Offroad-Express

Oooo ill start this one

Saturday heading to roto-vegas to do that bush safari with Off-Road NZ. Got a voucher for xmas that needs using up. Hopefully should be good with all that rain down those ways!

And monday heading up to my old mans place in Kaukapakapa for a bit of paddock bashing, should be some mud there hopefully. Or ill make some

Leading a club trip to the westcoast basing in Greymouth. Doing Mt Greenland saturday, into the Alexander powerhouse track (recently opened up) on Sunday and good old Cockeye creek for a laugh on Monday. Only 4 trucks going so minimal delays. Should be interesting.
Al

also at roto vagas saturday early start, just a day trip then home, maybe thomos sunday
40's rear diff back together, a bulkhead kit from ARB, and out of trouble

sat- price up pipe ect for snorkel
sun- hit thomos-hopefuly no pannel damage this time!
Mon-clean the wagon frm thomos

nelson till tuesday to drink piss

I thought to achieve something, you actually had to do it Just saying.....

Im sure you could wait till sunday night then say..... I tightened my wheel nuts, or polished my skid plate....

i wanted to go wheeling..

then i would work on teh fawty..

after that i wouldve flex tested..

then i'll fab some bits too..

Relatives gathering from all round the country to celebrate my 40th (maybe I should get a 40 to celebrate ), so I am doing a hangi tomorrow (pakeha hangi in a kai cooker though:mrgreen: cant be assed digging a hole). Then piss up on Sunday and if everyone buggers off early monday I'll finally replace my front shocks (had them in the back of the prado for 5 weeks now ).

lilpigzuk wrote:I thought to achieve something, you actually had to do it Just saying.....

Im sure you could wait till sunday night then say..... I tightened my wheel nuts, or polished my skid plate....

Wise words, maybe this thread should be, "HOPE TO" achievements

Well finally got my hilux home with the new motor....so tomorrow ill see if i can find somewhere to try it out

started playing around with my new zuk. fixed back lights and just brought tints over trademe so theres next weekends job

Serviced L200 and removed the carpets.
Just need some bucket seats for it now. I'm getting sick of the bench seat. For hunting its a PITA!

Serviced the Zooki as well, and tried to see why it's stalling sometimes when pulling up to lights etc. Only does it with everything on (ie radio, A/C, lights and heater fan). Couldn't see anything wrong...yet. Will keep looking.

albundy wrote:Leading a club trip to the westcoast basing in Greymouth. Doing Mt Greenland saturday, into the Alexander powerhouse track (recently opened up) on Sunday and good old Cockeye creek for a laugh on Monday. Only 4 trucks going so minimal delays. Should be interesting.
Al

Sounds good Al.
I'd like top see some pix of that when you're back.

niblik wrote:i wanted to go wheeling..

then i would work on teh fawty..

after that i wouldve flex tested..

then i'll fab some bits too..

Don't forget to let us know when you wanna head to the river bud.

Well my back managed to drop to a dull ache thanks to some pretty wicked drugs



so i managed to tag along to the Poutu run .. left Te Kopuru at 9.30 and took a quick strop down the beach to the light house, unfortunately the whale couldn't quite make it to the top under her own power and had to be snatched the last little bit. did the poser shots then explored the dunes,



some of the dunes were pretty soft

by the time we finished playing in the sand the tide had come in and we had to follow the locals formed access track that runs almost the entire length of the beach behind the dunes, most of the time a very rugged narrow track not suited for whales



only down side was i lost me nuts

fooking alloy rims, no matter how tight you do the nuts up they seem to work loose the LHF wheel managed to rip all but one nut off pinched a nut off each wheel and managed to limp though the rest of the day (maybe i should have polished them instead of getting out and playing )

Heath wrote:Relatives gathering from all round the country to celebrate my 40th (maybe I should get a 40 to celebrate ), so I am doing a hangi tomorrow (pakeha hangi in a kai cooker though:mrgreen: cant be assed digging a hole). Then piss up on Sunday and if everyone buggers off early monday I'll finally replace my front shocks (had them in the back of the prado for 5 weeks now ).

Happy Birthday cuz

hey don't look but some bugger put a big ARB sticker on the back of ya truck that badnz guy is quick isn't he
went for a drive around in roto vagas front locker works mint

Working all weekend

But it's all good, if you're in south auckland and need linen/manchester come visit us www.thesalecentre.co.nz

I'm looking at you mainly coxsy - you're the only other poor soul on this forum I know that lives in mangere

well the handbrake says it my be possible to pay you a vist this wet weekend

I was in mangere yesterday, Left new plymouth at 5am yesterday, drove to Auckland an bought some new toys
Didnt get back to new plymouth till half 11 last night after realising My new 24v 70 had blown all my 12v trailer lights except the led number plate light . Called into truckstops hamilton at 8.30pm an got the on call mechanic to get me some 24v bulbs, its good to work for a nation wide company.
I found the 70 also has some wiring issues. every now an then the temp an fuel guages would go right up altho not always together. Even tho I was towing a heavy trailer the engine wasnt getting overly hot so theres something ill need to sort soon cos it was makin me really paranoid:evil:

if you brought toys in mangere they were stolen from someelse to be sold here bro

coxsy wrote:hey don't look but some bugger put a big ARB sticker on the back of ya truck that badnz guy is quick isn't he
went for a drive around in roto vagas front locker works mint

That's track looks familar

Club trip to coast was awesome. Mt Greenland had all the good challenges and obstacles, we made it to the top without too much drama and a good amount of road building. We all had to use our winche two or four times. It was very muddy and slippery.A group behind us gave up at the mudholes.
It poured down saturday night.
Sunday we went down Snowy river road, Ikamatua, to the Alexander river to head up to the old powerhouse. Good rock hopping, river crossings, lockers and crawlers all doing their job.
Poured again last night. We snuck our noses down Staircase creek to the Upper Gray just to kill a few hours. The tight road near the slip is now definitely not a goer as part of it gave way under my tyre. The boys have made sure the bypass track is easily doable.
We deicided to bail this morning looking at the weather forecast coming in for snow on the passes. No serious damage, just some panels, snorkel hat, cb aerial, punctured tyre.
And no I didn't get pics pete as I hardly take them. Heaps of Vid got taken by pigfarmer though.
Al

started my ute chop

i managed to rip off my snorkel and convince the missus to navi the second day of the kiwi challenge in the hammering rain... turns out she had a blast and is looking for some wet weather gear

so have i lost my seat crome?
thanks for the day we should all do it again soon. Big thanks to kiwi for a grate day out kinda bumed i couldnt get up for day 2.

Well just went to Potou on sunday went from bayly's beach to pouto point. One truck out of our nine made it up to the light house, stayed at Dargaville then to Kaiwaka to my old man's farm.

Had a ball and mad some decent mud holes

also made a startling discovery, dont know why i didnt notice this earlier, but.... The 31"s i thought I had turn out to be 34"s Explains a lot to be honest.

lincooln wrote:Well just went to Potou on sunday went from bayly's beach to pouto point. One truck out of our nine made it up to the light house, stayed at Dargaville then to Kaiwaka to my old man's farm.

Had a ball and mad some decent mud holes

also made a startling discovery, dont know why i didnt notice this earlier, but.... The 31"s i thought I had turn out to be 34"s Explains a lot to be honest.

4 out of 5 of our's made it to the lighthouse ... mine being the only one that didnt whale needs to go on a diet

went up to the serpintine church from roxburgh side. Very greasy and a bit of snow
very good trip just a bit of damage to my truck

Ok, went to the top of the south winch challenge, only spectating and taking photos, lots of mud plenty of challenging sections, sunday was the best day for spectating except the weather, the sections were quite close together and very challenging, after watching how busy the winch bi#$%es were gives you a whole new respect fo them and thier position on a winch challenge team!!