Offroad-Express

without wanting to sound like I'm taking the piss I spent most of the weekend fixing my wipers

since I put the flatdeck back together the wipers always stopped at the top of the screen and the washers wouldnt work, had to pull the cowling off and drop the wiper rack to get the motor off and rotate the arm on the wiper motor 180 degrees to get the wipers stopping at the bottom of the screen then armed with a stack of workshop manuals, wiring diagrams, testers and a FBH probably a bit too close for comfort I traced and tested the shit out of everything for 2 days untill I eventually plugged the wiring loom into a spare steering collum I had sitting in the corner and it turned out to be the washer switch on the wiper stalk so I swapped the switch cluster over and got the washers ticked off my list of shit to do

With the help of Sibainmud and SP450andLE and my mate Jason I got the body on the new chassis with no real damage so its a win in my books.

Couple of pics:









Also I got the doors back on, glass in and front guards and bonnet on. easy stuff. Will do more tomorrow and this week. Aim is in 2 weeks time I will have it at Woodhill.

lincooln wrote:With the help of Sibainmud and SP450andLE and my mate Jason I got the body on the new chassis with no real damage so its a win in my books.

looks good mate, how many goes did it take to manipulate the chassis under there without the hoist at the front getting in the way


wont take long to hook everything up and get it running from there

Took a while, especially seeing I dont have a bloody trolley jack, so it was just another complication. Worked out in the end. Still a bit of fiddling to do with the body mounts but at least its sitting flat on the chassis.

Gave the Lada alty to sibainmud today, so have to buy new brushes as well as the master cylinders soon, lucky I'm owed a bit of money.

Got soaked helping lincooln, hopefully it doesn't make my flu any worse

i got excited Friday nyt thru to late Saturday an made me a new front winch bar, being that its rained nearly all weekend.

92 safari 17 wrote:Went for a drive up thomos matamata side, good fun, needed to test my new tyres first time ive been out for a while.

Thought that might have been my safari, just bought one off TM with 37" creepy crawlers, was shipped from chch monday to rotorua, still hasn't showed up... was hoping to go up thompsons this w/end. oh well, next week. what engine is urs? and where did you get that bumper, looks nice.

Hamz

managed to break three lights and then a sher pin while trying to recover a mates 4wd, in a forestry block, great fun doing so tho especially when he over heated his little winch and it caught fire

Thought that might have been my safari, just bought one off TM with 37" creepy crawlers, was shipped from chch monday to rotorua, still hasn't showed up... was hoping to go up thompsons this w/end. oh well, next week. what engine is urs? and where did you get that bumper, looks nice.

Hamz

mines got the TD42 and auto, bullbar is a old alli arc steel bar that ive modified and lifted higher. bugger bout yours not turning up yet

went up woodhill on safety patrol with club,around 20 or so trucks up there and only had to do one recovery crap weather but still good day,only one dent for me but some others not so lucky forgot to take camera again so sorry no pics

Sadam_Husain wrote:

Hey I'm not the only one with a snorkel to nowhere

datsunsafari wrote:went up woodhill on safety patrol with club,around 20 or so trucks up there and only had to do one recovery crap weather but still good day,only one dent for me but some others not so lucky forgot to take camera again so sorry no pics

I too went to Woodhill but on Saturday. Same result too
Not so lucky for others, did a couple of recoveries, went down the canyons and got a few more wrinkles on the raisin
Perfect day with awesome traction due to the clear weather all week.

Recovered this LWB Bighorn. Double line pull with 2 anchoring trucks







Sunday, drove around to Lincoln's in the rain to clean under the wheel arches and help with his body swap.

Cheers,

yeah simon got my dent dowh the canyon too at the end of the day first real run of new truck and only 1 dent,few minor things to sort might go back up next weekend

went for a drive, did some snow boarding/visiting, caught up with some cool dudes, then drove home... 14 days gone.