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Posted: **Sat Jul 03, 2010 4:40 pm**

Picked up some clutch cable boots, fitted them to the pto morse cable on the safari to stop water and dirt jamming up the thing
also got some fittings off enzed to move the air filter on the ARB pump to a less wet area of engine bay,

and old battery box in the 40 got removed then it died with bugger all spark at the plugs

have to add repco ," everything a auto store should be'
new condenser here on monday :shock:

Posted: **Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:08 pm**

Cut boat anchor of a muffler out and replaced with striaght pipe, only has one small muffler now and the terrano sounds and goes like it should. What a difference it made!

Next on the list, buy EGT and boost guage and add a bit more fuel and boost.

Posted: **Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:20 pm**

Burnt out the clutch on my 80 :roll:

Posted: **Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:31 pm**

Removed winch bar and damaged right front guard from Thompson's last weekend :twisted:

Panel beat right front, and fitted new second hand guard.
Tomorrow, jack mounting points of bar and beat it back into shape, service winch and see how far I get putting the bastard back together again :lol:

Do the ground work to fit intercooler and bonnet scoop.
Rebuild front suspension......again :evil:

Ready to break next trip.

Posted: **Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:49 pm**

Went thomos today, only lost my charging system got a few pics, not good quality they taken on the phone

its a good way to spend a sat arvo

Posted: **Sat Jul 03, 2010 9:52 pm**

92 safari 17 wrote:Went thomos today,
its a good way to spend a sat arvo

or a friday night

Posted: **Sun Jul 04, 2010 2:41 am**

fixed my alternator // got really really shitfaced // is fuckenh mean
night #####

Posted: **Sun Jul 04, 2010 12:39 pm**

International Rally of Whangarei this weekend, so as usual we had the Whangarei 4x4 club down at Pohe Island entertaining the crowd while they waited for the rally cars to come back from the stages.

this year we had a nice little wet muddy time trials track set up, Had an enjoyable day trashing around in the Water and mud as fast as we could go, for some reason DAN kept sliding into the next gate when it was my turn to race. I managed to beat him once (only cause he conked out 20 meters from the finish line) was still ahead of him though :twisted:

didnt get many photos as some dipstick forgot to put the cf card in the camera :oops:

and it only holds 3 photos on internal memory.

heres Dan (Dr PC) and Me squaring off on one of the drags.

water was a big problem all day with the petrol powered trucks ... lost a rangie early in the day from water and a Feroza was about >< close to hydrolicing from the water

going to take me days to clean the truck out as pohe island was once a rubbish tip and the dirt they cowered it over with is the dredging out of the whangarei harbor ... stinks like you wouldn't believe :shock:

Posted: **Sun Jul 04, 2010 2:06 pm**

trying to find an engine that isnt worth 3k, fcuk toyota engines are $$$$ :evil:

anybody got a good deal?

Posted: **Sun Jul 04, 2010 2:19 pm**

what happen to yours :?:

Posted: **Sun Jul 04, 2010 2:40 pm**

nufin, but its time for the repower, funds are allowing me to look into it seriously now

Posted: **Sun Jul 04, 2010 3:41 pm**

what ya wana put in there?should be able to get a reasonable conversion for under 2k,commy?seen a couple on tm lately cheap

Posted: **Sun Jul 04, 2010 4:03 pm**

muddyhilux wrote:what ya wana put in there?should be able to get a reasonable conversion for under 2k,commy?seen a couple on tm lately cheap

yea i was exagerating a bit, but majority of the 1kz's are selling for mid 2.5k, alot a those are from business's though. Just at this point and time there isnt alot of private sales on trdeme at the mo.
depending on what comes up at the right price..
1kz
3l then il bolt a turbo on
3rz or
comy.

ide like a 3rz but then for offroad use im thinking a turbo diesel might be more practical, them 1kz have good power.

Posted: **Sun Jul 04, 2010 6:19 pm**

well painted and fitted my bar that i got off rokhound
and fitted up my spotties happy with result just need to get pto now

Posted: **Sun Jul 04, 2010 6:58 pm**

Ok this weekend, 90% finished my new flat deck on the hilux.
Went out to the selwyn with a group of people today, was a passenger in my mates F250, went well till it broke the right front driveshaft, snapped the universal yoke in two :lol:

That shortened the day up for us!
Came home and took the hilux out, went up the ashley, used the winch for the first time properly since it was fitted last weekend, works well

Posted: **Sun Jul 04, 2010 7:39 pm**

meece4x4 wrote:Had an enjoyable day trashing around in the Water and mud as fast as we could go, for some reason DAN kept sliding into the next gate when it was my turn to race. I managed to beat him once (only cause he conked out 20 meters from the finish line) was still ahead of him though

didnt get many photos as some dipstick forgot to put the cf card in the camera and it only holds 3 photos on internal memory.

That dipstick must have been at my place as well he/she forgot to put the camera in the truck so even less photos

I was quite happy took out the 4 cycl time trials, lost the 6 cycl by 1 second and the 8 cycl group by 3 seconds

Posted: **Sun Jul 04, 2010 7:47 pm**

Dr_PC wrote:
I was quite happy took out the 4 cycl time trials, lost the 6 cycl by 1 second and the 8 cycl group by 3 seconds

I know I was 2nd in the 4cyl class behind you but i cant read/understand the rest of the errr "results" .. you got a list of the times handy??

Posted: **Sun Jul 04, 2010 8:09 pm**

at last finsihed my turbo conversion on the saf,well happy should of been done a long time before all my other mods,still got alot a wana do next is pro locker,arb ,or chinese one,the list goes on,
vince

Posted: **Sun Jul 04, 2010 8:28 pm**

save up buy ARB ones, china ones break easier

Posted: **Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:36 pm**

put paint around the front suspension the other day and put it all back in today..

Posted: **Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:29 am**

meece4x4 wrote:
Dr_PC wrote:
I was quite happy took out the 4 cycl time trials, lost the 6 cycl by 1 second and the 8 cycl group by 3 seconds

I know I was 2nd in the 4cyl class behind you but i cant read/understand the rest of the errr "results" .. you got a list of the times handy??

Nope found out that Tor took the 6 cycl and Ken the 8 from Darrin before I left

Posted: **Mon Jul 05, 2010 10:39 am**

Went climbing out at Flock Hill on Saturday so didn't get much done to the trucks but stuck a set of 31" muds onto the 60 series instead of the 7x16 crossply skinnies, looks much better. Also went a bit mad in the sun and took the roof back off the FJ40, it's so much more fun without it, bit chilly coming into work this morning though :shock:

Spent some time on TM looking for bits for the turbo conversion on the 3b in the 60 and most importantly got the ORE sticker onto the back window :mrgreen:

Oh and spent some time getting excited about the Hanmer mudplug.

Posted: **Mon Jul 05, 2010 10:59 am**

Got an odd wave of motivation last night and started my drawers for the back of my 80:

The gap is for a sub box, big vehicle needs big sounds

Will be finishing it off today, also my replacement rear ring and pinion turned up and about to shoot off to toyota to get my new exhaust manifold gasket :mrgreen:

Posted: **Mon Jul 05, 2010 12:07 pm**

Managed to put two new dents in the LWB Prado.
At this rate I will be cutting its backside off sooner than planned :twisted:

`
I am sure those pine trees in the Woodhill park don't like us when we are on Saftey Patrol.
But then we do tend to play in the Red tracks :mrgreen:

Calvin

Posted: **Mon Jul 05, 2010 5:40 pm**

i found a really fast way to make your front leaf springs "s" shaped
fark :oops:

Posted: **Mon Jul 05, 2010 7:55 pm**

But you only put 3L of petrol in your truck stu :lol:

Posted: **Mon Jul 05, 2010 7:58 pm**

Time for coils then stu :mrgreen:

Posted: **Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:10 pm**

Fakey wrote:Time for coils then stu

Posted: **Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:27 pm**

chrome wrote:i found a really fast way to make your front leaf springs "s" shaped
fark

That's a rear spring up front ah? Looks like you took out the wrong leaf when you reduced it to a 3 pack

Posted: **Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:13 pm**

yer thats a learning curve right there

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