Offroad-Express

thought i would start this one, i know its a bit early , but i thought it had to go in here anyway ... today i changed the back up starter motor in the beast , as it started to play up and sound like all the parts were having a mud fight , so i rebuilt my one that came with the truck yesterday , so that went in today , and tomorrows job will be to rebuild the back up one, then it will be all sorted , till the next mud trip , also it got a wash today , and a check over on the hoist at work , and everything seems to be the same as last time i checked everything out . so i think the plan for the rest of the weekend to come will be work saturday morning , then picking up a car in the afternoon for a friend , then not sure what the plan is for sunday , ill guess ill have to wait and see what the rest of the week will bring

Looking forward to this weekend. Hope to be achieving a lot.
This week I installed the rear view mirror, rear driving lights. Fixed the air leak in the locker line and the land anchor sorted. Trailer all reg'd and warranted. Ready to go!! We all bugger off after work tomorrow to Springs Junction.

all finished this week

Spent the day at field days with Pedro and Gazza. Didn't spend much myself. Shedloads to see, walked for miles. Caught up with badnuz. Pedro is enjoying his new ARB jacket skid!

chrome wrote:all finished this week

Looks good!!!

Cleary wrote: Pedro is enjoying his new ARB jacket skid!

Cleary wrote:Spent the day at field days with Pedro and Gazza. Didn't spend much myself. Shedloads to see, walked for miles. Caught up with badnuz. Pedro is enjoying his new ARB jacket skid!

gotta get some top hats off 4wdfiberglass tomorrow

wopass wrote:

I reacon it would be far cooler with black silicone pipes instead .

blue are for ricers

went for a drive down to wainuiomata to pick up the transfercase for the zook thanks baulz

couldn't find black 90deg 4"-3" reducers so its blue.

wopass wrote:



gotta get some top hats off 4wdfiberglass tomorrow

i dont give a rats donkey what kermit and the other muppets say, that is one sick lookin 4wd hotrod uber blingus snorkels

Ship in port of Wellington so walked down to nearby ARB dealer , checked out there Taupo 1000 race truck , purchased highlift jack. Not a major achievment apart from carrying the dam thing back to ship, arms about 4" longer.
Back onboard for another round of drooling over Wopass photos above

Got all excited yesterday and got the Bighorn all ready for action . Then this morning after 5mins I mangaed to distroy a CV , so the Bighorn is now back in the shed with the CV out and a new one about to be ordered

Went thompsons track friday nyt, then my truck was stolen friday night/ sat morning

92 safari 17 wrote:Went thompsons track friday nyt, then my truck was stolen friday night/ sat morning

Wot from the track? or Home....

Bummer ....

Pulled front bar off and moved radiator out the way so I can get in and do some grinding / drilling for the winch rope path to the mid mount winch.
Have a play at some welding next week....

Calvin

Stolen from Hamilton east outside a mates flate

92 safari 17 wrote:Stolen from Hamilton east outside a mates flate

Bro that suxs isnt this the 2nd one to get stolen from you??

yep it is the secound one

started the turbo fittment all fine till exhaust manifold came off broken stud bottom rear one, and stub end recessed in to head

found a few lose nuts while unbolting the manjfold that heat shield is not such a good idea

92 safari 17 wrote:Went thompsons track friday nyt, then my truck was stolen friday night/ sat morning

bro thats a bit more than bad luck, i would start wondering about your circle of friends... might be one of them doing you over?

well today i took the 40Rod thru to ham for a run breathing nice cold air....yup pleased i did it. Runs much nicer got snork top hats off steve and now home about to remove the pipes and mod them to fit the hats... watch this space

I can actually say I did something on my 4wd today, new front pads others lasted less than a year

went in to buy a new roll of mig wire and came out with a new tig welder, time to work out how to drive the beast and start making some new shit. Need to get an argon bottle now. Anyone know how the mig will go on argon rather than co2? I got a duel argon reg so i'm hoping to only run (hire) one bottle.

I've done that when ran out of co2 in a workshop , it burns well, cleans the steel in front of the weld pool an plasma field area like a acid bath dose, cool to watch

well that was easier than i thought it was gonna be... didnt have to change much at all, change brace brackets and shorten tube a bit... doneburger!!






have to go get them dirty now

Painted the roof light protector and rope holder I made on friday afternoon. Will refit tomorrow...

Decided to rearrange the layout in the back of the truck as I seem to knock air hoses off or loosen wiring when putting spare cloths/bags in the back of the truck on club runs!!

Remounted computer behind drivers seat, moved fuel tank, air compressor, air/hydrolic ram and pump/filters forward so there's room at the back for storage without getting in the way of wires/hoses.
Tidied up wires/hoses with a few more clips and a bit of conduit...

Found a crap load of dirt hiding above body cross members and exaust shield when cuting them off to move fuel tank forward!!

I cleaned up the Lada alternator, ready to fit.

I just need to wait until I'm free to go to the farm to fit it

Other than that I scoped the net looking for parts for mine and my Dad's project SP250 (well, actually SP450...).

And I got the project Mini running, so now I can swap that engine into my daily driver Mini. Anyone on the lookout for a Mini Clubman body, complete, minus engine?

this weekend i took my truck for a warrent after doing all the work they gave me last time including certing it.

vtnz, the barstewards, failed it, and gave me another list as long as the last one for various things, mainly rust. i argued till i was blue in the face, in the end all i got was, 'we all make mistakes, i missed it last time i checked it' and 'all i can do is appologise'.

pissed off, all work done, just needs to go to the panel beaters now for some rust love and it might pass depending on if they find anything new this time round.

vtnz - joke. rant over.

went up to kakahi and picked up the front and rear diffs for the zuki today

met spanky (vaughan) top bloke

now to start on some monster changes

Timmy511 wrote:vtnz - joke. rant over.

I've only ever heard bad things about them, apparently they are jsut drop out mechanics, they dont care about important safety issues but are more fussed with minor things that dont really matter, I will never take my vehicles there, just hope i never get a green sticker...