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Newbie in Auckland

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 11:48 am
by arby92
Gidday Gents,

Not new here by any means but never really posted am more of a lurker, decided I would post on here as a couple of members have helped me out recently with some parts and tyres and decided to post some pictures up of my truck. Brought it off trademe about 3 years ago quite cheap but not long into it I had some reliability problems not just with the truck but my driving too :mrgreen: Anyway Isuzu Bighorn with toyota landcruiser diff in the front with lockrite locker in it, standard diff in the back with arb air locker, holden 3.8 v6 with toyota sc14 supercharger on it and custom computer and tune, th700 gearbox rebuilt recently for the 2nd time as apparently they dont like water very much :twisted: , gear driven toyota transfer case with crawler gear in it and driveshaft handbrake, about 4 inch suspension lift, 2 inch body lift on rancho in cab adjustable shocks, some bar work and a tigerz winch, custom dash and complete rewire and 36x12.5 superswampers with a set of 35 x 12.5 goodyear wranglers as my daily driver tyres. Oh and the red car on the left is my second favourite toy

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Got a couple of mates with quite capable trucks too and were all off for a big trip to the crunchie trail in a couple of weeks as we are still scared of thompsons especially at this time of year, apart from that we just generally go up to woodhill for some chaos and fun. Going to try and fit a highlift and hydraulic ram assist as I have turning issues got some parts off suzolla and snr4x4 and all turned up of friday so am excited to try some more rangi mechanics. After that would like to try and fit a roll cage but not quite sure how to go about it and keep it road legal

Be good to get a bit more involved with the community

Re: Newbie in Auckland

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 11:58 am
by sibainmud
Welcome :D
Fine truck.
All ya need to to is join a club, tag on some trips, and thompsons will be a good target for the spring/summer.
I'm looking at it around labour weekend.
Are you north/south or east/west aucks?

Cheers,
Simon Collett
President
Norwest OHV Club

Re: Newbie in Auckland

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 2:37 pm
by coxsy
and one of my spare tyre racks on the back who did you get that off

Re: Newbie in Auckland

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 2:53 pm
by mikee
I reckon Thompsons is better after some rain as the muds not so gunky.

Re: Newbie in Auckland

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 7:27 pm
by arby92
Simon im in East Auckland but dont mind where I go to a club as long as they run some good trips, when are your guys meetings?

Coxsy I bought it from you a couple of years back

Re: Newbie in Auckland

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 7:31 pm
by SP450andLE
Norwest meetings are on the 2nd Monday of each month, upstairs at Paddy's bar, Kumeu. 7:45 start time usually, arrive at 7:30 just in case though...

Re: Newbie in Auckland

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 8:51 pm
by coxsy
you did. bloody hell that must of been awhile back , oh the joys of getting older :D
have to see a face to go with your username :wink:

Re: Newbie in Auckland

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 9:42 pm
by Overkill
Great looking truck, got all the go anywhere parts on it :mrgreen: 8) Not a keen fan on the Fiat parked next to it though :lol: :lol:

Re: Newbie in Auckland

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:17 am
by arby92
SP450andLE wrote:Norwest meetings are on the 2nd Monday of each month, upstairs at Paddy's bar, Kumeu. 7:45 start time usually, arrive at 7:30 just in case though...

cool will try and make it to the next meeting then