Offroad-Express

Shit I've started these 2 weeks in a row

Waterblasted half of Rallywoods off the truck and turned the front lawn into the usual mess of mud, vegetation and crap, ripped the back wheel off and undid thousands of beadlock bolts and fixed the punture, pumped it back up and it seems to be holding its air, took the U shaped bent draglink off and stuck an almost straight replacement one on, farked about with lots of wires for an hour and a half and now I have 3 indercators working

you picked up some tah's as welll don't forget

my weekend is going to entail a ferry ride early tomorrow morning to go to the Nelson trial.

Seeing as how my driver thinks I make less mistakes when I'm hung over I may just have to start the drinking at 8.30am as the ferry pulls out of welly, coz wot else is there to do on the ferry for 3 hours

beers, bourban and muddy trucks

vehicle 403 D , look out for us, it may well be the one with the seedy looking navigator who may been looking for raaaaalph

big supercharge batteries sign on bonnet, if ya can see it thru the mud

well went to take my puppy for a walk today to find my truck had been broken in to by some scume f**king w**ker snorkel and uhf radio radar detecter and some other small bits gone

might do somethin... oh yeah... work.

looks like hubby is going hunting for a few days so i'm at a bit of a loose end. mind you i can see a bottle of gay rum could be on the cards

Did some shopping so I have bits I need to do some maintenance over the next couple of weeks (and cruiser stuff swap this weekend).... what an F'ing expensive start to the weekend. Oil, filters and brake pads for two vehicles and diff oil for another OMG!!!!

I was thinking of doing diff oil in the hilux too but glad I did not grab some more containers. VISA gets fly buys so will need to see what nice home things we can get with the points just collected

well 4 a start geting a bottle of mount gay rum... depending on the hang over ...hav 2 do sum work on the beast and weather depending go round ocean beach with the bike.

As an on going mission to help my beast run cooler I hacked in to the bonnet to allow some clean air in

Just need to get some rubber edging for it tomorrow

does it get hot on open road or at slow speeds, like in the bush

skid wrote:my weekend is going to entail a ferry ride early tomorrow morning to go to the Nelson trial.....

Might see you there then. I'll try to get the girls out for a look, but it's the younger's birthday.

skid wrote:does it get hot on open road or at slow speeds, like in the bush

open road drivin them big 37,s sucks the life out of it. off road is never really a problem. the vent is cut so cool air should run straight over the top tank of the radiator.

after fitting the 900 amp rated welding cable to the winch a few weeks ago and doing a trial "winch" that proceeded to kill my battery I treated myself to the biggest f&$()* off big 750 CCA battery i could fit into the battery tray.

off to retest the winch sunday

as a matter of interest, since ive now done the cables and battery should i look at upgrading the altinator (not even sure what amp the gen 1 2.5's had?) to a larger amp one or will the factory one be ok ..... barring in mind that the winch only gets used for self recovery and isnt on a club truck or anything.

niblik wrote:might do somethin... oh yeah... work.

x2 for today(satday) but tonight after work plan is to do my front flares...i hope then take my son for a run tomorrow in the missile...hope its not raining

some more pics of the weekends progress
harness's mounted

new volt meter installed

and bonnet vent finished

went and had a look at a fj40 body for a transplant, on to james truck

Going to remove the useless sack of shit auto tomorro and hope to trans plant a manuel trans in over the next few weeks.
May have some engine brakeing for those nasty down hill bits...soon


Shane

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on the way down to the heavy equipment expo in mystery creek on friday i stopped in at the place i had ordered my shocks to see what was happening they said they would ring me back so went and looked at machines then drove down to tokoroa was almost in tirau when i got a phone call saying my shocks had arrived too late to turn around now though so will grab them this week sometime
changed the oils in the diffs transfer case and the engine replaced the fluid in the diff lock operating circuits

so now basically got shocks to install brakes to bleed got to get my drag link off yoricks wagen and swap it back to mine he has had it on there for a few months and still hasn't got around to getting his one sorted oh yeah got to organise the heater hoses and then it should be mobile

still have to sort out speedo and driveshaft loop for cert though

oh yeah and on friday while i was in hamilton i spotted this








it was parked out the back of the new mercedes benz dealership on te rapa straight so i wandered into the workshop and asked if i could speak to the owner of the g turns out he owns the dealership so had a good chat to him for about 10 mins learnt he has a few new old stock g parts that the guy he bought the dealership off just gave to him unfortunately there aren't any fuel filler caps in there that was the first question he asked me do i know anyone with a filler cap

Shane wrote:Going to remove the useless sack of shit auto tomorro and hope to trans plant a manuel trans in over the next few weeks.
May have some engine brakeing for those nasty down hill bits...soon


Shane

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Hi Shane
Where is that track ? It looks interesting and would be good to go up.

That why I have a manual.

Cheers Richard

Bulletproof wrote:

Shane wrote:Going to remove the useless sack of shit auto tomorro and hope to trans plant a manuel trans in over the next few weeks.
May have some engine brakeing for those nasty down hill bits...soon


Shane

starts about 18sec in

Hi Shane
Where is that track ? It looks interesting and would be good to go up.

That why I have a manual.

Cheers Richard

Its in hamner springs(hot wheels 4x4 park)its were they had the winch challange,lots of grade 2-3 tracks and a hand full of 4-5 tracks.its not a large area for a 4x4 park but we did have shit load of fun.


this is one of the tracks they used for the w/c(same track as above is much steeper than it looks),couldnt quite get to top,front slid to one side ended up on quite a angle side ways to bank.had a heap of fun.front locker would have helped.



Shane

Shane is there a contact for this park as im heading that way over easter mite see if i can get in there for a small play

Cheers Jono

red-devil wrote:Shane is there a contact for this park as im heading that way over easter mite see if i can get in there for a small play

Cheers Jono

Same company that does the hagln rides,office is on the main street right side,cant miss it.$65 per vehicle if there is a group of you can try and bargin a better deal.Park is about 10km from town

Shane

Well headed to William and Caroline's place to help swap lots a parts over from one FJ to another.

The list of changes to do and we only managed to get the diff's swapped (semi floater to full floater) and the power steering pump and box removed from the donor, not bad really for someone that knows nothing about Toyyoddass.

Removed from donor


Installing it in it's new home


We had to remove the brake caliper brackets as well due to there being disk brakes all round, interesting to say the least... more grinding disks need, brake fluid, paint, gasket sealer and a hand full of other parts needed... oh and don't forget to get a welder while you are out so we can tack the brackets back on.... (ok so he borrowed one from a friend)

Thanks heaps for the beer, food and entertainment, Isla (spelling unsure) can't wait for the next one over there..!

mercutio wrote:

there aren't any fuel filler caps in there that was the first question he asked me do i know anyone with a filler cap

Whereas - I thought - "That's good it has it's own wick so that it can be put out of it's misery"

Even that rocksta thingy had a fuel cap

did some flexing today

Just buried another freeking sheep

new grass - bloated - choked itself

1 hour of digging - when I could have been

the joys of the Aquarian sector