Offroad-Express

gave the safari some black polish to hide the lesser scratchs james sand blasted bits of the fj 's firewall, and gave it some paint

I won a PRS radio and a CB radio on Trademe so i think the plan for tomorrow is to put thoses bad boy in

Got the motor out of my hilux, cheers to tara13 and curly12

started this weekend with waterblasting the 40

removed the armstrong steering and started to mount up the powersteering

just need to make up a mount for the box

wiring will be repaired 2mrw after the wee fire from last week

Shiny got a nice wash on the outside today......

cooked my new rangie killed the phone think thats enough for this weekend

Striped rear diff head, exhaust, shackles outa the bighorn

New LSD diff head in, extended shakles and new(ish) bushes in, exhaust going in tonight and adjust handbrake for the WOF

2morro gona finish my winch mount that ive been meaning to for ages, and tweek the torson bars so they level with the back.

mite look at parts trucks right hub taking that off so i can replace it and give it a run in a few weeks time. put a Locked diff back in when i pulled the LSD out

Also taking half an anglia to the vintage car parts shed tomorrow morning as ive run out of good bits to use on it...

mite even sleep at some point....

nstacey wrote:Got the motor out of my hilux, cheers to tara13 and curly12

What about that bit of bling on the drivers side with the blue tape............

curly12 wrote:

nstacey wrote:Got the motor out of my hilux and got the power steering box mounted, cheers to tara13 and curly12

What about that bit of bling on the drivers side with the blue tape............

oh yeah, edited

brought truck home today... finally
rad on back and trans cooler setup done
new exhaust system and for now .. ln130 seats ...

Peeled donor body off and fitted it to the new rig. Made front end fully removable (like the old mutt) and started making up new brake lines.
Things have gone quite good on this build, it was only 2.5 months ago that I only had 2 bare chassis rails in the garage. Woohoo.

good shit rok..

i worked on the 40... quite the novelty to work on her again..

Started making my new front bar today, just need to paint it and then fit to truck.

Tomorrow looking at doing the side bars from front to rear.
Photo's to be added tomorrow.

Put a snorkel on a friends surf went bush and played in some mud.

Chchshrek wrote:Striped rear diff head, exhaust, shackles outa the bighorn

New LSD diff head in, extended shakles

XX Snip XX

How long are the shackles that you have fitted ??

dazza85 wrote:

Chchshrek wrote:Striped rear diff head, exhaust, shackles outa the bighorn

New LSD diff head in, extended shakles

XX Snip XX

How long are the shackles that you have fitted ??

they are about 2 inchs longer, so 1 inch lift so nothing to major but it all helps.

Exhaust faught me so not in, but was starting to make mistakes so chucked it in for the night and ill sort it tommorow

stinky wrote:cooked my new rangie killed the phone think thats enough for this weekend

Is it cooked to death as in "Jerry did eggs for breakfast". Or can it be saved....

Well after 2 days of work on the truck I now have these....





Lyn grabed the camera and said that we now have a haystack like a Kenworth truck


The rest are here <--Click the link

well, finaly got round to rewiring the lux after those low lifes stole it and stuffed my loom and ignition.
bought this very porno switch panel to replace the old ignition

niblik wrote:good shit rok..

i worked on the 40... quite the novelty to work on her again..

OMG!!!!!!!!


What did you do???????

(blowing the dust off it doesn't count )

suzuki1k wrote:Well after 2 days of work on the truck I now have these....





Lyn grabed the camera and said that we now have a haystack like a Kenworth truck


The rest are here <--Click the link

Looking really good mate.. really good

Wel the plan was to put the radios in ...but i didnt have enouh time and i need some external speakers to hear them .. so ill have to get them first ( so hopefully this week)..
But went down to the hutt and comeing into Melling and my bloody slave cylinder on my clutch died so i had no clutch .. so i had to get Greekstyle to come and get me ... oredered a new slave and it will be here on Tuesday .so i can put that in for the working weekend at rallys hopefully

Finished putting new muffler on truck, much smaller and free flow, sounds heaps better and I think it goes a bit too. need to get two new tubes for the 35's after doing them last weekend.

Finished fitting spare set of leaves to the front of the cruiser along with new greasable shackles and nolethane bushes that arrived the other day.

The old shackles and bushes were stuffed, I had to persuade them out with a 10lbs sledge, angle grinder and big drill bit! I only planned to fit the better springs because the old ones are so sagged but then I found how bung the shackles were I couldn't bare to put them back in!!

Nothing like fitting new galved shackles, greasing everything and nice new nolethane bushes

I was amazed to find it had raised it 4 inches!! Looks a bit silly since I haven't done the back yet

Helped Nick and Tara13 with the removal of Nick's motor, bolted up his powersteering box.

Looked at Bubba's sorry sad assed sack of shit. Wondered why the fark he drives it, fill's everything full of mud, parks it up for a few weeks and then wonders why the starter and alternator pack a sad....

Clean the farken thing next time Bubba

Towed the half and anglia to the Vintage Car Parts Shed, they were eyeing bits up before it got off the trailer, but they were very pleased to see it.

Got the exhaust in after many swear words and effort. Should have taken it to magoos lol

Got the passengeres side of the front bar done and half grinded before it got too late, ill sort the other one in the next few day hopefully....

Lots done to the truck on the weekend, most of which you cant see, but all good.

Shrek