Offroad-Express

Yesterday the GQ coil took out 4th place over all in a ramp flex comp.Bugger it wasn`t 3rd would have been good to get a trophy.Figure was 68.5 cms.

Drove to Tauranga for the day to look at a couple of Prados. Got one to look at down country and then I will make my decision (kind of made it already but got to tick all the boxes - hard to ring and say I will take it). All going well and I get the one I want I should be driving home on Saturday in my new shiney prado.

I will be gutted if it sells before I get a chance to look at it in the flesh and say I'll take it. I mean make the decision as to whether or not I'll take it.

finger crossed. 2 more sleeps to go.

Decided to go get my truck and drive it home today. Made it about 1minute before my house when the new engine shat itself. Man i'm glad i got the 2 year warranty for it. Hadn't even taken off road yet The withdrawals are getting worse

^^ I seen your truck parked there for quite a while.

Sucks about the engine.

gimmemud wrote:Decided to go get my truck and drive it home today. Made it about 1minute before my house when the new engine shat itself. Man i'm glad i got the 2 year warranty for it. Hadn't even taken off road yet The withdrawals are getting worse

sezzz mate , what number is that know? any idea what went wrong this time.

Andrew1706 wrote:^^ I seen your truck parked there for quite a while.

Sucks about the engine.

Sure does, I've been working on it for ages, doing everything properly so i didn't have to do it twice. Been a pain in the arse having to drive 60kms to get to my truck when i wanna work on it and think I've got it pretty much sorted then this happens

UBZ wrote:

gimmemud wrote:Decided to go get my truck and drive it home today. Made it about 1minute before my house when the new engine shat itself. Man i'm glad i got the 2 year warranty for it. Hadn't even taken off road yet The withdrawals are getting worse

sezzz mate , what number is that know? any idea what went wrong this time.

Number three
Don't know what went wrong. Started sounding like shit and missing a few cylinders then heard a clunk but didn't see anything fall off behind me. came to a stop and it just died.
No holes in the block this time and the oil dipstick looks fine. so i don't know what's wrong. Couple of shiny round looking things that I'm pretty sure weren't like that when i left on the bottom of the block.

Waikato 4x4 Club, Cozzie 4-wheeler and NZ Jeep Club gymkhana event breif write-up here:

http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/ ... 26&t=18030

Does anyone know if this round bit should be shiny or not? exhaust above, starter motor below. Don't remember them looking shiny when i put it in

Sent the truck in to get the wheels ballanced coz I was getting sick of the violent death shakes at 50km, they wernt too keen on trying to ballance them but gave it a go, got 900 grams on one wheel and the other three arent far off the same amount.... fark I think they were nearly out of lead by the time they finished

Thats a frost plug

gimmemud wrote:
Does anyone know if this round bit should be shiny or not? exhaust above, starter motor below. Don't remember them looking shiny when i put it in

thats just a frost plug isnt it must be time to put a chevy in it

Should there be a cover over it? Or is that how they are? Got other plans for conversions this thing has cost me far too much already

gimmemud wrote:Should there be a cover over it? Or is that how they are? Got other plans for conversions this thing has cost me far too much already

thats how they are

went for club run, mud drags at puni, great day out except for the punture in the morning, ran all day giving it a top up of air at times. Then on the way home had spare go flat fast, think the tube burst.
Not the best end to the day.

Did this:
http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=18046Fitted new lower trailing arm bush, straightened rear panhard, straightened rear lower trailing arm. All ready for more damage now.
Al

weldup the floor of a 40 , marshell training, sunday made a ARB comp mount and rear bar work on the saf, which was fine till reveiwed photos so may change them

caught up with Larry in Maloolaba, had spare time so drive from brisbane to larrys, 33 deg sunny and loads of women than were very little fabric leaving nothing and i mean nothing to the imagination, and this is cool at the moment, hada very nice lunch and a cool beer thanks larry, and cruised back for a steak outside in a cafe, very civilized, now gotta go to work tomorrow and finish off a project for work, then down to sydney to drive the warthog for a day then sorta come home, that is if i remember to get back on the plane with this warm climate.......

Ps don't drink woodstock here, is bloody $20 Aussie for 4 cans, 4% even, ouch

Cheers

Pedro

went to palmy to return a battery that was to small for a terrano we bought, the wanker we bought it off had been in and told them it was charging because the alternator was fked. so now its off to be tested. no money, no battery. was pretty dark.

today whipped out the radiator and the fan from the same problem terrano. get a new fan tomorrow hopefully, the old one has some canyons in it.

Spent Saturday marshalling at the Nelson Rally, then got busy cleaning up a spare rear diff housing with the sand-blaster and a paint-stripping grinding wheel.

Came to a grinding halt (pun intended) when I hit the knuckle of my thumb with the grinder. Man those stripping wheels cut through flesh easy!

Tell me, does blood cause rust? 'Cause if so, I'm gonna have to re-strip the housing, lol.

lneil wrote:Spent Saturday marshalling at the Nelson Rally, then got busy cleaning up a spare rear diff housing with the sand-blaster and a paint-stripping grinding wheel.

Came to a grinding halt (pun intended) when I hit the knuckle of my thumb with the grinder. Man those stripping wheels cut through flesh easy!

Tell me, does blood cause rust? 'Cause if so, I'm gonna have to re-strip the housing, lol.

nah man it's all good blood is full of iron......lol

Took the Prado out with the local 4WD club, had an awesome time! They reckoned it was the only one to get up about a 100ft pumice climb but I wasn't about to try it with a 6 foot hole in the middle of the track.

fixed some punctures late friday arvo

did some cleaning and work on the 80 on saturday

went to a 40th party on sat nite which had a 60s theme.......




it was at Sigs house and we had the oil burner cranking again.....


but it seems every time we use it, we are learning. This time it was a biggy as some of the oil fell out and looked awesome as it was a big fire, but it was getting a bit close to the house, but was contained quickly. Next day we had to clean up the mess.....





got home after lunch on sunday and did some more work on the 80 and then the night before caught up with me and had to have a wee lie down late in the afternoon for a recharge

went for a fish on friday to get something to eat for the week.

opened garage door to see if missile still there..yep..sweet. shut garage door again

lneil wrote:Spent Saturday marshalling at the Nelson Rally, then got busy cleaning up a spare rear diff housing with the sand-blaster and a paint-stripping grinding wheel.

Came to a grinding halt (pun intended) when I hit the knuckle of my thumb with the grinder. Man those stripping wheels cut through flesh easy!

Tell me, does blood cause rust? 'Cause if so, I'm gonna have to re-strip the housing, lol.

Hate to tell you blood does cause rust, it has salt in it. not as bad as sea water but still salty enough to cause increased rust.

Finished the majority of my project on the side






Still a little bit to go, have to secure it down and should really carpet it to get it looking nice

had a wee wiring mishap with the 40 on sunday at club champs

a small fire and melted wiring and an empty fire extingusher later

going to get the auto sparky at work to do it this time

finally got me a pair of fibre glass flared guards made up, and with the moulds if i smash em, which i will, i can make another.

no need for rubber flares now, now gota sort side bars

J_Dub wrote:finally got me a pair of fibre glass flared guards made up, and with the moulds if i smash em, which i will, i can make another.

no need for rubber flares now, now gota sort side bars

They look good, Now you need to make 130 Surf guards wider too.

Smurf wrote:

J_Dub wrote:finally got me a pair of fibre glass flared guards made up, and with the moulds if i smash em, which i will, i can make another.

no need for rubber flares now, now gota sort side bars

They look good, Now you need to make 130 Surf guards wider too.

yup 50mm wider than the factory flares would be grouse

Smurf wrote:

J_Dub wrote:finally got me a pair of fibre glass flared guards made up, and with the moulds if i smash em, which i will, i can make another.

no need for rubber flares now, now gota sort side bars

They look good, Now you need to make 130 Surf guards wider too.

that i could do, ill see if i get interest in these then consider 130 guards, bet the 130 guards would be alot more popular though so maybe i should look into that