Offroad-Express

Finally decided to fix the heater in the truck, had to get it to this:



Before I could replace this:

put lwb springs in my swb zuk it gave it a bit of a lift.
then took it through lees valley, great drive, river quite deep but got across all good

went to whirinanaki forest thursday as we pulled in to the forest road the 40 lost its clutch slave cyl, funny was serviced last week , brought it home today towed through rotovagas and matamata it drove the rest crash boxed

Started to do rear diff oil, found bits of teeth on plug, so now pulling diff head out. Anyone got a toyota 8" ring and pinion in 4.88? think I need a new one.

just got back from Round 6 of the National trials at Mt Egmont, excellent day and one VERY well run event.

lots of roll overs and a little bit of carnage to entertain the punters














Was good to catch up with Dan (DR_PC) again, oh and I have to pass on that the Digger recovery Drivers on the day where just awesome, was as entertaining watching them recover trucks as it was watching the trucks get stuck.

Swapped my people mover for a 96 lwb 3500 poojero my new shiny any one got some cheap mts in hawkes bay also looking for snorkle

tara13 wrote:Swapped my people mover for a 96 lwb 3500 poojero my new shiny any one got some cheap mts in hawkes bay also looking for snorkle

Why do you need a snorkle for a shiny dude???

P.s Abbo says you are a cock

Got bored and took the sway bars off my truck...

Something along the lines of this:
still plenty more to go


Hopefully more updates to come in the next week or two

Went to intake rd with a mate and his truck was crossing a small part of the river with a bit of a current i went through first was quite rough and only just made it out then my mate decided to follow me and ended up getting stuck was a pain just trying to hook up snatch strap to his car cause of the current then when i was going to pull him out the immobilizer got full of water and engine died so i had to pull him out with my lux took ages and now my snatch strap/hook is f**kd ended up getting it goin had to dry out the immobilizer and managed to get it back 2 chch he has now learnt not to do that again also no pics but his truck is running just carpets/seats/electrics and alarm are all soaked

Got the Fiva started again.

The tapping noise is still there, and we think it might be from incorrectly adjusted tappets.

Yay, more stuff to fix.

i started to tak up my bracket of the air tank to sit under the rear end.

maybe tomorrow ill drill and mount these brackets then finsh off the welding.

Good things take time

got my diff head out, and its not good, only one or two chipped teeth on the ring gear but pinion is well stuffed. long week end is a pain can't get parts. bugger

Sat at home, wishing my zuki wasn't broke so I could take it 4wding

zukmeista wrote:Sat at home, wishing my zuki wasn't broke so I could take it 4wding

Fix it then

went up to mariua/lake daniels, did a bit of fishing and walking in the mud. Good fun and a great area.

zukmeista wrote:Sat at home, wishing my zuki wasn't broke so I could take it 4wding

whatcha break this time??

meece4x4 wrote:

zukmeista wrote:Sat at home, wishing my zuki wasn't broke so I could take it 4wding

whatcha break this time??

Farkin piece of shit Rear drum brake cylinder popped a piston Going to piss the farkers off and get some discs on there but I got no money

well went to pauanui in coromandel, half way there upper radiator hose splits, thatl teach me for not dropping the radiator after body lift, , lucky im well prepared with something that i managed to make make do, then as soon as i head into the hills it starts getting hot every time i try to go up a decnt hill, after alot of pulling over i realise my 'new' front and under skid plate has eff all airflow, take theat off and i finaally get to the destination '4 HOURS LATER' (usually a max 2 hour drive). so i refill with new coolant and drop the radiator, and drop the radiator and head home today, and the bitch still tries gettng warm up a bigggg hill, so tomorrow is tim for some new hoses and put that bottom part of my shroud back on and maybe add a transmission cooler and get some more viscous fan oil and see if that helps . oh also soort out some holes for that bash plate

Had to put up with this, all weekend


More pics and vid to come
http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=23639&start=90

Cheers,

Oh, you poor bastard, ya want a cuddle?

Yes, spent the weekend helping out on the Winch Challenge.
Great farm, Awesome trucks and the one with a GOD winch will be something to watch when the bugs are sorted.
Rain stayed away, And best of all no one DNF on my last stage.
Time to clean out the truck and take a breather.

Calvin

kbushnz wrote:Yes, spent the weekend helping out on the Winch Challenge.
Great farm, Awesome trucks and the one with a GOD winch will be something to watch when the bugs are sorted.
Rain stayed away, And best of all no one DNF on my last stage.
Time to clean out the truck and take a breather.

Calvin

To correct you that was not a GOD winch as it is differently set up, but it was the fastest winch out there of the lot.

Also spent the weekend marshaling which was fantastic, weather was great and the worst of it stayed away as kbushnz great farm and auesome tracks.

Cheers

Modified my bull bar from this:


To this:


then went thompsons on sunday


My brother patrol






the trucks tht were up with me

Used a big rock to do some panel works at Superwinch Tufftruck






Happy as with 3rd place in challenge class.

that must of been some rock

4WDbits wrote:Used a big rock to do some panel works at Superwinch Tufftruck






Happy as with 3rd place in challenge class.

Yeah, saw the footage from 4wd Tv, can't wait for that to screen. Mean rock.
Good Comp.

Spent most of the weekend marshalling at Tuff truck lucky it finished yesterday after the rain we had last night. The stages I was on would have turnned to custard pretty quickly in todays weather

Congrats to Tim for Winning the Challenge Class and Dan the Modified Class.

With Dan being the Overall Winner and the only truck to get no penalties all weekend

I had 3 TG Thompson Solenoids on trucks competing with no problems and doing some pretty hard winching, I guess that means they are Competition tested

Cheers
Brett

you did well.
cheeers greg

Drurban wrote:
To correct you that was not a GOD winch as it is differently set up, but it was the fastest winch out there of the lot.

How is it not a GOD winch?

4WDbits wrote:Used a big rock to do some panel works at Superwinch Tufftruck



Happy as with 3rd place in challenge class.

Guess I wont moan about craking my bonnet on the same rock. Although the orange paint I scraped off doesnt really match my yellow.

Great weekend at Superwinch Tough Truck. We have nothing to be un happy about, 1st in class and 1st overall, only monor bits of damage (thak god the front diff pumpkin dent didn't quite get to the crown wheel), no DNFs and no penalties.

Well done to Steve, Tony and the crew from Nor West OHV club top event with an awesome range of stages, and despite the above photo no real truck killing stages.

Oh and in case anyone cares I was driving 1 of only 2 4 cylinder trucks and run a mildly modded 8274 for a winch. Who needs a V8????