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Posted: **Sat Oct 08, 2011 4:56 pm**

Well only 3 weeks till the 1st round at Inglewood so must be time to start the rebuild. All panels off new panels cut to shape and reattached, Dont forget to paint where needed before reattaching. Rear suspension to redesign and rebuild. New signage to be cut and fixed. Yep we will be there, only a little list of things to do

Posted: **Sat Oct 08, 2011 5:11 pm**

Working Sat, and now working Sun Day and Night shifts. Stink.

So much for going to have a looksee at the Manukau Winch Challenge!
May the sun shine on your backs, and panels stay attached to your wagons.

Posted: **Sat Oct 08, 2011 5:33 pm**

Stayed home all day with a horrible cold.

But I still managed to spray the RHS wing in the engine bay with black engine paint, sort out all the stuff from the back and get it ready for a 4wd trip.

Now I just need to get the master cylinders done - they are in the shop now, will be early next week I get them back.
And then take to to Mag and Turbo to get the front brakes done.

Then it should be relatively driveable, and ready to have a home-made lift kit designed and fitted...

Posted: **Sat Oct 08, 2011 5:58 pm**

Havnt done much this weekend but spend abit of time working on the truck this week. Fitted new alternator, new belts, new battery, new rear wheel cylinders :mrgreen:

just need to fit the new rear brake shoes and figure out where the little electrical gremlin is hiding round my alternator :roll:

Posted: **Sat Oct 08, 2011 5:59 pm**

pulled the front shaft out and changed the CV boots,
a fiddly messy little job. fitted new lockable hubs. fixed yet another oil leak.
speedo has died so thats tomorrows job.

Posted: **Sat Oct 08, 2011 6:19 pm**

spent a few hours at a motivational seminar.... ie: manukau winch challenge.

that farm is awesome

Posted: **Sat Oct 08, 2011 6:41 pm**

cleared tracks this morning

recovered stolen vehicle this afternoon :mrgreen:

happy times today

Posted: **Sat Oct 08, 2011 6:48 pm**

skid wrote:cleared tracks this morning

recovered stolen vehicle this afternoon

happy times today

whos?
hope it wasnt one of the ORE lads ones

Posted: **Sat Oct 08, 2011 6:53 pm**

went for a drive to watch manukau WC, drove home again... good day! :mrgreen:

bring on tomorrow!! :mrgreen:

Posted: **Sat Oct 08, 2011 6:54 pm**

vvilly wrote:
skid wrote:cleared tracks this morning

recovered stolen vehicle this afternoon

happy times today

whos?
hope it wasnt one of the ORE lads ones

http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/ ... 33&t=27504

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2011 6:17 pm**

fixed speedo. cleaned up tracks on the board and re-soldered a heap of dry joints.
didn't miss to much of Bathurst

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2011 6:30 pm**

did some skids :mrgreen:

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2011 6:32 pm**

wopass wrote:did skid

No surprise there..........................
:mrgreen:

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2011 6:35 pm**

Finished of the painting in the RHS of the Lada engine bay.

Might/might not upload pics... :lol:

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2011 6:39 pm**

curly12 wrote:
wopass wrote:did skid

No surprise there..........................

if he heard it he would be having sex with himself...again ....and again... :lol:

theres a big ass gravel patch not far from my place with lots of rarrrkys all over it :lol:

and theres big fat black marks all over the place between here and cambridge :mrgreen:

yeap, good weekend.... might let it have full potential next weekend :twisted:

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2011 7:04 pm**

Went and checked out the manukau wc on sat. awesome event, could have been wetter though! couldnt stay long as i had the 2 yo kid with me (the little blonde girl that kept asking for peaches!), got the whole week off now looking after the her! might just go exploring while the mrs is away. Wopass, your trucks pretty sweet! and whoever owns the exo'd LC prado, I want it! nice truck!

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2011 8:03 pm**

micahb wrote:and whoever owns the exo'd LC prado, I want it! nice truck!

It's my truck, thanks for the positive comment.
But not going part with it.

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2011 8:54 pm**

spend friday saturday and sunday down near ohakune riding trails on dirt bike, was 1000 or so riders down there, big weekend glad i have tomorrow off,

2.8 in the hilux needs a bit more poke to, possibly turbo, ...... oh and 4th gear would be nice

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2011 9:10 pm**

been out recovering bloody nissans for the second day in a row :lol:

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2011 9:38 pm**

Looks like reeces truck , does that mean the winch out of the river has been repaid now :wink:

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2011 9:55 pm**

just got back from the pub in bathurst after watching the holdens kickarse at mt panorama.awesome weekend ,need a couple of days to detox now

Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:17 am**

Took engine out of trials truck, swapped all the bits over to new engine and put it back in again, Not a bad effort concidering the body was built over the engine/gearbox!!
Big thanks to Stu, Dave and my son Chris for the help!!!

Two weeks to first round, bit of a finish off and tidy up and should be ready!!

Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2011 10:46 am**

Got my new tyres on friday

33x10.5 Silverstone MT-117's

Will get them fitted this week some time.

But might need to do a bodylift as they will rub quite bad at flex but we will see.

Got my old lady a Mitsi Galant for $500 and fixed that up for its wof today.
(Only failed on water in the headlight thismorning 10/10/11)

and fitted radio's (PRS & CB) back into the Bighorn.

Cheers Phraza for heading to Woodhill for me to see if Roger has those parts ready. Much appreciated.

Headed out to Glenbervie Forest to do a bit of Mountain Biking good day didnt break anything and did the "The Bluff" dam what ride haha

Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2011 12:35 pm**

FORGE1 wrote:Got my new tyres on friday

33x10.5 Silverstone MT-117's

mmm jealous. cant wait to get new rubber for mine!

Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2011 5:58 pm**

went on a wee river trip with the chch boys

Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2011 7:22 pm**

went down south too.. .almost didnt get to go 4x4 thou;

but we did

even had an on-looker :mrgreen:

top weekend!!!

Posted: **Wed Oct 12, 2011 7:04 pm**

bugger me ... Clean sheeted WOF on the Safari today :mrgreen:

Posted: **Wed Oct 12, 2011 7:10 pm**

meece4x4 wrote:bugger me ... Clean sheeted WOF on the Safari today

Me too, that's two in a row for me

( very strange for a Suzuki ) :lol:

Posted: **Wed Oct 12, 2011 7:58 pm**

suzookyman wrote:
meece4x4 wrote:bugger me ... Clean sheeted WOF on the Safari today

Me too, that's two in a row for me ( very strange for a Suzuki )

Hey Al, hows tricks up north? yeah tis for a Zuk, I remember Linda's one ALWAYS needed something done each time, last time the Safari 'failed' on spots of water in the headlight otherwise it would have gone though clean last time too.

Posted: **Thu Oct 13, 2011 11:23 am**

Got mine through a vtnz warrant the other day, didn't even have a front bumper either :shock:

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