Offroad-Express

Hmmmm Whats Taz doing to the Shiny



Out with this



And in with this (which I picked up which I got a whilst back and was stored for me up the line)




3 Piece 3" Rage big bore Exaust, Bolts up to the factory mounts.

Nice jerry Nice, keen to hear it , does it sound good?

wired up front LED indicators and new flasher unit last nite. dam it was cold!!

will wire up front LED park lights and get a vid of it all tomorrow night

loaded up te 80's for an early morning mission up to Kennedy bay to do some paddling and smash some snapper... i hope

fark its gonna be cold getting on the water at 6am!!!

taking a first time kayak fisher with us tomorrow (my dad) so that should be fun to watch hopfully get him into some XOS snapps

dont let him fall out :S

Plan to install my Water Temp Gauge this weekend.

had a good day, kept enough for a good feed for me and dad for a couple days

bit miffed at myself tho, dropped a couple of freight trains today that i should have smashed, just out of practice

all on my diawa 6kg softy set up only one was caught on bait (big fat whole squid) by my dad. primo day in the coro again

will be a pic up shortly from thisevening when we got off the water.

Got the diff machined for the wanabe JEEP as it had a bit of a wobble (between .005 and .022 of a thou) so it would not have lasted long , Mondays job put new carrier bearings on shim up the diff and put the rest back together so now I have said that I would have jinxed myself and it will take me anthor two weeks to finish

gearbox is almost in .. just need to make the new crossmember .. and cut some shit out of the way

then comes the fun part .. the plumbing :d

Nothing on the 4X4 as it will be working, it goes in for new tyres on Wednesday and back to the exhaust shop as well as it has blown the piping apart that they did last week but, the last bits arrived today for the RX7 rotary engine so my job now is to clean the engine so it can go to the engineers for surgery possibly next week.And I am having Sunday off so I am going to lie in late, read the paper in bed and have a great day out on the club day at the race track in the arvo,try and beat my old time

changed the plug leads today will change plugs 2mrw

safaripete wrote:changed the plug leads today will change plugs 2mrw

dont forget were the leads go

fj40 wrote:

safaripete wrote:changed the plug leads today will change plugs 2mrw

dont forget were the leads go

haha will do plugs 1 at a time smart ass

PR wrote:Got the diff machined for the wanabe JEEP as it had a bit of a wobble (between .005 and .022 of a thou) so it would not have lasted long , Mondays job put new carrier bearings on shim up the diff and put the rest back together so now I have said that I would have jinxed myself and it will take me anthor two weeks to finish

I think youll find thats .005 and .022 thousands of an inch. not .005 and 0.022 of a thou as that would be .000005

Thats what I meant I know what I was talking about you getting to PC in wellington

had a bit of a sleep in this morning

then headed up to Rallywoods with my club about lunchtime

cooked a mean chilli con carne and had the orchard heater cranking

left about 8pm to head home, just got in 5 mins ago

lets take a different way home they said

all I will say is I saw an orange building and there was forest that we went thru that was very slippery

took a lot longer to shoot thru than we expected

will load up pics tomorrow, camera got thrown around in the 80 somewhere, she was a rough ride












just looked out the door. now have a major cleaning mission to do. Seems at night, you just chuck shite into your wagon whereever it goes, including filthy muddy strops on the seats etc etc etc

skid wrote: had the orchard heater cranking

what only one orchard heater???

Fark Wopass that photo looks preemo! .. cant wait to have my hernia opp so i can get out on my kayak again.

Well most of this weekend was spent nuking Windoze off my laptop and installing Linux Mint 7 on it ..I CAN FINALLY STAY LOGGED INTO ORE!!!!!!
no more being booted out everytime i went to try and post/go back/twitch/sneeze/or look at Skiddies R18 posts (started happening after the last ORE upgrade with Winblows 7RC1 and IE8 and never found a resolution to the problem) ,
Once i have everything the way i want it I have a DVD of last weekends winching/recovery/3 ringed circus "2 hour" quiet drive down to the firewood paddock to edit and upload.

fitted the new plugs today

runs a shyte load better now

got my truck washed down from last weeks coast trip, engine all degreased and steam cleaned, now ready to look at on board air. also got the entire back yard paved so no lawn or weeds to stop me goin wheeling in the weekends now

chrome wrote:got my truck washed down from last weeks coast trip, engine all degreased and steam cleaned

you got one of these hiding at home



I tried doing the same, but some de-greaser and a garden hose just don't cut it

not at home, down the yard i can sometimes get use of one.
degreaser and a waterblaster is much the same. thats a more accurate description of what happened

pulled my recently rebuilt motor down today to find out why it was making the daka daka daka sound (thinking that it was probably just a bigend gone funny). Found ALL the bearings are toast and have scored the crank badly. Now suspect an oil blockage/failure somewhere. To recon it will probably cost $$$$

So learnt an important lesson... DON'T waste money rebuilding crapass holden motors. They will just bite you in the ass.

If anyone has a good con holden 202 they want to sell cheap PM me.... or alternatively suggest an alternative power plant

Put front locker in, still working on the air to run it. Can't wait to try it.

not quiet 4x4 but....


now the rebuild starts.............

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how do you post pics

thats a cool project, to post photos log in to photobucket. then pick share image after uploading, then find the bit where you can choose how to share, pick to a bullitin board, copy it and paste to the page. it took me a while to figure it out. and my explanation is a bit vague but thats the gist of it

We went down the waimak for a look today since the new 4wd area has been opened, gave me a chance to try out my new terrano LSD in the front of the safari. It was good fun,, wet, lots of mud, lots of stock 4wds out getting stuck. We came across one guy in a v6 terrano, who thought a good idea to go flat out through a big puddle, until v6 stopped. I stopped and said to pull air filter out, which was full of water, I then said to pull plugs out, which he replied "I have no tools". Bugger I said. His mate towed him home. We found the 4wd area and had some good muddy fun with the other 4 million 4wds there haha. Just about need traffic lights down there! Couldnt climb a steep bank, bent bullbars, again. Found stretch of water to race through to clean off underbody, a nearby stock surf mustve seen and done the same but with no snorkel was soon dead and puffing steam. Several unprepared, inexperienced people out today killing their trucks. A lwb prado jacked up with big rubber drove out to the middle of the river and stopped. (shallow) After awhile the window came down and out came a pile of mcdodnalds rubbish. Straight into the river, right underneath the main SH1 bridge! What a COCK. We couldnt believe it. It only takes 1 f$%^wit to wreck it for everyone. If I see him around Ill mention it to him.
Drove out onto main road.... clutch slipping bad haha. Time to throw the new one in.

GETNLD wrote:not quiet 4x4 but....
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couldnt work out how to post pics, but i finally have a home for this, so now thr rebuild starts.

so how do you post photos??

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wopass wrote:had a good day, kept enough for a good feed for me and dad for a couple days

bit miffed at myself tho, dropped a couple of freight trains today that i should have smashed, just out of practice

all on my diawa 6kg softy set up only one was caught on bait (big fat whole squid) by my dad. primo day in the coro again

will be a pic up shortly from thisevening when we got off the water.

Hope you left some for me, will be on leave 4 weeks as of wednesday, softies and kayaks the way to go, check in next time, if its too cold for yak may have to take surtees for spin, did u get fish from kennedy bay or up coast a bit
tight lines

corosafari wrote:

wopass wrote:had a good day, kept enough for a good feed for me and dad for a couple days

bit miffed at myself tho, dropped a couple of freight trains today that i should have smashed, just out of practice

all on my diawa 6kg softy set up only one was caught on bait (big fat whole squid) by my dad. primo day in the coro again

will be a pic up shortly from thisevening when we got off the water.

Hope you left some for me, will be on leave 4 weeks as of wednesday, softies and kayaks the way to go, check in next time, if its too cold for yak may have to take surtees for spin, did u get fish from kennedy bay or up coast a bit
tight lines

just out of kennedy and drift over spot X

definatly take you up on that off mate. will holler when next trip is planned.

on a side note, went for a play up thomos today with a few and on the way there saw these guys parked at morinsville pub so had to stop and say hi






i diddnt want to park too close just in case
them was some purdy cars