Offroad-Express

well lets see now.

Wednesday i get txt saying wife drove truck into carport, ok didnt sound to bad. got home to find front bumper coner hang off and a nice chunk out of a support pole for the carport.

Changed the studs on thursday but found the wheel studs holes are a little worn ( slogged out )

so its time to start thinking about the front bar.

Now i need to find someone that can help with a bender and welder o and someone that can get a good price for some tube.

jono

well started to pack for the move next week to otautau and did some more work on the surf just maintenance thow

pulling broken stuff out and replacing with not broken stuff

Last day at Ford on thursday,been there 12 years,I put a few drinks on for the Boyz friday ofter work.

They chipped in and brought this model for me cant get any cooler than mad max



After a few shandies we decided to install some rubberized under-sealer to help stop rust build up,BFG make this product indirectly



Short vid here VVV

http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/node/673

Shane

WHAT,you didnt tell me ya leaving there would've got you do do the wagon service b4 ya left
Where you off to fella???

MudBum wrote:WHAT,you didnt tell me ya leaving there would've got you do do the wagon service b4 ya left
Where you off to fella???

Can still do service work no probs there, got alittle workshop at new place,well catch up next week some time

Got radiator in and all plumbed up on new engine and have it roarin again! Very happy right now...
Gonna give it a christening with some gooey stuff tomorrow

Got the rebuilt diff and brakes together and into the samurai for Glenn, but hit a STUPID snarl up. I haven't got any way of getting the 90-weight oil into the diff. It won't trickle through the tube I have so I have to wait to borrow a pressure pump. Bugger!

Helped safaripete out with his minisprint last night.

undid thousands of beadlock bolts and took my bald old simexes off and fitted 3 of my new creepies, when I was sticking the third wheel back on the truck my back gave out.... fark it was like some bastard sticking a knife through my spine

So I'm parked up all crooked on the couch waiting for it to come right again

Sadam_Husain wrote:undid thousands of beadlock bolts and took my bald old simexes off and fitted 3 of my new creepies, when I was sticking the third wheel back on the truck my back gave out.... fark it was like some bastard sticking a knife through my spine

So I'm parked up all crooked on the couch waiting for it to come right again

get it checked out mate, i did mine in a few months ago and its still not the best, off work for 2 months and been on light duties now for nearly 3 months... not fun i tell ya!!! the doc rekons maybe a couple years before i can carry a pack in the bush again

wopass wrote:

Sadam_Husain wrote:undid thousands of beadlock bolts and took my bald old simexes off and fitted 3 of my new creepies, when I was sticking the third wheel back on the truck my back gave out.... fark it was like some bastard sticking a knife through my spine

So I'm parked up all crooked on the couch waiting for it to come right again

IF YA HAD OF POSTED A LITTLE BIT EARLIER, i COULD OF COME OUT AND RETRIEVED A tui FROM YA FRIDGE FOR YA




get it checked out mate, i did mine in a few months ago and its still not the best, off work for 2 months and been on light duties now for nearly 3 months... not fun i tell ya!!! the doc rekons maybe a couple years before i can carry a pack in the bush again

my backs puckered from doing tyres for 10 years, so I suppose a move to batteries is not good. but hey if ya need a pack hauler, I could be there for ya, been years since a good trek in the bush.

lneil wrote: I haven't got any way of getting the 90-weight oil into the diff. It won't trickle through the tube I have so I have to wait to borrow a pressure pump. Bugger!

Tape some hose tube on the end of a plastic 1ltr coke bottle, fill with oil and just squeeze the bottle to make the oil go up the tube into the diff.

wopass wrote:get it checked out mate, i did mine in a few months ago and its still not the best, off work for 2 months and been on light duties now for nearly 3 months... not fun i tell ya!!! the doc rekons maybe a couple years before i can carry a pack in the bush again

Driving a winch challenge is light duties? Sweet, If i ever bugger my back again i'll grab your doctors name!!

Opened the rear tailgate of the Wifes TJ on saturday, and it inexplicably exploded, and landed on my head. Bloody lucky i had the window tint on it holding it together or things might well have been ugly.

Great service from Smith & Smith. Within half an hour I had the back temporarily sealed and a replacement window has been ordered.

haynzy wrote:Helped safaripete out with his minisprint last night.

cant thank you enough mate

cheers

on a side note went up to putaruru to pick up my new safari body that doest have any cancer at all so next week gonna be a biggie swapping running gear over

having a few probs geting the 350 in my hilux runing well so got me a 400 mmmmmm when it comes to inches biger is better lolso will be doing the swap over next cpl of weeks

allmud wrote:having a few probs geting the 350 in my hilux runing well so got me a 400 mmmmmm when it comes to inches biger is better lolso will be doing the swap over next cpl of weeks

cool

did you not change tha carb over bud?

do you still want those 2 spacers?

yea i put my new 600 holly on it but no luck so did a deal on vangina for the 400
yea mate still keen on the spacers for my trailer

Finally got my new side bars on, only had them in the shed for about 3-4 weeks!





They are held on to the main bar with "T" clamps.. will add photo tomorrow.

suzuki1k wrote:Finally got my new side bars on, only had them in the shed for about 3-4 weeks!

Good to see some larger diameter tahs on your truck Reece

Sadam_Husain wrote:

suzuki1k wrote:Finally got my new side bars on, only had them in the shed for about 3-4 weeks!

Good to see some larger diameter tahs on your truck Reece

Uuummm yeah, they are not on there any more Got some 33's back on can't spin the bigger ones with out a hair dryer attached somewhere....

suzuki1k wrote:
Uuummm yeah, they are not on there any more Got some 33's back on can't spin the bigger ones with out a hair dryer attached somewhere....

faaaaark, you must swap em round lots, coz dem tahs weren't da ones I was investigating on Friday when it was parked up with a leg missing

skid wrote:

suzuki1k wrote:
Uuummm yeah, they are not on there any more Got some 33's back on can't spin the bigger ones with out a hair dryer attached somewhere....

faaaaark, you must swap em round lots, coz dem tahs weren't da ones I was investigating on Friday when it was parked up with a leg missing

Youve prob seen them in another safari

UBZ wrote:

lneil wrote: I haven't got any way of getting the 90-weight oil into the diff. It won't trickle through the tube I have so I have to wait to borrow a pressure pump. Bugger!

Tape some hose tube on the end of a plastic 1ltr coke bottle, fill with oil and just squeeze the bottle to make the oil go up the tube into the diff.

The other option here is that fizzy drink bottles are recognised pressure containers. If you can seal the hose onto the cap well enough, and fit a tyre valve stem to the bottle, you can pressurise the bottle with compressed air which will make the oil flow.
I found an old pressure cooker and use that as a pressure pump for diff 90 weight oils.

I used to use a coke bottle with a pump bottle lid. take the sliding part off the pump lid, cut the 'Tit" out of the top and put some clear hose over it with a hose clamp. its a real slow way of doing it but it works. I bought a hand pump / suction pump from a rep visiting work for that stuff now.

xj wrote:

wopass wrote:

Driving a winch challenge is light duties? Sweet, If i ever bugger my back again i'll grab your doctors name!!.

lots of pain killers and drove like a nana

rokhound wrote: XX snip XX
I found an old pressure cooker and use that as a pressure pump for diff 90 weight oils.

Photos ??

more work on the g mainly engine electrics so not too exciting have got it to the point where it turns over on the key again still got to wire up relay for the engine stuff but the engine loom is wired up in the engine bay

yesterday started taking the gearbox out of the surf to change the cluch. took the drive shaft off, gee that is f@#ked!. The joint at the diff end is completely F@#ckED!. so to morrow im going up to the 4wd wreckers up the road to see how much a new driveshaft is.

Any ways pulled the cluch that was compleatly f@#cked so changed that arround.

then put back to geather... that was my weekend.

Only thing that happened with my truck this weekend... is there is half a bag of rapidset on the carpet in the back...grrr

Had to be at work for 3:30am today