micahb wrote:Went for a drive in my truck, but came home with a set of mint 35 bfg ats. finally got me a set of road tyres! I wasnt actually after 35's, was going for 33 roadies, but got them cheaper, so couldn't pass it up! will be sweet beach tyres too! Oh and went by a mates farm on way home for a bit of fun, need to get me some lockers!! (read as, slipped onto a tree, needed to walk/jog for 45min to got fetch the tractor to pull me off. So I guess a winch wouldnt go astray either? hahaha.) pity i just spent all my money. At least the truck got dirty, as it wont be getting that way again for a while, baby numero dos is due any day now! (over due in fact).
sibainmud wrote: Note the ruts from the 35+ inch tires 4 inchs of rain in 5 hours had nothing to do with it
Cheers,
And as a comparison here is the same hill with my grossly over powered over tyred infused with the blood of satan truck on the same hill, you will note the extreme amount of track destruction caused by this type of vehicle
Sorry Simon, I couldn't resist
bloody good comparison perfect infact, can you repost this in the thread it needs to be in to shut up that tool
Well I got my new seats in the puddle jumper... So it must have gained a few kw.... Didn't get a chance to swap out my wheels.... But I did get the garage cleaned out ready for Ginzu8 visit later in the week.... Cut hole in bonnet time and fit a scoop...
Picked up Intercooler for my 3.1TD got to a point were I had the cross pipe unbolted to the air in-take and found out that it was not a "bolt in" like I thought it was going to be. Why carnt things be simple and straight forward oh well looks like I will be paying someone a visit and do some brain storming.
Undid thermostat housing (to see if i actually had one) as the safari runs cold, turns out I do have one. In the process snapped the long bolt (of the 3) luckily it doesn't seem to leak and I'll have to tap a fresh thread in there.
Saturday,
Headed up Odlins, a Mu I was with blew a hole in its radiator 'bout half way down and pissed its water out. Towed it up to a corner while I headed for the summit, had lunch and headed back down, towing the Mu up any hills it couldn't roll up with momentum. every time I got out of the truck to attach the tow rope my passengers farked with every switch they could find, rear A/C, rear heater, demisters, headlight wipers, wipers etc... got stressed with turning everything off every time and in turn I (completely forgot I'd just hooked the mu back on to my truck and) gave the poor bastard I was towing a hell of a tug. Was towing off his winch as it was his only proper hook and managed to bend his shi*ty aluminium bar out like 5"
Sunday, Beer & spa.
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Undid thermostat housing (to see if i actually had one) as the safari runs cold, turns out I do have one. In the process snapped the long bolt (of the 3) luckily it doesn't seem to leak and I'll have to tap a fresh thread in there.
Saturday,
Headed up Odlins, a Mu I was with blew a hole in its radiator 'bout half way down and pissed its water out. Towed it up to a corner while I headed for the summit, had lunch and headed back down, towing the Mu up any hills it couldn't roll up with momentum. every time I got out of the truck to attach the tow rope my passengers farked with
every switch they could find, rear A/C, rear heater, demisters, headlight wipers, wipers etc... got stressed with turning everything off every time and gave the poor bastard I was towing a hell of a tug. Was towing off his winch as it was his only proper hook and managed to bend his shi*ty aluminium bar out like 5"
Sunday, Beer & spa.
Personally i would of thrown them out and let them walk a k or two to reinforce your complete generousity in letting them sit and enjoy the ride. Might install a bit of respect for the mans truck and where it takes them (hopefully on small tyres of course would want to get into a screaming match like on other threads ah) and kricky dont even discuss lockers, chains and other traction aids
mudlva wrote:Personally i would of thrown them out and let them walk a k or two to reinforce your complete generousity in letting them sit and enjoy the ride. Might install a bit of respect for the mans truck and where it takes them (hopefully on small tyres of course would want to get into a screaming match like on other threads ah) and kricky dont even discuss lockers, chains and other traction aids
Yeah they got a bollocking after that and I apologized to the kid with the Alu bar, didn't need to happen.
as for traction aids, I was rolling on my tiny 33" mudders on my enormous LWB safari doing my best attempts at doughnuts on the main track, digging holes to test MUZZADUCKs theories (not really.)
lincooln wrote:Bloody under-steer into a tree. Still that saved me from going over a steep bank.
Hmm lets see Bank - Tree, good call. Good on you on thet time and effort has worked and was worth it
It was well worth the effort. Will get a proper tyre guage and hooks fitted then do some harder stuff. But it went better than it used to, and flexes bout twice in the back what it used to do.
micahb wrote:Went for a drive in my truck, but came home with a set of mint 35 bfg ats. finally got me a set of road tyres! I wasnt actually after 35's, was going for 33 roadies, but got them cheaper, so couldn't pass it up! will be sweet beach tyres too! Oh and went by a mates farm on way home for a bit of fun, need to get me some lockers!! (read as, slipped onto a tree, needed to walk/jog for 45min to got fetch the tractor to pull me off. So I guess a winch wouldnt go astray either? hahaha.) pity i just spent all my money. At least the truck got dirty, as it wont be getting that way again for a while, baby numero dos is due any day now! (over due in fact).
my first due this week too mate
good luck bro. ive already got a 3 y/o girl. so it shouldn't be too bad?! (what am i saying, the 3 yo is enough of a hand full!!!) have fun!
finally got me a set of road tyres!
(read as, slipped onto a tree, needed to walk/jog for 45min to got fetch the tractor to pull me off. So I guess a winch wouldnt go astray either? hahaha.) pity i just spent all my money.
