman wrote:Had a great weekend and good to get some seat time in MYZOOK as she hasn't seen any mud for months

I refuse to believe you got it off the tarseal let alone into the mud Pics for proof

went up to that CZ fun trial at Palmy with Taz, had heaps of HP and pace to zero all the hillclimb hazzards, must have sucked 20 or 30 bucks of fuel per hillclimb managed to flatten just about every peg in all the other hazzards and the truck had a wee bit of a lie down in one of the drain stages but we reckoned it didnt count coz the door never touched the ground completed everything without busting the truck


thanks for towing my truck up there taz and thanks for the loan of your trailer possum

meatc wrote:

suzookyman wrote:Had a great weekend and good to get some seat time in MYZOOK as she hasn't seen any mud for months

I refuse to believe you got it off the tarseal let alone into the mud Pics for proof

please note the liberal coating of our great Northland mud,

Al

Had a great weekend out The Farm with suzookyman and other trucks. Did some great tracks and found some new ones.
Yes meatc he did manage to get it dirty! Maybe even got a few scratches. I can't provide proof though as I left my camera at home

Managed to put new winch to test during our challenge event Very impressed! Travelled 35ks in 18hrs, 12 getting to and from stages Anyhow couple of pics of one of the easier winches
Were got stuck
And were had to get to

Pissed I missed the pig farm and catching up with Ron. Woke up to to a cool 30deg this morning in Fiji and travelled all day by boat, bus and plane to arrive back to 11deg in Auckland at 6pm. Back to work tomorrow
Cheers,

mercutio wrote:

wjw wrote:Replaced the LH headlight in the cruiser, after cracking it with a heat gun, and spent most of the rest of the day trying to get 4x4 events running again.

if i am trying to get moisture out of a headlight i put it in the oven with the glass facing down the theory being the whole unit heats up evenly less chance of cracking and with the glass facing down so the hole is at the top makes it easy for the moisture to exit as it rises best done when the other half is out of the house though

It had mud all over the lense, so that wouldn't have worked I was melting the glue that holds the lense in so I could seperate it and get the mud off

Water/moisture is easy take the light out and stick it in the sun for a few hours

SP450andLE wrote:I got my Colortune kit today http://www.carbtune.co.uk/colortune.html

Use to use then 20 - 30 years ago with V8 holdens worked real well toget the carb bang on, took a little bit of time but was well worth it. Just did the conversion figures on a trip could get 23.78 litres/100 kms and if I pushed it hard would get 30.13 litres/100 kms. They were the days

suzookyman wrote:

meatc wrote:

suzookyman wrote:Had a great weekend and good to get some seat time in MYZOOK as she hasn't seen any mud for months

I refuse to believe you got it off the tarseal let alone into the mud Pics for proof

please note the liberal coating of our great Northland mud,

Al

I have seen that stuff it the USA it comes in a spray can, but I wont tell anyone that you use it tho.

Short vid my mate made from the Pig Farm yesturday. bloody good fun!

He thought it was your Terrano Caleb haha

Need new tyres asap though

Took the wife out with me Friday afternoon, (nothing like spending quality time together) to help peg hazards for the 1st round of the club champs. Sunday had 13 drivers so was a good number and when I get the points sorted not only did she beat me by 5 points but was 2nd overall, She must of had a bloody good co-driver(Me)

Oh and couple of minor things from the pig farm. My interior light wont go off (all the door sensors seem to be fine so need to figure that one out). And a small chunk of my fibre-glass hardtop came off, think i backed into a tree at some stage haha

wjw wrote:

mercutio wrote:

wjw wrote:Replaced the LH headlight in the cruiser, after cracking it with a heat gun, and spent most of the rest of the day trying to get 4x4 events running again.

if i am trying to get moisture out of a headlight i put it in the oven with the glass facing down the theory being the whole unit heats up evenly less chance of cracking and with the glass facing down so the hole is at the top makes it easy for the moisture to exit as it rises best done when the other half is out of the house though

It had mud all over the lense, so that wouldn't have worked I was melting the glue that holds the lense in so I could seperate it and get the mud off

Water/moisture is easy take the light out and stick it in the sun for a few hours

used to have that issues with safari. would just take bulb out ,poke a hande towel in there and use fork to push it around and wipe mud off.,then rinse out and sit beside fire to dry. Worked a treat

Got the Pajero off the tarmac for the first time since May! Just for a gentle cruise up Muriwai for a kitesurf at South Head. Rebuild engine is going good - still running it it. Not much left to do, just need to make up some new cables for winch, and maybe another 500 km of running in. After that we'll be ready to party.

Lots of exposed car wrecks at the moment. Also, there's a massive dead whale parked up at the moment too!

crazyclark31 wrote:Managed to put new winch to test during our challenge event Very impressed! Travelled 35ks in 18hrs, 12 getting to and from stages Anyhow couple of pics of one of the easier winches

Was an AWESOME event! I did 93km mossburn to mossburn, it was 31 getting to woolshed & return, so 62km off road in 18hours, average 3.44444km/hour!!!

I didn't recognise the spot but do now, just before you crossed another runner to the left of the 80?

We didn't break the surface there, blame the 2nd team!!

Well the weekend was suppose to go like this...

1- Rotate tyres on the wifes challenger
2- Put muddies back on the bighorn
3- Clean interior of wifes and my bighorn
4- Fit snorkel again on the bighorn (using terrano airbox) but airbox is to small
5- Safari to be collected by new owner

what was achieved...

1- Clean wifes challenger interior
2- Buy a new bike for my 3 year old
3- Buy me a new bike
4- Safari collected by new owner
5- Clean out the shed and found I had 1 overloaded trailer full of junk and rubbish

so not what I wanted to achieve but I have heaps more room now

pjb wrote:Got the Pajero off the tarmac for the first time since May! Just for a gentle cruise up Muriwai for a kitesurf at South Head. Rebuild engine is going good - still running it it. Not much left to do, just need to make up some new cables for winch, and maybe another 500 km of running in. After that we'll be ready to party.

Lots of exposed car wrecks at the moment. Also, there's a massive dead whale parked up at the moment too!

howd you like the smell of that whale? we went up there on saturday night and a drunk passenger kept slipping over on that thing hahaha 4 times before he managed to get off it, he had to sit in the boot on the way back, no one likes the smell of the whale rider haha

no one likes the smell of the whale rider haha



Classic!!!

well back from the west coast spent today replacing to broken engine mounts knocking some of the soveneirs out and clean all the shit out of rad so now to relax with a well earned bourbon

phraza wrote:Short vid my mate made from the Pig Farm yesturday. bloody good fun!

He thought it was your Terrano Caleb haha

Need new tyres asap though

Gotta love being the hero of the day

Yea im pretty keen on the new tyre buzz haha

FORGE1 wrote:Well the weekend was suppose to go like this...

1- Rotate tyres on the wifes challenger
2- Put muddies back on the bighorn
3- Clean interior of wifes and my bighorn
4- Fit snorkel again on the bighorn (using terrano airbox) but airbox is to small
5- Safari to be collected by new owner

what was achieved...

1- Clean wifes challenger interior
2- Buy a new bike for my 3 year old
3- Buy me a new bike
4- Safari collected by new owner
5- Clean out the shed and found I had 1 overloaded trailer full of junk and rubbish

so not what I wanted to achieve but I have heaps more room now

To do..........
6- Go to The Farm and 4x4 with some real cool dudes
achieved?
6- did not go to The Farm and 4x4 with some real cool dudes

sprey wrote:

Bolo wrote:Red Rocks in wellington today , had a blast with Bundy and Greekstyle , burst a metal house half way round , so we used part of the hose and another clamp to cover it up , went fine after that . had a blast

Seen ya pics on Fb!. Looks like yous had a mean time!
Would of been keen as to come shame still got a few bugs to work out in the cruiser .

im sure there will be a next time

vinceparts wrote:

pjb wrote:Got the Pajero off the tarmac for the first time since May! Just for a gentle cruise up Muriwai for a kitesurf at South Head. Rebuild engine is going good - still running it it. Not much left to do, just need to make up some new cables for winch, and maybe another 500 km of running in. After that we'll be ready to party.

Lots of exposed car wrecks at the moment. Also, there's a massive dead whale parked up at the moment too!

howd you like the smell of that whale? we went up there on saturday night and a drunk passenger kept slipping over on that thing hahaha 4 times before he managed to get off it, he had to sit in the boot on the way back, no one likes the smell of the whale rider haha

Was up there Saturday day as well, impressive site that whale and good time fishing up there - but left coming back a little late, 2 / 3rd gear all the way.

NJV6 wrote:

crazyclark31 wrote:Managed to put new winch to test during our challenge event Very impressed! Travelled 35ks in 18hrs, 12 getting to and from stages Anyhow couple of pics of one of the easier winches

Was an AWESOME event! I did 93km mossburn to mossburn, it was 31 getting to woolshed & return, so 62km off road in 18hours, average 3.44444km/hour!!!

I didn't recognise the spot but do now, just before you crossed another runner to the left of the 80?

We didn't break the surface there, blame the 2nd team!!

Yeh apperntlly it took them 2 1/2hrs to get the terrano turned around at bottom of hill so it could be winched back up
just on otherside of the 80 is were rodger had his truck buried over his headlights

pjb wrote:Got the Pajero off the tarmac for the first time since May! Just for a gentle cruise up Muriwai for a kitesurf at South Head. Rebuild engine is going good - still running it it. Not much left to do, just need to make up some new cables for winch, and maybe another 500 km of running in. After that we'll be ready to party.

Lots of exposed car wrecks at the moment. Also, there's a massive dead whale parked up at the moment too!

Dont drive through the blubber other wise your truck will sink to high heaven, went there a week ago and it stunk quit bad , you were game going that close to it

Yep, t'was a bit sharp on the nose...

so went 4wd down the waimak
to save gas we took the citys



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we crossed many rivers after scanning for best/easiest way over haha got all the way down to the powerlines from pretty much the riverbed start at the bridge, till one got stuck and had try make it back in the other to get help
citys are beasts at the mak