Offroad-Express

spent yesterday from 8am to 8pm marshalling on the biggest stage of the winch challange, when stage was closed three trucks still had not gone through, the ore guys wopass, dieselboy, meatc all had good runs through the stage

Yesterday, worked. and housework (yea yea put my fairy outfit on)

Today, gotta sand and paint a caravan for a mate. Got next week off, going to metallica bitches!!!!!!

Cheers Daniel

Spent yesterday on Woodhill Patrol.
Very quiet day, only a few self recoveries...
Bent a front tie rod, bound to happen on of these days.

Great day out in the sun.

Sunday, just finished giver her a bath and time to settle in to Bathurst.

Calvin

Got my front diff in an almost all of the welding finished on the front end. Made up lots of random bits an pieces like shortened temporary draglink , bumpstops, random gussets etc etc
Then put some wheels on it an went for the 1st test drive on the front coils

Sits a bit wider than it used to




Now back to the garage to rip the leaf sprung rear end out..

Oh thats right theres some race thing on today

Fakey wrote:Got my front diff in an almost all of the welding finished on the front end. Made up lots of random bits an pieces like shortened temporary draglink , bumpstops, random gussets etc etc
Then put some wheels on it an went for the 1st test drive on the front coils

Sits a bit wider than it used to




Now back to the garage to rip the leaf sprung rear end out..

Oh thats right theres some race thing on today

so I look at that pic and one word springs to mind

BOB

skid wrote:so I look at that pic and one word springs to mind

BOB

Dont you start I was just pondering that pic myself. I want the rear axle a few inches back from where it is but I think Ill leave it alone for now. If I took the time to do all the things Id like to do to it itd never get back on the road. Alot like a few other projects kicking around Deadline to have it cert ready is decenber 1st

Rear axle back 4-6 inches and carve those guards up. Nows the time to do it while you have still got to weld mounts etc on. Do it once do it right...

Wheel base just looks a little short with those huge donuts.

Looks good though

Well earlyer in the week my chrome nudge bar fell off my truck due to rust , so saturday was a mish to pick a part , and i manged to find one there and also score it for $5 , so was very pleased at that... also i got my mate to weld some plates to the back of a spare wheel carrier for me to move my spare wheel up, because when ever i used my hook offroad , the tyre was to close and i couldnt get a strop on , so after that i drilled out the holes to make it fit , just to relise that i needed long bolts for it , so on the pick a part mish i also scored some longer bolts , so today i finshed up welding the braket for the spare wheel , then painted that up , while that was drying i put my new nudge bar on , then fitted the new carrier and tyre , and now ready to go

Got the girlfriend's Beetle engine back together and breathed a sigh of relief when it fired up and sounded great.

Traced a really annoying rumbly vibration in the 60 series to the nut on the front of the rear diff that holds the flange onto the front of the diff. Tightened it up ( should check the torque really) and now no play, no vibration and it's almost sort of quiet in there. Except the gearbox whine, the bellowing exhaust note and the rattly old 3B that is.

Picked up my lovely Schwitzer turbo and nicely modified 3B manifold that I bought in trademe. Tiny bit of play in the shaft so need to make a call on rebuild or just chuck it on.....

Heath wrote:Rear axle back 4-6 inches and carve those guards up. Nows the time to do it while you have still got to weld mounts etc on. Do it once do it right...

Wheel base just looks a little short with those huge donuts.

Looks good though

Wheelbase is 105" as it sits so only want to push it back a few more inches. An dont want to have to muck around with the fuel tank either.
Ride height will be higher an the guards will recieve some serious adjusting
Rear diffs out now too

Spent Wednessday, Thursday and Friday down the West Coast doing some driving, family trip mine and another family that we go away driving with works well as all our kids get on great
Napolins on Wednesday, Cockeye Creek on Thursday and then had a bit of an explore around Nelson Creek on Friday before heading home

First nights camp

Some of the Boys got a bit exicted when I lifted a back wheel,

went for a drive, did some skids, came home.

Saw you there on saturday ^^

Day was going a bit too slow for me though so left about 3pm and didn't get to see you run

wopass wrote:went for a drive, did some skids, came home.

what did skid have to say about that????

how was manukau??

Friday fixed truck

Friday night went wheeling

Saturday morn did some more wheeling. Decided that im really not liking this short wheelbase thing and that I need a suckdown winch to stop ending up sideways accross tracks made worse by floppy front suspension

Sunday fixed my cruiser and wound up some people on teh internets

badnuz wrote:

wopass wrote:went for a drive, did some skids, came home.

how was manukau??

that pretty much sums it up bro.

went there did a couple skids...now i have to replace the crapped out tough dog adjustable panhard bushes in the front that failed...not so tough

the lack of drive time made it a bit boring...and it took me twice as long as most everyone else!! we got beaten by just about everyone!!...i think i got more points than the guy who got taken to hospital...

hey i thought you did my stage really well, , jimbob did dnf twice in that stage, man he had real bad luck all day

wopass wrote:

badnuz wrote:

wopass wrote:went for a drive, did some skids, came home.

how was manukau??

that pretty much sums it up bro.

went there did a couple skids...now i have to replace the crapped out tough dog adjustable panhard bushes in the front that failed...not so tough

the lack of drive time made it a bit boring...and it took me twice as long as most everyone else!! we got beaten by just about everyone!!...i think i got more points than the guy who got taken to hospital...

Yeah drive time was a bit lacking but good event all the same.

thank yourself lucky all you have to do is a bush. I have a branch still stuck in my radiator, my auto trans is hemoraging pink (yes pink not red, over 2l in 2 days) oil, so it s poked (second year in a row manukau has killed that) And i haven't really looked at the truck yet. Oh yeah winch rope is about hlaf the length it was

But hey had a blast and the supercharger has made it so much mre driveable. Huge thanks to Manukau 4x4 club and all the marshells.

More driving time would have been better but other than that it was awesome fun. Our truck is still dirty so will find out if the is any damage once its washed but dont think there is. We will be back next year if its on!

Got Married on sunday. Was awesome day.

what a neat looking pic!! not too many tidy units like that 60 around these days!

rayndeb wrote:Got Married on sunday. Was awesome day.

love the photo especially that 60 looks just like mine other than the lpg sticker

congrats on getting married to

Neat photo guys.
Congratulations and best wishes