Offroad-Express

doin diff oils 2day, then off to woodhill jeep park tomorrow, hopefully the bita rain at the start a the week has soften things up a bit

We will be going in there ourselves on Sunday ,The Auckland club are doing a Xmas run ,Hopefully we will get a good turn out i was in there a few weeks ago checking out the new tracks that have been made ,some of them are quite challenging..

nice, good to hear, i assume its still open to the public??? big enuf area

Yep ,open to anyone ,as you say its big enough to cruise all day without running into heaps of trucks..

change a plans, not woodhill now, doin a run in Clevedon/Hunua with the manukau club on Sunday, anybody else goin?

stripping the 40 some more, hope to get the tub off this weekend...

went for a drive up muriwai with pete and tim

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GR0UQ_c ... annel_page

Big-AL wrote:went for a drive up muriwai with pete and tim

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GR0UQ_c ... annel_page

whos is the 80??

can ya get me a close up pic of his hi lift mount please ??

SKID

skid wrote:

Big-AL wrote:went for a drive up muriwai with pete and tim

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GR0UQ_c ... annel_page

whos is the 80??

can ya get me a close up pic of his hi lift mount please ??

SKID

thats petes 80 mate, if you have a look at his photo bucket you will find some good pics of it
like this

What a day, firstly cheers to all that was there and showed us around, was my first proper days outing in a convoy.
It was all alot wetter than everyone thought, spent over 2 hours just on 1 hill winching up the 8 or so trucks that were with us, once i got my tyre pressure sorted i was stoked as with how me old surf went, every other truck was a 2 door swb, mine was the only hilux, was getting through bogs and up steep banks that a couple other more well equipper (lockers etc) couldnt do, not saying mine is any better than any others, but when we first turned up to meet, i looked around, and i was the only hilux, had the smallest engine (3y) and i wasnt likeing my chances, good ol trusty 3y didnt miss a beat, l.s.d worked a dream and only a minor ding to the right rear corner. Good day out guys, havent yet worked out how to upoad photos, but maybe coxsy will put a few up

soon as download them had clean a couple of k s of mud of the truck

photos

hilux could climb this

and we all had to be towed up here,lockers didn't help

we had our club chrissy drinks and play at ngaroma this weekend, we put up some signs and the toilets are now in place, took my paj up for a thrash , cause it was so dry i left some little bald 700/16s on it which worked alright but had no ground clearance .


this toilet even has a veiw

signs



vaughan

spanky wrote:we had our club chrissy drinks and play at ngaroma this weekend, we put up some signs and the toilets are now in place, took my paj up for a thrash , cause it was so dry i left some little bald 700/16s on it which worked alright but had no ground clearance .


this toilet even has a veiw

signs



vaughan

Bloody good work, we will have to arrange a trip up next year, hmmm what about easter?

That toilet looks a bit nicer than last week's one Was an awesome place to stay and a great position to the tracks. They gonna be doing anything with that nasty gravel road?

madaz068 wrote:Bloody good work, we will have to arrange a trip up next year, hmmm what about easter?

can't wait that long besides the annual ORE gathering is then isn't it on the west coast

Went for a drive down the river this evening.

Nice to be back in the cruiser after having it off the road for about 2 months. Had another guy with me who normally drives a kitted out Suzuki. He had a drive of the cruiser and reckons it's like a huge truck, (told him he needs his HT) he said it feels like it will just plough on through and make its own tracks (which we did). But his zuk is pretty capable tho.

gimmemud wrote:That toilet looks a bit nicer than last week's one Was an awesome place to stay and a great position to the tracks. They gonna be doing anything with that nasty gravel road?

we would love to do some thing with it as is a slow last 10 ks an d every thing feels like its going to rattle off ,the more it gets used the more we can approach DOC for help to do some thing with it , was mentioned on weekend that we could put some ap20 gravel on it which would make smoother and lock all the rocks together , but the cost is a bit beyond us at the moment as we are a club of 20 or 21 members, what we will do is have a visiters book at the shelter and if every one who goes out there that thinks the road is a bit rough makes a comment it gives us some feed back to show DOC that people are using the place and what we can do to make it better, it is still early days for the place and is only going to get better, remember it is there for everyone so get out there and use it .
vaughan

madaz068 wrote:

spanky wrote:we had our club chrissy drinks and play at ngaroma this weekend, we put up some signs and the toilets are now in place, took my paj up for a thrash , cause it was so dry i left some little bald 700/16s on it which worked alright but had no ground clearance .


this toilet even has a veiw

signs



vaughan

Bloody good work, we will have to arrange a trip up next year, hmmm what about easter?

as far as i know there are 2 clubs planning on going at easter but it is not a definite