Offroad-Express

ah bugga oh well will spend all weekend trying to nut out my problems with the truck still.

Here are just a few photos. These two were taken today after spending the day clearing tracks for the Northland WC.

End of the day next to suzookyman,




Awesome flex




New lights make a big difference


Been having heaps of fun just driving it, done over 300kms already:shock: It has been performing faultlessly and the conversion was well worth the effort, and having disks is really good.

Spent today making up a new snorkel for the Zook.
Made it out of 3" stainless pipe, wanted to make it out of 2 1/2" but my mate didn't have any.
It still came out alright, cost me all of $28

Air cleaner box, the inlet is facing towards the guard.


Stainless pipe I got,


Fittings,


Where the new hole goes,


Drilling the hole, didn't want to stuff this up


Came out good, filed the burs off and painted the bare metal to stop it from rusting.


Had to relocate the indicator to the front, the other sides indicator had already been moved when the previous owner had mounted the old snorkel on the other side.


New hole cut out


Test fit,






One of the mounting brackets


One of the mounting points


Ready to be polished


All done, sorry about the blurry picture, but this is when the camera died


Will get some more photos in the next few days.

Mint. Might have to drop my one off and see if it can get some lovin too

Hows the green machine

rofl...!!! i've seen this stuff before....


good form on the snorkel, very tidy guy.. *thumbs up*

meatc wrote:Mint. Might have to drop my one off and see if it can get some lovin too

Hows the green machine

Haha yeah.

The green machine has been having a few mods to the rear winch which might help us out sometime
You should come around for a look sometime before Northland WC.

niblik wrote:rofl...!!! i've seen this stuff before....


good form on the snorkel, very tidy guy.. *thumbs up*

Lol yeah, I was tempted to leave that sticker on there. I knew there would be some people that would recognize it

niblik wrote:rofl...!!! i've seen this stuff before....


good form on the snorkel, very tidy guy.. *thumbs up*

ha ha another Dairy Worker, I've still got some of that left in my shed, from when I put a snorkle on my old MU

should have left the sticker on, looked halerious.

WRNGLR wrote:

niblik wrote:rofl...!!! i've seen this stuff before....


good form on the snorkel, very tidy guy.. *thumbs up*

ha ha another Dairy Worker, I've still got some of that left in my shed, from when I put a snorkle on my old MU

I got the stainless off a mate of mine who worked there. He has heaps of it

Here are a couple more photos of the snorkel,





Also got a few goodies today







Will probably fit the compressor this weekend.

Hey Mate that looks like it coming along really nicely. Wish I had the time to get through everything as quickly. Awesome stuff

FORGE1 wrote:Hey Mate that looks like it coming along really nicely. Wish I had the time to get through everything as quickly. Awesome stuff

Thanks Ray

I had a good weekend.
Got a new warrent for the Suzuki and I got my new compressor fitted and going on Saturday,





I fitted the switch where the old choke hole was in the dash for the choke cable.



That all I managed to get done to it. Spent the rest of the weekend getting bits ready for the winch truck for the Northland winch comp next weekend. Can't wait for the event it should be awesome

Hey what did you end up doing with the charcoal canister? ive run into the same problem with my build a the moment. although i have mounted the escudo tank so i am thinking of blocking it off on both ends and just using the original tank breather from the samurai tank

BlakeJ wrote:Hey what did you end up doing with the charcoal canister? ive run into the same problem with my build a the moment. although i have mounted the escudo tank so i am thinking of blocking it off on both ends and just using the original tank breather from the samurai tank

I just ended up blocking it off. It seams to be fine.
Why did you put the Escudo tank in? Would have been abit of work for only 2 litres extra.

suzukisport wrote:

BlakeJ wrote:Hey what did you end up doing with the charcoal canister? ive run into the same problem with my build a the moment. although i have mounted the escudo tank so i am thinking of blocking it off on both ends and just using the original tank breather from the samurai tank

I just ended up blocking it off. It seams to be fine.
Why did you put the Escudo tank in? Would have been abit of work for only 2 litres extra.

Don't forget leaf-sprung samurais aren't flash like coilys, can't just bolt in an escudo fuel pump

Get a coily tank Or mount an external pump.

well i had the escudo pump there as i scrapped a swb for the g16 engine. Im a jew student and didnt want to splash out for a inline pump. and my sammy tank has MASSIVE dents in it. I could cut the pump into the sammy tank but then it has no baffle which isnt ideal at all for wheeling. so i thought id mount the escudo tank, all it takes is shifter the filler neck and slightly modifying the mounts. and i get a bigger tank.
well thats why

Sweet.
I didn't look at mounting the Escudo tank at all, as my tank was going to do the job.
Sounds like a fuel tank gaurd would be a good idea for you

yea, if i had a coily obviously id do what you did, but coily tanks are like hens teeth as parts. and yea im going to make some armour, it was dented when i got it. what made you run with the sammy airbox rather than the vit one, just ease of installation? thats my next step

Yeah it was easier to mount and the Escudo inlet if I remember right is not round either more of a square shape.
The Samurai airbox works fine for me.

Had an awesome weekend up north with the Whangarei 4wd club at our yearly Mitimiti run.
Was the first real trip I have taken it on with the new motor and it performed faultlessly

Friday night after work with suzookyman ready to leave my place


On the Rawene ferry,




Saturday morning looking out from camp









We had a wide variety of trucks ranging from my Samurai up to a winch challenge truck and Dr_PC's trails buggy.





Looking at camp


Poser shots with suzookyman




Marty managed to break a cv in his Jeep, he drove all the way back to Wellsford and back to get a spare that he had sitting on his bench



Up in the sandstone,


Another coily

Having lunch, looking out at Opononi


An old boat wreakage,

Photos from Sunday,

Dr_PC decided to have a little lay down while playing




Kanes Jeep


Didnt make this hill climb (I blame the Jeep that went before me and made big holes )


Playing in more sandstone






Last sand dune for the day,


Back home, all cleaned ready for work tomorrow,

No wonder I kept seeing you with that camera, I was starting to think you were Japanese. You take really good photos.

Dr_PC wrote:No wonder I kept seeing you with that camera, I was starting to think you were Japanese. You take really good photos.

Haha cheers Dan, although most of them where taken by my mate on my camera.

Great photos mate. When you going to up load the video?.I got home on monday from work and my truck was all cleaned

suzookyman wrote:Great photos mate. When you going to up load the video?.I got home on monday from work and my truck was all cleaned

Only got the video of you getting a bit of air in the creek and that was it. I can upload it if you like.

Got home sunday night, had a shower then went down town, didnt get back till the morning then had to clean the zook and put everything away in the afternoon

Hey man, Its Sam here, nice truck mate. Still havnt changed much on mine but am thinking about an engine transplant. Would be keen to catch up some time and have a chat about it and have a nosy at yours if you dont mind.