Offroad-Express

oh how time flys
anys the 40 reassembly started today and my sons birthday present arrived for me in the mail, to be attached to the back of the safari

Well yesterday (my weekend started earlier) I changed the shocks on my mum's pajero. Least now its got a warrant.

Today, ahh, nothing as of yet

Yesterday went out to south head entrance to muriwai had a quick drive around up there with mates then headed back.



Today just had a laxy one.

Tomorrow hoping to go up to woodhill and test out my new tyres

ahh I also tried to mount the new tow bar with removable hitch to the zuk. but because of a certain recovery in Woodhill a while back the holes no longer line up.

So what to do now? Might clean it up and sell it and get the cambelt water pump, tensioner and rocker cover gasket that I need.

Faaark I hat that bent chassis. makes every thing so much harder to work on.

Oh does any one have a cheap gen 1 pajero?

heading to Woodhill tomorrow! (sunday), whos keen? might see some of you guys there

going to test out the new Safari!

021 222 0661 if your heading out

Fraser

Bummer Lincoln
Thought that damage would come back to haunt you

I think I need a higher shed. This is the clearance with front wheels just off the ground


Anyways, thought I'd check out why my right front suspension collapsed last weekend, think this has anything to do with it



Now I have to find one of these
Anyone know of any?
D21 Terrano.
Will have to replace handbrake cable tomorrow too as mine is rooted due to getting tangled in some fence wire at Woodhill

That's it today and covers tomorrow too.
Cheers,

sibainmud wrote:
think this has anything to do with it

I see the problem - it had stones in it.

sibainmud wrote:That's it today and covers tomorrow too.
Cheers,

bugger ... lol the amount of damage you do to that poor Nissan ... ever thought of trading it up for a Saf? im sure you wont break quite as much stuff in one of those


Well spent the last week transforming myself into a Naki'ite, also learning the finer points of Labor dept laws regarding employee Holiday pay entitlement

Sold The Mistress so now back to having to talk to the wife funny how things go .. the guy that Heath bought the truck from belongs to the same club as the chap that bought the Mistress so she's effectively going back home, so pleased she's off to someone that will use her and abuse her. anyways I now have moneys burning a hole in my pocket, want to upgrade my tah's on the Safari from the biscuit 31x10.5x15's that are on there now.

Im leaning towards 33x12.5x15's over 35's as ive only got a 3 inch lift and don't want to go body lift route. also being non turbo and a daily driver I don't want to go too big and have it drive like more of a pig on the road.

anyone got a set of cheap Factory Safari rims floating around ??

meece4x4 wrote:

sibainmud wrote:That's it today and covers tomorrow too.
Cheers,

So the chap that bought the Mistress so she's effectively going back home, so pleased she's off to someone that will use her and abuse her. anyone got a set of cheap Factory Safari rims floating around ??

Was talking to him and her last weekend at prizegiving they are really looking forward to getting their hands on it

Dr_PC wrote:

meece4x4 wrote:

sibainmud wrote:That's it today and covers tomorrow too.
Cheers,

So the chap that bought the Mistress so she's effectively going back home, so pleased she's off to someone that will use her and abuse her. anyone got a set of cheap Factory Safari rims floating around ??

Was talking to him and her last weekend at prizegiving they are really looking forward to getting their hands on it

Ernie's a hell of a nice guy, couldn't have gone to a better person,

going to miss her *sniff*

coxsy wrote:

How long did it take you to put the letters in right order to spell it correctly?
You should try that when you type shit in here

na give me some to do later when i reread the crap i put up

rokhound wrote:

coxsy wrote:

How long did it take you to put the letters in right order to spell it correctly?
You should try that when you type shit in here

pulled/ripped the disco body of a chassis, the looks on the nieghbours faces when a truck rocks up, chains slung thru front and back windows, and hiab off chassis, who knew brake lines almost pick a chassis off the ground before they snap, were pricless!!, got $200 scrap for it, just got to get rid of a 3.5 inj motor manual gearbox and front diff,

Pedro

Completed the dual battery conversion on the Lux today, might have a go at the snorkel tomorrow

lilpigzuk wrote:

rokhound wrote:

coxsy wrote:

How long did it take you to put the letters in right order to spell it correctly?
You should try that when you type shit in here

Me too

The L200 got its 33''s

paid a visit to bolo yesterday to borrow the tyre machines and clean the mud out of the beads of my 35s

cheers bolo

went and finally bought a new digital camera after a few months of speculating and saving

then went up to palmy to try out camera at teams champs.......

skid wrote:paid a visit to bolo yesterday to borrow the tyre machines and clean the mud out of the beads of my 35s

cheers bolo

went and finally bought a new digital camera after a few months of speculating and saving

then went up to palmy to try out camera at teams champs.......

so who won?
I really need to keep up with when this is on and actually go one year....lol

wgtnnewbie wrote:so who won?
I really need to keep up with when this is on and actually go one year....lol

Palmy vs Stratford in the final

All 4 of the Palmy cars finished, none of the Stratford cars finished


you do the math

Finally got around to putting the simex's on after giving the safari a 2" spring lift, guard cut and rebuilt front bar.



Happy with how everything has come together with a nice approach angle



Will do some sort of side and rear bars one day



For some reason the spedo wasn't working today (have been playing with wiring etc when hooking up GME radio so may have knocked something off.

Also having a problem with wheel nuts coming loose. Last two big drives have come home to find a missing wheel nut and a lot of the others loose. They were all tight before leaving so not sure what is going on there.

SirGerald wrote:Finally got around to putting the simex's on after giving the safari a 2" spring lift, guard cut and rebuilt front bar.

Happy with how everything has come together with a nice approach angle
Will do some sort of side and rear bars one day

[For some reason the spedo wasn't working today (have been playing with wiring etc when hooking up GME radio so may have knocked something off.

Also having a problem with wheel nuts coming loose. Last two big drives have come home to find a missing wheel nut and a lot of the others loose. They were all tight before leaving so not sure what is going on there.

had that trouble with mine for a while, wheel nuts not seating properly.

SirGerald wrote:Also having a problem with wheel nuts coming loose. Last two big drives have come home to find a missing wheel nut and a lot of the others loose. They were all tight before leaving so not sure what is going on there.

left front by any chance??? my LWB lost all 6 nuts on the sand! then for about a week after they would wind off at random. now do them up tight and check them once a week at least.

meece4x4 wrote:

SirGerald wrote:Also having a problem with wheel nuts coming loose. Last two big drives have come home to find a missing wheel nut and a lot of the others loose. They were all tight before leaving so not sure what is going on there.

left front by any chance??? my LWB lost all 6 nuts on the sand! then for about a week after they would wind off at random. now do them up tight and check them once a week at least.

Nope front right but 2 or 3 of the front left were also loose.

SirGerald wrote:

meece4x4 wrote:

SirGerald wrote:Also having a problem with wheel nuts coming loose. Last two big drives have come home to find a missing wheel nut and a lot of the others loose. They were all tight before leaving so not sure what is going on there.

left front by any chance??? my LWB lost all 6 nuts on the sand! then for about a week after they would wind off at random. now do them up tight and check them once a week at least.

Nope front right but 2 or 3 of the front left were also loose.

check the wheel nuts are not bottoming out on the thread rather than clamping the rims

pedro

Pedro wrote:Also having a problem with wheel nuts coming loose. Last two big drives have come home to find a missing wheel nut and a lot of the others loose. They were all tight before leaving so not sure what is going on there.

replace all the studs, they are most likely stretched from over tightening

SirGerald wrote:

meece4x4 wrote:

SirGerald wrote:Also having a problem with wheel nuts coming loose. Last two big drives have come home to find a missing wheel nut and a lot of the others loose. They were all tight before leaving so not sure what is going on there.

left front by any chance??? my LWB lost all 6 nuts on the sand! then for about a week after they would wind off at random. now do them up tight and check them once a week at least.

Nope front right but 2 or 3 of the front left were also loose.

Haha had the same thing happen to my SWB safari lost all 6 nuts (front passengers) in the Brenderwyns doing about 60kms around a corner (dodgy as) at 5am. Lost the wheel up the bank and ended up in the middle of the road behind me. I had no wheel brace and spare wheel nuts were a different size. Lucky a guy with a navara passing through gave me 4 of his wheel nuts to get me to the bottom and into the rest area until my wife came from whangarei to bring supplies. I would keep an eye on them big time. Always took spare wheel nuts after that and a power bar with both wheel nut sizes.


Other than that my weekend consisted of taking my front passengers guard so I can start my snorkel build next weekend (hopefully). All I can say is Isuzu need to re think there way of mounting guards!!! what a mission.

Went to scope classic car meet in chch.
Tryed to do a vid of the F5000's,pretty hard with a compact still camera when on full zoom,pitty the sound doesnt come through that well.




Shane

todays achievements:

Did a bit of panel work on the truck i swear someone put those trees there when i wasnt looking.

Popped my Rallywoods cherry on Saturday, did some track maintainance and got some driving hints from Jerry, Stinky, Reece and Bolo. Good fun.