Offroad-Express

Picked up the bellhousing for Possum's boy Hayden today, rover V8 to toyota but we dont know what sort of toyota box it was made for, its been cut, welded and redrilled a few times before so we had it welded, machined and redrilled for his hilux box and a new spigot bush turned up, dunno anything about hiluxs and rover conversions but were going to find out. Got a rover pressure plate and a diesel cruiser clutch plate for it and still have to work out what release bearing to use coz the hilux one we got was too small for the pressure plate?









got a new set of 10" beadlocks made up and picked those up as well

Nice....
Pulling transfer-case apart this weekend to fit PTO gear in it....
Currently giving the winch and pto unit a birthday, new seals and bearings.... Also reversing the output for the PTO...
Calvin

Photo's WIP

well im on the road again just got me new whale legal ...... roll on the winter snow trip up denniston ....... just tested 4x4 low n hi downthe beach all working fine .... have to get used to manual box again lol ......

well done nuts , want another easter trip some year, Ijust pulled all the wheels off gave rims, discs a good fresh water wash,

took the shiny whale for a wof yesterday at vtnz.......failed
typical left front wheel bearing loose...
tightened and rechecked and legal again

taz01 wrote:took the shiny whale for a wof yesterday at vtnz.......failed
typical left front wheel bearing loose...
tightened and rechecked and legal again

like wof and reg, ruc up to date? cant be true lol

changed front hubs/bearings again..............

wof today cert on wed and will be all legal

Took the 1300 out of the Samurai today . Tomorrow in goes the Vitara 1600 ..........and Power steering

Took the alternator out of the Safari this morning, taking to to an auto sparky to check over. i couldnt see anything majorly wrong with it and its only 2 years old. Little bit of dried mud in it but hardly any.
hope its not expensive! touch wood!

then when thats back its back into the mud!

-Fraser

went and did the stadia yesterday

very wet

sorry no pics

im trying to get some off some of the lads that i went with
hopefully some will get to me

Have to clean Mudhog this morning after Woodhill Patrols yesterday

How bad was Stadia?

Went to the Puhoi Pub for a beer, wished Mark Ellis good luck on his Top-to-Bottom trip:

Mudhog wrote:Have to clean Mudhog this morning after Woodhill Patrols yesterday

How bad was Stadia?

it was very bad

Can't wait to see some photo's

We Took a few of the Norwest OHV club out on Sat to have a bit of a play day before Ron took them up top Whangas Road on Sunday which I couldn't do unfortunately.

I think Simon and the rest of the of the OHV boys had a fun day on Sat, plenty of winching, plenty of mud, plenty of carnage 3 punctures, a Safari panhard rod snapped in two, a couple of bent and broken Zuk springs. all good muddy fun












was good to tick off another ORE Members face, was great to finally meet ya Simon.

Now that is MUDDY!!

Picked up new 2jzge for my vzn130. That'd be the easy/cheap part out of the way I'd imagine.

Tried to get the Lada road legal. And failed.

Put new seals in the brake master cylinder. The brake pedal has no pressure as of yet, so lots more bleeding to do

Oh well, it's all for the best I suppose

decided i had better do some work on the 40 as our yearly trip to dave hintz farm at taihape is only a couple of weeks off .funds are a bit tight after our usa trip but have had a pair of longfields sitting in the garage for about 6 months .so in they went .one of the kingpin bearings fell apart on disassembly,Had to dig pretty deep in the garage to find a replacement .Borrowed a mates brake flaring tool to remake a couple or brake lines that were leaking .discovered that the clutch slave cyclinder is leaking as well .will steal the one i have put aside for the prado and replace it as funds appear.another day should see it all ready .got a couple of stuck brake caliper pistons to unseize and a fiddle brake lever to free up then will be ready to go bring on the mud

took vomitron out to the waimak for a bit of a rumble around.. took a hardcore cruiser chap with me and i think he might have had fun?!? was good fun just sloppin ole vomitron through the shite.. turned into a nice day weather wise too..

1 chap blew two tyres off rim.. creepys on a 10 inch rim..

and wow... i was surprised how much its changed out there.. quite a lot of work gone into makin the 4wd play area thing and also blockin it from vehicle access.... had a think whilst bimbling around and its been about 3 - 4 years since i've been out there..

and the silts the same.. ick..

niblik wrote:and the silts the same.. ick..

I think you mean "valve grinding paste"

niblik wrote:took vomitron out to the waimak for a bit of a rumble around.. took a hardcore cruiser chap with me and i think he might have had fun?!? was good fun just sloppin ole vomitron through the shite.. turned into a nice day weather wise too..

1 chap blew two tyres off rim.. creepys on a 10 inch rim..

and wow... i was surprised how much its changed out there.. quite a lot of work gone into makin the 4wd play area thing and also blockin it from vehicle access.... had a think whilst bimbling around and its been about 3 - 4 years since i've been out there..

and the silts the same.. ick..

Yea it was great fun getting out there in the mud the rover was in fine form, cheers for the good day fulla
It was interesting to see all the work theyve done out there recently, does any of the ChCh boys know what they are actually doing?

hosehustler wrote:

niblik wrote:and the silts the same.. ick..

I think you mean "valve grinding paste"

and if i knew you werent workin, woulda dragged ya out for a fumble in it..

and ya welcome jase.. was good to have ya along..

It was interesting to see all the work theyve done out there recently, does any of the ChCh boys know what they are actually doing?[/quote]

http://ecan.govt.nz/publications/Plans/ ... 210410.pdf,


tis in there somewhere...

yeti wrote:It was interesting to see all the work theyve done out there recently, does any of the ChCh boys know what they are actually doing?

http://ecan.govt.nz/publications/Plans/ ... 210410.pdf,


tis in there somewhere...[/quote]

i go down quite abit and there mainly talking about the south side of river (from what i can see in that link). they have been digging out those lake/pond things by 4x4 area for couple months now

meece4x4 wrote:We Took a few of the Norwest OHV club out on Sat to have a bit of a play day before Ron took them up top Whangas Road on Sunday which I couldn't do unfortunately.

I think Simon and the rest of the of the OHV boys had a fun day on Sat, plenty of winching, plenty of mud, plenty of carnage 3 punctures, a Safari panhard rod snapped in two, a couple of bent and broken Zuk springs. all good muddy fun













was good to tick off another ORE Members face, was great to finally meet ya Simon.

Wow that looks like fun I bet you all had a blast.

meece4x4 wrote:We Took a few of the Norwest OHV club out on Sat to have a bit of a play day before Ron took them up top Whangas Road on Sunday which I couldn't do unfortunately.

I think Simon and the rest of the of the OHV boys had a fun day on Sat, plenty of winching, plenty of mud, plenty of carnage 3 punctures, a Safari panhard rod snapped in two, a couple of bent and broken Zuk springs. all good muddy fun

was good to tick off another ORE Members face, was great to finally meet ya Simon.

Like wise Mark.
That mud is wicked. Have to use alot of anger to get through it.
Speed and horsepower count for everything.
What a blast.
Whanga's was good today and it rained all day too.
There was a slip while we were in there and had to cut and dig our way back out. We got out ok. In the car park I looked to see why the cv's were clattering so much. Reached in throught the shreaded boot and pulled out half the bearing cage in three bits and couldn't find any of the balls Oh well they had a good innings as they are the same ones that came with the truck 3 years ago. They lasted 2 diffs, 32 inch tires, and hours of abuse.
Good thing I didn't need them to drive the 6 hours home
Pics and vid come.
Cheers to all the new people I meet over the weekend.
Big thanks to Ron and Rikki for the hospitality and for the workshop to repair the days carnage.

The camera didn't come out much as it was so wet all weekend.
So I only got a couple of pictures and a wee bit of video.
First off, Ron our host was giving me heaps for bringing a "knife to a gun fight"

I struggled for the first couple of hours, then got the hang of the conditions.
His Jeep was a weapon and drove everything. Until this,


Whanga' was cool


This was us going past the new slip that must of happened within minutes of us getting to there.
Many hands make light work.


Ron's son nearly rolled his Terrano and the zuk ripped out the front shock of the tower (can see it in this vid)
Good time. Rikki got most of the good video. I'll try get some off one of the clubbies that came along (Hilux)



Cheers,

Looks like it was an awesome trip! So gutted I missed it

You prob would have got sick of pulling me out though