Offroad-Express

started the weekend by felling two trees on my front section..... how is this related to 4wd-ing????? Well, i dont have a chainsaw, but i do have a winch! The looks on the faces of the folks driving by was priceless!

Ripping the back and front bumper off the prado and taking winch out for service. Much prefer to be back in the bush

Still working on the buggy getting ready for Fielding will be ready by Friday morning

xj wrote:started the weekend by felling two trees on my front section..... how is this related to 4wd-ing????? Well, i dont have a chainsaw, but i do have a winch! The looks on the faces of the folks driving by was priceless!

nice i have done this on a mates tree stump in his front lawn

xj wrote:started the weekend by felling two trees on my front section..... how is this related to 4wd-ing????? Well, i dont have a chainsaw, but i do have a winch! The looks on the faces of the folks driving by was priceless!

Nailed a couple of tree's this afternoon too. Also picked up some extended shackles from Warren. Will put them in tomorrow if it rains as forecast - and chuck on the 36" Swampers

Ripped out my rear brake shoes, cleaned out all the mud and crap and stuck in a new set with linings on them. Both wheel cylinders had seized pistons and after ringing around the closest replacements were in New Plymouth so I dug out a near new one and a sort of ok one from a pile of crap I found in the shed and stuck it all back together again.

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bolted the engine on the g into place bolted the power steering pump and plumbed it and put on the alternator also sat the radiator in place so i could connect up the trans cooler and then tried to start it it did fire but i haven't managed to keep it running yet

i was bouncing around the workshop when it fired means i have got the ignition side of it sorted still got to sort out all the vacuum lines that control the fuel injection i will get there

safaripete wrote:

xj wrote:started the weekend by felling two trees on my front section..... how is this related to 4wd-ing????? Well, i dont have a chainsaw, but i do have a winch! The looks on the faces of the folks driving by was priceless!

nice i have done this on a mates tree stump in his front lawn

the bride mentioned something about "redneck" and pointed at the confederate flag on my door...... My response was "thayats haow we dos it ein Tea-ex-ass"......

Also attending the NZFWDA korero in Huntly tomorrow, I hear theres likely to be some entertainment. I'll be sure to take me popcorn.

going to replace the hub bearings, seals ball joints and the steering idler , wheel nut studs and any else i dont like the look of in front end of this 40

Friday, replaced rear diff head, changed engine oil, drained transfer case (grr got water in there, but not too bad), Checked front diff and it just has nice golden oil - success on front diff waterproofing it seems.

Made my front side bars today with the help of Taz01 and nstacey , will post pic's tomorrow when I take them out the back of the truck and bolt them on.

the mess so far

made a tin top for the 40... not pretty but it will do the job

wopass wrote:made a tin top for the 40... not pretty but it will do the job

take a pretty pic for us so we can be the judge

I was gonna do the same, but never got round to it

coxsy wrote:
the mess so far

COXSY! You got dirt on my clean garage floor!! You better be cleaning that up right now or it's no dinner for you today MR!

wopass wrote:made a tin top for the 40... not pretty but it will do the job

Looks to be fairly heavy gauge checker plate - how many mm's?

suzuki1k wrote:

coxsy wrote:
the mess so far

COXSY! You got dirt on my clean garage floor!! You better be cleaning that up right now or it's no dinner for you today MR!

Good to know he's not working on the truck in the Kitchen or Bathroom - which I had assumed from the tiled floor

yes all tiled easy clean, mop it clean twice a year,sweep every week the safari drops dirt everyday
there has been a bugger moment, broke one of the brake lines to the calipar should of taken it off at the start

Got the rust fixed on my Hilux yesterday, Thanks to Taz01 for doing the welding, Suzuki 1k for the help and Stinky for the use of the workshop

got to replace the left hub bearing now as son used a steel punch to remove to inner bearing and damaged the casing

the morning view

Started pulling my engine to bits after last weekend. pulled most of the loom off, radiator and fan out, altenator, coil pack, exhaust off, etc.


Pulled the starter motor off and found another hole

and then these bits fell out

And these are the holes in the other side

MNC wrote:

wopass wrote:made a tin top for the 40... not pretty but it will do the job

Looks to be fairly heavy gauge checker plate - how many mm's?

3mm ally cheker plate with a rubber cappping all the way round

gimmemud wrote:Started pulling my engine to bits after last weekend. pulled most of the loom off, radiator and fan out, altenator, coil pack, exhaust off, etc....
Pulled the starter motor off and found another hole

and then these bits fell out...
And these are the holes in the other side...

Nasty, want me to look after your 35" Mudzilla's while you replace it

wopass wrote:3mm ally cheker plate with a rubber cappping all the way round

Right, was the rubber capping

MNC wrote:Nasty, want me to look after your 35" Mudzilla's while you replace it

Hopefully back on the road next weekend. get a motor this week if i can and put it in on the weekend

tool my zuk up the mungatuks today with a couple of mates..... havnt been out for ages and it went saweet!!!
lots of quad bike tracks up there....easy in the little zuk... still forsale if anyone interested.

gimmemud wrote:

MNC wrote:Nasty, want me to look after your 35" Mudzilla's while you replace it

Hopefully back on the road next weekend. get a motor this week if i can and put it in on the weekend

$2.5k and you could have all the donor parts and its all bolted into a reg'ed, certed datsun double cab ute... can even deliver to auck if you like

wopass wrote:

gimmemud wrote:

MNC wrote:Nasty, want me to look after your 35" Mudzilla's while you replace it

Hopefully back on the road next weekend. get a motor this week if i can and put it in on the weekend

$2.5k and you could have all the donor parts and its all bolted into a reg'ed, certed datsun double cab ute... can even deliver to auck if you like

Hmmmm wonder how well that'll do in the mud . bring it up and i'll have a test burnout and we'll see how it goes