Offroad-Express

Well spent today getting the Whale ready for it's north Island trip, replaced the panhard Rod bushes, my god what a frigging mission getting the old rubber ones out, ended up having to drill 10 or so holes down the side of the rubber so we could press them out even then our 6 ton bottle jack was struggling.

drives like a new truck now .. no shimmy/wobble or vibration all the way up to and past 100 kph happy happy joy joy.

also did.
oil change
filters
greased all 40 million nipples

oh did this mod to one of my el cheapo twin pack PRS radio's the radio's are great but chew the AAA batteries so decided to modify one to run on USB as it works out to the same voltage/amps, added a 3 way cigarette adapter to the top of the dash and now i can just plug the PRS into a spare USB charger and run it off that when in the cab and use the other unmodified one when out of the truck.

plumped up my remote air intake for the arb pump, pick up more tube and ferrules off enzed, free, due to his stuffup last sat

Removed the standard rear bumpers off my 70 series and started to make the new rear bar, also mounted the spare in the back of my truck instead of the rear door, and finished off the winch bar on my 40.

Pulled the standard steering set up off the Hilux.Test fit high steer .re assembled steering.get arms back from crack testing next week.Getting excited now.

Finished the snorkel on my bj73, then went to palmy with a mate to check out a bj40

Cut and polish the patrol, welded a bracket onto the bull bar to mount my uhf aerial, gave inside of patrol good clean to.

Fitted higher output alternator to the Mitsy ute.

Found that the waterpump is now leaking, when I was under the truck fitting the alt.

road trip to rotovegas for RWC2010

awsome weekend

had to stop 3 times on way home to fix 80 but made it allright

first break down was a bit of worry when you're half up a mountain with nobody around

Picked up my new rims from KATS 15x8 white spokes, good price although my tyres were well out of balance not sure what caused it, i put one new 33x12.5x15 maxxis mudder on one rim and the amount of weight needed to balance it was quite acceptable but the others OMG one took 200g on the outside and 130g inside. the others were around the 130g outside and 50g inside WTF
Also managed to bend the rear driveshaft on saturday afternoon
Started pulling the gearbox out this afternoon to do the rear main seal.
Not a real good weekend on the whole

skid wrote:road trip to rotovegas for RWC2010

awsome weekend

had to stop 3 times on way home to fix 80 but made it allright

first break down was a bit of worry when you're half up a mountain with nobody around

what a day for a drive up the mountains, looks farkin good up there

went for a drive, did some Phaat skids

chrome wrote:

skid wrote:

what a day for a drive up the mountains, looks farkin good up there

COOL!!!
heading up the other mountain (Egmont) next Thirsday ...hope it looks like that

Went for a blast around my old mans paddock in Kaukapakapa just north of Auckland.... was only in for about 2mins when i got stuck... there was a bloody big tree stump or something just under the surface that ground me to a halt and couldnt get out, the mud was too think and heavy.... was stranded for 4 hours haha
try and get some more pics later