Offroad-Express

I washed my wagon……well a little more than washed.
I went to wash-world for a full underbody blast with the engine wash stuff and hot soapy blast rinse off. Then it was home for some real cleaning!!
Tyres scrubbed including inner sidewalls.
Rims polished with metal polish and buffed including chrome wheel nuts.
Whole body washed down with wax shampoo and rinsed thoroughly then chamosied dry.
Hand buffed with lambswool buffing pad.
Windows polished and new Rain-off applied to windscreen.
Now to do the inside !!
Mats out and seat covers off
Thorough vacuum including all the corners and hard to get to places using the variety of nozzel attachments for the vacuum cleaner.
A wipe of all vinal surfaces with a good cleaning solution then a coat of Armour-all and hand buffed.
Seat covers washed and refitted.
Then a good polish of the inside of the windows.
A quick coat of silicone on the tyres and it looks GREAT !!!!

Overdue maintenance day. Out with the disc-grinder to clean out a couple of rusty bits ready for the panel-beater to weld up next week for a WOF. Then used a whole tube of silicone around the roof seams to try to plug up a few leaky bits. Time will tell..... Underneath to check fluids - gearbox & transfer case & front diff oil nice & clean, with a hint of water in the rear diff. A pleasant surprise since I've been playing is some pretty deep water over the last few weeks. Then a couple of pumps of grease into everything, clean out & re-adjust the rear brake drums. All ready for more abuse again....

went to play in ashley river with cock flopper surpralux only happened once
rik

Finally did something 4wd related on a weekend that didnt involve just driving it.

Put one free wheeling hub on the right side of the surf. Now I can swap to 4wd at the flick of a switch instead of replacing a blank drive flange. This allowed me to do some more invistigation into what is causing my mysterious noise up front. When the wheel hits a bump such as a cat eye a nice vibration comes on(only noticeable when the hub is engaged) and disapears when the brakes are applied heavily. I believe I have tracked it down to a loose brake pad caused by a siezed cylinder. I will pull it apart maybe next weekend and confirm. If so it will have been a strange one thats for sure. The locker seems to be working and disengaging fine.

Mike

I bent my guard some more against a tree when crawling up some rocks up the Mak, It was run though !!!!

absolutly nothing.. but eat drink and be merry...

saturday...plasma cut a whole heap of rust out of my windscreen recess then tacked another patch in place then out came the bog sanded it back and its ready for window to go back in...

sunday... went snowboarding at Mt Dobson, looking forward to the season

how was dobson man??? season aint far away at all

mmmmm skiing

Did fark all, legend person "rotazuk" finished a job for me that I had trouble getting round too - pulling body of Discovery. Means I can get the rest out of his garage and he can carry on with next project!!.

Spent saturday moving wood to the woodshed and sunday on the truck. Pulled the left hand half shaft apart to service the CV's and put on a new inner boot and found a bent tie rod. straightened it and put it all back together. Messy day in grease.
Al

simono wrote:I washed my wagon……well a little more than washed.
I went to wash-world for a full underbody blast with the engine wash stuff and hot soapy blast rinse off. Then it was home for some real cleaning!!
Tyres scrubbed including inner sidewalls.
Rims polished with metal polish and buffed including chrome wheel nuts.
Whole body washed down with wax shampoo and rinsed thoroughly then chamosied dry.
Hand buffed with lambswool buffing pad.
Windows polished and new Rain-off applied to windscreen.
Now to do the inside !!
Mats out and seat covers off
Thorough vacuum including all the corners and hard to get to places using the variety of nozzel attachments for the vacuum cleaner.
A wipe of all vinal surfaces with a good cleaning solution then a coat of Armour-all and hand buffed.
Seat covers washed and refitted.
Then a good polish of the inside of the windows.
A quick coat of silicone on the tyres and it looks GREAT !!!!

Is that Auckland 4WDing? Taking it to wash world and driving through the muddy water? - Sorry, couldn't resist

Notice Muddy cleaned HIS truck with an angle grinder... thats how we do it down here in the South you know

Steve

PS: Went down the Ashley for a play for a few hours... first one in about 2 months... had a good stress relief time and found the front driveshaft is still too short... I've been pouring fertilizer on it and everything but it hasn't worked Only flopped it out once tho

Helped Mike put the supercharger on the lexus V8 in his work van Sat am.

(I shit you not!)

Then got stuck into the side bars which are now all but done. There'll be some pics up tomorrow in the projects thread.

Cheers
Clint

A great weekend of recovery work. Chased the Hella Rally of Rotorua again.
Had a good group of six trucks. We had 7 recoveries out of the Motu stage, which was in terrible weather. Had a few moments oursleves of course.

Tried to drive round an oncoming car who decided that stopping in the middle of the road was the best thing to do. I got just a little too close to the ditch on the side and it sucked me in. Had to winch ourselves back on the road.

Sunday was a little more cruisy.. Had one major that involved cutting trees out of the way to avoid further damage to the car.

about a 1000 kms travelled.

Repair list.
One flat tyre
Speedo stopped working. Kind of good in a way.
Injector pump finally started leaking.

Lakes safari this weekend coming. Better get busy.

Jungle

Got stuck into preping the body of my safari for paint, im glad i choped it in half couldnt be botherd sanding down the whole thing - not the funest job after a bottle of vodka the night before.
Stripped the dash down too got rid of the heater and fan etc, pleanty off room to mount my air intake in there now.
Also started mounting my new 37's onto my beadlocks

Remove locker from rear and fit it in front , change diff ratios back to norm ( 3.55 front and rear ) change all oils , check condition of gear box , start making new drive shaft in rear , start a new list of jobs to do for the lux , lots of work to do this week ready for the long weekend , might have a sick day ,

Bought a lounge suite, two sets of drawers, high chair, TV, couple of speakers... so am now poor. Oh and tidied some of my crap up as i still have boxes all over the living room...

spent sat night in brisbane and went out for dinner with 8 HOT lesbians who wer'nt man haters such good viewing,them all kissing and cuddling all night.... no it wasnt a dream

then flew home sunday and made up for lost time with the missuz

Sat I got a phone call and Dad offered me lunch, while round there I install new springs and shocks onto my dad's Hilux and now it doesn't fit in the GGE

Problem was I didn't know this was going to be happening I thought I would get mine done first

What is worse is he is borrowing my ute to go 4wding over queens birthday and mine is std suspension I offered him my mud tires but he prefers to break my truck, I wondered why he hasn't put recovery hooks on yet...

Replaced my RED rusty old strop dented tailgate on the surf, with a nice shiny WHITE one, surf now looks like a candy cane
Before I replaced the door I had no power to the window switch, run a tempoory supply from battery to switch and window works fine, normal lock/key set up has already been by-passed so power was to switch regardless, my question is does anyone know where the fuse is for the rear window
I have checked fuses at drivers kick panel and all appears fine

managed to blow up my old tired 2.4 deisel motor on the way to mt dobson snowboarding ruied the day we didnt make it to the ski field we got towd by the aa to fairly after 2 hours waiting then waitd a futher 6 hours for my mates to cum down 4rm chch to pick me up with a car trailer spent the day eatn food looking up at mountain that i cuda been up had i a desent engine o well think im ready for a supra

didnt happen in the weekend,
but managed to blow my clutch in the hilux last night on the way back from some 4wding...

pick it up tmrw with a new clutch