Offroad-Express

Yeh ha, two weeks in a row to post this thread.
Picked up my new chrome molley bullbar and pto winch for my Whale this afternoon (thanks Worthog). Hopefully put new hoops to cover the headlights on the bar and off to the powder coaters next week.

B**tard ..... beat me to it .....

Anyhew .... Andrew came round and sorted the fuel line on the LexPOS, drained 25L of fuel out of it, got new fuel in it now and it seems to be running better..... doing more stuff to it tomorrow..... more updates later...

and mid week he got a W O F on his, soon to ex fj40 er curly that is

coxsy wrote:and mid week he got a W O F on his, soon to ex fj40 er curly that is

Yep, just sorting out transporting her at the moment. Will be up your way mid next week, This if I can get Abbo out of the drivers seat That lad just loves driving her around

lest he wont nick parts off it , james will need to drive it awhile before he takes it to minganui

me and yorick went to akld last night to pick up my new engine donor
the guy i bought it of has stripped most of the other useful parts off it but he didn't have room to store the engine and trans so i managed to score them for $150 and they are still in the car had to take the whole car will almost get my money back from the scrap metal man

Changed my 33x12.5 Hankook MT's for BFG 33x10.5 At's - man does the 70 series cruiser look dorky now



Hopefully it will stop the slideing around wet roads and I can use the Extreme Trekkers for mud

So, I have 1 new and 4 50% used Hankook 33x12.5 MT's for sale - what are they worth? $400




http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=172677440

Just pulled out the Gemmer power steering box that had shat itself (http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=12787) and replaced it with the old manual 'armstrong' box. Feck!, I'd forgotten what it was like to drive it like that... Got to go through all the swap-over hassle again next weekend when a second hand power steer box should be ready to insert

Drove the prado into some mud today to find i didnt have 4wd. Bugger electric hubs have shit themselves.....OLDBLUE HELP

I drove to Q/town to pick up my dinghy to use on the Kaikoura coast putting cray pots out this summer

Oh, and on the 4wd related side, finally picked up my tyre from Albundy, and while waiting for him at 4wdacc, met Petefj40

Fitted the new lpg regulator to my fj40 ( which i won on trade me for $1.50 ) Started first time, Just need a tweek here and there fit some lights and seatbelts for road use. put it on farm rego and i,m ready to rumble

fitted new fibre glass floors, fitted new fuel tank, refitted orbital steering unit, remade and fitted front shock upper mounts, remounted wheel brake assembly, tweaked exhaust, fitted oxy sensor bung hole and mounted permanently, modify RH exraxter flange plate to clear front drive shaft, cut to length rear drive shaft and tacked together,
just waiting for tomorrow to carry on a bit more.

pedro

did my fist nzfwda meeting yesterday northern zone , today in the pouring rain woodhill forest park, oh jeep is in there somewhere

Pedro wrote:fitted new fibre glass floors, fitted new fuel tank, refitted orbital steering unit, remade and fitted front shock upper mounts, remounted wheel brake assembly, tweaked exhaust, fitted oxy sensor bung hole and mounted permanently, modify RH exraxter flange plate to clear front drive shaft, cut to length rear drive shaft and tacked together,
just waiting for tomorrow to carry on a bit more.

pedro

More pics pedro

Just come up from workshop. Have fitted bullbar (just need to extend side bars and roof bars), Fitted front and rear lights( gotta wire them up. went and picked up my ally doors theres 6inchs to long ffs, had them for nearly 1 year never offered them up. ohwell time to get the grinder out

well i wired up my electric fan up to my ignition because i kept fogetting to turn the fan on. rewired my battery leads for my winch as it wasnt earthing very well. swapped carbys over as it was running really rough and lumpy revs didnt wana stay still. have a few pics of it but they arnt very good, i think its just because its very dirty so il clean it out at some point.


oh and i also plated up some zuke cut down doors and painted them. think thats all i did anyways.

martin

got the donor car back to yoricks yesterday and started removing the engine and transmission finished removing it today and also removed the doors and other removable panels going to list them on trademe because they are all in quite good nick the doors especially

so the engine is now sitting on the floor of yoricks shed ready for the transmission to be swapped and can start on the swap next weekend my biggest issue will be making new engine mounts and sorting out the ignition and fuel pump

is the world ready for a repowered G wagon

coxsy wrote:is the world ready for a repowered G wagon

i'm not sure if i am yet lol

here is the donor engine

it is a M110 engine a 2.8 litre DOHC fuel injected produces 175hp should change the g a bit

More pics pedro[/quote]

ok

Got a bit more done today, started plumbing up brakes, radiator has oil coolers mounted to front of it for auto and power steer, has twin electric fans for the other side, just got to turn to top hose outlet on motor 90deg to line up with top hose off radiator, need to make cross over pipe for bottom of radiator, rear drive shaft cut to length ready for welding, front side bars made and fitted, bracing for front roll cage hoop made and fitted,

see the pics below

went to the gwavas forest on sunday for our first ever club run as affiliated members

the scud went well, after all of saturday nights arseing about cuz i had f**ked up and my new wheels wouldnt fit

cheers to terry for the loan of his wheels/tyres and cheers to de-ranged for talking terry into it

a confusing day, 5 of us called steve.....confusing when a shout was coming through the cb.....

a few pics of the day

the other 2 steve's pose with my lady before we set off


it had rained hard saturday and sunday, this is 5 minutes in....








cheers to steve for 'decorating' my truck

Its alive! with a big push on sunday, the engine is finally back in and running. Now for a nice big long drive.. oh what a hardship
Big thanks to my mate james in mot, who sacrificed many saturdays (and your lounge floor) to go down to work to help us get it back on the road, and of course SMURF who helped get all of those small,(and of course the gearbox etc etc) but oh so fiddly and time consuming jobs done on sunday.

abit late in the week

or early?

anyways fitted new superwinch manuel hubs tonite

loosenut wrote:Its alive! with a big push on sunday, the engine is finally back in and running. Now for a nice big long drive.. oh what a hardship
Big thanks to my mate james in mot, who sacrificed many saturdays (and your lounge floor) to go down to work to help us get it back on the road, and of course SMURF who helped get all of those small,(and of course the gearbox etc etc) but oh so fiddly and time consuming jobs done on sunday.

Congrat's. It's been a while, do you remember how to use it?

Weemsy wrote:went to the gwavas forest on sunday for our first ever club run as affiliated members

the scud went well, after all of saturday nights arseing about cuz i had f**ked up and my new wheels wouldnt fit

cheers to terry for the loan of his wheels/tyres and cheers to de-ranged for talking terry into it

a confusing day, 5 of us called steve.....confusing when a shout was coming through the cb.....

a few pics of the day

the other 2 steve's pose with my lady before we set off


it had rained hard saturday and sunday, this is 5 minutes in....








cheers to steve for 'decorating' my truck

Decorating your truck Thats dandruff Come and see the welly boys do it,, its 2 wheel drive while recovering them and when you cant see what colour the truck is its time to put in in 4x4

lneil wrote:

loosenut wrote:Its alive! with a big push on sunday, the engine is finally back in and running. Now for a nice big long drive.. oh what a hardship
Big thanks to my mate james in mot, who sacrificed many saturdays (and your lounge floor) to go down to work to help us get it back on the road, and of course SMURF who helped get all of those small,(and of course the gearbox etc etc) but oh so fiddly and time consuming jobs done on sunday.

Congrat's. It's been a while, do you remember how to use it?

I'm hoping its just like riding a bike...
Engine sounds a little different now.

Weemsy wrote:cheers to steve for 'decorating' my truck

hey are those tyres hard as retreads?? i got some for my brothers hilux and they seem to be hopeless, howd they go on the zuk??

they're not retread buddy. genuine goodyear wrangler mud-grips. no longer available in NZ. they were shit-hot. i ran them at about 8psi and if i could buy some i would. ive been begging the guy to sell them to me, they were great.

hey gary in nz,

where did you get retreads done?? cant find anyone round here anymore

cheers
weemsy