Offroad-Express

Me and the young fella went for a couple of rounds of mini golf, and while there we spotted the golf course owner, in his little 2wd truck, stuck in the middle of a fairway, and his worker was out there in his 2wd van trying to recover him. Dutifully I offered some help and tippy-toed our way out to them trying so very hard to not damage his fairway. (TUI AD!!)
I had the intention of sitting about 30mtrs away and winching him so i would limit the amount of course i was going to damage, but the winch decided to pack a sad (actually, i had unplugged the bloody thing this morning while playing with a headlight and hadnt plugged it back in again, didnt click until after ) so we had to pull out the snatch strap.......
The fairway didnt fare so well as it happened, (spectators were cheering at the rooster tails), but they were happy to get out, lots of bowing and handshaking and more bowing ensued. (they're Japanese) My lad got a fist full of chupachups, and some free rounds of golf next time we go there. All good (I lost by 3 shots over 38 holes!!)

On the downside (and Jerry is just going to have me on a platter for this) neither van nor truck had towhooks, so i had to loop the strop under the towbar mounting bar and back over the tongue. Rationale was that if anything were to bend or break it would be the tongue and it would be pulling back toward the front of the vehicle, and hence was of no imminent threat to anyone......
waiting for the telling off..... waiting for the telling off.....

xj wrote:On the downside (and Jerry is just going to have me on a platter for this) neither van nor truck had towhooks, so i had to loop the strop under the towbar mounting bar and back over the tongue. Rationale was that if anything were to bend or break it would be the tongue and it would be pulling back toward the front of the vehicle, and hence was of no imminent threat to anyone......
waiting for the telling off..... waiting for the telling off.....

Don't worry xj, I am sure that Jerry would not be that rude

....didn't you have your trail recovery hook handy
(Disclaimer...do not use these ever !!!!)

..No telling off required as you were sensible enough not to tow them off a towball or a factory hook....

Jerry wrote:....didn't you have your trail recovery hook handy

The irony of the situation did pass through my mind, I had a little giggle.

you did the safe recovery big ups to you man

good option, I woulda used the trail method into the chassis
or wrap the strop around the wing mirror

And what was he thinking ?

well got my surf 5 new tyres and rims on saturday ( thanks hanzy )
now the fun of making the 37s fit lol

got the 37s on fit well only a little rubing to sort out
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right lets try this time lol

right now that i have worked this out lol here are the rest

allmud wrote:got the 37s on fit well only a little rubing to sort out
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Ya need to use the IMG code so we can see the pic

allmud wrote:right now that i have worked this out lol here are the rest

I stand corrected, they look good roll on costa

yea a they fit well only small rubbing
nothing a BFH and small grinder wont fix lol

allmud wrote:yea a they fit well only small rubbing
nothing a BFH and small grinder wont fix lol

just like the roll cage on tha 40 aye

looks good mate

bring on costa

allmud wrote:right lets try this time lol

Hey is this the surf that was on TM in the Levin area. Its a cool surf and i couldnt beleve how long it sat on Trade Me before selling eh.

How does it handle on the road with that front end in there.?

Changed my auto surf body into a manual, hooked up handbrake and all the little bits to hook back up. Next weekend gonna swap the rear axle out of the 130 chassis chop off all the coil stuff and hopefully have an easy job lining up with the 60 leafs and driveline .
Hopefully sell a few things this week and put a new engine in too.


Bought my gold surf off the same guy in levin, seems like a pretty cool dude, have rang him up a few times since i bought it and he's always helped me out with what i needed to know. That surf looked pretty sweet but he didn't want to sell it at the time. The auto seemed a bit complicated though

yea a the switch auto takes a bit to get usto it lol
handles ok on the road bit soft and flexy lol not at all like a car but fine if u stay at 100ks

We went out for a run in the shiny
Its not so shiny now.....

went to Vegas, did some skids, came home.

ohh and it was AWESUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well no 4x4ing for me but at 8:17 sat morning my baby girl was born so now the fun begins but still hoping to make it to costa

Beer_Cruiser wrote:We went out for a run in the shiny
Its not so shiny now.....

dude, thats why you have a shiny and a rough truck

did you drink too many green bottles the night before and hop in the wrong truck

Pics and video from Reeces trip
http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/ ... =8&t=17170

allmud wrote:yea a they fit well only small rubbing
nothing a BFH and small grinder wont fix lol

"If the tyres don`t rub---fit bigger ones ":twisted:

Had to help my son rebuild the brake on the Warne hi-mount today, after much cursing, threats, thrown tools - all at each other, I think we have fixed it.

skid wrote:

Beer_Cruiser wrote:We went out for a run in the shiny
Its not so shiny now.....

dude, thats why you have a shiny and a rough truck

did you drink too many green bottles the night before and hop in the wrong truck

I think that sh#t mite buff out..
Just going outside to give it a try with the 6lb buffing bfh....

This is Beer Cruisers scratch just after it happened

Beer_Cruiser wrote: I think that sh#t mite buff out..
Just going outside to give it a try with the 6lb buffing bfh....

Dude, that would make a great shirt

Oh and before you ask, no you can't borrow any more parts off mine and yes I will notice if you just swap them over LOL.

On the other hand, mind if I come borrow some spares off you?

Bubba wrote:

Beer_Cruiser wrote: I think that sh#t mite buff out..
Just going outside to give it a try with the 6lb buffing bfh....

Dude, that would make a great shirt

Oh and before you ask, no you can't borrow any more parts off mine and yes I will notice if you just swap them over LOL.

On the other hand, mind if I come borrow some spares off you?

I mite have some mirrors you can use....