Offroad-Express

Ill start this one.

I decided this morning that I will try my fist attempt at removing rust from a car. The vehicle in mind is the Safari.

There was some bubbles along the roof (high roof) and the top corners of the windscreen.
Its not a professionals job but its better than it was and its not going to be an issue for the next buyer when I sell it.

(pics tomorrow)

On the cards tomorrow is to figure out why the bighorn is sitting down on the passengers side...
any ideas?

So far swapped the new springs over with no change.

Wicked day today:
Got up at 5am to get my 7am flight down to Palmy North. Got picked up at the airport from the car dealer. Fiddled all the paper work and drove away in my new Jeep Wrangler

Then went and saw WRNGLR down the road to catch up and get some half-doors off him (cheers man) and learn some more history of my new beast, then went to ARB HQ to see badnuz and show off the jeep

Will upload some pics tomorrow of it nice and clean

then drove back to auckland, traffic was fairly sweet, good drive to get used to a new car i reckon!

knackered now, bring on the all blacks and beer

Yes well errr, got called into work today 4am to 4pm. Long day.
But did manage to make up two cable dampeners using the sheeting that is used for rubber zodiacs.
Just need to get the Velcro sewn in and add some weight to make them comply with winch challenge rules. And mocked up some roll cage attachments to see if they will fit.

Got T2 on the road
Cleaned up and moved out of the factory.



Moved all the spares back home.
Owe a great deal of thanks to Drurban for the hand all weekend.

P.S Coxsy, This is the thread for THIS weekend

Cheers,

cut the front suspention and panhard mounts etc off a Y60 chassis and getting ready to mount them to a vx80 chassis

im looking at moving the axle rearwards

im after feed back my mates are pushing the line of around 100inches and im favoring 104inches

any thoughts would be good

will be starting a build thread shortly

oh where did i post then
oh bugger last weekend

Thanks to Sibainmud ( Simon) my truck is now at 18 PSI of Boost and is going mint, very quick when spooling up and a very responsive with the acceleration.

Thanks heaps

Couple pics of my new Wrangler that i picked up on Sat:







Will be some more in action in the next few weeks

Nice Jeep!

I like the number plate, rather fitting as i'm sure it's going to drink enough!

Sketchy_Racer wrote:Nice Jeep!

I like the number plate, rather fitting as i'm sure it's going to drink enough!

My thoughts exactly

Sketchy_Racer wrote:Nice Jeep!

I like the number plate, rather fitting as i'm sure it's going to drink enough!

Cheers!

Haha yea the trip back from Palmy wasnt cheap....

Well Today I finally got round to making the front bumper for the Zuk. Didn't take too long so that was good. Still needs more bolts and might modify the way it sits later on. But it just needs a paint and it should be good. Oh and got a new Battery now too. The 6 year old one finally died.

That's about it this week

bloody hell, Photos have been re-sized but still came out large? and now cant edit post, sorry all

yee gods with that bar on front it will stop the zuk from floating across them bog holes

you will be able to join the cruiser brigade and start to learn on how to swim thru the bogs from now on

nice bit of fab work otherwise

mudlva wrote:yee gods with that bar on front it will stop the zuk from floating across them bog holes

you will be able to join the cruiser brigade and start to learn on how to swim thru the bogs from now on

nice bit of fab work otherwise

It's alloy, so shouldn't be too bad.

Now let's just wait for someone to recognise what vehicle it's off...

lincooln wrote:

its a worry when the parts are interchangable...LOL

Smurf wrote:

lincooln wrote:

its a worry when the parts are interchangable...LOL

Yep.

Great way to improve a Suzuki

well the bumper is light as. The two brackets weigh more than the bumper does Still looks like a moustache I reckon. oh and cheers mudlva

Had an extremely great weekend... stuck in bed with the flu havnt been this sick in a long time, looks like a 4 day weekend for me

On the bright side a couple of parts turned up in the post thanks to muddyhilux so now im only needing 1 or 2 more things before I can get rid of my death wobble and have it driving straight

uwshho wrote:Had an extremely great weekend... stuck in bed with the flu havnt been this sick in a long time, looks like a 4 day weekend for me

On the bright side a couple of parts turned up in the post thanks to muddyhilux so now im only needing 1 or 2 more things before I can get rid of my death wobble and have it driving straight

I was wondering where you were. i suppose you will need your jack and creeper back?
Good news is I have finished with them
Get Well Soon.
Cheers,

sibainmud wrote:

uwshho wrote:Had an extremely great weekend... stuck in bed with the flu havnt been this sick in a long time, looks like a 4 day weekend for me

On the bright side a couple of parts turned up in the post thanks to muddyhilux so now im only needing 1 or 2 more things before I can get rid of my death wobble and have it driving straight

I was wondering where you were. i suppose you will need your jack and creeper back?
Good news is I have finished with them
Get Well Soon.
Cheers,

Yea I certainly disappeared off the radar during the weekend No rush for the jack may pop round in the weekend and grab it. Terrano looks good did you have to battle the front bar on?
Cheers nearly beaten this flu, thank god for tremadol and antibiotics

Spent the weekend at the Minginui Recreation Camp. Had a great time ate like a king. Found some great tracks with the Geyserland 4wd club. Bring on summer and some more trips.