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Tis a rig I remember as well. std 40 series cab on a longwheel base, was an interesting rig Kevin.

Haven't heard much from bulletproof lately. Can the mods make this thread a sticky? There is too much good shit in this thread to lose amongst all the dross.

smurf182 wrote:Haven't heard much from bulletproof lately. Can the mods make this thread a sticky? There is too much good shit in this thread to lose amongst all the dross.

To show I still have the Hilux and are alive. Here is a photo taken 30mins ago, still covered in mud from getting stuck picking up pegs with James(Toysuzi )at the National Trials on Sunday. We had to be rescued by a 15 ton digger.



After breaking the windscreen with Jafa it is good to have a new screen with no scratches.

Cheers Richard

Hi Rchard, You my need to correct your clock, trial was on Sunday 8th not today.

oldblue wrote:Hi Richard, You my need to correct your clock, trial was on Sunday 8th not today.

hahahahahahahahaha

and you should of taken a pic of the other side as it was a hell of a lot muddier

I wondered where the hell you had been to turn the white truck into a brown truck in the space of 20 mins or so.

looked like you'd had fun though

was good to finally meet you in the flesh as well

you didn't get any pics of the day by any chance

Best mates now?

A couple of trucks got to the top, Skid being one of them.

oldblue wrote:The second truck to attempt this got to the top, he was the only one to get there.

was that thru a little bit of mud and straight up, hazard 5 ??

coz we cleared it and so did the truck in front of us

unless its a different hazard

One more of the hill climb.

oldblue wrote:One more of the hill climb.

thats us, cleared the hazard but couldn't quite get it over the top, had to run and get a strop from the speed section and get the pirate to tow us over the top, it wasn't going to be pretty if we had to back off there

New addition to the Hilux. A new Garmin Nuvi 760 GPS.




And just ordered the official topo maps of NZ with the high resolution aerial photos so should have no reason to get lost in the bush anymore. Hopefully !

First test at Easter when we hopefully will find a historic power station.

Cheers Richard

Bulletproof wrote:New addition to the Hilux. A new Garmin Nuvi 760 GPS.

thats 2 new additions dude

how long ya had the flash woodgrain dash

Bulletproof wrote:
First test at Easter when we hopefully will find a historic power station.

Cheers Richard

Now that sounds like a good easter adventure!!!!!!!

DieselBoy wrote:

Bulletproof wrote:
First test at Easter when we hopefully will find a historic power station.

Cheers Richard

Now that sounds like a good easter adventure!!!!!!!

lol you never know .. we could end up finding some cuzzys plot

lol

Bwahaha, true thats about as exciting as bush adventures seem to get up here

A couple of small mods to the mods.

I have bent the drag link 3 times now in 3 months so have extended the protection out some more. Might fit a high steer arm on the left side to lift the drag link up a bit. I think it would work alright with the panhard angle.
I have also bent the steering damper but dont know what to do about that. Not many options



My cruiser steering box keeps coming loose on the chasis mount so have now welded the mount to the chasis.



Time will tell

Cheers Richard.

PS
DB may know of the old power station in the Alexander off the Snowy river rd. We went in there for first time in 10 years at xmas and opened the track but haven't got to the power station yet.

that is going to be rad richard
exploring is awsome

NZ topo maps arrived so loaded them into GPS and went for a 10min drive to see what they are like. Wished I had one years ago.
Here is a picture of the screen showing fires breaks at the top of Marsden Valley behind Stoke. The tracks and firebreaks are drawn in red.
The Firebreak above the 600metre line on Jenkins Hill is very steep in a couple of places and goes up over 300metres (nearly a 1000 ft) and to my knowledge only 3 trucks have ever driven up it. At the bottom of it the country is too steep for a bull dozer and nearly goes vertical for 100metres.
Half the Nelson area has tracks like this area so there are miles of firebreaks.



The real GPS test will be next weekend

Cheers Richard

haha even the little truck on the gps looks like a winch truck
good luck richard sounds liek your going to have a fantastic trip

What map vesion is that? The ones from Gun City?


Cheers,
Dave

DaveM wrote:What map vesion is that? The ones from Gun City?


Cheers,
Dave

Hi Dave
It is Maptoaster from integrated Map. it is Version TOGZ-V1.1.16 for Gamin GPSs covering the whole of NZs Topo 1.50,000





We have just come back from walking the dog and the GPS map showed a walking track 10 mins from my house that we didn't know existed and I have only lived here for 35 years.

I bought the LINZ Maptoaster PC maps as well for the whole country including all satelite and Aerial photos so I can now plan 4x4 trips better and pre program intended Routes.

Cheers Richard

looks like a worthwhile piece of equiptment man how id love to have one of those:) but prob dont need one.

An adjustment to my panhard rotating end that works really well.

The Rubbers I used are the nissan rear radius rod bushes. Since I have fitted it the rubbers seem to have softened allowing some side movement and a little shimmy on the steering wheel.

I have now fitted a piece of exhaust tube around the out side of the rubbers and now there is no side movement at all.

Pic before



As it is now.



Cheers Richard

What did your total cost for your GPS set come to Richard?