Offroad-Express

gave the safari spray can touch up on the paint, grease attack on the grease nipples lubed the door hinges checked oil, water, tyres pressures. had a chat with lewis on fitting a winch mount on his isuzu

did my kingpin bearings in my 78 cruiser after snapping a steering knuckle in 2.. lol

and picked up a new cruiser as a project..
owned one before but was a 13bt, this one is petrol and my god it's thirsty!! nice to have petrol reponse tho..

Messed about with the rear handbrake drum on the Prado bus.
Drilled two holes opposite to allow me to squirt water in to wash the handbrakes drums out. Will see how that goes.
Also trimmed down the wheel studs to fit some spacers...
Setting up for Plastic winch rope. Made an alloy Hawse fairlead and looking at getting it hard anodised.

Otherwise chilled out and had fun with the kids.

Calvin

Preped truck, went to club champs had a blast with the kids, came home, watched movies, although yesterday went and watched the targa thru moonshine road from the back of a flat deck truck with bbq and couch to sit on, very civilized!!

Pedro

up thompsons and back dry hard rocky , went up the 100 ac track hard work, that is

Went the most amazing trip to a secret location in the central North Island. Gave the truck some new pin stripes
And dented every panel






And I'd do it all again

Oh, and broke a fog light off on a rouge branch. Can't believe I didn't do more damage.

quick gearbox and transfer oil change on the 60 series.
ahem.

yup.

my son left hamilton to go to thames to met us at the hot pools ,
got a txt message he was in Turangi
this is true

coxsy wrote:up thompsons and back dry hard rocky , went up the 100 ac track hard work, that is

Tried to call ya when I was in Matamata, to call in to Thompson's.
No reply, so came home.

yer well lost me cell on sat

coxsy wrote:yer well lost me cell on sat

Good news is..........it still rang

killed the Zook

spent sat driving around the bush having fun in the Mud, decided to tag along for the night run, Zook cut out a couple of times didn't think much of it, parked up and this morning went to fire it up for the club champs .. ran for 3 seconds then quit ... now wont start

on friday I dropped my newly beadlocked rims to be powder coated, other than that has been a chill out weekend with the kids

Spent most of Saturday on the farm with the Lada and the 'Zuk. Several times, after Lincoln laughing at me for not getting places, he wouldn't get anywhere near where I did. I found that quite amusing...

skid wrote:BUGGER..............

Well put
You're hard on gear

well on Saturday I managed to get the right CV clicking on the zuk. May as well put manual hubs in now. List of ToDo keeps growing

brought homw the 3.8, now sitting in the shed (carport) ready for work to be done. Remove torque converter, now gota find manual starter and clutch kit

Went to Auckland help my brother move house on saturday. thought i better do a service on the other half's car as the trans started to feel funny on the way home. by the looks of things the trans was running on the original oil from new the drain bung had never been touched and had plenty of filings on it owell runs mint now. found that you can do a 3" spring lift + wind up the front and run 33's with out any major issues just new panhard rod so that looks like what I will be doing on mine soon once I get my next gearbox.

These are a couple of trucks I spent the weekend following.
Kinda felt a bit out gunned
Every truck had double the cylinders or plus1300cc's (or both) and they all had 2 inchs in tyre size on me.

Made some new friends and talked BS. Shreaded bogs.
All good, another 3 days of 4x4 heaven

coxsy wrote:up thompsons and back dry hard rocky , went up the 100 ac track hard work, that is

Saw your tracks looked like you turned around at that bolder we managed to get around it and have lunch up in the paddock.

Was a awesome day

the problem with that track is a heavy footed guys didnt fill the ruts to drive just dug them deeper, so much for tead lighty in nz

yeh we did have to do a bit of maintainence to make it easy for next time

went for a drive, did some skids, met some farkin cool people and came home again.

managed 200ltrs of fuel for the entire trip...not bad i thought

i did what skid did

Well I drove my patrol to Tauranga.

Then raced a lawnmower.

Helmet cam footage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rz0Thr1jdo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh_PeKyneho

this is what i want to avoid doing, train co drivers to watch down wards to see where the wheels are on the left

coxsy wrote:
this is what i want to avoid doing, train co drivers to watch down wards to see where the wheels are on the left

you give me shit when i run over a little peg and perhaps a sign or two 200mm high, and yet you drive into ditch 600 deep and 600 wide

Pedro

If you lot look closely you will see there is no marks in the ground behind the diff???? also the dirt is piled up behind the pumpkin?????


what does that tell us????


he reversed into the ditch to see how deep it was