Offroad-Express

added a tab to the aircleaner to help hold it in place, pushed the saf outside to wash the mud out of the aircon condensor.
and realy had to sweep the floor ,what a mess

Sold the surf last night and picked my shinny 2002 toyota hilux up..... photos to come

so far it has full bar work from tjm and shitty little tyres

KIWI_TERRANO"]Sold the surf last night and picked my shinny 2002 toyota hilux up..... photos to come

Did you get what you wanted for it dude.?

managed to get 13500 and still have brand new cooper 35s to sell.

pretty happy really, pick my donor motor for turbo conversion up next week.

Double Tap

Body Lift and suspension in the new truck, rim repaired and getting fitted so the 33's can go on !

ready for barwork.

Just gonna get winch serviced while its off, and need a new winch solenoid as the old one got a bit sandy.

Before



And here`s throwing the Body lift blocks in and installing the suspension.





And here she sits all raised, ready for the bars and winch to go on.


Now gotta decide if I want to chuck the manual diff in so i can bin the vaccum assisted stuff.

Is there any pro or con to one or the other ?

manual engine braking down hill, crap in clutch plate
Auto easy driving off road no engine braking

Moved some stuff, shiny got a good workout today





No its not a mustang coxsy

thats a cleveland would love to have a 351 again

having a go at thomsons 2morow. shuld have some pics n vids to put up

had close call today while hunting went up mountains nice day when got there so left quad and track drop down through couple valleys when got back to quad wind was blowing like crazy sleet hail and all wind decided to pick up quad and trailer up and put it on its side must off rolled at least twice down the hill 1st i would have taken pics if my camera wasn't on quad crushed.
hope for beter day tomo

coxsy wrote:manual engine braking down hill, crap in clutch plate
Auto easy driving off road no engine braking

Manual diff the one with the manual locking hubs, already decided i`m gonna keep it auto trans.

That Z is pretty cool, the wheels are cooler

Been sorting out storage in the lux, there's not much room in a bobbed tray when you've got the radiator,spare and fuel tank in there.
So had to get a little bit creative, made a rack over the fuel tank.



Enough for 2 tool box's and a tool set.



Then started on a frame in the back corner for one more storage box.





Not much room left now

wheres the like button! thas sweet

started the weekend helping a mate put new tires on a 4wd quad and proceeded to smash my thumb when we released the ratchet strop we were using to seat the beads.Quick trip down to A&E for a plaster and verdict was broken thumb ,bugger .they put a splint on then it was off up country for the palmy swapmeet held at fielding .Trying to sell my impala to free up some shed space .bought a nice ls1 complete intake for a lazy hundy .Pretty stoked with that .Need it for another mate whos ls1 is fly by wire but we want to convert it back to mechanical butterfly.managed to get out in the garage for a couple of hours and made a start on sadams wiring loom .Lots and lots of wires .was a bit puzzling at first then the penny dropped that we had been supplied with parts of 2 different looms .Once i twigged to that it worked out a lot easier .still got a few more hours to do on the loom then on to the exhaust .Hint sadam ,need fuel tank and pto driveshaft so can work out where i can run exhaust . now inside about to take some pain killers as knocked my thumb in the garage and now it hurts like a bastard

how many people did it take to lift that 70 series body?

Jerry wrote:

No its not a mustang coxsy

That looks like a datsun 240z.



Well my weekend achievements are:

Replaced Rear eye spring bushes on the safari (only thing it failed a wof on) and they had been put on the wrong way as the fuel tank was in the way when taking them out. 3 hours later all done and a badly dented fuel tank (nearly pearced it )

Went to fit the rear bumper on AGAIN to the bighorn as there wasnt something right and spend a few hours trying to figure it out, bent things, swore at things, got the hammer out and still couldnt get it to line up had a closer look and forgot to cut one piece of the bumper off so went to cut it off. dropped the ginder broke the cutting wheel, had some spare ones but thicker used one then, that cut half way and shattered (lucky no injuries) put the last one on and that suffered the same fate with no injuries to be the it broke my grinder so get a new one next week. Gave up put the towbar on and put it back in the shed.

This morning went for a bit of a tiky tour around one of the local forrests. Nothing exciting bar the track getting into the forrest and didnt break anything this time. so thats got to be a bonus. pretty suprised as I was on 2 wheels going up a hill (rear ones) and landed on full throttle 2nd gear and the cvs handled as I was waiting for the bang lol.

Found a place for that most important piece of recovery equipment.....the spade



Then finished (well almost) the storage box holder.



Then went up to Jono's Race Craft and drooled over some cool offroad toys he's been working on....Sorry no pics

Went camping

That looks like a datsun 240z.

Close ..... care to try again?

how many people did it take to lift that 70 series body?

about 6 or 7

RX7

Colder

Jerry wrote:Colder

280zx ? at a guess

Yep 280

Jerry wrote:Yep 280

Haha that would have been my 2nd quess.
Looks like it will one nice machine when completed.

Woodhill again. Got stuck in the bug bog in the playpen . Now got to clean everything.
Great fun..

Actually did this during the week.

Swapped both 4.875 diffs for 5.125 ones and slipped an LSD in the back. The LSD works wonders on the road, the truck has been transformed from a tractionless revver to something that has grip when taking off from right hand turn intersections.

Macetown camp






Some of the running gear from mike's 1st surf is in here...




A bit of Vermin control












Me Planking.....



And the V8 surf with Simex's on ice......
Turn this up nice and loud!

Went to the Ashley river sunday, was pretty slippery

Dumb trees on tracks!




And windy


Great fun!!!

had a good day up thomos on sunday. have a couple of videos to upload but we spent a big part of the day fixing a big slip about 1/4 of the way up . so didnt end up going verry far maby try again soon if the dry weather sticks arround