Offroad-Express

The lister crank handle at Rallywoods has a fixed handle thanks to a local ORE member who has a lathe thingy


And Curly seems to have done a hybrid conversion



No you can't borrow the crank handle for your pos Curly

Shiny got some new Tah's,

Hopefully these ones last more than 25000k

And Badnuzuzuzuzuzuzuz's stubby holder seems to have gone on holiday

Got Piglet back from the paintshop today, all dressed up in it's new colours. Now it's time to put on the manual hubs and the 5.12 diffs.

Got to put a set of Maxitrac springs in a friend's Samurai on Sunday so should be all set for a couple of trips in early September.

30,000 + photos importing into the live ore galleries as I type

sfa today, manual converion on a mates 180 tomorrow, sunday sleepin, trucks still off gettin bars made up..

Got kinda stuck

managed to slip out to the garage after kids sport this morning and fixed the 40 after rallywoods .took off the smashed pto unit and replaced the case with one that wasn,t smashed .now got to convince her indoors that it needs a test run (to make sure everything works )otherwise its lawn mowing and yard clean up ,now that the chippies have finished our renovation.(know what i want to do .and it does involve grass .cutting it with 35" simexs )

i did this last weekend but can't be bothered adding it to last weekends thread started pulling another motor and transmission out of a car to fit into the g different one again a 3 litre sohc inline 6 with 4 speed auto tranmission started out just pulling out the loom and computer this one is going to take a little more figuring but hey it is there and running and cheaper to get mounts made to fit this one in than rebuild the other motor i had besides it has more power than the 2.8

put 2 nice new engine mounts in the 40 only to find the trans mount is rooted aswell

oh well

Went for a drive round past Red Rocks in the 40
Did some skids
Broke front drive shaft slip joint
Come back in 2wd

Beer_Cruiser wrote:Went for a drive round past Red Rocks in the 40
Did some skids
Broke front drive shaft slip joint
Come back in 2wd

..... yer what.....

Went for a drive with beer cruiser took his 70 my young fell came for a ride had a great time will have to clean 70 as found a bit of mud

put new big end bearings and main bearings in the V6, got some oil pressure now
mains were farked to the point of seeing the copper, the crank was unmarked, found out bolts are one use wonders and would cost roughly $600 for new set, so on advice of re conditioner the bolts are now used twice here's hoping i did not just put a hand grenade together

pedro

just gotta get my lockers back

unpacked the winch removed the cable which was flattened and cincked, noticed the hook had a 1 ton rating,
swapped hubs over, oh two of the four bolts that hold the imput shaft and seal are missing

Reece and i went up to Rallywoods yesterday and installed the new nissan fuel tank






this is the bottom of the old fuel tank

Finally got my new engine running after a couple of weekends scratching my head. used old loom and modified it, added one new wire and hey presto it works, did a little skid and felt very happy. now just gotta figure out why it's revving so fast and find all the wires that make everything work with the new body.

abbo wrote:

Beer_Cruiser wrote:Went for a drive round past Red Rocks in the 40
Did some skids
Broke front drive shaft slip joint
Come back in 2wd

..... yer what.....

Went for a drive with beer cruiser took his 70 my young fell came for a ride had a great time will have to clean 70 as found a bit of mud

Blackdeath found some air



Skiddy couldn't get it all the way up



And Mike being the dedicated conservationlist took 'Tread Lighty' to the extreme.....

spent hours cleaning Woodhill mud off.
took front guards off, now i can make moulds for fibreglass flared guards

Good work on sorting the Jenny out, um 1 point thou, the plastic hose you used will get hard and brittle and then snap, should really be a hose suitable for diesel

Cheers

Pedro

we'll upgrade that soon when we give the lister a good clean and waterblast. we are also looking at doing an oil change on it shortly as well.....

Well i said that i would put some pics up skiddy so here they are ......Well it took a hour to get it on with no steering but we got it on ..


then had to squeze it down the drive ..


but we got it on to the road in the end



and now is all home, so now have just to get some time to play with it.

Saturday got some new front disk rotors and pads fitted plus a new front left CV boot.. was a bit of a drama though - gettin the free wheeling hubs off too a while as the tapers had rusted onto the bolts.

Sunday I took the front bumper corners off and removed the rear bumper to get to the spare wheel holder. A bit of WD40 and the spare was free. Left the bumber off as it looks better and will eventually sort out some front and rear steel tube bumpers. Got a new white steel wheel to go with new spare tyre and tied it down as best I could with a ratcher tie down in the boot.







Still to sort out faulty alternator before going on any more trips. Then sort out a bit more lift in the rear to match the wound up front and have a look at the LSD.

Bolo wrote:

you fawkers are definately from Upper Hutt bro

what do you mean by that , its all good , safe as houses

spent the last week at the ICU ward at Waikato Hospital

Said goodbye to mum

drove home,

Washed and cleaned the truck in preparation of Mums last wishes, that her ashes be scattered at sea, going to take Dad (and Mum) up 90 mile beach next weekend until Dad finds a suitable place for her to start her final trip home to England.

had a great 4 days away wheeling a few minor truck issues as expected and a bit of damage for other guys, all was great until the drive home, it seams cops don't like my "rangi" mods with no cert etc... very expensive.
The cop didn't seam to understand that i wanted to test the truck before going for a cert in case i change everything, she couldnt understand why i couldn't test it by driving around the block..

rangimotors wrote:had a great 4 days away wheeling a few minor truck issues as expected and a bit of damage for other guys, all was great until the drive home, it seams cops don't like my "rangi" mods with no cert etc... very expensive.
The cop didn't seam to understand that i wanted to test the truck before going for a cert in case i change everything, she couldnt understand why i couldn't test it by driving around the block..

Were you on the north canterbury trip to Kopara. If so how did it go?

Cheers richard

Bulletproof wrote:

rangimotors wrote:had a great 4 days away wheeling a few minor truck issues as expected and a bit of damage for other guys, all was great until the drive home, it seams cops don't like my "rangi" mods with no cert etc... very expensive.
The cop didn't seam to understand that i wanted to test the truck before going for a cert in case i change everything, she couldnt understand why i couldn't test it by driving around the block..

Were you on the north canterbury trip to Kopara. If so how did it go?

Cheers richard

Na different trip, i was waiting to hear how that was as well. I have never been

meece4x4 wrote:spent the last week at the ICU ward at Waikato Hospital

Said goodbye to mum

drove home,

Washed and cleaned the truck in preparation of Mums last wishes, that her ashes be scattered at sea, going to take Dad (and Mum) up 90 mile beach next weekend until Dad finds a suitable place for her to start her final trip home to England.

condolences to you and your family dude

I'm sure I will be right in saying that all of ORE thoughts are with you all, at this time

skid wrote:

meece4x4 wrote:spent the last week at the ICU ward at Waikato Hospital

Said goodbye to mum

drove home,

Washed and cleaned the truck in preparation of Mums last wishes, that her ashes be scattered at sea, going to take Dad (and Mum) up 90 mile beach next weekend until Dad finds a suitable place for her to start her final trip home to England.

condolences to you and your family dude

I'm sure I will be right in saying that all of ORE thoughts are with you all, at this time

Thank you Skid ..

it's been a pretty hard time all round.

wot skid said x2