Offroad-Express

Well Finally last weekend took the engineers Jimny upto the co drivers so he can start the wiring. Put my Jimny into the engineers workshop. Monday they pulled my motor Tuesdy sat the replacment motor in the hole. Today went in and cleaned up the beadlocks ready for painting redrilled the rims to 6 stud for the offset I want. Tomorrow will finish the rims and prime them and start replacing the rollcage to 32 min for the extra weight. Got to get ready for the end of September

stripped front end down. modified housing to take new howie locker, reassembled and put back in place now looking at changing front panhard rod to clear locker and hyd steering ram, although it would be easier to move the ram
next is to mount new radiator and fabricate new fuel tank, then i think it is pretty much body, wiring, new injection computer and home built tranny computer, a bit of plumbing and then test drive, hopefully test drive is not onto the trailer then drive to rally site!!

pedro

Dr_PC wrote: Monday they pulled my motor Tuesdy sat the replacment motor in the hole.

SO whats gone in the hole ?

Chris

Rotazuk wrote:

Dr_PC wrote: Monday they pulled my motor Tuesdy sat the replacment motor in the hole.

SO whats gone in the hole ?

Chris

SR20 wasnt it Mr PC??

Wish I could add some technilogical stuff, but all I got was flares put on zuk, ready for the wife too thrash the $hit out of it tomoz at club fun day and nephew and wifes mate thats crashed here tonight .........

lilpigzuk wrote:

Rotazuk wrote:

Dr_PC wrote: Monday they pulled my motor Tuesdy sat the replacment motor in the hole.

SO whats gone in the hole ?

Chris

SR20 wasnt it Mr PC??

Wish I could add some technilogical stuff, but all I got was flares put on zuk, ready for the wife too thrash the $hit out of it tomoz at club fun day and nephew and wifes mate thats crashed here tonight .........

SR20DE with auto.
Rex be good for you to let them all drive as you'll be to hung over to be competitive anyway. Good to see Ali's back 4wheeling, dont think I have seen her since she started breeding

frist drive out for a while. noy only for me an wife but for frugel too. liliana fell asleep not to long after this

liliana first 4x4 trip out. sit on pajeroboy bonit.

Stayed at Murawai for friday at sat night. Went for a blat up Murawai beach to get to Woodhill. Was a bit wild and wintery for the most part of the morning. Had a ball in the park, certainly well worth every cent.






Also see viewtopic.php?f=9&t=12377&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=woodhill&start=45 for some more piccys

wish we had something like that down here!!

theres planning for something similar in Tauranga. Ive seen the diarama thingy in the council offices... dont know where thayre at in actually getting it off the ground though. supposed to be another multi purpose site such as woodhill with avenue for trail bikes, mountain bikes, horses etc.

Pulled the pistons out of my 350 while trying to find the blue smoke problem to find the first ring on every piston had broken

Went up Okuku pass with family for the nephews to have play in the snow. Quite slippery getting up there in 2wd as there was no clear wheel tracks on the way up. Got back down an onto the seal about 1 min and ran out of diesel. Finally discovered where the needle is pointing when it mean empty (no fuel light) . Got towed the short distance to sister's home where they had some diesel. Put $144 of diesel in it today!

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found a photo to match - This is up Okuku pass

Sunk the cruiser on Saturday up coal track road, ended up on an interesting angle and got towed out by a hilux. Pulled 4 trucks out of the Selwyn this avo, including 2 new landcruisers that had slid side by side trying to get past each other.b

Built a winch bar for the 90 - See here

saturday pulled out the diesel that i was repowering the g with before the oil pump died
sunday went up thompsons and had a play in yoricks paj while he drove his new g

Parked 'Fred' in the garage to pull the clutch out, but found out it was only a broken cable. I only replaced it about 500kms ago so was a bit surprised, considering the clutch had been making horrible "I'm going to disintegrate in a very akward and expensive fashion" noises for a long while. Turns out the cable had slipped it's hook-stay and rubbed against the alternator pulley until the outer ws worn through. Changed that out and now just have to continue listening to the horrible noises until I get motivated to pull and replace the clutch. Oh, and the alternator has gone out in sympathy and is now making similar horrendous grinding noises to the clutch.

Then put 'Piglet" in the garage and found the water leak from one of the heater hoses. Had a fiddle and re-installed the hose and clip. Unfortunately I found and fiddled, but didn't fix. New green puddle under truck this morning. Bugger! Started to fit a voltmeter so I can get some advance warning when the alternator brushes gum up, 'cause I'm sick of finding out by having the truck die on the side of the road (No warning lights illuminate when the brushes don't make contact with the commutator). Got cold, wussed out and gave finishing it a miss. There's always next weekend to finish it.

well took out my 350 chev fj40 for the first time since iv owned it and allmud took his 327 hilux out to ashurst river both went very well apart from allmuds little engine fire lol

you were still the first to get stuck tho

fj40 wrote: allmuds little engine fire lol

Do tell

yep but not the last and my strop is still in one pice lol.allmud had a bit of a carb fire and cooked his air cleaner but was all good gas is only $2 a liter so y not burn it

u gonna do the cost a plenty trip pete

fj40 wrote:u gonna do the cost a plenty trip pete

whens that?

hell may as well do will even have my winch sorted

i think thay are looking at the 21st of sep

Went to replace the distributor in the Surf.

Short lived task as the replacement dizzy was the wrong one.
So now on the hunt again for a 5m dizzy.
Bugger.
Was hoping to get out in the snow next weekend too