Offroad-Express

weekend has sort of started early or maybe its a continuation of last weekend.

who knows, who cares

the main thing is that the 80 finally has its winch installed, woot woot.................














Yet again I have to say a massive thanks to Pedro, coz without your amazing skills and talent, none of this would of been possible for me.
Thanks heaps dude.

and on a small note for a couple of ore members, its ok we put the 'jew bar' back how it was

Got some 27w Led lights off Ebay... Arrived last night. Tested them out on the drive ...not bad.
Will spend some time working out how to mount them. Don't want them on the front bull bar. (too low) Don't want them higher than roof line.
Have no exco roll cage at present...hmmmm
Possibly make some brackets and attach to gutters, extend around front.
Or attach above windscreen, not too worried about drilling holes in roof skin.......

Did rear wheel bearings again ready to go 4-wheeling this weekend

washed and attempted to polish the trucks for the 4&rota show n shine tomorrow. got the front of the fawty polished before the rain came down and i didn't realize how much bush rash the landy had...

Went up to Rallywoods with MikeL200 to make a few changes to the roof on the gazabo.

It din't have enough runoff on the roof and it was like standing under a shower when it rained

Shorten the corner post a wee bit...



New fittings



Mike doing something (for a change..............)



New roof levels



Also filled all the holes in the roof, will go up the next wet day and check and hopefully it is sorted

Well had a good day today, managed to finished fitting the transfer case and driveshafts on the zuk also got hold of a pair of VR commie shocks which I also put in. Took it for its first drive it runs and it drives, so pretty stoked about that, just have to sort out the steering issue, the bloody thing tries diving off the road randomly - a definite off road truck

Old slightly 'worn' shocks and the new VR shock



New shock on the left old one on the right just a SLIGHT difference

Fitted new electric water pump to buggy. No Pics so maybe it didn't happen.

Grabbed a roof rack bar and mounts off Trademe for a dollar...Only the one...
See if I can make a light bar out of it....
Also went into Dick Smith (DSE) to score some diodes...
The guy said "Whats a diode?"
Had to ask the manager ....doh...
And found out they no longer stock electronic parts like diodes, resistors etc etc.
Only plugs and sockets now....And all those other consumer gadgets...
Oh well will go thru my boxes of junk and see if any circuit boards have any of the right amps on them.....
Want to try and manualise the auto this weekend....

dick smith isnt what it used to be for sure.... Jaycar was started as a result of DS getting into the whole consumer mainstream BS.......

kbushnz wrote:Grabbed a roof rack bar and mounts off Trademe for a dollar...Only the one...
See if I can make a light bar out of it....
Also went into Dick Smith (DSE) to score some diodes...
The guy said "Whats a diode?"
Had to ask the manager ....doh...
And found out they no longer stock electronic parts like diodes, resistors etc etc.
Only plugs and sockets now....And all those other consumer gadgets...
Oh well will go thru my boxes of junk and see if any circuit boards have any of the right amps on them.....
Want to try and manualise the auto this weekend....

Jay Car is the place to go for goodies like that

uwshho wrote:New shock on the left old one on the right just a SLIGHT difference

how does the shock affect ride height?

niblik wrote:
how does the shock affect ride height?

I'm guessing it was way too short and restricting spring movement?

The new shocks are supposed to be 50mm extended, the old ones are factory escudo (as far as I know) the one on the right was the small bent one in the other pic.

The old shocks were ruined they barely moved, so i guess that was making it sit lower? Im not too sure to be honest, I dont know alot about suspension.

well I have cut the exhaust off just behind the coby and in front of the muffler. needed to do it anyway, so its all good. Removed snorkel thing and added some borrowed 6x9 speakers,

Bout it.

Made storage for rear of Disco.
[img]http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuck_in_the_mud/sets/72157629061470075/with/6773578503/[img]
Yet to make the draws.

howieh wrote:Made storage for rear of Disco.
[img]http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuck_in_the_mud/sets/72157629061470075/with/6773578503/[img]
Yet to make the draws.

Looks great

You could even do plastic storage containers for draws, easy to clean

Thanks, hadn't thought along those lines.

howieh wrote:Thanks, hadn't thought along those lines.

Did it to an old Paj I had a few years ago, am going to do it to my Disco again, here's a pic of my old one........

Thanks looks like it would be much easier than making two draws.

fish bins are strong and cheap

Well my Storage Box in the rear of the truck is complete,
here are some photo's with the
air compressor in and some of the wiring.


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Well it has turned out how I wanted it Big thanks to Hilux Dan and Madlux.

Cheers you guys you are the best.

Well on to the next project Bar work yippee, Rock slider time.

Went two km up Vandy road to find a bit of a washout. Up to there was pretty easy.

Brown Smurf wrote:Went two km up Vandy road to find a bit of a washout. Up to there was pretty easy.

no issues with the house at the beginning of the road ?

Went to the 4 & Rotary Nats, 4wds were decent, drags were ok too

Nice drive for the Mini, even had some woman take a photo of us when we were driving down the motorway

Got a fair few looks from the Jappa guys too

added slim line spots to the front bar, will get the clear covers for them later

Well just thought I would have a look under the zuk after Sibainmud pointed out a loose steering arm nut, and what do you know all the MAIN bolts holding shit on are finger tight

This is the 2nd vehicle ive ended up with that has joined the "Finger tight for life" crew

Kind of scary really, the steering arm top and bottom, the panhand rod (front), the trailing arms on the front, couple of other minor things were ALL finger tight

Oh well at least it gives me something to do

So far the weekend started with friday night working on a work mates pajero trying to get it going after he pulled the injector pump off only to find the timing all over the whole engine is out so we decided to have a crack at it and managed to get it going but Saturday he tried for 1 more tooth on the injector pump and lost the mark and so we started again on it this arvo and had no luck so time to start back at square 1 tomorrow if I have time and at least make it start and idle.

At least it takes less than a hour for the pump off and back on so its not to bad.

no issues with the house at the beginning of the road ?

Wouldn't exactly call them friendly but they didnt give us any trouble.

After a bit of blood sweat and bourbons, got the replacement shortblock into the Zuk on Saturday night. Just have to torque all the bolts - or I'll be joining the finger tight crew

Went to V4+rotary nationals with Hiluxdan. Had a good couple of hours playing, then broke front diff again (that one has only been in there 3 or 4 weeks ) Meet a few ORE'ers there.

Credits;
Thanks to Lincoln, Dan, Andy (for your friend ) and Rex for having the best camera





Now to post in the ORE Calander thread