Offroad-Express

well instead of camping out this weekend, off to manukau citys full throttle event
the fj40 was found to have a faulty electronic ignition modlue, has reduction drive starter with no wire to feed 12v into the coil on start up , so back to pionts& condenser, and returned to a stock wiring system

not 4wd related but heading up to new plymouth to play in the interegional tournament for inline hockey

if anyones in np come down for a look give me a text 0212640646 for game time details

stay safe on the roads this weekend

Cleaned the 40 yesturday ready to be worked on, Repaired the front chassis rail on the 40 today after it split open at sheffield last weekend.

repaired the recently discovered rusty holes in the 60 series and painted the rear cargo area and under the back seat with rust preventative body deadener stuff.

Looked at the sunny day and watched the manakau winch challenge vids and regretted selling the 40 series, on top of chatting with a guy yesterday about 40s and how awesome they were off road.....

Soooooooo, anyone know much about this? Saw it at Hanmer and it went ok and looked tidy enough, has been on TM for a while and price has dropped a bit, no longer on the 35s though:
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=325817900

Glad you got the chassis repaired on the 40 Jase.

Mongoose wrote:Soooooooo, anyone know much about this? Saw it at Hanmer and it went ok and looked tidy enough, has been on TM for a while and price has dropped a bit, no longer on the 35s though:
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=325817900

I would of told you the 40s are awesome off road too
That green truck is Blairs one i was chatting to him about it last week.
Its not a bad truck cost him 4k to setup with the 35s and power steer, disc brakes, suspension, locker etc etc,
Would pay to have a good look at the motor it seemed very smoky, also find out what sort of locker is in the back.

Woodhill on Patrol today. Good day no damage
Full Throttle tomorrow.........ye ha
Monday back to Woodhill for more mayhem
Nothing like a long weekend of 4x4 and more 4x4ing
I will try and get some pics and vid up of the Full Throttle event tomorrow night.
Cheers,

$50 k Dodge command car when a little to far to the right in the big hole


bent the frony left hook trying to pul it out and the pto winch on it was close to coming a drift when winching itself out but its a great winch pulled like a school boy

a few photos




and a little halftrack

one for skid $30k

picked up adaptor kit yesterday
so im good to go now...

Partner suggested we buy fish and chips and head for Paraparaumu Beach with the dogs..

Lucky for one toyota 4runner and boat.

He backed his 4x4 to far back into the sea with an incoming tide and took too long to hookup the boat and trailer. When he tried to drive out, he dug himself in, and then kept digging himself in before stopping. By now the truck was a gonna... Lucky I had 40m of rope and was able to pull him out. It was a little waterlogged and the engine didn't want to go, but at least it's not lost... He didn't catch anything that day but I did... .

I left with a promise of a bottle of Baileys to be deliverd to my place. BUT my experience is that I'll never see them again... Till next time...

Mark

coxsy wrote:$50 k Dodge command car when a little to far to the right in the big hole
bent the frony left hook trying to pul it out and the pto winch on it was close to coming a drift when winching itself out but its a great winch pulled like a school boy

For 50K you would hope it could recover itself
Looks like heavy pig

was told about 3 tonnes& capble of towing a howitiser

coxsy wrote:was told about 3 tonnes& capble of towing a howitiser

I can see the demand for that

there was is in ww2

coxsy wrote:a few photos

What, no photo of you driving off the side of the see-saw??

LOLYF wrote:

coxsy wrote:a few photos

What, no photo of you driving off the side of the see-saw??

Kept that quiet

I was not the only one who did that, only did it better
and no photos of the rear wheels bouncing of the ground when the see saw tippes forward

coxsy wrote:I was not the only one who did that, only did it better
and no photos of the rear wheels bouncing of the ground when the see saw tippes forward

no photo's ... didnt happen then ehh coxsy

spent yesterday carrying on my crusade to rid the Whale of vibrations and clunking, dropped the driveshaft to check the uni's and lo and behold the rear uni is binding up .. feels like it dropped a needle roller, wonder if thats the cause of the "grumble" i can hear on accelleration thats been getting slowly worse over the last couple of weeks, course there are none in Whangarei so wll have to oder one in.

todays job is wiring some spotlights in the zook, next weekend we have a 2 day run planned, including a bit of night driving sat night, dont fancy taping two dophin lamps to the front as sugested by a fellow club member so im stealing the spots off the Bighorn instead

Full Throttle 2010 Sunday








I have more but will need some more time to shrink them and post. Off to a BBQ now. Let me know if ya's want more posted.
Cheers Simon.

did you break something today

coxsy wrote:did you break something today

Just rear sway bar droppers, again

Took sway bar off and threw it in the back, all good

have you seen my heavy duty one out of 16mm bar

Been working on some of the mods for the truck hopefully be ready by next season of racing Also went out today and got some more scallops

put a battery in the fawty and turned her over.. kicked into life easy and ran her up to temp.. all went well..

pulled starter out of vomitron and cleaned it out.. bit of crap in there..

Well whats a weekend it has been. I went to fit the gearbox to the bighorn found the replacement gearbox has 2 cracks in the bellhousing so notified Strong for Isuzu (Parts connection) and they said it will be fine and if anything goes wrong that they will pay for it. Couldnt get the box in so gave up at lunch time. Sunday finally got the box in and went to take the drain bungs out (box and transfer) and they wouldnt come out then they just fell out along with all the thread and half a cup of water out of the transfer and dirty oil out of the box itself (F&*K sake). Finished installing the rest and will be on contact with them on Tuesday to get that sorted as im not footing the bill for the extra work as Im not a happy camper was hoping to get some Kms to wear in the new clutch.

So Far "STRONG FOR ISUZU" is STRONG ON CRAP PARTS FOR TOP DOLLAR as the box cost me $700 and this was surpose to be the good replacement one for the previous one they sent me.

coxsy wrote:have you seen my heavy duty one out of 16mm bar

Gotta get me some of those
Interested in a cashy
Cheers.

Had a good day at full throttle on Sunday. well half a good day, once the Suzuki decided it would go again, just not on hills. Wasnt fueling right, so after a few chats with people I need to replace fuel filter and get a carb rebuild kit as mine has done 290000km and as far as I am aware no rebuild or anything, but first I will check the float chamber and make sure its clean as I do drive on gravel roads a fair bit.

once it did go it was great fun.





Nice looking Hilux


rest of my weekend has been easy going as I caught a cold from somewhere.

haha look at those springs in that yellow thing!!! Show truck much???

not alot, planned out and started on my 3 link.

Cheers Daniel