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Posted: **Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:41 am**

Took truck No.1 for a warrant, but got flicked back on the big tyres. Not ready to cert' it yet as there's still plenty of work to do, so its on with the silly little road-wheels off the 5-Door and in for a re-check.

Was going for a snow trip into the rainbow on Sunday, but its closed through there due to avalanche blockage/damage, so probably a jaunt up the Porika and hope to find some snow at the top.

Posted: **Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:04 am**

I got the 33s mentioned to me last WOF but the guy did pass them as he considered it within the realm of safety for the type of vehicle. He's a pretty reasonable guy.

WOF ran out 2 days ago so will be going in for another today, will see how it goes. Could put my 31" road tyres on it I guess but even they are technically oversize apparently. Will have to do the 6 monthly brake adjustment too.

Posted: **Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:51 pm**

lneil wrote:Took truck No.1 for a warrant, but got flicked back on the big tyres. Not ready to cert' it yet as there's still plenty of work to do, so its on with the silly little road-wheels off the 5-Door and in for a re-check.

Was going for a snow trip into the rainbow on Sunday, but its closed through there due to avalanche blockage/damage, so probably a jaunt up the Porika and hope to find some snow at the top.

have to admit wof testers can be so anal. i,ve taken my 4x4,s in and they complain about oversize wheels ect. and its still only there opinion. i,ve even asked to save me time changing all the wheels and coming back can u pass it and give me the sticker will put it on at home. got no joy so have changed to a garage with sense, they get all my trade work and look after me :mrgreen:

Posted: **Sat Sep 06, 2008 10:58 pm**

When I went Friday for the WOF it went straight through (just need to adjust the bearings) an no comment at all about tyres.

Posted: **Sun Sep 07, 2008 1:11 am**

Went for a cruise yesterday in Aotea even though the gates were locked and access to the block was dennied still I found a small dirt path that lead from the back entrance. put my foot down and enjoyed every dirty second of just cruising twice. lunchtime and at sunset. Am keen to join some suffaris with anyone. I had passengers that were freaked out but said they had a good time. :lol:

Posted: **Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:09 am**

Sammy J wrote:Went for a cruise yesterday in Aotea even though the gates were locked and access to the block was dennied still I found a small dirt path that lead from the back entrance. put my foot down and enjoyed every dirty second of just cruising twice. lunchtime and at sunset. Am keen to join some suffaris with anyone. I had passengers that were freaked out but said they had a good time.

I dont know if you caught up with the other thread on here but they have closed Aotea for a month or so while WRC have concerns of sediment run off or something like that so you dont want to be sneaking in there while its closed or we'll end up compromising the relationship and future access. Keep an eye on the forum coz the welly guys are doing trips (mostly rallywoods) most weekends and your welcome to come along :mrgreen:

Posted: **Sun Sep 07, 2008 4:30 pm**

changed the oil in the front and rear diffs in the hilux and got some new glow plugs, just gota find an alternator around some where, then she should be running sweet again.

Posted: **Sun Sep 07, 2008 5:29 pm**

Myself and two other 4wds when in to whirinaki , the suzuki lost 4wd , i found a huge stump under flaten tui tui , chrome moly still bends, bent the highlift getting it off , kiwipetes ground anchour works real good , broke rear flare on a torrano ,driversside monsoon on mine is half its size bumped a tree or two one share pin, photos added later

Posted: **Sun Sep 07, 2008 5:40 pm**

got some fathers day gifts.. some homemade cards, a bahco set and a good grinder too... mint!! then went out today and watched the sheffield event.. great fun..

Posted: **Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:15 pm**

coxsy wrote: bumped a tree or two one share pin

Like those trees don't you :roll:

You seem to break a shear pin every time you go out

Time for a bolt?

How did the 40 go?

Posted: **Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:42 pm**

Sammy J wrote:Went for a cruise yesterday in Aotea even though the gates were locked and access to the block was dennied still I found a small dirt path that lead from the back entrance. put my foot down and enjoyed every dirty second of just cruising twice. lunchtime and at sunset. Am keen to join some suffaris with anyone. I had passengers that were freaked out but said they had a good time.

Ya know that dosn't do anyone any good at all, the perfect way to get access denied and more ammo for anti 4wd groups. Hope you enjoyed yourself....dickhead :roll:

Posted: **Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:50 pm**

was jamed on a stump tried all sorts to get off, the pin was minor , we were winching in to the ground again as there was nothing around to attach to to pull the truck up over the stump , in the end two high lifts lots of wood and a two to one winch backward got me off ,with a 10,000lb winch on a torrano

didn't take the 40 james didnt have enough wheel time yet
no photos till photo bucket behaves

Posted: **Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:53 pm**

Jafa wrote:
Sammy J wrote:Went for a cruise yesterday in Aotea even though the gates were locked and access to the block was dennied still I found a small dirt path that lead from the back entrance. put my foot down and enjoyed every dirty second of just cruising twice. lunchtime and at sunset. Am keen to join some suffaris with anyone. I had passengers that were freaked out but said they had a good time.

Ya know that dosn't do anyone any good at all, the perfect way to get access denied and more ammo for anti 4wd groups. Hope you enjoyed yourself....dickhead

X2 !!

Posted: **Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:54 pm**

Well I pulled my motor out again today another f%&*ed 7mge.
Building new motor from scratch and adding high flow oil pump and custum baffeled sump with extended capacity out to about 9 litres, no more big end failures :twisted:

also got my hella rallye 2000 spotties. comet 500's and bought a lock right for the back
Bought this as a project too gonna slap some fj40 runnin gear under it and a 308 chev

the original crewman

Posted: **Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:13 pm**

Went for a cruise yesterday in Aotea even though the gates were locked and access to the block was dennied still I found a small dirt path that lead from the back entrance. put my foot down and enjoyed every dirty second of just cruising twice. lunchtime and at sunset. Am keen to join some suffaris with anyone. I had passengers that were freaked out but said they had a good time.

Nice one

do you go and chew up the dunes we aren't supposed to drive on at red rocks as well? :roll:

, you realise that Henry can see the block from his place and will probably already have your number plate. don't expect to be invited on trips if you can't be expected to respect the access to land we currently have.

Posted: **Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:15 pm**

spent most of the weekend puting a 350 in the hilux after a cpl of weeks ago turning my 327 into a v7 lol

Posted: **Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:56 pm**

got liquids in everything motor related, finished olf wiring loom for megasquirt computer, and turned key, was promising when fuel pump ran but no go, was unable to get my laptop to talk to the engine computer, so got Brian out, his laptop talked happily and discovered a bad connection at the TPS and a mis connection from the tacho signal, once that was sorted we kicked it in the guts and it runs finally, then discovered that i had managed to unbalance the motor by removing the holden flexi plate, so it sound like a fergy tractor, now half way thru putting the flexi back in but need to do a couple of mods.

also weighed the truck with race scales am 100 kgs heavier in the front, so once we get in and the rest of the truck is together we should be pretty well balanced

had fibre glass guy around to look at building the body and tub, so for the next two weeks it looks like i am no longer engineer but a fibre glass tech

so the end is finally in sight.

Pedro

Posted: **Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:36 pm**

So what happened with Curlys Truck. Did it get done

Posted: **Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:40 pm**

Yer its all in sits bloodly high :shock:

front bar on aswell :wink:

Posted: **Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:46 pm**

Built a deck, lots of jobs around the house and looked at the truck before dumping a whole lot of extra junk from it. And then the weekend went well as I found a set of ali rims for 100 bucks all up. Nice and light 15x7's so my radical wide track just got narrower but it does mean less trimming to get the 31's under it with the std offset (not to mention the benefits of the lighter wheels). SCORE one for the POS, now I have got to sort the rest of the stuff for it, but I am making progres slowly.

Heath

Posted: **Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:57 pm**

Mowed the lawn - used about 10 litres of 91

Posted: **Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:28 am**

Beer_Cruiser wrote:So what happened with Curlys Truck. Did it get done

Posted: **Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:32 am**

more pics curly!!!!

Posted: **Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:36 am**

curly12 wrote:

Fark its a different truck...... NICE WORK CURLY

Posted: **Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:51 am**

Sadam_Husain wrote:
curly12 wrote:

Fark its a different truck...... NICE WORK CURLY

Na, nice work Taz, Tony, Reece and Abbo

Will post more photo's in my thread about suspension from all those months ago............. Has raised wagon 26 cm :shock:

No doubt will sag soon enough :mrgreen:

Posted: **Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:56 am**

curly12 wrote:Has raised wagon 26 cm

Sheila's talk in cm Curly.... sewing, cake tins and all that sort of shit, blokes talk in mm :lol:

So did you play the 2 steps back card and all the other boys ended up doing all the work... smart move

Posted: **Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:02 am**

Sadam_Husain wrote:
curly12 wrote:Has raised wagon 26 cm

Sheila's talk in cm Curly.... sewing, cake tins and all that sort of shit, blokes talk in mm

True, shit might as well buy a toyota then and join the rest of you Shelia's
:lol:

Posted: **Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:15 pm**

Managed to get a trip up to Mount Murchison with four trucks, but didn't quite make it to the top (snow too deep). Had a blast getting as far as we did though, including about a dozen stops to chainsaw blockages out of the way. Obviously no-one's been up there since the big dump of snow.

Lockers and/or LSDs would have made a big difference to how well we got through the snow, but it was interesting how much better the 31" Adventuros with good tread went, compared to the 30" well-worn Yokohamas on the back of the auto. I think the slipper will have to go into the auto to try to make up some of the difference.

Went over the Porika on the way back and, for a change, no damage done to any of the gear (I don't count scratches and ripping off snorkel-hats). Doubly good was that we had a newbie with us, first time 4WDing. He seemed to enjoy it and would like to come out again so we can't have seemed too stupid, despite the snow-fights on Mount Murch'.

Posted: **Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:02 pm**

Helped Dan get the cage finished and fitted onto The General Mud:

Also started work on getting the new gearbox sorted for Thunderguts. Bit of a drama so far :lol:

Posted: **Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:19 pm**

went for a ride today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvWavR9qll8

didnt relise the weather was gona be so shit :twisted:

who am i kidding, more mud the beter

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