Offroad-Express

sod all due to working my saturday away , but crossover pipe fitted, sorted out where water hoses will run and dump pipe fitted with egt fitting welded on

brought some draws and modified them to fit the back of my new Surf

finally... got the engine into the surf!

looks like throttle cable is long enough. throttle body is being a pain as the 2lt-e one fouls on the injector pipes. so got to find a 2lt one or make one from scratch.

tweake wrote:finally... got the engine into the surf!

looks like throttle cable is long enough. throttle body is being a pain as the 2lt-e one fouls on the injector pipes. so got to find a 2lt one or make one from scratch.

Yeah, when you change over, suppose to change number 1 & 2 injector pipes over too

Tidied up gearbox ready for install next weekend......still no donor
Keepin an eye out.
Cheers,

finished winch mount installed winch for final time started wiring box under bonnet just waiting for neighbour to come back from town has picked up a couple of connectors to finish wireing welding bracket for fairlead on monday

Failed my WOF on loose wheel bearing

washed both truck on sat then got the big one filthy as today .

sibainmud wrote:
Yeah, when you change over, suppose to change number 1 & 2 injector pipes over too

true, i could do that if i can find the old injection pipes! i will probably make something so i can weld some fittings in.

Went out for a drive in the Aka's with my club. 7 trucks, 1 chainsaw (used on 4 fallen trees), Winch used once on a truck, lots on trees. Fairly easy trip, but good to be out there doin' it.

Got my new shocks fitted to the truck went and tested it on saturday, need to get some different springs as the ones i have are about one third too heavy.
Big improvement but still a little harsh

Arhhhh got called into work on Saturday AM.
Spent a little time playing in the garage today, checking out my hydraulic setup for winch freespool.
Using an old handbrake for the lever.
Dam thing wouldn't work right, kept hydraulic locking. Pulled the master cylinder apart to find it was full of sand.
Works a treat now, just have to make up a cunning linkage system to allow it to fit under my center console.
Will have two handbrake levers, might paint freespool one red and yellow with "ejection seat" written on it. Give the wof man a giggle

Calvin

put a down payment on a new truck today and brought a 2lt off trademe for 180 buks with manual pump!

Well got this done over the weekend...

Thanks to Jason (ClassicCruiserSpares) I got a really good price for some HD Lift springs. so I fitted them over the weekend and now I can do this without guard rubbing very happy. Cheers for the hook up much appreciated.

And it gave me about 100mm lift before it settles so should end up around the 70mm mark

The picture with the springs even though its 400x400 it still says its over 801 pixels so cant be bothered loading that one up.

ahh well on the way up north the suzuki got hot, pulled over and rad cap was cold and so was overflow, so in my infinite wisdom took cap off, long story short found rad cap after a while and re filled with water, still ran a bit hot,

so today i took out rad cleaned heaps of mud and crap out of it, but still as soon as you pit a bit of load on the temp goes up to half, but cools real quick when you button off or go down hill. might be a blown head gasket me thinks Might explain the tiny amount of mayonnaise i get every so often. and the odd bit of white smoke most of the time when off road.

Then today I also found out why the snorkel was still letting bloddy water into the intake, thank god air filters

Not such a great weekend, My bluebird ran a bearing(been ticking for a bloody long time now, was gonna happen sooner or later) so took the terrano to town, and the tensioner bolt on alt snapped.... So had to get home with hard brakes and lights getting dimmer and dimmer. So atm got no vehicles that i can use... Will get terrano sorted tomorrow though.

FORGE1 wrote:its over 801 pixels so cant be bothered loading that one up.

you gonna test that out in woodhill soon?

let me know!

Replaced pitman arm and adjusted RH wheel bearing on pajero for wof so hopefully get it after work tomorrow .Also decided to pull off front recovery hooks and give everthing a good clean up and slap some more black on it, noticed there were no numbers stamped on the bolt heads ( 8.8 or similar) should I change them hooks were new when purchased and looked ok when I pulled em out and gave em a bit of a wire brush to clean up.Must admit didn't look at time of purchase just opened up the package and took everything out and through em on

took the SS for a fang up to Rotovegas, when out and had a looky at the RWC at the TECh park, i gotta say it is a brilliant venuse, so many spectators today went to off road NZ and fanged around the kart track then came home...

so a bit of 4x4ing again

Had a great weekend. Out in the bush yesterday at Woodhill. The mud flying all over the place got some great photos and vids will upload some soon. Went a bit pear shaped when the temp went crazy but we soon got that under control. All around a great day.

fixed up the steering on the 40, went around the south coast to the beer brothers bach on Saturday avo for a couple of cold ones, got 2 puntures when I aired back up ,took the truck in to see the wof man today

Sadam_Husain wrote:fixed up the steering on the 40, went around the south coast to the beer brothers bach on Saturday avo for a couple of cold ones, got 2 puntures when I aired back up ,took the truck in to see the wof man today

Bugga
We stoped for fish and chips and were in bed by 8

Went to Dad's and came back with the crank-handle for the Lada

terranos gearbox bearings got that bit too much noisy, time to whip it out for new bearings now...
long way home in 4th lol

phraza wrote:

FORGE1 wrote:its over 801 pixels so cant be bothered loading that one up.

you gonna test that out in woodhill soon?

let me know!

Yeah mate will do probably wont until next month sometime got to visit the wof man at some stage (fingers crossed)

It better pass especially when it took 3 hours to undo 1 exhaust bolt so i could put a new gasket in and replace the bolts.

FORGE1 wrote:

phraza wrote:



you gonna test that out in woodhill soon?

let me know!

Yeah mate will do probably wont until next month sometime got to visit the wof man at some stage (fingers crossed)

It better pass especially when it took 3 hours to undo 1 exhaust bolt so i could put a new gasket in and replace the bolts.

I'm aiming for Aug 13th or 14th as it will be Norwest patrol weekend
I think we'll have a club run too (if there is enough interest )
Hope to have a new truck by then or the terranosarus will have a new gearbox and going for it's first ride on a trailer
Cheers,

FORGE1 wrote:

phraza wrote:

FORGE1 wrote:its over 801 pixels so cant be bothered loading that one up.

you gonna test that out in woodhill soon?

let me know!

Yeah mate will do probably wont until next month sometime got to visit the wof man at some stage (fingers crossed)

It better pass especially when it took 3 hours to undo 1 exhaust bolt so i could put a new gasket in and replace the bolts.

Seriously? Wow, that sucks

Makes up for replacing the gbox in only half an hour

sibainmud wrote:I'm aiming for Aug 13th or 14th as it will be Norwest patrol weekend
I think we'll have a club run too (if there is enough interest )
Hope to have a new truck by then or the terranosarus will have a new gearbox and going for it's first ride on a trailer
Cheers,

Sweet, sounds like a good goal to go for!

ill be keen for that weekend

Hi Forge1,

The Landrover Club will be on Patrol the weekend of the 20th and 21st of August with our Club having a run on in the forest at Woodhill on the Sunday, I might see if Ken will come and play

It just gives you another option.

Cheers Brett