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Fitted my PRS and CB into the shiny truck, only missing bit is the CB Antenna which I am waiting on the bracket and antenna...

Fit new winch tomorrow. Full grease up sunday ready for Lake Daniel's next weekend
Al

worked on zookfests truck tonight

Gonna pull off some unwanted plastic.

spent all night fixing these forums

so far registered the blizz and fitted two new glow plugs.................only 2 more to go..... (intercoolers are wonderful things until they're mounted in the way)...

intercooler now not a problem (in a temporary way) but thinking i might have to go to bunnings tommorrow and get a new 12mm socket mine are too short and will make it a lot easier than trying to use a spanner on the last 2.....

did the old 6 monthly handbrake ajustment thing,went for wof got there jumped out of truck into a pool of green coolent pissing out of truck head home, find prob split heater hose,remove it go bye new one,ohh dont have any in stock wold be here till wed so found one that close enough (ford falcon) hehe refit,then went back to get wof and passed,just need to get new front shocks.

Changed front and rear diif out of my surf after smash the front one down the mak last w/e helping someone who was stuck could not get a 4.1 so got two 4.3s all good and fixed freewheel hubs so all good for Lake Daniels next w/e

i picked up these 2nd hand have been fitted to rims but never been driven on


i also picked up some other junk but the less said about that the better

drove home from welly today, stopped to look at stonehenge New Zealand near carterton cool place , Boots an Braces in woodville for lunch, bar and grill and dam good feed

mercutio wrote:i picked up these 2nd hand have been fitted to rims but never been driven on


i also picked up some other junk but the less said about that the better

What did ya pay for them

Re the other resources ya picked up ... do tell

coxsy wrote:drove home from welly today, stopped to look at stonehenge New Zealand near carterton cool place , Boots an Braces in woodville for lunch, bar and grill and dam good feed

faaaark coxsy, how long did that take ya, thats going the long way allright

dazza85 wrote:

mercutio wrote:i picked up these 2nd hand have been fitted to rims but never been driven on

What did ya pay for them

$1200 they are 35x10.5x16 will fit them to the rims that are in the pic that have worn ATs on at the moment

dazza85 wrote:Re the other resources ya picked up ... do tell

more details about that in my build thread

Shot up Thompsons for something to do. Once there decided to stick our noses up the rock climb at the 2nd playground.... and well, once one starts its sometimes hard to stop. Bit of fun up the water ruts, but not too much drama. Never been up to the top of that track before and was pleasantly surprised. Coming back down however...... well, lost my phone (buggered if i know how, it was there before we went up) and managed to munt my right front guard, which now gives the perfect excuse to build some flatfenders.




From there we headed over the Katikati side, and stopped at finger rock. A ponga had fallen there which we cleared, and after assessing the next 100 meters caution overcame valour and we headed back.
The dozer has done a good job there so far, theres three little slips that are across the track but have be navigated by folks before us and are no issue now.

As for the loop road. It seems as if the logging has pulled out of there, but the access way at the bottom end has been blocked with a large hunk of pine, we didnt investigate the top entry in.

Also ordered new front adjustable trackbar and bodylift from aussie, and cut out the template for my tummy tuck.... now ill be sourcing material for my flatfender build too...... oh the joy, the estacy of owning a Jeep........ [ahem...]

went for a play at a local block of pines to test the truck before the costa comp, truck went good just a clean up and a final check now. Had a test of the winch too and now that I have decent earths on it , it went really well

haynzy wrote:went for a play at a local block of pines to test the truck before the costa comp, truck went good just a clean up and a final check now. Had a test of the winch too and now that I have decent earths on it , it went really well

after all that at the river was it just the earths

fj40 wrote:

haynzy wrote:went for a play at a local block of pines to test the truck before the costa comp, truck went good just a clean up and a final check now. Had a test of the winch too and now that I have decent earths on it , it went really well

after all that at the river was it just the earths

yep had melted the earth to the body so was getting no power to anything earthed off the body and as there was no earth from the engine block to the chassis I was earthing the 400amp winch through a 5mm cable but now have 10mm cable from engine to chassis and gonna add a 10mm from bodt to chassis

well fitted the last 2 glow plugs and remounted the intercooler. then grabbed the car and hooked up the jumper cables to try and start the blizzy only to get nothing......lol well it turned over but didn't start didn't even seem to want to fire...ffs really wanted to get it going and then i could have gone for a play next weekend and be ready for the cub trip on the 2nd of may

wgtnnewbie wrote:well fitted the last 2 glow plugs and remounted the intercooler. then grabbed the car and hooked up the jumper cables to try and start the blizzy only to get nothing......lol well it turned over but didn't start didn't even seem to want to fire...ffs really wanted to get it going and then i could have gone for a play next weekend and be ready for the cub trip on the 2nd of may

usual story I suppose..................

you supply the refreshments and the boys will come

stripped down my typhoon twin cyl air pump backup and running now , washed more of the west coast mud off the truck

coxsy wrote:stripped down my typhoon twin cyl air pump backup and running now , washed more of the west coast mud off the truck

Sounds like you guys have had a great trip home.

That West Coast mud sticks doesn't it
Thought I had it all off but found a bit more today
Hopefully get cv done tomorrow night

Stonehenge Aotearoa near carterton

haynzy wrote:

fj40 wrote:

haynzy wrote:went for a play at a local block of pines to test the truck before the costa comp, truck went good just a clean up and a final check now. Had a test of the winch too and now that I have decent earths on it , it went really well

after all that at the river was it just the earths

yep had melted the earth to the body so was getting no power to anything earthed off the body and as there was no earth from the engine block to the chassis I was earthing the 400amp winch through a 5mm cable but now have 10mm cable from engine to chassis and gonna add a 10mm from bodt to chassis

Had the same problem with my XD9000 ... i was relying on the (really) crappy factory earth straps to earth the winch through the body, had all sorts of problems with winching power, melting cables etc ... ended up taking Darinz advice and earthing the winch directly back to the battery using 900amp rated welding cable (the damm stuff is about 18mm thick worth of cable not counting insulation!!!!! along with replacing all the power cables with the same stuff) winch goes REAL well now

Loaded up my truck ready to head north tomorrow to the new owner, Be anotha yota to run circles round you fellas

Wicnch fitted. Thanks to bro-in-law Hoshustler for engineering help with front bar and welding, Soleniods mounted under bonnet, in cab and hand controls fitted, everthing re-painted including rims, bars and siderails. Bring on Lake Daniels. Got to say, those Runva 10,000lb winchs are pretty fast.
Al

philux wrote:Loaded up my truck ready to head north tomorrow to the new owner, Be anotha yota to run circles round you fellas

thats if it dose not blow its load on the way up




well I had a farken bad noise in the drive train of my lux and pulled the diff head out and decovered that there was about 20 teeth missing off the ring gear

We went fishing round the South Coast

Beer_Cruiser wrote:We went fishing round the South Coast

not bad melcom good effort

going fishing next weekend...hope to break a few PB's... ...if the weather gods hold out for us

Some pics from the costa working weekend...