Offroad-Express

well my weekend started this evening when I went to gas up the 80 for the weekend trips.
Driving down the road I noticed the dash lights looked dim, so a few more looks around the gauges revealed my worst nightmare, one that I had been waiting for since the swimming episode.

You guessed it, the Alternator has crapped out, so turn everything off except the lights I need, get gas, go to supermarket then off to mates house to pull alt out and see whats wrong.

ITS FUKT, burnt out diodes etc etc, beyond repair in a hurry

Out with the phone to start calling everyone in Welly to see who's got a spare, don't be stupid, who the hell is gonna have a spare Alt for an 80 the night before you are going on a trip

So we shoot out the Hutt to check out a few options, none of which will work, so sadly the 80 is sitting at my mates going nowhere for a few days.

Not to worry, coz another mate had kindly offered the use of his surf for my wheeling, so we picked that up and chewed the fat for hours whilst checking out all the cool stuff in his shed and have only just got home now.

Tomorrow its round the south coast for a drive/fish/bbq, then up to Rallywoods for the evening and help out track clearing on sunday

Its awesome how the 4wd community reach out to help when they can

See ya all out there

SKID

skid wrote:You guessed it, the Alternator has crapped out, so turn everything off except the lights I need, get gas, go to supermarket then off to mates house to pull alt out and see whats wrong.

who the hell is gonna have a spare Alt for an 80 the night before you are going on a trip

This is becoming a bit of a habbit?

Got up this morning looked at the old whale sitting there all lonesome and with a square looking tyre! ah well new tube,ahh up early and into work.Chopping the back guards on Marmels Saf and a wee spot of rust to attend too.Then porbably start beating the white whale.Go catch up with DA RAM sundey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzKxaA7Ze54

Extractors fitted, still just a L200 though.....

wopass wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzKxaA7Ze54

sounds like a friggen tractor, should thrown a rover in there

Only need to set up the wheel bearings, refit the pto cable, run the locker line this weekend

fitted new steering damper to the Whale and moved the "slightly out-round" tyre to the rear, wow what a difference

fiddled with teh slave cylinder now have no clutch all i did was pull the boot back and push the piston back a bit to check for leaks .. clutch pushes to the floor with little or no pressure now but still comes back up, must have sucked in some air when i pushed the piston back .. new slave cylinder time meece thinks

top it all off got a killer of a kidney infection so feel like absolute crap

*edit*
Mrs picked up the new slave cyl from BNT for me and fitted it noticed that previous owner may have contaminated the original brake fluid with oil! striped the master cyl and cleaned it out, flushed the line and fitted new slave cyl, gravity bled it and tested ... yay now have a clutch that doesn't engage on the floor boards .. still a little stiff to get into second when cold so i'm picking the sincro's may be on the way out but she'll do for now.

wopass wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzKxaA7Ze54

Yeeaaa boi! Haha sounds awesome.

Been trying to fix the locker/compressor in the prado this morning. No luck so far. Have taken the compressor out and it works on a battery so gonna rip all the wiring out now. Thought I might aswell fit an airtank while I'm mucking around so waiting for a few replies on trademe. Also waiting for the neighbour to bring his tractor up so I can lift the old body off the Hilux.

skid wrote:





Not to worry, coz another mate had kindly offered the use of his surf for my wheeling, so we picked that up and chewed the fat for hours whilst checking out all the cool stuff in his shed and have only just got home now.

Tomorrow its round the south coast for a drive/fish/bbq, then up to Rallywoods for the evening and help out track clearing on sunday




SKID

Thought Nana had one??

Stay out of any river Skid...............


Pedro

got the front axle back together , now have problem with the arb compressor, ie wiring or a leak, tomorrows job
and switchs fitted in to the 40 for locker control done as well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9ohq4TTxTQ

im about to head out for some wheeling, will take some pics we going to a customers farm....

should be interesting, he has a LWB safari with 6 inch lift, his mate has a IFS hilux with Lexus and 8 inch front diff conversion, my old zuk may even be out there

is such an achievement just to get to get dirty with the cruiser

wopass wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9ohq4TTxTQ

Sweet

Sounds real nice - a day light vid would be good, this one was alot like the movie "Close Encounters of the 3rd kind"

Thought I might aswell fit an airtank

what size air tank are you looking for? as Im about to have a clean out

a leak around preessure switch found sealed, locker ect up and running

finished making deck liner in the now Hilux ute, looks bloody good, plenty a space for the spare and a tool box and recovery gear and still with a heap a space inside behind the seats for dry storage, just needs to be sealed and painted

coxsy wrote:a leak around preessure switch found sealed, locker ect up and running

twin locked now Coxsy?

dropped the radiator on the Mistress and tightened up the steering box bolts, two of them were halfway out and the other one was less than finger tight, wondered why it was wandering all over the place at the last club champs, for some reason the turning circle is way way better now

went for a ride with mr BADNUZ in his 80 on a customers farm block out himatangi

dam trademe been getting a hammering searching for another 4wd

yes, maybe sometime turbo the thing as well

as pete said went for a leisurely cruise around a customers farm block, totally wicked day out mostly sand dune stuff with some wicked forestry bits as well... the BFG on the cruiser hooked up well in the sand which was great!
i forgot to take the camera

didnt do anything to do with 4x4 but went to a trail ride in cheviot what a carnage full weekend watching everyone fall off in the mud it was so knarly,clay+rain=friction

although quite a few cars utes and vans were struggling to leave up the muddy hill at the end of the day

had a bay of islands club run had a blast in the first mud for about 6 months.

new2zukes wrote:had a bay of islands club run had a blast in the first mud for about 6 months.

oohhhhh mud!!! lucky bast*rds

meece4x4 wrote:

new2zukes wrote:had a bay of islands club run had a blast in the first mud for about 6 months.

oohhhhh mud!!! lucky bast*rds

Mud was good, truck looking very brown/clay coloured now instead of yellow. I see a visit to mates truck yard with BIG hose in very near future.

Also the picture above with all the smoke while stuck in the swamp suggests some time in the shed doing some engine work