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Posted: **Sat Jan 14, 2012 5:40 pm**

did a trip up thompsons track ,slip stopped play

Posted: **Sat Jan 14, 2012 6:22 pm**

Took a new front diff for a test drive. Went well.
Nothing to report

Edit; P.S Coxsy, hope ya drove around the road and went up the other side :lol:

Long way to go to find that

Cheers,

Posted: **Sat Jan 14, 2012 6:23 pm**

Waited for my new winch to arrive..... still waiting....

Posted: **Sat Jan 14, 2012 6:27 pm**

Hi All,

A bit more progress on the box for the back of my truck about 90% finished, just have to do the top and install my Air-Zenith compressor, and wiring and then the back is all done. Here are some photos.

Big Thanks goes out to Hilux Dan for the Idea of making the frame out of steel and the fixing of the compressor, als a BIG thanks goes out to madlux for giving his time, skill's and the use of his tools for making it happen.

Cheers

Posted: **Sat Jan 14, 2012 6:31 pm**

Drurban wrote:Hi All,

Is that "The Richard" I see there? :lol:

Looking good.
Cheers,

Posted: **Sat Jan 14, 2012 6:37 pm**

Yep well spotted there Simon, thought it would be good for a laugh :lol:

Posted: **Sat Jan 14, 2012 7:24 pm**

Pulled the motor out of the parts bighorn this arvo. decided to start at 3pm had it out by 5.30. Also got the trans ready to drop out tomorrow morning (exhaust in the way) hense the motor coming out first so I dont have to cut the exhaust to get the trans out.

Updated 15/01/11 - Got the front diff out, trans out, control arms out

Plan for the next few days is to get all the steering out and, torsions and a few other bits out. Maybe the rear diff if I get time.

Posted: **Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:36 am**

well that sucks safari has flat batteries :evil:

Posted: **Sun Jan 15, 2012 11:06 am**

Spent a couple or three hours in Woodhill on Saturday.
New pump works well. Plenty of go now.
Can cruise around in H4 now. As before as soon as it loaded up the EGT just climbed and climbed to silly temps.
Now they are considerably less....
Pump still a little advanced, get a tinkling sound during hard acceleration....
Spent the morning today giving her a bit of a clean, enough so I can work on her without getting all sandy/dirty :lol:

Posted: **Sun Jan 15, 2012 11:23 am**

In between working on my Mini, I have started looking at doing a LHS high-mount alty swap on the Lada. Maybe even a high out-put one too...

Should be fairly simple if I keep the standard alty though.
It'll be so much easier to get to the alty then, and it'll be up and out of the mud too - the way it should have been in the first place! :roll:

Posted: **Sun Jan 15, 2012 4:34 pm**

Stripped the red grease, from my new Ridge Ryder 9500 from super cheap,and replaced with marine grease.
Found a bit of ply wood to replace rear door card on discovery to fit a cooking shelf.

Posted: **Sun Jan 15, 2012 5:47 pm**

Went to CZ Trial's and broke another truck,

Will upload video when I figure out how to

Posted: **Sun Jan 15, 2012 7:55 pm**

nurse wrote:Went to CZ Trial's and broke another truck,

yeah and thats not all you did

Posted: **Sun Jan 15, 2012 7:55 pm**

well friday, wired in an idiot light on my pto( Hope it will stop me from driving off with it still engaged ). Then put on the muds. Drove up Thompsons to look at the slip on Saturday with the club. Bugger that shortened that trip a whole lot.
Took the muds back off then work on sunday.

Posted: **Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:02 pm**

mudmike wrote: wired in an idiot light on my pto( Hope it will stop me from driving off with it still engaged )

Funny you should say that, its one of my next mods...
I am putting a switch in one of the bung holes for that shaft which engages / disengages. Is that how you did yours.??

Posted: **Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:03 pm**

SP450andLE wrote:and it'll be up and out of the mud too

will it ever see mud anytime soon?

Not much for me this weekend, went for a 6 hour tramp in the waitakeres, pretty damn muddy in there!

Posted: **Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:22 pm**

mudmike wrote:well friday, wired in an idiot light on my pto( Hope it will stop me from driving off with it still engaged ).

yeah its not healthy for the bullbar when you do that, I dont usually have a problem forgetting to disengage the pto but I've got a forward/reverse pto thats using a T Bar lever instead of a toyota lever and the way the linkage is setup theres only about 10-15mm back and forward movement in the lever and it farking hard to find neutral in the middle

Posted: **Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:32 pm**

oh been there done that, real bastard isn't it, got idiot sign saying [pto in neutal] on the dash :roll:

Posted: **Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:56 pm**

phraza wrote:
SP450andLE wrote:and it'll be up and out of the mud too

will it ever see mud anytime soon?

Not much for me this weekend, went for a 6 hour tramp in the waitakeres, pretty damn muddy in there!

Gah, idk. I'm trying, as much as my spare time and funds allow - and I seem to have a distinct lack of both of those! :roll:

Posted: **Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:58 pm**

Sadam_Husain wrote:
mudmike wrote:well friday, wired in an idiot light on my pto( Hope it will stop me from driving off with it still engaged ).

yeah its not healthy for the bullbar when you do that, I dont usually have a problem forgetting to disengage the pto but I've got a forward/reverse pto thats using a T Bar lever instead of a toyota lever and the way the linkage is setup theres only about 10-15mm back and forward movement in the lever and it farking hard to find neutral in the middle

That shit will buff right out dude no worrys

Posted: **Sun Jan 15, 2012 9:00 pm**

V8 and box is mounted

gonna have to shorten rear and lengthen front driveshaft, but aircon is worth it.

Gotta pull it out again tomorrow to weld up all the mounts, and then its wiring time !

Then spent today at Hampton downs testing in a mates drift car

and I was driving the D1 FC.

And chatted up a hot (sofukinghot) German tourist, sorted her a ride in a drift car and she`s keen to go see a movie next weekend !

Today was a good day !

Posted: **Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:59 am**

Bugger all done on the truck this weekend, though a lot to do this week!

Pull off intake manifold (bastard, really wanted to avoid that :lol:

)
Take head in to be checked and milled, new head bolts and perhaps valves looked at.
Try to remove this bloody crank pulley with some heat

To buy:
Head gasket, thermostat gasket, cam seal, crank seal, dissy cap/rotor
Crank pulley, key, Crank bolt
Waterpump + seal
Timing belt cover & seal
Intake manifold gasket
Heater send hose, lower radiator hose

Posted: **Mon Jan 16, 2012 9:05 am**

T-Boon wrote:And chatted up a hot (sofukinghot) German tourist, sorted her a ride in a drift car and she`s keen to go see a movie next weekend !

Today was a good day !

pics or it never happened :lol:

Posted: **Mon Jan 16, 2012 2:54 pm**

went up to woodhill for the first time in a year (as a driver) truck went amazing.

drove places that i couldn't/wouldnt have thought of doing when it was an auto! slight problem with cooling but that should be an easyish fix

also watched a 'rated' tow hook get straightened out causing the snatch strap to fly off and take out a spot lamp and my grill...

landy flex
http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd433/andy3542/Land%20Rover/Image9.jpg
http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd433/andy3542/Land%20Rover/Image7.jpg

a little muddy
http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd433/andy3542/Land%20Rover/Image6.jpg

tried resizing them all the way down but still not working!!

Posted: **Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:10 pm**

Nice one Andy but your trucks still looks the same :roll:

nah just kidding mate, look forward to meeting you at the next outing.

Posted: **Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:10 pm**

kbushnz wrote:
mudmike wrote: wired in an idiot light on my pto( Hope it will stop me from driving off with it still engaged )

Funny you should say that, its one of my next mods...
I am putting a switch in one of the bung holes for that shaft which engages / disengages. Is that how you did yours.??

Mine is a two direction pto, so used a magnetic switch so off in closed and light goes if moved even a small amount. works well so far.

Posted: **Mon Jan 16, 2012 7:25 pm**

also watched a 'rated' tow hook get straightened out causing the snatch strap to fly off and take out a spot lamp and my grill...

thats what they sposed to do so there not a hunk of metal flying thru the air

Posted: **Mon Jan 16, 2012 7:45 pm**

maybe winching them would of been safer

Posted: **Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:50 pm**

nurse wrote:Went to CZ Trial's and broke another truck,

Posted: **Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:35 pm**

Sadam_Husain wrote:
nurse wrote:Went to CZ Trial's and broke another truck,

Looks like your navi needs to eat some more pies :lol:

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