Offroad-Express

ill start this weekends,never done that before .trucks making some progress after rolling it

son and i got out the sabre saw this morning and started preping 2dr body for removal

after the roll



1st cut and to my surprise i actually like the look of the 2dr ute conversion


but wasnt gonna happen so kept going


and with any luck vechile will be down to chassis by the end of the day and ready to have the new 4dr body mounted

pulled front axle down due to oil seepage thought oil seal gone plus sand under the wiper seal , got a kit for it thursday
it was leaking oil due to being over full, cv's bearings running in a oil bath , will tell of my disapproval to the garage monday
nearly two litres poured out still a dribble flowing out after a hour

dropped out the engine i rebuilt as for some reason just seized or jammed wont know what happened til i strip it down.
picked up a 2nd hand one and swapped parts over and dropped that in the hole. should have it running tomorrow and hopefully will finish my breathers off and change cv over

I have my solinode working from the help of Sibainmud thank you very much Simon.
So I can spool on the new winch rope along with a new hook from 4WDBits.
Also the winch has been stripped done and had it's service and is running sweet.

That is something less to worry about now, now on to the next thing on my very long list of things to do haha.

Project Mu is slow going but getting there slowly.

Back under the truck today looking at how to mount the PTO lever.
And finally decided to cut the hole for the lever and rubber boot.
Now that I have defined where.....Just need to do the how.

Calvin

a jigsaw will do it, but noisey

Rick and I started on the front bar design today, and while we had the winch he suggested I dismantle it, 15 minutes later, I have a pile of bits in a box, with some of them going off to be sand blasted.

more this week efforts..........decided the shiny bumpers looked crap and were rusty so............

Looks mean Taz01, Passed you a few times lately last time was at the stokes valley round about didnt realise it was you only thought "mean truck".

My weeks effort : Troll Trademe tryna find a 4x4 i like.

That reminds me must put those other pics up Taz

front axle back together new seals, less oil this time, and one moly rear arm fitted


didn't bother adding the flat steel renforcement

assisted in the rebuilding of the bazebo fire place, and made a poo curry full of gravel and had a beer or two
fire looks mint now

were you drunk when you took these photos ... it shows

Played in the mud!

Fixed cruise control on Discovery

Jerry wrote:were you drunk when you took these photos ... it shows

hmmm thought the photos looked pretty good......lol

was a good day up at rallywoods yesterday, lots of wood split, fireplace rebuilt and general bullshit spoken...

Bought a manual box for my terrano! needs bearings but thats allgood, atleast itll be strong then. Now gotta put motor into my bluebird so i can take terrano off the road for the conversion!

sighted in air rifle after knocking scope off spotlighting then went on recovery mission to waimak to pull mate out ended up stuck my self but after bit off spade work bit off winching both got out

played in the mud and had a ball. Didn't break anything

Fixed the Lada. Kinduv.

Beat the guards in to fit the Fiva's wheels, got it running better (thanks to Dr_pc for his suggestion on how to do it ) and bled the the brakes AFTER the trials
It actually stops now.

Didn't break anything, surprised a few people, and got a few good comments about how it sounds

Didn't hear any bad things about it, so I must be deaf!

Did worsleys twice -downhill yesteday on the mtn bike. Took the boy and truck up for a wee play today. Took out the passenger side step at the first rock garden trying to get up the back of the rock over on the right side. Good effort whoever got up there. Add sliders to wish list.

Had a great day at the Whangarei trials in the front of lincolns zuk. almost managed to roll it but no pics (that i know of) so it didnt happen.

watched the lada 4wd and i was impressed... except for the suspension which seems abit soft... sounds really nice too.

also got the landy into a garage and iv started taking it apart so i can get at the gearbox and transfer case out.

cheers

gave the saf a bit of a house warming pressy

New clutch

and a high boost turbo kit.

All in and fitted. While motor was out gave starter and alternator a clean/rebuild. Motor looks huge when out.
Also fitted new inner front seals welded up crack in front diff.seem a random place to crack

still havnt fixed my alternator. really getting 4x4 withdraws

cant wait until its done. watch out mud

drive it ... wrote:Did worsleys.. took out the passenger side step at the first rock garden trying to get up the back of the rock over on the right side. Good effort whoever got up there.

that'll be turoa, hosehustler, petefj40 and niblik that took similar lines over that. cant remember if kbjj bothered?



anyhoo, what do ya drive? pics?

i killed some goats,swept some rubbish, sold some stuff,listed more stuff on trademe,did some grinding,did some welding, some more grinding then more welding....yea thats pretty much it.

Finished off making a 3" exhaust for my 13b-t BJ73 Cruiser.





Haven't hosted photo's of the under body section and silencer. I was tempted to run no silencer but would have been annoying on long trips.

Next I'll up the boost and fuel.

Slideways wrote:Finished off making a 3" exhaust for my 13b-t BJ73 Cruiser.


Next I'll up the boost and fuel.

Niiicee!!

the garage stated they fill the diffs to the drain bung level not on litres, pointed this out that doing that over fills the diffs
Mechanic's

coxsy wrote:the garage stated they fill the diffs to the drain bung level not on litres, pointed this out that doing that over fills the diffs
Mechanic's

I thought my old garage had done this when first changed front diff oil. When checked manual they were right i holds 5.2 ltrs!
bit dif to they toyotas i've owned previously