Offroad-Express

Well my weekend started today, day off work.

Got the alternator back in the Safari. Runs like a dream now! Until i went to take it for a drive and found my brake pedal stiff as anything. So did some investigating and fixed a hose at the vacuum pump and now its mint!

Picking up the ARB roof rack this weekend. And winch wiring, so thats next on the list!

cheers

Fraser

Got new idler arm(Cheers Hamish) and chucked it in, Worked a treat, much better on road, made obvious that the old one was buggered, only problem is the idler brace wont fit on, needs a hole drilled bigger so hopefully sort that tomorrow.
Painted snorkel, just need to wait for abit of warmth to give another coat and seal inside with Black Gaurd.
Also drained and flushed radiator and filled up with fresh antifreeze.

I got a txt saying my fuel injectors are ready, so I will be able to put them in but unfortunatly I wont be able to work on the truck this weekend bummer as there were several things I wanted to do.

The truck should haul a*se now, as having 2-1/2 exhaust and boost running at 14 PSI + serviced injectors should run mint.

u13turbo wrote:Got new idler arm(Cheers Hamish) and chucked it in, Worked a treat, much better on road, made obvious that the old one was buggered, only problem is the idler brace wont fit on, needs a hole drilled bigger so hopefully sort that tomorrow.
Painted snorkel, just need to wait for abit of warmth to give another coat and seal inside with Black Gaurd.
Also drained and flushed radiator and filled up with fresh antifreeze.

That's the beauty of my design for an idler brace, fully adjustable.
Took half a day off today to change shattered CV's. Will post with pics later in the weekend.
Cheers,

Now i am down to mostly one truck I'am getting a few bits together to turn my lj78 into a bit of a club truck.

got my safari ute conversion all certed today with a list of other stuff,so happy as
vince...

Had a bearing colaps in the gearbox of my patrol and i think ive broken an axel but well find out when i pull it apart next week

4wd gave up the ghost today

But got some 35s on it

simon how did you get half day off you must have good boss

CRAZYBUSTARD wrote:simon how did you get half day off you must have good boss

Hes got the best boss he could ask for

must get one like that

PigFmr wrote:got my safari ute conversion all certed today with a list of other stuff,so happy as
vince...

Awesome ..look forward to seeing it in action soon

bent up some 42 od pipe for protection bars, for a mates challenger

Well had yesterday off to finish fixing the camper so the wife could go away today (all completed and she left this morning). Went to a wreckers that was closed and saw a bighorn body with a few bits on it that I wanted. So went back a few hours later and saw it on the back of a scrap metal truck he told me to follow him back to the yard and said for $20 I get 10min to take what ever I want.

It was just the body that was pretty damaged. I managed to get front lights, back lights, indicators, back windows and a rear spoiler with highstop. so pretty happy as the wrecker when I rang sayd $20 just for the spoiler. was gutted it wasnt a diesel one as I need a airbox for my one. Thanks Kamo Scrap Metal and 2min later the bigorn was a cube lol.

Also cleaned the bighorn inside and out today and fixed my rear lights from woodhill (fuse again). Plan for tomorrow is to redo my snorkel.

bought a toyota previa to transprt my staff around the countryside, frees up my other van so my prado can go under the knife

Spent the last 4 hours putting my clutch on, fitting altinator, fitting blanking plates for egr and putting the motor back into my surf with help from Lincooln, SP450andLE, and andy3542 cheers guys was a solid effort

I think you guys are slowly coming round to the idea of owning a surf

uwshho wrote:Spent the last 4 hours putting my clutch on, fitting altinator, fitting blanking plates for egr and putting the motor back into my surf with help from Lincooln, SP450andLE, and andy3542 cheers guys was a solid effort

I think you guys are slowly coming round to the idea of owning a surf

Don't forget you borrowed all the special tools from a Nissan owner
Sweet,
Cheers,

Oh yes my bad. Couldnt have done the job properly with out the assistance of Simons specialty tools and custom made blanking plates. Thanks dude

uwshho wrote:I think you guys are slowly coming round to the idea of owning a surf

Yeah, NAH!

Spent a lot of the weekend working on the Hilux

Installed my new rear work/fog light (Rigid industries LED) It seems pretty good although has only lit up the garage door so far.

Set up an in cab winch control. Just used my old winch's remote plug so I can plug the remote in inside the cab.

And am partway through replacing the kingpin bearings on the passengers side. Have struck an issue with some stuborn cone washers

cheers tom, nice job fella...

yeti wrote:cheers tom, nice job fella...

stop distracting him.. he should be workin on his toy..

well went to the NZFWDA conference on Saturday, helped out uwshho until basically 1:30

Then off to the AGM this morning.

after all that I dropped Bob off at the airport. Good to meet ya too.

Good day indeed.

niblik wrote:

yeti wrote:cheers tom, nice job fella...

stop distracting him.. he should be workin on his toy..

only had the one beer......hes into it soon ,,,looks good nibzs,,, be another ugly redneck truck down here ......

awesome yeti... more ugly arsed, non capable redneck rigs would be mint down here..

as for on topic, i installed a new airbag into the disco inferno.. woot.. thanks to http://www.landroverspares.co.nz/ for great service with a smile.. tinge of ginge, but a smile..

lincooln wrote:well went to the NZFWDA conference on Saturday, helped out uwshho until basically 1:30

Then off to the AGM this morning.

after all that I dropped Bob off at the airport. Good to meet ya too.

Good day indeed.

Yeah I spent the weekend at the NZFWDA AGM aswell, but the good news it finished early on the Sunday so I was able to work on the truck and get the solniode rewired and get my new winch rope on thanks to HiluxDan thanks for helping me spool it on the drum and for Sibainmud for pointing out my cock up of how I wired it up cheers for that .

Also it was good to meet up with Bob (Moriarty) it was good to put a face to a name.

Cheers

Saturday morning started off all good was going to head over to a farm i have access to on banks peninsula to help setting up an enduro for my brothers motor cross club, heading to the gas station noticed a rumble from LF of the hilux,filled the truck up,$88. then decided there was no way i was gona get to the farm on that wheel bearing,carried on 200m up the road to lineside motors,got a wheel bearing kit went home fitted it.
On the road an hour later,got to the farm loaded the pegs an arrows onto the hilux and headed up the farm, slippery as f&%k, hard packed greasy clay farm tracks on hill country
had fun getting up those and tryin to keep the truck in a straight line and on track truck had several attempts at leavn the track, be a bloody good property for a winch challenge
Some very tricky and or dangerous terrain.
All in all had a rough start but had alot of fun and learnt some lessons the fun way

lincooln wrote: helped out uwshho until basically 1:30

You'll never guess why the engine wouldn't go back in and how long it took me to find it

Two dowel pins aren't better than one , at least not in the same position (one in block, one in bellhousing)

I was looking for 1.5 mins

Did a wee recovery this morning that got me out of the house.
Still have the right hand CV shaft to fit.

Cheers,

Had an awesome day up north with the Bay of Island club. Thanks to new2zukes for letting me come sit in the passenger seat with him for the day, we even got to test out some of his new bar work with a roll

sibainmud wrote:

lincooln wrote: helped out uwshho until basically 1:30

You'll never guess why the engine wouldn't go back in and how long it took me to find it

Two dowel pins aren't better than one , at least not in the same position (one in block, one in bellhousing)

I was looking for 1.5 mins

Did a wee recovery this morning that got me out of the house.
Still have the right hand CV shaft to fit.

Cheers,

Dont be so modest was more like 30seconds

Oh well at least it was found sooner than later and motor is pretty much installed now

Cheers