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Wahoo - I will start this one
my weekend started after i knocked off work... So last night i whacked together a roofrack for my cherokee Quite proud of it actually
Is an australian style one Will eventually have lights up front, have got a rear floodlight to go on, will mount my hilift jack etc

Hope to finish it today and also a cargo barrier
Just gotta go get a few bits of steel for brackets

Seems like good weather to be in the garage

restored the rear sway bar back on the safari, read with the rear bar on the front suspension moves more, find out tomorrow at woodhill

Cleaned the shed..... found a red 75 series cruiser and a white 40 series cruiser under all the junk

Sadam_Husain wrote:Cleaned the shed..... found a red 75 series cruiser and a white 40 series cruiser under all the junk

I did that last weekend and found enough stuff to build 3 complete surfs and 1/2 a 60 series cruiser, Blows you away how much shit gets stashed up.

Picked up Cruiser from Smith and Smith Glass (new windscreen, don't ask ).
Chasing a water leak coming from door pillar.
Got a new rattle, fount it. Rock on top of new exhaust....
Making some templates for Mud flaps.

Cheers
Calvin

kbushnz wrote:Picked up Cruiser from Smith and Smith Glass (new windscreen, don't ask ).
Chasing a water leak coming from door pillar.
Got a new rattle, fount it. Rock on top of new exhaust....
Making some templates for Mud flaps.

Cheers
Calvin

does it have a sunroof?, mine is leaking too and think it is from the sunroof drains.

measured up a prado 4 door for some sliders

kbushnz wrote:Picked up Cruiser from Smith and Smith Glass (new windscreen, don't ask ).
Chasing a water leak coming from door pillar.

Cheers
Calvin

those two go hand in hand, take it back and get it done again till they get it right. and dont settle for less and check all the interior linings and a piller linings when you pick it up cos they have a tendancy to damage them in the process.

My new toy turned up on a truck this morning On closer inspection its going to be an even bigger job than I first thought Chassis swap but it goes well an the air locker works Will be starting a rebuild thread soon

i friken hate welding panel steel, gona cut the rust out and get a shop to do it, should be no more then a couple hours work once the rust is out

wopass wrote:

kbushnz wrote:Picked up Cruiser from Smith and Smith Glass (new windscreen, don't ask ).
Chasing a water leak coming from door pillar.

Cheers
Calvin

those two go hand in hand, take it back and get it done again till they get it right. and dont settle for less and check all the interior linings and a piller linings when you pick it up cos they have a tendancy to damage them in the process.

Nah its not the screen, been leaking for a few years now, the Lads at Smith and Smith installed glass with sealant on all surfaces, just like the last one (lost a few screens in ten years)

Its comming from the joints just below the screen and intersection of door pillar. I can see a factory joint....If i pour water down there and not anywhere near the screen, it comes thru.


Cheers
Calvin

well we got to play in a quarry today .... something a little different The Whangarei 4wd club managed to get access to a working quarry and have a play in the tailing, spent the day cruising around the quarry faces and playing in the swamp and mud from the strippings, great fun and plenty of mud, spills and slipping and sliding down the hills



only way in



waiting at the bottom of the hill, only two ways out....


big lake or .....




hill, but it was steep wet and slippery little red Zook that couldnt, after countless attempts to get up the hill ended up having to be towed to the top.


coming down a particularly nasty little track off one of the quarry faces



Mistress went well, the twin handbrake setup we fitted last weekend made a huge difference, managed to drive out of lots of cross axle situations this time and once i get the rhr handbrake to work properly will be even more effective

Went for a drive up the Ashley River Track today..was real good..there was heaps of water & lots of signs of where the river had risen up & was running along or across the track.
River was still dirty & very high.Bits are very over grown so expect some bush rash if you go for a drive there
Only went as far as the end of the track where it finishes & joins the river bed.

Working again

My child is due tomorrow but the mother is hiding from me and it might even be here already

rokhound wrote:

Sadam_Husain wrote:Cleaned the shed..... found a red 75 series cruiser and a white 40 series cruiser under all the junk

I did that last weekend and found enough stuff to build 3 complete surfs and 1/2 a 60 series cruiser, Blows you away how much shit gets stashed up.

haha tell me about it.... starting to wonder if I've got more goodies stashed away than Sig has?

Andrew1706 wrote:Working again

My child is due tomorrow but the mother is hiding from me and it might even be here already

All the best Dad

Hate to bring the mood down in this manly forum but I wish I could say I was going to be a dad but at this stage it appears she's denying I'm the father so she can adopt it out

If it wasn't raining/dark I'd pump up the flat 35 on my 80 series and keep looking for the damn power steering leak

Sadam_Husain wrote:haha tell me about it.... starting to wonder if I've got more goodies stashed away than Sig has?

Two sheds I would like to go shopping in!

W

Fitted 2" lift springs and shocks to match into my LWB GQ.

Shocks were second hand TJM, springs were EFS.

No major problems other than the nuts on the front shocks were a major pain to get undone.

I also got a bit of a fright, one of the front springs wasn't quite seated properly and I had already lowered the jack most of the way so I grabbed the middle of the spring and gave it a yank...

Needless to say I probably won't do that again, amazing how much pressure there was given that the axle was still being half supported by the jack.

Flying visit to Chch today. In and out without being seen (or having to change any money etc )

Bit pissed with the builders but maybe its just the frigging council dicking them around. Go Selwyn!!!

Still one day we'll get there...

On a better note now I am back here on my own for a while I thought I would do the front struts tomorrow (yeah the ones I was going to do last weekend -well lets just say that my weekend didnt go well and now I have to get an insurance fix up done).

I could do with the peace and quiet for a bit now.

Serviced Auto hubs on the gq

went for a drive, found something to fix before RWC in a few weeks

a fun long day at woodhill as safety patrol, towed a navarra out the blew its master clutch cyl , did n't leave till 5.30pm waiting for a new guy

Put a new 4" lift kit in my 70series and 35" trepadors on but now i have to move my 3" exhaust alittle so tyres dont rub on full lock.

coxsy wrote:a fun long day at woodhill as safety patrol, towed a navarra out the blew its master clutch cyl , did n't leave till 5.30pm waiting for a new guy

Hi Coxsy were you with the Rodney boys today? I was talking to to one of them & you? at the water hole where the suzuki with no glass got stuck.

ah yes that was us, a few pics of the day
a fj45 cab on a swb safari chassis

the sons fj40




rodney club guy thought i could do that

went down to oamaru for the waitaki mud plug came 4th in modified class was pritty happy with that as was first event

Myself and some mates decided to go find some snow on Saturday. First went to Arthurs Pass, found bugger all ( but some arrived today apparently.. how typical ), decided to go for a drive up the Mt Cheeseman Access Road. Was one hell of a day, found the snow and am definitely going to be going back soon =)

Only 4 of the 200 plus photos we took lol

Pulled gearbox off hilux, did skids, new clutch in hilux, put gearbox back tomorrow ready for cab to go on

[quote="coxsy"]ah yes that was us, a few pics of the day
a fj45 cab on a swb safari chassis

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Nice pics coxy, looks like my 45s gona be wide with the patrol front diff What engine did it have?