Offroad-Express

Well Taz01 and I drove over this morning to the Wairarapa to pick up Taz01's new wagon. Think he got rather a bargin with this new toy

Yet another Nissan in the Welly region

I am sure he will post photo's soon

Pouring with rain.

Inside day.

nice day here, sorta... sunny then cloudy then sunny then cloudy then spits then sunny...

starting cleaning all the crap out of my garage in preparation to squeeze my ute in there for its extended hibernation.

its amazing how much junk acculates in a garage.

nstg8a wrote:nice day here, sorta... sunny then cloudy then sunny then cloudy then spits then sunny...

starting cleaning all the crap out of my garage in preparation to squeeze my ute in there for its extended hibernation.

its amazing how much junk acculates in a garage.

Same weather different location I am affraid.

And its not Junk it's stored treasure. Go on I dare you to throw some out and then days after you will find you need it and it will cost a fortune to replace (always happens to me that way).

Heath wrote:

nstg8a wrote:nice day here, sorta... sunny then cloudy then sunny then cloudy then spits then sunny...

starting cleaning all the crap out of my garage in preparation to squeeze my ute in there for its extended hibernation.

its amazing how much junk acculates in a garage.

Same weather different location I am affraid.

And its not Junk it's stored treasure. Go on I dare you to throw some out and then days after you will find you need it and it will cost a fortune to replace (always happens to me that way).

lol, im not throwing much out, thats what trademe is for

new wof on the safari yea! and nohing else

well me and safaripete made a snorkel for my old fj40 so hoping not to drown it

put new brake pads on the terrano, started to dissasemble the landrover - for the third time now. anyone got a spare series 3 SWB chassis lying around that you want to ge rid ( OR A COMPLETE ONE ) TOMORROW - more of the same !!! after a sleep in from watching AB's


pm me if you have one or know of one please.

well thought i better pull finger out of backside and do some work on sadams motor ,got to the stage of putting in reringed pistons and something didn,t look right .turns out the rings that came with the motor are 60 over not 30 bugger.oh well cleaned up heads and painted them ready for install .just got to ring staparts on monday and get some rings and try again

Me 'n Siwsie wall papered the lounge.
At last, not living in demolition yard, Had scraped all the 80 year old shellac off the rimu fireplace, doorways, bay window and skirtings. refinished in Polyurethane, looks like an oiled finish.

Now we are relaxing and admiring our handiwork!!!


Beers tastes GOOOOOOD!!!!

I thought non-4x4 related goings on went elsewhere.

Re-affixed the soft-top to the header, seeing as how I hadnt done it right first time and it pooled water each time it rained. Generally got the wagon ready for a battle in the now rugged Thommos for tomorrow, but thanks to Zillas heads up tonight about it being under MPDC review tomorrow, the trip is aborted.

So tomorrow, ill give it a clean and get Woodhills clay off from last weekend.

curly12 wrote:Well Taz01 and I drove over this morning to the Wairarapa to pick up Taz01's new wagon. Think he got rather a bargin with this new toy

Yet another Nissan in the Welly region

I am sure he will post photo's soon

got this dirt cheap 3.3 turbo
and another engine with turbo for my other saffy this one
seems to go well so went to rallywoods last night pulled up got out walked 10 feet and hello stinky and suzuk1k are in it and up the track it disappears .....bout an hour later they come back walking apparently bald 31s going to the donut hole are no good so off they go in stinkys v8 saffy to get it half hour later both trucks are back but now they tell me the wipers dont work .....well thats cause there not even on the truck they were removed at some stage for unknown reasons ...but hey lesson learnt ......DONT LEAVE YA KEYS IN YA TRUCK...... i should know better really

Well nothing like starting again, pulled motor, lower further 60mm , reinstall, cut roof bars out of cage and remake, shorten front drive shaft and trial fit, install headers, refit supercharger, fit drive shaft from motor to auto, install "transfer" case diff



shorten front of truck agian



tight fit for extractors, drive shaft, and g/box mount



getting there..... NOT

had my new 35's maxxis trepadors fitted to my safari found some mud holes up the farm and gave them a blast and went down the rangitata river to have a play,found them to real good for clearing the mud and real nice road manners, but still love my 35's creepys crawlers thou for the mud

Vince

PigFmr wrote:had my new 35's maxxis trepadors fitted to my safari found some mud holes up the farm and gave them a blast and went down the rangitata river to have a play,found them to real good for clearing the mud and real nice road manners, but still love my 35's creepys crawlers thou for the mud

Vince

we need pics

Well I know its not the weekend buts its my weekend and I worked on the trucke today put new starter in(truck started ) re attached drive shafts, put new terminals on mine and bubbles truckes smacked rear wheel arch with a hammer (some might call it pannel beating) and more work tommorow

PR wrote:Well I know its not the weekend buts its my weekend and I worked on the trucke today put new starter in(truck started ) re attached drive shafts, put new terminals on mine and bubbles truckes smacked rear wheel arch with a hammer (some might call it pannel beating) and more work tommorow

How did you get on with that blown head gasket?

Dosent look like its was the head gasket will find out what it is tommorow

Just got back from weekend in CHCH, having taken No.2 scud down to finish running in the new engine.

Couldn't believe how thirsty it was, it sucked gas like a V8 and didn't pull that well. I've obviously got something wrong in the setup as it burned 12litres/100kms!!!!

It's a 1600 3-speed auto escudo, running 30" rubber, air filter isn't blocked, timing was set to 8deg BTDC and I was only cruising at about 90km/h, with regular full-throttle bursts from about 80 to 100km/h.

What have I done wrong? Any bright ideas, anyone?

lneil wrote:Couldn't believe how thirsty it was, it sucked gas like a V8 and didn't pull that well. I've obviously got something wrong in the setup as it burned 12litres/100kms!!!!

You must mean a V4 coz the best I've ever had out of my V8 on the road is 22litres/100kms

Maybe your engines still pretty tight if you rebored it?

Sadam_Husain wrote:

lneil wrote:Couldn't believe how thirsty it was, it sucked gas like a V8 and didn't pull that well. I've obviously got something wrong in the setup as it burned 12litres/100kms!!!!

You must mean a V4 coz the best I've ever had out of my V8 on the road is 22litres/100kms

Maybe your engines still pretty tight if you rebored it?

10.8l per 100km in our 2000 5.7l vt on the open road.

lneil wrote:Just got back from weekend in CHCH, having taken No.2 scud down to finish running in the new engine.

Couldn't believe how thirsty it was, it sucked gas like a V8 and didn't pull that well. I've obviously got something wrong in the setup as it burned 12litres/100kms!!!!

It's a 1600 3-speed auto escudo, running 30" rubber, air filter isn't blocked, timing was set to 8deg BTDC and I was only cruising at about 90km/h, with regular full-throttle bursts from about 80 to 100km/h.

What have I done wrong? Any bright ideas, anyone?

i would be so happy if i only used that much fuel in my 4wd
my diesel g wagen used about 16l/100km lol sad i know
will be interesting to see what it is like with a petrol engine probably worse

oh yeah my thing for the weekend last night i bought another car as a engine donor for the g it is a mercedes benz M110 engine a 2.8l dohc inline 6 about 175 hp should make a bit of difference to it's ability

Snowed all weekend in southland, shot a great 10 point stag in blizzard conditions. great fun though.

Tomo.

Sadam_Husain wrote:You must mean a V4 coz the best I've ever had out of my V8 on the road is 22litres/100kms

Maybe your engines still pretty tight if you rebored it?

Thanks, I thought it might still be a bit tight, but I didn't expect it to be quite that thirsty. When I drive the other scud in the same manner, with a much older engine, manual trans' and running 31" rubber, I get 10l/100kms.

I'll double check the timing, disconnect the O2 sensor and try again.

Fitted some new front shocks and a big bore steering damper also steering ball joints with a mate that was sunday
saturday i went up the ashley track for a look and ended up leaning on a tree and munching my snorkel hat a wee bit then got stuck and winched out.Beaut day weather wise

lneil wrote:

Sadam_Husain wrote:You must mean a V4 coz the best I've ever had out of my V8 on the road is 22litres/100kms

Maybe your engines still pretty tight if you rebored it?

Thanks, I thought it might still be a bit tight, but I didn't expect it to be quite that thirsty. When I drive the other scud in the same manner, with a much older engine, manual trans' and running 31" rubber, I get 10l/100kms.

I'll double check the timing, disconnect the O2 sensor and try again.

the auto would cause worse fuel economy than the manual wouldnt it? is everything in the auto in good nick? if the auto is a bit sloppy it cauld easily make it suck more gas than normal.

is the gearing different between the two?

nstg8a wrote:
the auto would cause worse fuel economy than the manual wouldnt it? is everything in the auto in good nick? if the auto is a bit sloppy it cauld easily make it suck more gas than normal.

is the gearing different between the two?

Yeah, but it shouldn't be that bad. the smaller 30" rubber should make up for the slightly lower higher geared diff's, and the auto shouldnt be 20% worse, I wouldn't have thought.

Perhaps the answer is just a much bigger fuel tank, on the way down I couldn't get further than Cheviot on a brim-full tank from Nelson!

lneil wrote: should make up for the slightly lower higher geared diff's,!

two speed diffs?.....





ahh, can you tell im bored.... should have stayed at work, at least there i can amuse myself by yelling at people.