Offroad-Express

might be heading up Wilsons Road on Sunday for a look-see. Head on to Murawai for a play!

Sadam_Husain wrote:... spent heaps of time doing shit on the 40 series recently,...

Thats a lucky 40 series Cruiser!!!

Looking good.

bout to pack up and head to Gwavas forest for the Tuff truck up there, weather looks ok so should be a fun weekend (even if im navi in a Nissan!!)
will attempt pics but no promises!

a teaser from last year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy7IuSNtRqE&feature=related

Just about all packed and ready to head up there I'm giving you another big muddy hug again this time Euan , shiny got 2 more ORE stickers

Mine started on Tuesday.
Trying to get the truck ready for a day out on patrol in Woodhill.
Tidied up some switches and wiring in the dash and out into the engine bay.
Put in a 2nd Gear switch to force the auto into 2nd and hold.
Finished off the hatch for the PTO winch shear pin location. Just needs a catch to hold it closed.
Then started playing with my 18yr olds first car....He got a MR2 old shape. Needs a tidy up for a WOF. only cost him 1K... So hes all keen to tinker with it.
Borrowed a winch rope from Monstr (Cheers Mate )for the electric (Just in case I have issues with the PTO)
Now its lunch and get ready for work tonight and out the door Sat am with the kids on Patrol.

To those guys and Gals going to the Gwava's challenge.. Good luck and have some muddy fun !!!

Well, after 2 hours sleep, got up at 4am friday morning, drove to the airport and got on a silver budgie at 730 bound for Fiji. arrived nadi @ 1030. picked up a near new Jiminy rental. drove via 2 resorts for lunch and a few swims to suva to arrive at 530pm for dinner at my mother's place. gotta love 28 deg evenings drinking duty free vodka
got a screw in left rear tire and it was fully deflated after 30mins of arriving. tomorrows mission is to get it fixed without telling the rental company so as they don't hoover my credit card for some $$$.
have a huge week planned, drinking sleeping and swiming in the tropical heat (anyone jealous yet?)
Will post some pics later of the rental and some neat stuff.
T2 project on hold for 10 days or so
More to come.
Cheers,

Saturday,
Got punture fixed in 3mins and cost $6 FJD ($4.80 NZD) so happy with that.
Here's a couple of pics




This is my Mother's place in Suva. This is only the front lawn



In the back ground is Parlement House. 2.5 acres in the best street
Here's the house.



Off Monday moring to Musket Cove for 7 days of RNR.
Cheers,

well final done tappets and changed the oil and filters on the old whale what a difference it makes doing tappets all ready for west coast next w/e well nearly if get time will weld rocksliders on next week at work

Got new sparkplugs for the Lada. Again. Hotter burning ones this time, for when it's working properly.

Also got carb cleaner, and ordered new ignition leads.

But the stoopid rain stopped me from actually doing anything

Had a great day out in woodhill on patrol, was the only one who turned up .
Took a work mate around on the easy tracks (stock Nissan Pathfinder), he had a ball.
Then had a play with the new PTO setup.
As I was on my own just decided to winch up some steep backs.
It pulls nice and hard, a real difference to the electric.
Slow in first but as the auto goes up thru the gears it just flys, not like the competition boys but sounds "choice".
I even forgot to release the handbrake on one winch
Freespool worked fine, and the rope spooled onto the drum nicely.
Even winching backwards down a hill section worked nice.
This was all dead winch with no drive.
Only down side to the day was as I was driving home on State hi-way 16 a tyre sound got louder and louder. Truck felt a little strange. Pulled over to find a flattie , steaming away in the rain.
Spare is still a new 33 which looks strange when replacing a 35.
The 35 had picked up a nail .
Oh well get it fixed next week sometime.

kbushnz wrote:Had a great day out in woodhill on patrol, was the only one who turned up .

Been working non-stop since beginning of August (I think). Next day off scheduled for 2 October

Apologies for being a club slacker

kbushnz wrote:I even forgot to release the handbrake on one winch

Done that a couple of times. You don't notice at first because of the pulling power.

Alan

hit the gwavas forest for a bit of a fang about over some of the coolest laid out tracks in some of the most wicked forest acess in the area! some massive stages, the "tardis" being most noteable for its near vertical drop down ( about 30m i think...it seemed like 30 KM!!) some of the stages we did at nite were so much fun, very tight in big nissans/cruisers!

a absoluetly great teams eventwith a fantastic organising team, its well worth getting a team together for the next one!!, shame its every 2 years!

oh and i was too busy having fun in waist deep muck to take any pics sorry!

Fixed rattles all day yesterday , wow what a difference.
Turned chippy today a built a whole rear wall on my mates unfinished garage, know have a covered work shop and place to store one Zuk.

started new job this week and got a new puppy as well

so by the time the weekend rolled around I was shattered, but still managed to adjust the wheel bearings install new 35" mudstars and give the old bus a wheel alignment, then cruise home and build a new gate to keep the puppy in

still bloody knackered though

badnuz wrote:hit the gwavas forest for a bit of a fang about over some of the coolest laid out tracks in some of the most wicked forest acess in the area! some massive stages, the "tardis" being most noteable for its near vertical drop down ( about 30m i think...it seemed like 30 KM!!) some of the stages we did at nite were so much fun, very tight in big nissans/cruisers!

a absoluetly great teams eventwith a fantastic organising team, its well worth getting a team together for the next one!!, shame its every 2 years!

We are just home also.
We had a Ball. Thanks Hawke's Bay 4X4
I didnt Brake any thing... I mean my Brakes didnt work and I broke every thing.
Jerry has more photos than a bus load of Japs.... He should be home in a hour or so...

well wired up the spotlights on my zuk and painted front bumper. after much confusion found why lights weren't working, a corroded fuse. Replaced all good now.

Looks like head gasket is starting to go too. Bloody typical.

got land rover dropped off at mechanics saturday morning... she's going to be really bastardized now with a toyota gearbox and transfer case. then swept garage out and reorganized my tools, i washed a decent amount of woodhill down the drain...

today helped caleb (uwsho) fit his new 2" lift rear springs and had a quick lesson and some practice in arc welding.

my weekend was putting up 12m walkway at rubbish transfer station over the shore

no truck work waiting on new hoses and repaired calipars

Had an awesome day yesterday up at the bombing range north of Murawai! Was up there with Drurban, Hilux Dan and Churchill. Will get some vids up in a couple of days! Wicked day out, Jeep was cranking all day long!

Had a great weekend with a great bunch of guy's at Guava's, team did well, as did our support crew back in the pits...

I enjoyed the two tracks I got to drive before a horrable knocking noise form engine started, Think it's either a drunk Irish midget trying to get out of the engine with a hammer or a bearing in the bottom end...

...Still keen for next one though!

Big thanks to those who ran the event!

Was another fairly quiet weekend...

apart from frying my alternator on friday night i tried pulling it out on sunday in between rain showers got it almost out then got side tracked ( i blame you Andy ) ended up putting in my 2" lift springs.

Went from this:




To this:





Pretty stoked with it shot for the help Andy

Caleb

rotordogg wrote:I enjoyed the two tracks I got to drive before a horrable knocking noise form engine started, Think it's either a drunk Irish midget trying to get out of the engine with a hammer or a bearing in the bottom end...

Fairly sure it's a leprechaun.

Don't blame me when you find out it isn't though...

uwshho wrote:To this:




Caleb

Thats looking sweet man, enough room for those 33"s now haha

phraza wrote:

uwshho wrote:To this:




Caleb

Thats looking sweet man, enough room for those 33"s now haha

i was more snickerin at the custom labelling on the rear tailgate, written in the dust..

hahahaha crack up!

Why is it under a cover?
I thought only people with nissan hid them undercovers

Yea the jealous comment came from my flatmate... owns a subaru in 10,000,000 pieces and a honda... go figure

I guess i should put up the sticker thats on the other side

Can you tell me where to get one of them? do you still need a alternator?

SP450andLE wrote:

rotordogg wrote:I enjoyed the two tracks I got to drive before a horrable knocking noise form engine started, Think it's either a drunk Irish midget trying to get out of the engine with a hammer or a bearing in the bottom end...

Fairly sure it's a leprechaun.

Don't blame me when you find out it isn't though...

Sump's off, It wasn't a leprechaun.

Will have to sell some crap to pay for new engine...
...luckily I got a few spare projects I can part with at this stage.