Offroad-Express

thought i'd start this early

got a few hours getting new body ready for the swap
have the day off work 2mrw so should get pretty much most of it done then will get some pics up

Put my new rev gauge and water temp gauge in tonight and all wired up. Didn't like the monster tacho it came with originally and the new ones look way nicer.


Taking the radiator out to clean it tomorrow and clean the rest of the truck too.

Cleaned out my radiator today and the rest of the truck. Turned the truck on and realised you can hardly see the reading on the new guages . And when the thermostat opened water went flying out the resevoir and temp shot up to 120degrees c. Don't know whats wrong and have to go out. Oh well more work for tomorrow.

had these sliders

changed them to this design

I got a sugar shack stamp! or actually 4 stamps!

NJV6 wrote:I got a sugar shack stamp! or actually 4 stamps!

What ??

coxsy wrote:changed them to this design

LOL glad to see im not the only one that has a Arc G-clamp that looks like a seagull's shat all over it!

looking good Coxsy, must get off my rear end and sort some for the Paj, got the steel, lack the motivation

My sum total of 4wd'ing this weekend was snatching a Subaru WRX buried to the chassis on Baylys beach, full of French tourists .. came ripping down the beach ..wide arc onto the soft stuff and stopped facing uphill on the loose dry stuff *twats* . sat there a few minutes just waiting for them to dig in .. sure enough a couple of minutes later they tried to drive away, uphill of course .. in less than a second the WRX was sitting on the chassis rails going nowhere watched them for about 15 minutes tring to dig themselves out with no recovery gear and not a clue (hey it an All wheel drive .. it can go anywhere) decided that since the tide was fast coming in id better go pull them out. last thing the locals need is yet another wreck poluting up that beach. hooked up the strap that was a mission in itself as WRX's dont have much in the way of tow hooks, ended up using the winch extention strap to share the load between those allfuly thin hooks, as it was both where a little straighter by the time we had got back to hard sand!

snagged my finger on a bit of mig wire on it sat so monday it gets the big grinder on it ,let the dags build up to much

dazza85 wrote:

NJV6 wrote:I got a sugar shack stamp! or actually 4 stamps!

What ??

Those that know will understand!

well got my new trail gear winch mount mounted and winch installed, moved power box into the engine bay just need to get to cables lengthened and make up the bull bar and that is done

winch mount and winch

power box

polished the 80 and popped the front coil spacers in to bring the nose up after hanging the winch and bar on the front



now all i have to do is.... not get it dirty again!

well went for an afternoon drive with a m8 on a farmers land. was an awsome afternoon still really wet at his farm which is always cool unfortunatly i have no photos exept my brakeage.
managed to tip the zuke on its side, was going down a steep hill with gorse either side and a big rut as bit as my 29 inch tire tryed to stradle it like the cruiser and hilux infront of me but the small zuke wheelbase wasnt wide enough so in she went, then found myself on my side but it felt worse as i was on a steep hill too and the fact that i had just faceplanted my face into a gorse bush lol.
put the zuke back on the trailer and saw some grease coming out of my hub, all the bolts had sheared off , i heard a clunk earlyer in the day but thought nothing of it. the pic below shows the damage. does anyone know how i can get these bolts out as they have no heads.??

cheers

martin

picked up some mangle rims for the terrano..... next is to get some 32s to go on them....

spent the day up the bush fixing bits of track and draining holes ,a few quiet drinks in the sun aswell, took my paj on its first trip up there was quite suprised as only on 700/16 sats at the moment, got some 825/16s to try that are just about new ,i like the v6 noise in the mud , much better than the scudo sounds, now need to do bars and hooks for ngaroma trip in couple of weeks.
vaughan

bolts should wind out, the heads had the load so no heads no load

took the work ute up to Taihape for a shiney trip, was real hot! Was good to do a different kinda of 4wding, took in some fantastice views! Cant wait to do the Motu next year!

new2zukes wrote:well went for an afternoon drive with a m8 on a farmers land. was an awsome afternoon still really wet at his farm which is always cool unfortunatly i have no photos exept my brakeage.
managed to tip the zuke on its side, was going down a steep hill with gorse either side and a big rut as bit as my 29 inch tire tryed to stradle it like the cruiser and hilux infront of me but the small zuke wheelbase wasnt wide enough so in she went, then found myself on my side but it felt worse as i was on a steep hill too and the fact that i had just faceplanted my face into a gorse bush lol.
put the zuke back on the trailer and saw some grease coming out of my hub, all the bolts had sheared off , i heard a clunk earlyer in the day but thought nothing of it. the pic below shows the damage. does anyone know how i can get these bolts out as they have no heads.??

cheers

martin

drill a hole in them and screw an easiout in.should wind out easy as

sat night had to find some one with a tractor to pull an 8 ton bus out of a river bed.
he had dug the bus down to the dif

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDKKAfN09SA

basics wrote:sat night had to find some one with a tractor to pull an 8 ton bus out of a river bed.
he had dug the bus down to the dif

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDKKAfN09SA

Where was that at Jase?

suzuki1k wrote:

basics wrote:sat night had to find some one with a tractor to pull an 8 ton bus out of a river bed.
he had dug the bus down to the dif

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDKKAfN09SA

Where was that at Jase?

last bridge into matinbough from the grey town featherston intersection