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Posted: **Fri Nov 19, 2010 8:51 pm**

just went down to the river for a quick drive with a few locals

Safaripete trying his new toy

landyrover getting wet

Pete

a guy called pete in a safari

Posted: **Fri Nov 19, 2010 8:53 pm**

my biggest achivement wil be drying the insides out :shock:

Posted: **Fri Nov 19, 2010 8:57 pm**

nice boys
loving the 80s

Posted: **Fri Nov 19, 2010 9:51 pm**

Great trip

A few pics from Isaacs camera.

Posted: **Sat Nov 20, 2010 11:58 am**

Possum..... one of your chickens escaped ..... :lol:

.... found it in my back yard :lol:

managed to chase it to a neighbours where we caught it and we chucked it back over your fence :lol:

Chicken Wrangling is not that easy :roll:

Posted: **Sat Nov 20, 2010 12:03 pm**

so does that mean that its roast chicken at jerrys place tonite :lol:

Posted: **Sat Nov 20, 2010 3:56 pm**

Put some new sounds in my zuke

Posted: **Sat Nov 20, 2010 4:40 pm**

went to rallywoods cut a new track round the nasty bit of verninizer needs a bit more work but possum drove it a little better than abbo :shock:

we watched pr smash his truck trying to drive the nasty bit mirror,window,quarter panel,exhaust ..... tree roots still intact and waiting for next victim...........thanks to those who came........

Posted: **Sat Nov 20, 2010 5:47 pm**

Took truck out today had fun did some skids.......better if i put both hubs in next time ............ Seems to be ok on 35's :mrgreen:

Posted: **Sat Nov 20, 2010 6:19 pm**

Jerry wrote:Possum..... one of your chickens escaped ..... .... found it in my back yard managed to chase it to a neighbours where we caught it and we chucked it back over your fence

Chicken Wrangling is not that easy

hahahah they're fast little buggers..... it's not one of mine but i've claimed it now :mrgreen:

Posted: **Sat Nov 20, 2010 6:39 pm**

Did some gardening Dogg style! Axe, rope and 4wd!! :twisted:

Wish all gardening was this fun!! :lol:

Posted: **Sat Nov 20, 2010 7:08 pm**

Caught ferry $260
A framed landrover 360km $50
Stopped in kaikoura because it was getting slower than usual and found an almost seized gearbox (can harldy blame it being 50 years old) ???

Towing a seized bushtruk 360km with a 2.5litre diesel LANDROVER (300tdi) with no problems at all because my TOYOTA is at home broken again..... Priceless :mrgreen:

Posted: **Sat Nov 20, 2010 8:27 pm**

Well once I got back from the NZFWDA northern zone meeting I took the tank out of the zuk, fixed it again, if it doesn't work this time I think I will just get a new one made up out of thicker steel pre made on an angle. and also changed fuel filter, old one was full of shit. so hopefully that sorts the problem of bad fuel delivery over the rough stuff.

Posted: **Sat Nov 20, 2010 9:28 pm**

Got under the bighorn and put the LWB springs in I got a while back gave me 30mm lift so not bad now just need to wind the front up to level it out fit my 32s and get a couple more kms out of the new clutch before it bush time. Fingers crossed I can get some shocks off another ore member as mine a pretty had it.

Posted: **Sun Nov 21, 2010 12:11 am**

Went round the coast for as drive and a dive, got a good bit stuck. Lowered the tyre pressures right down, hit a rock, lost the bead, couldn't jack it up in that position so had to reverse it out over the rock, dented the rim, parked it up, jumped in the water there and got my days catch of paua. Watched the next guy from the water do the same thing I did, returned to the ute and the mrs had flagged another truck down and put some air in the tyres for me - good girl! Why do tyres and rims hate me???

Posted: **Sun Nov 21, 2010 7:55 am**

aLUX wrote:Went round the coast for as drive and a dive, got a good bit stuck. Lowered the tyre pressures right down, hit a rock, lost the bead, couldn't jack it up in that position so had to reverse it out over the rock, dented the rim, parked it up, jumped in the water there and got my days catch of paua. Watched the next guy from the water do the same thing I did, returned to the ute and the mrs had flagged another truck down and put some air in the tyres for me - good girl! Why do tyres and rims hate me???

go see bolo and stick some tubes in your tyres, make sure they are heavy duty ones and not those skinny little ones most people stick in, I used to have one of those little $7.98 warehouse compressors behind the seat for emergencies that got me out of trouble a couple of times, would take about 30 mins to get enough air into a simex but it gets you home :mrgreen:

Posted: **Sun Nov 21, 2010 7:59 am**

Sadam_Husain wrote:
aLUX wrote:Went round the coast for as drive and a dive, got a good bit stuck. Lowered the tyre pressures right down, hit a rock, lost the bead, couldn't jack it up in that position so had to reverse it out over the rock, dented the rim, parked it up, jumped in the water there and got my days catch of paua. Watched the next guy from the water do the same thing I did, returned to the ute and the mrs had flagged another truck down and put some air in the tyres for me - good girl! Why do tyres and rims hate me???

go see bolo MAG N TYRE DIRECT, PETONE and stick some tubes in your tyres, make sure they are heavy duty ones and not those skinny little ones most people stick in, I used to have one of those little $7.98 warehouse compressors behind the seat that got me out of trouble a couple of times, would take about 30 mins to get enough air into a simex but it gets you home

Posted: **Sun Nov 21, 2010 8:58 am**

the ZOOK LIVES!!!!!!!!!

after quiting on me a couple of weekends ago (the morning of club champs of all days) I left her sitting in the garage until this morning, I went back and re read Heaths old build thread for some clues, Heath .. that intermittent starting fault you had was back, first thought it was fuel pump but cracked the nut on the fuel rail and gas came squirting out, so started looking at the electrical side pulled the ecu out (what a frigging pr*k of a job to get back in) .. no probs there, put battery on charge for 20 minutes and guess what Heath ... bloody thing started (just like your original fault) but then quit 10 seconds later ... decided after an experience with our old honda accord to replace the electronic ignition module/dohicky inside the distributor with my spare one,

first turn of the key and she roared into life ... have had it running for 10 minutes and restarted it 20 odd times .. all looking hopeful that was what the problem was :mrgreen:

well that was short lived ... left it for an hour or so and went into town came back and now nothing .. same as before cranks but wont fire ... sigh I give up.

and later on ..................

got back from town .. went out and decided to start ripping the thing apart to try and track down the issue ... cranked it one last time and it fired up

came around the front just in time to see a huge spark jump from the coilpac to the body Bang dead again ... hmmmm replaced the coilpac with a spare and she lives again :shock:

this time i took it for a high speed strop across a plowed paddock and no sign of it dying ... looks like the coil had a intermittent dead short as well.

no wonder i prefer diesels ... no frigging electrical issues.

rotated the wheels on the safari and noticed the left front wheel bearing was loose again ... fark thats the 4th time ive had to tighten it up

Posted: **Sun Nov 21, 2010 4:33 pm**

Went to our club champs today, first time truck has been out of shed since Manukau W/C

Was doing OK, bounced off a rock on bent front control arm :cry:

, Anyone got a spare landrover front arm?

Then steering started to lock up just before lunch, busted CV :cry:

Home and wash and lt looks like my rear lower link chassis mounts are starting to move (some more) :cry:

At least my full of water in need of replacement auto held up :roll:

Posted: **Sun Nov 21, 2010 4:39 pm**

go see bolo and stick some tubes in your tyres, make sure they are heavy duty ones and not those skinny little ones most people stick in, I used to have one of those little $7.98 warehouse compressors behind the seat for emergencies that got me out of trouble a couple of times, would take about 30 mins to get enough air into a simex but it gets you home

I have one of those 71L supercheap compressors, will easily put a 33" back on its bead ... wait until they have one of their mega sales and get the best one you can get ....

Posted: **Sun Nov 21, 2010 6:44 pm**

removed bell housing and checked a few things with the adaptor... that was it :roll:

Posted: **Sun Nov 21, 2010 6:46 pm**

got a wof ,, always a bonus

Posted: **Sun Nov 21, 2010 9:05 pm**

Got a couple of old members to sign up to the club again, picked up our long tow rope and then headed to Woodhill to help out with the have a go day. Just controlled the entrance. Bloody miss not having my zuk going. also there was a shed load of bloody terranos there. all shiny and pristine. :lol:

then headed to a BBQ and caught up with some old mates.

Posted: **Sun Nov 21, 2010 9:38 pm**

Worked till 11pm friday 12.30pm last night an 9 tonight. But.. the engine an box are finally sitting in the cruiser :mrgreen:

(only started putting the engine in today got heaps of other stuff done before that aswell

)

Posted: **Sun Nov 21, 2010 10:09 pm**

Had a go at the 100acre track up thomos on saturday, smashed a rear sway bar mount, new dent in rear panel, bent a lower trailing arm, only got a few pics we didnt get to the top either but its there for next time :twisted:

Posted: **Mon Nov 22, 2010 7:26 am**

yeti wrote:got a wof ,, always a bonus

Failed a WOF, always a pain haha.

Was only on bullbar mounts which is in the process of being modded anyway.

Posted: **Mon Nov 22, 2010 7:32 am**

Bought this, not sure why. needs some tyres now
At least I can go 4wding while I fix the surf.

Posted: **Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:07 am**

[quote="92 safari 17"]Had a go at the 100acre track up thomos on saturday, smashed a rear sway bar mount, new dent in rear panel, bent a lower trailing arm, only got a few pics we didnt get to the top either but its there for next time :twisted:

looks like from where you got to its easy as from there its nearly 2wd stuff we went up about 3 weeks ago

Posted: **Mon Nov 22, 2010 2:59 pm**

32's now fitted and WOF = Passed

(22/11/2010)

Posted: **Mon Nov 22, 2010 3:32 pm**

the 100 acre track needs work as new guys as above break things, I was in the frame of mind we tread softly , but thompsons track is below that idea,

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