Offroad-Express

I got a busy day at work tomorrow, so probably won't be on the net again after tonight,well maybe for a few minutes in the morning , so I'll see all you guys out there.

I'm probably going to leave hamilton about 6:30/7pm, so if ya want to meet anywhere, we can do either the usual Hillcrest Caltex, or Cambridge BP.

Think most of you have my number, so flick me a text and sus out out a meeting place 027 357 9547.

( I got the gas bottle )

Think i'll be finishing work even earlier than planned to get the rest of stuff ready. Stupid gauges!!

I have to work tomorrow as well
Plan is to finish a bit early and be on the road ASAP.
Should be able to make Hamilton by 6.30-7pm to convoy on down.

Any others heading down from Auckland ,around that time? 4wd convoys are .

so how was it is anyone back yet
where are the pics

I came back sat nite. Cheers for the trip guys good to meet some new people. Friday night was an adventure in itself, when tims (gimmemud) snapped the axle on the single axle trailer carrying big als zook,didnt end up getting to the hq till around 1am haha and i was in cambridge at 7pm lol. Sat was a ripper of a day got sunburnt even. the new campsite looks rad as! mud was thrown lots of laughs all in all a good weekend

Haha i split a radiator hose on the way out, pulled it off then used a bread bag wrapped round then masking tape wrapped around that, worked mint!although it was a mission to find some water to fill the radiator back up. Did u auck boys get on ok gettting back?

I will have photos when i steal them of my passengers.


DAN

We got home at about 2:10 this morning Man what a mission

One of the most entertaining, eventful and frustrating trips I have been on.

Got home about 2am , still wide awake and wired up on Redbull from the drive home.
Couple of teaser pics. Think they sum up the weekend well

We made it back to Hamilton at about 11:30pm.

List of Carnage:

Friday night - Big Al's trailer broke, couple of hours spent boggying it up to make it mobileish, unloaded zook and drove it the rest of the way. Took 5 hours to get to the HQ from Hamilton.

Saturday - Gimmimud"s brand new clutch playing up, clutch line to close to cyclinder head, kept vapour locking and loosing all drive. Big Al's Zook broke the steering box, and lost all the brakes. Bill's Vit with smash Diff crossmember and diff mounts. Lots of shagging around getting these trucks mobile and out of the bush. Yorick lost a front wheel driving out. NZ-Hunter blew a radiator hose on his way out.

Sunday - Gimmemuds clutch was still acting up, although it was slipping now rather than vapour locking. Big Al had a new steering box, and working rear brakes, no fronts. Scott rolled his surf trying to follow me in the guts and smashed his hand to pieces. Managed to co-ordinate rescue effort to get him to Waikato hospital for an X=ray.
Damaged trailer loaded onto Bill's truck and taken to Tokoroa and bodgyed up at Yoricks place. Gimmimuds wheels loaded onto trailer. Big Al's Zook driven back to Hamilton and stored untill a trailer can be sourced to get it the rest of the way back to Auck's.

Me and UBZ had no drama what so ever

Pretty sure everyone had a blast, and there's a few people, including myself who are feeling a whole lot more clued up on just how important it is to clean your truck properly, check it over before a trip and do some preventative maintenance before it breaks out in the middle of no where

A huge thanks to Scott and Bill for going above and beyond the call of duty to travel back to Tauramnui to get parts to fix Al's truck, getting it mobile again for him, and then transporting his broken trailer to Tokoroa for repairs. You guys ROCK

The new tracks up there are awesome, and will only get better, especially with a shower of rain or four!!!! Looking forward to next time!!!

DieselBoy wrote:Me and UBZ had no drama what so ever

except for running over someones tool box, and running into the back of someones hilux

Big-AL wrote:

DieselBoy wrote:Me and UBZ had no drama what so ever

except for running over someone tool box, and running into the back of someones hilux

Bwahahaha, those had conviniently slipped my mind

I heard from Scott this morning, his hands not broken, just badly bruised and cut, the buggers back at work today

I got you a new tool box BTW Al

oh and ubz's air compressor busted so a little carnage for everyone, haha.

dont worry about the tool box, with all the work and waiting around you guys did for me, i am the one who owes you something.

Gotta love it when you wake up at 12 and have about 8 missed calls Ring the boss and he tell's me not to worry about coming in
Had a great time apart from my clutch... Just glad there were some clued up guys there that were awesome and helped fix it... well fixed and i watched
Time for some tinkering me thinks

Big-AL wrote:oh and ubz's air compressor busted so a little carnage for everyone, haha.

dont worry about the tool box, with all the work and waiting around you guys did for me, i am the one who owes you something.

Not just my compressor Woke up this morning to a completely flat rear drivers side tire. Must be a slow leak somewhere.

Will post up some more pics when I sort through them all.

Some random Pic's

DieselBoy wrote:
List of Carnage:

Friday night - Big Al's trailer broke, couple of hours spent boggying it up to make it mobileish, unloaded zook and drove it the rest of the way. Took 5 hours to get to the HQ from Hamilton.

* and big als trailer got hit by a car on the motorway in south auckland

wow
what more can i say

UBZ wrote:

Oh Great, had to remind me about that bloody hill!!
More power or an auto needed and I will return!

yorick wrote:More power or an auto needed and I will return!

go on do both you know you want too
the turbo and the trans are sitting there

yorick wrote:Oh Great, had to remind me about that bloody hill!!
More power or an auto needed and I will return!

No thats not right.... I keep reading on the forum that you need diesel torque and not power

Disclaimer: usual blah blah etc

Sadam_Husain wrote:

yorick wrote:Oh Great, had to remind me about that bloody hill!!
More power or an auto needed and I will return!

No thats not right.... I keep reading on the forum that you need diesel torque and not power

Disclaimer: usual blah blah etc

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Sadam_Husain wrote:

yorick wrote:Oh Great, had to remind me about that bloody hill!!
More power or an auto needed and I will return!

No thats not right.... I keep reading on the forum that you need diesel torque and not power

I've heard that too! Saw it on a Tui Billboard somewhere.
But in this case, to get power needed first gear and hence no momentum and in second it dropped it's guts at precisely the wrong moment. Adding Hair dryer and auto next on the list!

To show it wasn't just a easy little hill.
The G was looking great on those rims and tires

Had a nasty little kick to the right, that needed a little curry to get over.

Kinda like this

http://smg.photobucket.com/player.swf?f ... &os=1&ap=1

Yo
Cheers to all that helped with the weekend. I have a heap of photos if people want them but the forum keeps cutting them off n i duno hw ta fix em.

Doug...

Swamped wrote:Yo
Cheers to all that helped with the weekend. I have a heap of photos if people want them but the forum keeps cutting them off n i duno hw ta fix em.

Doug...

Resize them to about 600 px wide or upload to photobucket and stick in a link

DieselBoy wrote:Kinda like this

http://smg.photobucket.com/player.swf?f ... &os=1&ap=1

Just idled up there aye Pete Jeeps soundin real nice

Its about the only time it came off idle all weekend

The other time i rear ended a Scotts Surf lmao