Offroad-Express

Went to Ocean Beach on a shiney trip, magical day, fantastic weather, had two new trucks and people come along, good group, saw some young fools drag in some cars on the 4wd track for weekend camping and drinking , found two newish outdoor chairs in the bush and watched someone nearly die ( thanks to the ORE boys he didn't ).

Photos and a new thread to follow.

Guys and girls, I have been sailing and fishing for 35 years, spent months on boats in the Southern Ocean and Antartica, never ever turn you back on the sea, it is a swift and cruel master..........

curly12 wrote:Guys and girls, I have been sailing and fishing for 35 years, spent months on boats in the Southern Ocean and Antartica, never ever turn you back on the sea, it is a swift and cruel master..........

O so ture .

took lili out to the ashley river for a small drive. stop in at the airport then kept on the track headin up river.

only one small opps someone dug a hole for a new tree. only 1.5m deep. good thing i only lost one front wheel init.

had to use the front locker to get out of that one.

lili made me laff she said '' opps truck stuck''

spent time yesterday,fixing my power steering and adding front bull bar fixed hand brake cable and got door closing properly,found a huge hole at ashley track todays challenge

After a week of school and getting little progress preping the truck for painting, it is finally painted, by myself, and here is the final result:




turned out bloody well in my opinion, and it is the first car i have painted, no runs which im happy about.

also went down by the tannery and had some fun down there, had to christin the new paint job lmao, got it muddy, went though some places, and got stuck, then went home.

i took my mate minty and my little brother down aswell:

spending the weekend with the Mistress again

finally after a week from hell at work (and surviving a round of redundancy's) my mrs decided i needed cheering up, got home from work the other night to find a brand new gasless mig welder sitting on my chair!!! .. just gota love my mrs


Todays job was to try out the new welder, made up some fairlead brackets and miged them on, you know for a cheepy gasless welder it did a pretty good job, tried it on some panel steel, after a bit of a play arond with wire speed I managed to tack thin panel steel "to club truck standard" lol

with the fairlead fitted and wiring sorted out the XD9000 kicked into action on the Mistress, she now has a whip .. err i mean winch



the front tyres where rubbing on the inner guard so got out the BFH and massaged the inner guard a little .. decided to add a set of Buning flares to get the widened rims back in under the guards, 1 down 3 to go .. dosnt look too crappy.

MONDAY

Got 3 of the flares on, just the left front to go.
added some more bar work to the rear as i wasnt happy about the strength for the rear recovery hook
bolted down the storage bins (old steel ammo boxes)
sorted out spare wheel carrier position
finished off rear exhuast system
massaged the front inner guards 2 inches further into the cab and ground 20mm off the roll cage mounts to allow the realignment of the inner guards now the tyres only *just* rub on full lock/articulation in the front
started modifing the intake pipe so i can re-route the air filter to under the glovebox
sealed up some of the factory holes in the firewall.

took it for a strop down the tanker track ... angry fast

well saturdat at 930am i brought a yzf 426 motocross bike at 3pm saturday i was taken to hospital a dam log jumped out in front of me down the beach lol
so a broken wrist and strained tendons in my hip and pelvis and a long boring night in hospital
i dont think ill br doing anny 4x4 or bike riding for a while lol

well saturdat at 930am i brought a yzf 426 motocross bike at 3pm saturday i was taken to hospital a dam log jumped out in front of me down the beach lol
so a broken wrist and strained tendons in my hip and pelvis and a long boring night in hospital

Poor guy, I just got done with a torn bicep, only 2 1/2 weeks in a cast. Dam post hole diggers

did the ashley track which is very had packed and tame at the mo and shot up the okuku, its carrying a good amount of water at the mo, pretty quick flowing but nice and clean so you can still pick out the rocks. Was a good day.

zookfest wrote:spent time yesterday,fixing my power steering and adding front bull bar fixed hand brake cable and got door closing properly,found a huge hole at ashley track todays challenge

saw a few of your play holes out there yesterday had a bit of a play in some

I got the rear and side bars mounted on the mutt. Also ran cable diverters for the centre mount winch, mounted the solenoid pack inside the rear 1/4 panel, redid one of the coil over mounts as I didn't think it was strong enough, chopped up the seat rails to make the new ones for the Monza seats, and then sat back and looked at it and decided there is shit loads left to do

managed to replace the diff head in the 40

made up a new brake line and fitted that

went round to fj40s to see what he was doing with winch

it was decided we head back to my work to use the parts wash

while there we bled the rear brakes up just need to fill the diff with oil now and have a play without breaking it

Well so far a very eventful weekend ....went to Ocean Beach, help rescue a kid, then while driving over the rimatukas home a strange rattle appeared.......best turn her off and got towed home turns out big ends gone, then cause i can i done this.......how many of us remember doing this to the valiant/falcon/holden?????


and yes i did put the other pair on.........going for a play in the morning

well went to see allmud in hospital he looked wasted and today fitted a snorkle to the zuk took the winch off went to safripetes workshop gave it a good clean out not going back on the zuk so will be for sale soon

well i went to that hole to give it a go,ended up bad as i smashed the windscreen lost my indicator,ripped the winch off the front of the truck,broke the mounts on the actual winch,and lots of pannel damage,so lots to fix then back to the hole for round 2

zookfest wrote:well i went to that hole to give it a go,ended up bad as i smashed the windscreen lost my indicator,ripped the winch off the front of the truck,broke the mounts on the actual winch,and lots of pannel damage,so lots to fix then back to the hole for round 2

ouch
and here i was thinkin i should of pm you so i coud have come out again.

got any pics

not a weekend achivement, but how cool would this be to have a blast around on

zookfest wrote:well i went to that hole to give it a go,ended up bad as i smashed the windscreen lost my indicator,ripped the winch off the front of the truck,broke the mounts on the actual winch,and lots of pannel damage,so lots to fix then back to the hole for round 2

is it strange that none of that surprises me? Lucky you know a friendly windscreen man, whats that number 4 or 5?

had some of the sinda club over this weekend
awsome time and good folks to bash arround with

went to do tailings the first day the escarpment mine as well as others and up to mount fredrick second day and some split and did seddonville tracks (winches essential) and now at bennets farm playing in the holes broken carden joints ... cv,s x2 pannell damage 2 name a few

all in all and exellent weekend thanx 4 a gr8 time people

had a paj turn up with a stuffed rockers (broken) thanx to pajmad for the parts 2 get him going again

almost forgot 2 write had a toyota get stuck in me drive how the heck he got thru tailings
until next time keep on truckin

Got the motor sitting in my hilux so thats the hard part done.

Went for a cruise up to Rallywoods today and found Taz01 playing in the mud







That "little" mudhole is getting really deep now....

went for a drive down to to minganiui camped the weekend two days of 4wd, satarday morning woke to -3


ended up diff scrapping diffs for awhile



, sunday did part hydro rd did a bit of digging to get the chalanger through


two winchs to get it off the bank, then the jeepers caught up
and then we left them behind
on the way home monday stopped to check the 40's oil DJ turned up , great to catch up and chat thanks

Went to Pureora with Jafa, Bulletproof and Taranaki crew (with a few CCVC addons)
Jafa fell in a bit of a hole.......typical!

bloody hell thats worse than at Gwavas!!! hope you all had a good trip!

went into rallywoods on fri nite, did the usual drinking, was great to catch up with everyone again, and meet new poeple too.... you know who i mean lol!

thats some hole there jaffa.

Took my truck down to Taupo for a CD excercise. Mission in itself getting my mates to finish the barwork, but got there in the end (11pm) ended up sleeping in the truck cos i couldnt be assed setting up the tent, was actually pretty good

Ended up winning the 4WD bit of the course (which was pretty tame) I think he was impressed with my High lift jack
then used the winch to put tension on a real basic zip line that we setup. all good fun, and learnt heaps!

then today took my brother to the airport, and on the way back the rear drum started squealing something horrible, and oozing black goo (I assume its brake fluid and gunk) so will need to pull that all apart and have a looksee. lucky I got a full spare rearend with everything attatched and the locker in that I might just swap it all over.

Well i popped my devils gate cherry around red rocks today. Ive owned the hilux for over a year now and had never been out to red rocks...

was a good day until i saw a group of idiots hanging on to the side of a terrano doing about 40ks down on the beach...I was just waiting for something to happen!

but all in all it was a good day!!!

I was there too with a mate who just bought a MWB landcruiser (his first 4wd), he now has his first 'got real stuck' under his belt Had to pull him out of the river in reverese, only took 3 snatch pulls so wasn't too bad. Still gave him sh1t though

So where abouts was that creek that jaffa was in at Pureora looks like Bogin ford or Piripiri ford