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mine again had the challanger around from 9.30 till 2 pm set up the sliders on the truck tack welded , take them in to work to mig up, all done

Getting pissed off with settting up the powersteering reservoir on my hilux. Because my radiator is for manual steer have had a pipe made up to go behind the steering pump. but this is now stopping me tensioning the powersteering belt as the hose that goes to the reservoir interferes. Done for the day will look at getting some more powersteering hose tomorrow.

Finally got most of the work done on the hilux

Wheels & tyres
new rear bar
Sliders.

Almost all ready to get muddy

dropped my son into his race seat in the 40 and went for a blaze up thomos...





was a bloody nice day really

nice one wopass, how was the track

wopass wrote:dropped my son into his race seat in the 40 and went for a blaze up thomos...
was a bloody nice day really

churr......

wouldnt want to do it in a shiny on road tyres, bit cut up now with some interesting stuff at the clay climb half way up ish, met a dude and his missuz in a black safari on the way up who followed me and had no worries.

Race seat and goggles are just too cute

Andrew1706 wrote:Race seat and goggles are just too cute

yea its pretty cute, cool as when hes got the full race harness over the top of the kiddy seat harness and hes laughing his head off at stuff most people would be scared of

like going up the hard side of the summit track cos "theres more mud in it" so as any driver does i did what my navi told me to do

Yea, thought Cam must've been getting a bit to old for winch challenges.

As for me, went for a play up Pete Flemmings farm last night and lost my corner bar so went up this arvo to get it.

Replaced a-arm(thx Bolo), flipped BJ's and twisted torsion bars up a bit just enough to keep it with just a slight nose down stance. Pulled running boards, looks like a 4X4 not a family cruzer.

Will be putting SWB Safari springs in rear(thx Malfunction) over Christmas and then twisting front up to level.

Testing at Ocean Beach on Sun

Got Set to drive the hilux to the end of the drive and back. But now have clutch woes. Can only engage forward gears when motor is running, it will not go into reverse. The clutch engageswith the slightest movement of the pedal from the floor, have bled the clutch system twice. We think it needs a larger thrust bearing. There was a few to choose from for the L series motors when I bought the clutch kit. Which sucks because I don't want to have to drop the gearbox again.

nstacey wrote:Got Set to drive the hilux to the end of the drive and back. But now have clutch woes. Can only engage forward gears when motor is running, it will not go into reverse. The clutch engageswith the slightest movement of the pedal from the floor, have bled the clutch system twice. We think it needs a larger thrust bearing. There was a few to choose from for the L series motors when I bought the clutch kit. Which sucks because I don't want to have to drop the gearbox again.

There should be some adjustment somewhere, the pushrod or the ball the clutch fork pivits on should both be able to be wound out a bit with the gearbox still in place

no marty get him to pull the box again to find out he don't need too , helps him learn about toy motors

Sadam_Husain wrote:

nstacey wrote:Got Set to drive the hilux to the end of the drive and back. But now have clutch woes. Can only engage forward gears when motor is running, it will not go into reverse. The clutch engageswith the slightest movement of the pedal from the floor, have bled the clutch system twice. We think it needs a larger thrust bearing. There was a few to choose from for the L series motors when I bought the clutch kit. Which sucks because I don't want to have to drop the gearbox again.

There should be some adjustment somewhere, the pushrod or the ball the clutch fork pivits on should both be able to be wound out a bit with the gearbox still in place

Cheers Marty. but have just had a look, there is no adjustment in the pushrod and if I unwind the pivot point in the bellhousing (looking at my old one) I'm fairly certain it'll rattle loose as there is nothing to tighten it on to.

Try making a longer pushrod by 5-10mm. Use a long 6mm bolt cut to length and round ends on grinder.

Spent quality time with my wife checking the roads and directions for the Fun Rally next weekend, if you are coming you may want to check them
http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/ ... 64#p217364

Attended the Annual Whangarei A&P Summer show with the Whangarei 4wd club this weekend, first time at this advent, had a ball and a really good event to iron out any kinks/issues with the Mistress, only had one small issue and that is the electric fan isnt pulling enough airflow through the radiator, and in the hot hot conditions she was running a little hotter than i would have liked, not overheating just a few mm up the temp gauge higher than normal.



this event is pretty hard on trucks at the best of times ... two whole days sitting on the rev limiter and pushing the trucks faster and harder than normal to apeeze Joe public's vision of a 4wd.


lots of trucks on Sat .. not so many on sunday .. lots of breakages on Sunday! the Geen Zook had a electrical fault that killed it halfway though the bog



Happy to say the Zook made it though the weekend without breaking anything ... important anyway The red Zook broke a CV on Sat .. got that sorted then suffered from overheating issues, got that sorted as well then next run around sheared the front diff mounts launching out of the bowl. game over after that one



Hopefully I will regain hearing in my left ear soon *teenage girls can scream loud cant they!!*

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A few of us from Hawkes Bay (22 or so) went out and moved middle earth so we could go 4wdriving







how is that

brought a little boat
looking now for a 20-30hp outboard

spent sat with meece4x4 and the rest of our club at the whangarei summer show,broke nothing (last year smashed front diff) so rather than risk going out again on the Sunday went for a freedive and cleaned the zook when i got home...........man i love livin in the north, our coast is primo !

I spent the day at car tune working on vvega's new hilux cab. Cab has frontal impact damage and so there were alot of spot welds to drill out.

I also cut the fcuk out of his donor surf with a plasma cutter. First time using one- its the best tool ive ever used im sure. Beats the dick out of sabre saws!

-Nathan

got a wof on me truck finnished off rocksliders,lifted spare wheel carrier up to accomidate larger tires,now need to do an oil change lol never ending

nuts wrote:got a wof on me truck finnished off rocksliders,lifted spare wheel carrier up to accomidate larger tires,now need to do an oil change lol never ending

Did Nuts get some flash new feet for his Nissan?

watched my daughter in her first xmas parade yesterday

then threw some shite in the cruiser and took it for a run over the rimutakas so daughter could decorate xmas tree with granny

impressed with rebuilt motor in cruiser, pulled 5th gear all the way up the Kaitoke hill and 4th gear most of the way up the rimutakas, sweeeeet

had lots of nanna naps over the weekend, coz the parents house has comfy couches in bloody sunny spots and as if I didnt get enought rest, I'm off to bed now

zoomed up to Costa to cut in some new tracks for the Tuff Truck even got the 80s wheels dirty

Got about 1/2 way up takapari and truck started coughing and farting. Decided better to turn around and head back while all down hill just in case something major went wrong.

Parked truck back in shed and will look at what wrong another day. Hopefully just something wrong with leads or spark plugs.

SirGerald wrote:Got about 1/2 way up takapari and truck started coughing and farting. Decided better to turn around and head back while all down hill just in case something major went wrong.

Parked truck back in shed and will look at what wrong another day. Hopefully just something wrong with leads or spark plugs.

Out of the 7 truck's that started, only the 4 shiney's made it to the top!! Lesson: leave shiney run's for the shiney's!!

I cracked the top tank in the radiator 100m before SirGerald turned round!

Smurf wrote:

nuts wrote:got a wof on me truck finnished off rocksliders,lifted spare wheel carrier up to accomidate larger tires,now need to do an oil change lol never ending

Did Nuts get some flash new feet for his Nissan?

nope just couldnt fit them on wit bar work so lifted carrier

Pulled a V8 and gbox out of a commer van. Cheers to escudoboy for helping out.







Camera died after these were taken. Had to cut a hole in the roof to use chain block for final lift