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Fitted second air tank for lockers, greased all suspension, stopped rear diff from leaking by making a new gasket, adjusted handbreak. Feels good to be working on it again!!

Just done the same pulled diff head out and sorted the oil leak. Just need to sort the hand brake, fill the diff up and away i go i hope..... Put the new bolts in the front for the pto and that well be done as well....abbo

Just put the 35's on ready for the weekend. hopefully i put my hubs and diff back together properly

working on missile...good progress tonight, my step bro called around for a visit so i roped him into giving me a hand its now 2:30am and hes crashed in my spare room so that means he can help me tomorrow as well

Stuck a new alternator on the truck last night, rang around all the chev suppliers and they all wanted $300+ for alternators probably made in china so I made my first ever visit up to pick-a-part and found a couple of 90A almost identical Bosch alternators for $34 each, did a bit of fine tuning with the angle grinder and did a swap over.... and I have a spare one in stock now

Shit theres a bit of bloody eyecandy up there with all those boyracers young girlfriends.... especially that young blondie with the red undies

well have finally got the pos finished just rear windows to get made up out of perspex, winch on and working used it to lift my spare motor of the engine stand and on to a trolley i made for it gets it out of the way now,

Sadam_Husain wrote:
Shit theres a bit of bloody eyecandy up there with all those boyracers young girlfriends.... especially that young blondie with the red undies

your fuckin awsome marty

basics wrote:

Sadam_Husain wrote:
Shit theres a bit of bloody eyecandy up there with all those boyracers young girlfriends.... especially that young blondie with the red undies

your fuckin awsome marty

You only looked once a sadam...........

Went cruising as a guest of Cossie 4wheelers on a little tiki-tour arount the Maungatautari (South Waikato) reserve with the kind permission of one of the landowners. Got briefed on some of the history of the area and generally had a nice relaxing day wheeling with top down enjoying the scenery.

D.B and Vvega popped over yesterday arvo and gave me a hand with the missile CHEERS GUYS!!

its strting to look like a truck again



then we hada BBQ, nice tato salad and bangers etc.

was a good day.

now im back at work again

wopass wrote:D.B and Vvega popped over yesterday arvo and gave me a hand with the missile CHEERS GUYS!!

its strting to look like a truck again



then we hada BBQ, nice tato salad and bangers etc.

was a good day.

now im back at work again

want some salt with that.....longfields


also left helmate at yours so will def be out tonight

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I learnt the hard way to check under mud for concrete or any other nasties

is fun

not so fun

took the paj out for a cruise downn the river.


vaughan

While all you other buggers played I had to put a roof on.

Bloody hell Richard , take it easy , one days work for the year and we are only in the second month . Don't do to much you don't want to effect your PENSION.

,

HARD WORKING OLD FITZY.

Bulletproof wrote:While all you other buggers played I had to put a roof on.

Similar sob story here too, im busy jibbing the ceiling, and also have to finish of soffits, barges and flashings.
But the good news is the BIG door goes in tomorrow.

now that petrol has started to go up agan thort ide go buy a car trailer was to cheep to pass up got a good solid big one for $550 so the v8 lux will be a trailer queen lol

Went for a drive up around the power project intakes and tunnels on the Friday, as per Andy Cocroft's book, then went up the Tokokino skifield, as far as the locked gate, could have gone around it as many others have, but thought it wiser to respect the gate.
Saturday went to wellies to pick up new seats for the truck we bought off tardme, then drove around Oriental parade (didn't see as many as in Auckland, maybe they should swap a street name from up there!!!??? ), carried on around Shelley bay, and around to Island bay, then along the beach to the seal colony by the light house. Didn't intend on doing any 4x4 on Saturday!! I understand there is a trip that goes through private land, and goes the other way, would like to do that some time.....
Smelt a funny "hot coolant" smell on the way back, on 2 big hills, checked the radiator this morning, and found a split where the core meets the tank .....so now I have to remove that and get it fixed, I will get it cleaned, and fit a new thermostat too, may as well, since I am in the vacinity, and one less thing to worry about too.
EDIT: Got the rad out, and the thermostat too, but at $100.00 for a new thermostsat I cleaned the old one, put it in hot water, as it opened happily, and closed too, it went back in!! The body and the springs were all good, no rust or corrosion, so I reckon it'll be just fine.
Also started to plan fitting the new seats....not made easier by the fact Toyota use different length risers on each side .....

Got my lift kit n steering spacer off TUFLUX, Time to fit it now.

Frabricated up a new storage system for the back of the safari out of 2mm lite steel tube. MDF on top this arvo and make up some new draws during the week of evenings and I'm ready for trip with new club this weekend coming.
Al

Nick555 wrote:I learnt the hard way to check under mud for concrete or any other nasties

is fun

not so fun

ouch man what did you hit? and how fast were you going?

Went for a trip, spent money and broke stuff, got home intact. Had a blast.

hmmm broke a diff..... broke a diff on a SHINY TRIP lol

not that fast. must have been a tree root or rock or something couldnt get what ever it was out of the mud. was carrying a little momentium cos it went up a little bit at the end. but nothing silly.
what ever it was was pretty stuck in there as it just stopped the truck without budging.

madaz068 wrote:hmmm broke a diff..... broke a diff on a SHINY TRIP lol

Yes, I'll take bow for that.

Mind you, for some reason, none of the shinys chose to come back through with us. I wonder why that was? And I hadn't even smashed anything by then!

fitted an 80 amp alternator to replace the 55amp one that couldn't keep up with the cooling fans
also picked up my bling rims



still need to find some shocks though
got lent a book of gabriel shocks so will see if i can find something in there

mercutio wrote:still need to find some shocks though
got lent a book of gabriel shocks so will see if i can find something in there

Go to the Rancho site and download their spec and fitment PDF's. They cover pretty much every thing and once you find one that will suit the purpose (length, ends etc) you can match it to a type of vehicle and go looking any where you like with a specific vehicle for the parts guys to look at.