Offroad-Express

got a bit of a early start on the weekend last night,replacement alternator turned up so refited,buggar one of the pipe fittings on vacume pump diff size,take back out again,change the vacume pump over and re fitted to truck. yay have charge now.then gave things a grese up.

the family went up the ashley river with seven others, nice easy trip. on the way home found three wheel studs broken. mmmm bugger.

many thank boys

Jono

Took the VX down the Selwyn. Didn't do too bad considering it's running geolanders. No water up there but it's still pretty soft.

Did some work on my cruiser

Bit wider

Better aprotch angle two

well my weekend starded on monday the 10th , rebuilt the rear brakes on the 40 , then a few days holi up at russell, called in to see meatc in Keao had a chat an look at his suzie under rebuild, today drove home caught up with meece4x4 in Whangarei for coffee a chat with him and family

I caught up with meatc on Weds, called in on my way back from kaitaia.

Spend Sat stripping the carpet out of the Pajero and waterbasting the 4 litres of deisel the prevous owner had spilt under the drivers seat, many many litres of water and a couple of dishwashing liquid bottles later the smell is finally gone.

knocked up a set of drawers for the recovery gear (and the more inportant fridge) reather than having them roll around in the back of the truck like they normally are

Sunday caught up with Coxsy and his wife and had a quick coffee with them, really nice to put names to faces

Saturday put my new clutch on the replacement engine and tryed taking dents out of the sump it came with. i got it all back in the hole. hooked up all the wiring loom and found out i had ripped a plug off when taking it out... bugger. Next weekend put the shiney new radiator in, hook up all the hoses, and start her up and hopefully will go beautifully. .

Very exciting then i can go to the northern christmas thingee on 6th & 7th, with hopefully no niggly bits i've missed or put back wrong.

well gave the cruiser a new look yep its now matt black had to get alot of mud off first tho that was a day just doing that

Spend Sat stripping the carpet out of the Pajero and waterbasting the 4 litres of deisel the prevous owner had spilt under the drivers seat, many many litres of water and a couple of dishwashing liquid bottles later the smell is finally gone.

have found the bath is good cleaning the carpets , leaving them to soak soak and clean (with some laundry powder,

Jerry wrote:

Spend Sat stripping the carpet out of the Pajero and waterbasting the 4 litres of deisel the prevous owner had spilt under the drivers seat, many many litres of water and a couple of dishwashing liquid bottles later the smell is finally gone.

have heard the bath is good cleaning the carpets cause mine have never gotten dirty yet , leaving them to soak soak and clean (with some laundry powder,

there ya go jerry fixed it for ya......




sorry couldn't resist and yes i know i'm still truck free

did more stuff on the g setting up the fuel pumps and exhaust it is getting closer every week i'm starting to get excited

oh yeah forgot i also replaced a headlight and the grill on my car after it got damaged when i hit a hare on the way to work last week

We went to the club grounds and took people around for rides as part of Thyme Festival. Afterwards we went and looked at a hole that I had cleared of trees a few weeks ago - water level has dropped, give it a go. No go, water and silt all through the carpet and doors while waiting to be pulled out...

Just spent the last three hours stripping out the seats/carpet and cleaning, cleaning, cleaning. Looks good. Now wait for everything to dry and it has just started to rain...