Offroad-Express

Bit of a different day for me today.

Went to go pick up some sunglasses off a mate, ended up getting a tour of a pig farm and wrestling a couple of piglets.

Then went to go see another mate and he told me to follow him on his bike to go round up the cows was a bit of fun, nearly got stuck a few times (even his dirt bike was slipping and sliding round).

We then ended up milking the cows

Was a great test for my truck as we have just finished putting in the new motor this week a HUGE amount of thanks to Simon (sibainmud) for putting in the hard yards to help me get back on the road much appreciated dude your a life saver she runs like a dream now...

Great to see you have your wheels back on the road !
Spent the day putting insulation into the roof.
Just topping up the pink batts, stumbled on a Trademe trader who sells off the off cuts, real real cheap...
Cost me $60 bucks and I got about 2/3 of the roof done...
This cleared a space in the garage and I parked up the Prado to dry off so I can set about on Sunday to see where the winch is going to go....

Calvin

Got bored yesterday with all te rain and couldnt do much so went for a drive to see if te paperroad out in tutukaka was any good with heaps of water but it with a rocky base it was pretty grippy.

Hey Ray, you did say you put diff breathers in a.

suzookyman wrote:Hey Ray, you did say you put diff breathers in a

Hey Al,

Ummmmmmmm looks like I have some diifs that need a oil change o well gives me something to do this arvo. Im Just running the factory breathers still



Also Cheers Coxsy for those springs they are going in today as well so should get a decent lift out of it.

Brought a new rear diff that has disc brakes for the patrol, going to put it in tomorro

FORGE1 wrote:

suzookyman wrote:Hey Ray, you did say you put diff breathers in a

Hey Al,

Ummmmmmmm looks like I have some diifs that need a oil change o well gives me something to do this arvo. Im Just running the factory breathers still

Don't forget gearbox and transfercase!

Took my old 12 volt winch off and fitted a new 24 volt in its place all fitted and working great cant wait to test it

Went for another play today up at muriwai. Was a bit of fun for the afternoon.




Had to recover my mate who went off the side of the hill going up

Stayed for a couple of days at a farm near Masterton and had a play out the back on a couple of hundred acres they call Area 51...

Now thats the way to clean a truck...
Wish I had the room.


Calvin

kbushnz wrote:Now thats the way to clean a truck...
Wish I had the room.


Calvin

Im sure your neighbours wont mind Just put it next to the garage so you can go under it to go through the gate

dropped transfercase oil and found this...



looks like part of a bearing to me.

so pulled out the floor pans, seats and seatbox to get to the transfercase. almost ready to pull that and see whats farked and see how the gearbox is connected to the landrover transfercase.

cheers

uwshho wrote:Went for another play today up at muriwai. Was a bit of fun for the afternoon.




Had to recover my mate who went off the side of the hill going up

Hey Caleb,

That is great your truck is going looks like you had a bit of fun. would be keen to go out with you guys next time your are out.

went for a drive in the rain...
did some skids in huntly,hamilton, cambridge,tauranga....

new low suspension setup is cool on the road!!!

phaat as... pity bout the fuel usage

refitted the 31's back on the truck, no runs that i'm planing on going on coming up in the next few weeks (Been/will be busy with other hobbies and the 31's are fine for getting me to the places I need)

Whale looks dorky on biscuit 31's with a 2" lift fuel economy is way better though, 10L/100km instead of 13L/100km on the 33's

wopass wrote:went for a drive in the rain...
did some skids in huntly,hamilton, cambridge,tauranga....

new low suspension setup is cool on the road!!!

phaat as... pity bout the fuel usage

Have you got any pics of the beast lowered.? hey is Wayne (vvega) still floating around up there, is his truck going and have you guys been out wheeling much. Cheers Hayden

Fitted the new exhaust today, have hit a slight snag, need to make a plate to drop the mount a bit (unless anyone has any better ideas?):





Even with it dropped this far, it touched on the floor pan:



Had to get a crow bar in there to stop it vibrating. Also on the factory exhaust there is a mount here:



But I had to remove it to fit the new one... This means the front part of the exhaust to the flex joint is hanging off the 4 bolts on the turbo.

Please put comments re above here to save polluting this thread. thansk

haydgq wrote:

wopass wrote:went for a drive in the rain...
did some skids in huntly,hamilton, cambridge,tauranga....

new low suspension setup is cool on the road!!!

phaat as... pity bout the fuel usage

Have you got any pics of the beast lowered.? hey is Wayne (vvega) still floating around up there, is his truck going and have you guys been out wheeling much. Cheers Hayden

nah no pics of it on the cutties and no idea on the other dude

Prado off road for a month now , and no recovery points on the Discovery, equals no fun and all work

haydgq wrote:

wopass wrote:went for a drive in the rain...
did some skids in huntly,hamilton, cambridge,tauranga....

new low suspension setup is cool on the road!!!

phaat as... pity bout the fuel usage

Have you got any pics of the beast lowered.? hey is Wayne (vvega) still floating around up there, is his truck going and have you guys been out wheeling much. Cheers Hayden

had a chat to him a few month ago sold the lot, buying his own house for his little girl {daughter}

drove down to Rotorua friday spent saturday in porters rd turned into a late nighter in monsoon rain when the whale with us lost 4wd, in at 10am out by 10pm 13km in total

fitted transfer handbrake.. all good then pulled out and painted, quite a tidy unit.
and picked up wide axle rear end with u-bolt flip off lolyf and checked out his nice hilux..

and went to a mates new pad, a 28 acre lifestyle block, just 10 mins from home and I may be able to park my truck in his HHUUUGE shed thats near new and has nothing in it.. pretty stoked with that, so just waiting to hear back from him after hes run it by the boss..

im still about .. still have the entire truck ... never made a real effort to sell it

Went for a play at the ashley today, just went for a random drive with no plan etc

Heres another angle

vvega wrote:im still about .. still have the entire truck ... never made a real effort to sell it

Sweet as, are you going to finish the Truck Wayne.?

Had a couple of good days at Reefton. Got up Alexander Ck, did a walk up the ridge and found the old mine pits (with help of prospecting drill crew). Three bent trucks for the day - bloody good not to be me rubbing the stump this time!
Did half of Green hut track on Sun but it was pretty slippery so called that off. God damm those Safari's are heavy to haul back up hills And then the 'rano steering bent and it went all pidgeon toed. That took a 3 truck tow to get up the hill - mud, rain, hills, broken truck - another great day in the bush

wopass wrote:went for a drive in the rain...
did some skids in huntly,hamilton, cambridge,tauranga....

new low suspension setup is cool on the road!!!

phaat as... pity bout the fuel usage

Ohh forgot to add the big fat skids up on the top of the kaimais in the pouring and sideways rain

Went on the Okato Lions 4x4 expedition, 69 vehicles, Beach section posed a bit of a problem. incoming tide with vehicles stuck along a 10-15 km or so stretch of beach. Luckily some one had the fore sight to stop all vehicles going on to the beach, and they went the road way.

Several club members from both Taranaki Family and Mount Egmont 4wd clubs, plus a local with a tractor recovered around 10 vehicles,