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Thought I'd start one of these for once

Got some fun bits ready to go in the 40

Rod ends (only $28 bucks for a full set, thanks Appco) and brake proportioning valve to finish off the swap to front discs



Some new.. well, old seats. Was surprised to find a couple wires hanging out the bottom.. could that be a heated seat? Sweeeet

installed my rebuilt injectors tonight, other little bits still to do in the weekend

Got 2 new batteries, 640cca, and a VSR, will chuck them in the boot. Got the winch back, and she`s all ready to go on with the bars.

Other than that, not a lot.

Farking Curly made me go to see the doc today and they reckon I've got diabeties and have to knock off all the pies and piss drinking and start eatting lettace and shit now
more importantly we pulled the clutch out of my 40 series yesterday, had a good look underneath and it was going to be too much pissing around trying to drop the gearbox, the trucks been really well built but the vacuum 4WD actuator has been slotted into the inside of the chassis rail to fit and the safari PTO shaft would be an absolute prick to get out and the PTO would have to come off the gearbox and the 3" exhaust is tucked up really tight and would have to be dissassembled and removed to get the gearbox out so we took the easier option and pulled the engine

took the clutch out to MP in Upper Hutt to get looked at, they've rebuilt it before and pulled the jobsheet out and it turns out they rebuilt it not many kms ago, he measured it up and theres next to no wear on the clutch plate lineings, the clutch is a 12" chev clutch and functions ok under normal use but spins up under hard load so it looks like it needs something a bit stronger, might look at my old 11" clutch that came out of my flatdeck, that held up better with the 350, big wheels and difflocks and shit, when I had that one built they got some good clamping pressure out of it, Beer Cruisers going to drop off the spare centreforce pressure plate sitting in his shed and I'll have a look at that as well

Geez Saddam I know what the main issue is there from your pics, the engine is in backwards

smurf182 wrote:Some new.. well, old seats. Was surprised to find a couple wires hanging out the bottom.. could that be a heated seat? Sweeeet

Would most likely be a sensor for putting your seatbelt on

rokhound wrote:Geez Saddam I know what the main issue is there from your pics, the engine is in backwards

shit the clutch guy never told me that hes trying to sell me an expensive new clutch

ran the engine with the new injectors no more idle fuming, reves cleanly, still abit advanced climbing out of idle,
now to remove old exhaust system

I got my long time suzuki project running on friday night.
Then went goat hunting today. My Surf got through the river but couldnt drive up the hill.
and i'm going hunting again tomorrow. I'll get some photos then

may get started on a exhaust for the zook tomorrow night.
oh and I made some extended shackles.

This weekends achievment is to find out that my water pump is leaking, almost cooked the engine.

Good thing I spotted the leak otherwise I would of been buggered.

my fathers day efforts along with the help from my brother in law

my good chassis

1 donor body

almost there

and that'll do for today


so now ill leave my project for another couple of months while i finish some others off but at least mine no looks like a truck again and the yards a bit tidier,for now that is

3inch straight through exhaust done ,nice and short as my saf is now certd as a ute,sunroof in aswell ,ujays done,and been tweaking my turbo,the finished exhaust has made a huge difference,egts came down aswell with intercooler and the 3inch exhaust
vince

this followed me home this morning.....
reg on hold
mint new tires
all the prep done
just gotta weld it up and paint it






sweet as

Had a blast in woodhill today with Ray (FORGE1), Winston (Churchill) and couple other mates. Took a few pics, no action shots but heaps of other people did. Videos to come soon.

Very happy in how well the Jeep went considering the mud tyres only have 3mm left on them

Cheers

Going in shiney:


Ray giving anything a crack:


Gettin muddy!

Got 90% of the truck finished today. Off to finished getting wired then hopefully will be ready for testing at Woodhill on Saturday

suzukisport wrote:Got 90% of the truck finished today. Off to finished getting wired then hopefully will be ready for testing at Woodhill on Saturday

thought you were taking the Samurai down?

Spent 3 hours at tyre shop sorting out new tyres for lux,

Traded my 35 cooper stt for some 265 75 r16 bfg mudterrain km2

And scored some lift springs for nothing

suzookyman wrote:

suzukisport wrote:Got 90% of the truck finished today. Off to finished getting wired then hopefully will be ready for testing at Woodhill on Saturday

thought you were taking the Samurai down?

Well I think the truck should be going by then, so may as well take it if its finished. Only thing that won't be done is new gear box mount, so will just stay with the bent one for now. Never been there before so should be interesting.
If the truck hasn't been finished I will be taking the Samurai.

ahh, kicked the Suzuki a bit, Saw TT3D, bought a stretchy tie for the battery and some new plugs too. Fitted stretchy tie. Saw Ray towing his Isuzu while I was on the way home. Overall, nothing much

Meet up with mudde1 went to his mates palce and checked out some dirt great for club run and had him winch me out once when the silt was to deep and the bank was to high

Short video of the Jeep having some fun in 2wd

more woodhill vids on my youtube page:
http://www.youtube.com/user/phraza1

Good picks/vids bro. Was good to see you all again hopefully there wont be any issues next time lol

Winston have you got any of your vids on the computer yet?

Well my weekend started with picking up a trailer from Hirepool on friday and loading the bighorn up tow that to Auckland, slowly lol. Took the little one and wife to the zoo for my daughters birthday.
Sunday went to woodhill was good fun until the gearbox decided to pack up, might be something to do with my driving technique anyway spent today cleaning it and taking the snorkel off standard wheels back on gearbox started coming out and have to pull the suspenion out this weekend going to RETIRE the bighorn. so it will be for sale in the next couple of weeks the wife has agreed to let me sell the bighorn and safari to get another SWB safari as I have never broken anything in the ones I have owned in the past.

went out to sand Island of the coast from Tapora with a couple of trucks




Ill add more photos as they come online

Weekend fun!

NJV6 wrote:Weekend fun!

Pa was in the passenger seat on that run. Reckoned it was a tuff run. said that hill climb was a real mission. Gutted couldn't go on it but am getting truck ready for upcoming comp.

Na the hill climb was ok, the bogs were worse, about 200m in 4 hours

NJV6 wrote:Weekend fun!

#### that is awesome, Safari just ripping the lux up the hill

u13turbo wrote:

NJV6 wrote:Weekend fun!

#### that is awesome, Safari just ripping the lux up the hill

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From what pa was saying they had to keep foot up it to make the top. Was wet top soil with hard wet clay underneath.
that truck is testamant to safaris.Is prob one of the most abused trucks in country and still just keeps on going!!!!

Ha ha yea but remember what Rodge does and what he needs to do are two quite different things!!

Not wrong about the abuse. Finally said enough on one trip and broke the axle housing clean off, still didn't break the cv just the axle.