Offroad-Express

i went out around the winui coast with a club today (sat), got bout 45 mins into the day and my transfur case started to play up. poped out of low range then wouldnt go back in straight away. got it back in in the end tho. Parked it up and left it. didnt want to be towed out by a jeep :tongue: . drove it home and the noises got progressivly worse. bad start to the weekend for me.

Did you go out with the CCVC Wacko?

They have a trip out the Wainui coast on sunday that I am heading out on.

Cheers
Matt.

nah. fairly sure it was a wellington jeep club trip. good place tho. next time i go there i plan to do a bit more driving

Started on a few jobs that have been on the cards on Rangielux.
Fitted up some alloy door skins to the inside of the doors (there was nothing before)
Wired in a thermo switch to the radiator fan - rear rad and used to have the fan running all the time with the ignition - much better now .
Made up a removable bar over the top of the roll bar behind the cab and started mounting up the 4 spots to go up there (and 2 more to go on the front bar) - bring on the first night run

Puled the cambelt off my truck, ran into problems with lining up the cam,

Spent Saturday sleeping and vomiting after far too much Copperhop and white wine (not in the same glass) so didn't get as much done as I wanted.
Got the body bolted to the chassis on the resto project FJ40 so just some glass for the windscreen, some catches for the half-doors and some radiator stop leak stuff and it's ready for it's warrant. Took it for a spin round the village to celebrate.
Started making up new carb gaskets for the Holley on the V8 FJ40. Hopefully that will get it running decently so I can take it over to the Sheffield Mudplug. Definitely going to need some tyres for it though.

Starting a welding and metal fabrication course at CPIT in a couple of weeks too which should increase the motivation to go out when it's dark and cold and get on with the garage duties.

i replaced the steering shaft seal on my hilux. pulled all the carpets out to dry it out, fixed the heater, electric mirriors and re run some wires for the spot lights and work light.

whats the course cost mongoose?

back on thread though, did nothing on my 40... just went on an outing to the north side of the ashley with a few ore boys... sweet...

thanks for the ride along h2olova...

fitted lj 71 gear box and trans in to my hilux (r151) made new gear box mount . changed exhust direction . made new front drive shaft . cut more out of side of fuel tank , still need to weld , strip down pto out put and turn out put flange to go out back to line up with possition of winch , removed front axles and smashed cv bits , clean up lsd and start putting back together , need new bearing now bugger , Monday after work turn up 12mm bush for in side pto , weld up fuel tank , get tube for rear drive shaft (1550 mm long , hope its not to long) and prep yoke ends in lathe .need to have a sick day this week so truck will be ready for test run sunday . All this for a pto winch.. TeLexs

went to the ashley, as i stated earlier.. thought i better put this in the right thread...

nothing supremely exciting to view but heres a couple of pics anyway....

smokey doin it easy, with a bit of free advertising..


daz gettin a guiding hand from worzel...


and finally, leithfield and 4x4boy waitin for a turn...


interestin day out...

I wish I had been there.

I just managed to get some pics off my buggered camera from last weekend, Here is one crossing.

i competed in the 24 hour challenge with 17 other vehicles 2 other clubs and heaps of mud, winching and generally caning the old nissan. put a another small dent in the lower rear panel and almost rolled it. look for next months 4x4 action mag it should be in there, congrats to bruce hughes and his team from the southland land rover club who took out first place.

whats the course cost mongoose?

It's $427 Niblik, 20 weeks at 3 hours every Saturday morning. There's an advanced one after it too which runs in the afternoons usually. Should be good, finally learn to gas weld.

Sat pulled the front axle and cut the spring perch'es off, rotating them 6deg to sort out caster change from the rear to front spring swop.... had a mate over that night helping out to many bourbons later we decided to reinforce it as well ( Pirate is a great site for ideas)
Sun machined up some flash nuts for me an turoa for jam nuts on the steering rods I made as well made them outa 30mm solid 4130 bar
Oh and went to bed early dosed up on pain killers.... bloody tooth ach .... now my dentist is gona get my tire depost

Cheers Reece

Posted a couple of pics from the Ashley trip in my album

Ashley Day & Night Trip

Did anyone manage to get a pic of the Mu filling up with water?

Thanks guys for pulling it out quickly I thought we were going on its side under the water.

Have you checked worzels photo album

He took a couple have a look here

OMG

WTF

Aaron wrote:Did anyone manage to get a pic of the Mu filling up with water?

Thanks guys for pulling it out quickly I thought we were going on its side under the water.

h2olova was cruisin behind ya and as we came around the scrub and saw ya, crap!... right foot planted and off to the rescue!

didnt think to grab camera... strop was first port of call... only because we didnt have a dredging net

hows the mu? electrics ok?

and this pic is after the mu was pulled back a bit.. i remember it was quite easily going in the drivers window in deep water and a hell of an angle..



lucky lad aaron..

Most things still working,

Radio dead and Glow plug system turns on and off as your driving.

I was going to wash out the inside but that wasnt what I had in mind.

wet arse all the way home, but it was a good day great fun

Aaron wrote

wet arse all the way home, but it was a good day great fun

A wet arse is easily fixed!! Could have been a whole lot worse..........

The MU was looking fairly precariously perched when Niblik and i first arrived on the scene

A good bit of team work soon had things sorted.

And it looked like such an innocent peice of water

that will teach me not to check first!

Well nothing happend as exciting as the water antics down south.

Went up the aotea block again at night(never get bored of it especially not is this wet weather!) Did a lot of wet slippery hill climbs, had the old sliding down the hill feeling(couldnt actually stop on it) and having to spin the wheels forward to actually get the tires to get grip. It was a long long hill with a bank at the bottom to get onto it so acclerating down the hill was out of the question Was about to call it a night then jumper got stuck, pulled him out, then managed to slip into a drain and his engine stop This was all on a slippery wet grass section. We all got him out in the end and off home. Dam it was slippery up there, so much fun!

Have to pull the front end apart now as got a couple of bushes binding on the half shafts.

Mike

I had an "AWESOME" weekend trying to replcae lower ball joints. Got the right hand side done, and will do the left next weekend. A lot of mucking around for such a small part, but well worth the experience.

Mike

Body lift on the GQ

Too easy

What did i do wrong

So far so good though, body hasn't fallen off going round a corner, now all the other crap like making new or modifying the old bars and bumpers etc etc.....

Oh, and a new set of rims and tyres to fit.

On that note, anyone want a set of 33 X 12.5R15 Yokohama Geolander M/T's?? 13mm Tread, mint condition, with black ROH 15 X 8 rims. All tyres have tubes fitted. PM me if interested.

Bloody good tyres by the way

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i helped him

was fun

Couldn't have done it with out ya man, especially your floor mangleing skills
Cheers

DB, make sure you post pics when you put the 35's on

Oh, and let me know how bad it is for lack of power, I'm tossing up between the BL, 35's and LVC, or getting a TJM diff lock when in oz

Hehe, take the opportunity and grab the diff lock, especially if its for the rear!!!!!!

Diff locks are AWESOME

Bodylift can be done for $60 and is super easy.

35's, well, that can be done anyold time

DieselBoy wrote:Couldn't have done it with out ya man, especially your floor mangleing skills
Cheers

second to NONE !... love panel steel....its soo flimsey