Offroad-Express

thought I'd start this one off early.

In prep for the weekend I spent 5 hours in the garage last night Rebuilt the startor motor, started the old girl which was an instant motivation booster to say the least especially hearing the 8 sing into life Did the battery bracket and then wired in the winch. Wired in the fans but need a solinoid for those and some more wire.

Wheres the best place to get lots of cheap wire and solinoids?

Jaycar maybe? Not sure if you have one down there

mike wrote:Wheres the best place to get lots of cheap wire and solinoids?

My garage I have a couple of 12v ones that are no good for me.....

just packing up to head to southland for duckshooting

pretty wet down that way so could be interesting.

rangimotors wrote:just packing up to head to southland for duckshooting

pretty wet down that way so could be interesting.

Most maimai's are either still underwater or now out at sea!!!

Not to mentions there are now 20x the number of ponds....

And the ships in the harbour have an alert out to watch for baleage floating in the water... Unfortunately this was alot of winter feed for us

NJV6 wrote:

rangimotors wrote:just packing up to head to southland for duckshooting

pretty wet down that way so could be interesting.

Most maimai's are either still underwater or now out at sea!!!

Not to mentions there are now 20x the number of ponds....

And the ships in the harbour have an alert out to watch for baleage floating in the water... Unfortunately this was alot of winter feed for us

Farmers eh! Moan there is no water and then they moan there is too much...

Kidding mate hope it all pans out. Hope the theiving bastards selling feed dont do what they did to my folks in Taupo (hay went up 400%), when there was a shortage there. I hope they get their rain in a more "controlled" fashion then you guys.

went for a quick drive this evening...........

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got a 4wd meeting to go to tomorrow if the weather is shite, otherwise I'm gonna smash a little white ball round grass

sunday seems to be the day I should really look into all my boxes from when I moved a month or so ago and find out where everything is seeing as how a few folks want to borrow things and get thier own stuff back

Just changed over to the muds and got all packed up and redid the intake pipe on the zuk. Now its all ready for tomorrow.

Well, I have been putting off changing my oil as I was worried about getting a few drips on the new concrete driveway. This morning I decided that I had better full finger and just do it and I'd just put an old cover down incase a little got away on me.
















Needed a bigger cover.

































Turns out the 20L bucket I grabbed had a sneaky crack in the bottom. I pulled the bung and went and put the kettle on. Came back a few mins later to that

Hose doesn't reach that part of the house either

At least degreaser is on special. Farkin cracked me up though. No need to worry about bloody drips anymore.

Taz wrote:Well, I have been putting off changing my oil as I was worried about getting a few drips on the new concrete driveway. This morning I decided that I had better full finger and just do it and I'd just put an old cover down incase a little got away on me.................
At least degreaser is on special. Farkin cracked me up though. No need to worry about bloody drips anymore.

Christened!! Bugger

lincooln wrote:Just changed over to the muds and got all packed up and redid the intake pipe on the zuk. Now its all ready for tomorrow.

Don't forget to pack ya lights too. Will be good in the dark
I'm just hoping my diff locks in. Last trip for a while, got to catch up on the chores i been putting off. The hassles of 4wdin' every weekend for the last month. At least tomorrow an't gunna be about truck preservation.....cv's about ready to blow....makin horrid noises on Thompsons last weekend. All good, as i haven't put a spanner near it for months.

Cheers.

Picked up another surf tonight to chuck the body on the v8.
Duckshooting tomorrow.
Work on the Hilux Sunday.

sibainmud wrote:

lincooln wrote:Just changed over to the muds and got all packed up and redid the intake pipe on the zuk. Now its all ready for tomorrow.

Don't forget to pack ya lights too. Will be good in the dark
I'm just hoping my diff locks in. Last trip for a while, got to catch up on the chores i been putting off. The hassles of 4wdin' every weekend for the last month. At least tomorrow an't gunna be about truck preservation.....cv's about ready to blow....makin horrid noises on Thompsons last weekend. All good, as i haven't put a spanner near it for months.

Cheers.

Yea I got new battery for my torch and well thats it really. Just got my head lights and my brother to help navigate.

Not that that is any help.

SO you got spare cv's to put in at dinner then?

cheers

lincooln wrote:

sibainmud wrote:

lincooln wrote:Just changed over to the muds and got all packed up and redid the intake pipe on the zuk. Now its all ready for tomorrow.

Don't forget to pack ya lights too. Will be good in the dark
I'm just hoping my diff locks in. Last trip for a while, got to catch up on the chores i been putting off. The hassles of 4wdin' every weekend for the last month. At least tomorrow an't gunna be about truck preservation.....cv's about ready to blow....makin horrid noises on Thompsons last weekend. All good, as i haven't put a spanner near it for months.

Cheers.

Yea I got new battery for my torch and well thats it really. Just got my head lights and my brother to help navigate.

Not that that is any help.

SO you got spare cv's to put in at dinner then?

cheers

I'll go round there in 2wd first! might be more fun
I was thinkin of not even packing the tools.
After all it an't far away from my workshop.
Haven't even washed truck since Thompsons....poor girl, suffering from neglect

Yea it does look a bit unloved compared to when you first bought it

Well its meant to shower tomorrow , fingers crossed. But I will believe it when I see it.

lincooln wrote:Yea it does look a bit unloved compared to when you first bought it

Well its meant to shower tomorrow , fingers crossed. But I will believe it when I see it.

I love my truck.........
It just a bit crinckled now....that's all. Well it an't got a straight panel left except for the bonnet. Seems a shame to cut a hole in it for the intercooler. Thanks to all the trees that have kept me the right way up

Well see you out there Simon, what time you looking at arriving there?

Have a good weekend all

sold my Isuzu Vehicross and brought a Alfa Romeo 2nyt as the daily driver, now saving some cash to buy a 4x4 that i can actualy get marked up

went for a drive up my favorite hunting spot 10 oclock last night bit wet only made it half way up the narrow track its pretty steep just as well there was a turn around 100mt back fun ride back down drove the road for a pig dogs havn a bit of a sniff be back this arvo for another crack

Yesterday i got the vining and the certing finalised on my samurai so its now got the warrent sticker on the windscreen and the low volume cert plate on the fire wall im so stoked.Today i mounted my warn 8274

Had a good look over the new toy today, confirmed that it has rear LSD and the PTO winch worked, (Mrs wouldnt let me hook it up to the car in front at the auctions to test it ) took the Muds off the Bighorn and tried the rims on the whale, lol big offset difference so off to the tyre shop to get them swapped over once the Savero's have had it.

spent today fitting front tow hooks, fire ext and other club required stuff, just have to make up a bracket to replace the factory U tow hook with a rated one.

been pretty slack lately.finally managed to pick up my new(to me) LJ71 prado for my next project .hopefully tomorrow work on the 80 and replace the rear discs,shoes and pads plus remove the extended drop box off the rear panhard ready for the next warrant.HOPEFULLY .Then head over to the nui to pick up my boy and his scout mates from the rimutaka forest park after their tramp into the orongorongos ,with a stop into CHROMES cave to have a bit of a chinwag.then think about the 40 so i can get it ready for its yearly queens birthday trip to dave hintzs farm in taihape to throw a bit(okay a lot) of mud and have another go at his possum problem

sig wrote:.hopefully tomorrow work on the 80 and replace the rear discs,shoes and pads plus

if you manage to pull this off and adjust your handbrake up easy enough

you may well have a job on your hands

clear the driveway dude

mudslut wrote:Yesterday i got the vining and the certing finalised on my samurai so its now got the warrent sticker on the windscreen and the low volume cert plate on the fire wall im so stoked.Today i mounted my warn 8274

pictures or it never happened

Went on the day/night run to Woodhill. Had an awesome time and still didn't break anything. Thats now 10+ runs and 20+ trips on the farm for the auto hubs and they are still perfectly quiet.

Cheers
Lincoln

sibainmud wrote:

sibainmud wrote:

lincooln wrote:
Don't forget to pack ya lights too. Will be good in the dark
I'm just hoping my diff locks in. Last trip for a while, got to catch up on the chores i been putting off. The hassles of 4wdin' every weekend for the last month. At least tomorrow an't gunna be about truck preservation.....cv's about ready to blow....makin horrid noises on Thompsons last weekend. All good, as i haven't put a spanner near it for months.

Cheers.

Yea I got new battery for my torch and well thats it really. Just got my head lights and my brother to help navigate.

Not that that is any help.

SO you got spare cv's to put in at dinner then?

cheers

I'll go round there in 2wd first! might be more fun
I was thinkin of not even packing the tools.
After all it an't far away from my workshop.
Haven't even washed truck since Thompsons....poor girl, suffering from neglect

Well I jinks myself.....cv's still good, but broke second front diff. Spent most of the afternoon and all night rocking around in 2wd

Parked on a tree stump at 10kmh and bent gearbox cross member and moved engine and gearbox back about 2 inchs. Bugger




Oh well got some serious repairs to do now

meece4x4 wrote:just have to make up a bracket to replace the factory U tow hook with a rated one.

Check the patrol forum about that. Needs a bit of strengthenin apparently. I'm still getting away with a tow hook tounge, but I'm pulling it off soon so will do one on each chassis rail and a drop tounge (when needed) from that loop spot. Tow bar is HARD to bend, but not impossible.

Good buy btw. LWB is mad handy. You will sleep 4 in the back easy, if they are also easy.

Smurf wrote:Christened!! Bugger

The Landrover christened the other side a week ago so its progress I guess! Degreaser has damaged the surface and the house is on the market in 2 weeks so who cares. Rubber matts cure all

Taz wrote:
Check the patrol forum about that. Needs a bit of strengthenin apparently. I'm still getting away with a tow hook tounge, but I'm pulling it off soon so will do one on each chassis rail and a drop tounge (when needed) from that loop spot. Tow bar is HARD to bend, but not impossible.

cheers for that Taz ... thought as much, might just resort to a shackle though the towbar mount for now which our club apparently accepts as a rated tow hook.

Good buy btw. LWB is mad handy. You will sleep 4 in the back easy, if they are also easy.

Yeah always loved the whales just couldn't justify the $6500-8500 price the older ones are still going for, saw this one come up at turners with a $3500-$4500 estimate and thought what the hell, got it for just over $4000 so am pretty happy, even the passenger window and sunroof works! pretty tidy for age (1988) and K's (234 000) cant find any signs of rust apart from a little surface rust in the sunroof and the only mechanical issue I can find is the slave cylinder needs replacing and the clutch needs bleeding (apparently a common and b*tch of a job in GQ's) so changing gears requires a little pause and a double clutch to get in first and second .. no biggie at the moment , reminds me of driving my father-in-laws old TK Bedford

whenmy slave cyl died, brought two cheap enough, carry a spare now, that rear hook thing is to weak to mount a hook there, the rear x member on mine has 6mm bent outward in it,oh
crawl under ye truck and grease up the pto cable now to stop water and mud getting in,
my weekends work so far

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