Offroad-Express

a bit early but its closer to next weekend than last weekend so a new thread it is

climbed under the truck and pulled the bash plate off to have a look at the PTO to see where all the pools of oil are coming from



had a hunt around the shed and found some old PTO's and picked out the best looking forward reverse one that looked pretty clean and dosent look like its been leaking and stuck it on and put the old one aside to get a new bearing and seal on a rainy day




while the linkage for the lever was off I lengthened it 120mm on the PTO side to get more travel out of the lever in the cab, the whole setup is a mixed up hybrid, unknowen T handle lever, Cruiser linkage and PTO, PTO shaft is made up of 2x nissan shafts and a bit of cruiser at the PTO end and a nissan winch on the front, when the linkage was setup for the T handle lever it ended up a slush box with only about 20mm movement to select forward-neutral-reverse and most of that was slop from flogged out joints in the linkage, forward and reverse would typically both select within the centre gate on the lever making it a real pain in the arse to get the PTO back into neutral




now the linkage is lengthened and the flogged out joints are tightened up and I've got about 110-120mm travel between forward and rerverse.... I wont be sucking bullbars into the fairlead anymore






I still cant reach the lever with the harness on but at least I can engage and disenge it properly now

Sadam_Husain wrote:I still cant reach the lever with the harness on but at least I can engage and disenge it properly now

very nice marty.. but to reach it you really need to put the beer down first cuz...

Sadam_Husain wrote:...had a hunt around the shed and found some old PTO's and picked out the best looking forward reverse one that looked pretty clean and dosent look like its been leaking and stuck it on and put the old one aside to get a new bearing and seal on a rainy day

Show off!!! Who has three of these just sitting around!!!!

Yes I'm just jealous

technically he only has 2 now

MNC wrote:Show off!!! Who has three of these just sitting around!!!!

Yes I'm just jealous

haha farken oath but I've only got two forward reverse ones left coz I gave one to Sig and I've got two trucks so thats both of them accounted for so that'll leave 2 single direction ones to go into the spare parts pile

have you seen my collection of spare winches and PTO shafts

niblik wrote:

Sadam_Husain wrote:I still cant reach the lever with the harness on but at least I can engage and disenge it properly now

very nice marty.. but to reach it you really need to put the beer down first cuz...

thats the problem with that truck theres no dashboard or anywhere to put a full can down

Went over to a friends from the club and he helped me doing the wiring for the trailer on my truck, now Iam all legal and can tow a trailer and dont have to worry about getting pulled over by the cops.

That is another job of the list of things to do.

got a wof on my trailer today. finally after a fair bit of work was done on it. Now to pick up my parts from up north to really make a start on the Suzuki.

And Ruben, it wasn't to hard to do the wiring was it? I got it done on the Pajero in about 20min.

Not 4wd related but not wiper related either.
Went for a 100km drive last night. In my mates new/old Ferrai 308 GTS QV.
Fark Yeah

lincooln wrote:got a wof on my trailer today. finally after a fair bit of work was done on it. Now to pick up my parts from up north to really make a start on the Suzuki.

And Ruben, it wasn't to hard to do the wiring was it? I got it done on the Pajero in about 20min.

Yeah was not hard once you know what wire is for what. Just a bit of farting about with the wires.

new windscrene today for the hilux (thanks insurance).
also got some new filters and oil so will throw that in during the weekend

Cheers Tom.

got my rear diff lock sorted out was hard going up stadia relying on simexs and a front locker

Yeesssssss

Sadam_Husain wrote:Yeesssssss

First legit one of these it's had in a while...

suzuki1k wrote:First legit one of these it's had in a while...

Nup second consecutive 100% pass, straight in and straight out

Taking mine in tomorrow... fingers crossed it passes. My muddies are getting a bit low...

Not much planned this weekend, having an early birthday party tomorrow so that most likely my weekend over


On another note I finally found a decent music dvd, took a while to find it but pretty stoked, something along the lines of this:

got stuck into my pos this evening rear cab wall with spare tyre slot done and primed will work on abit more internal welding tomorrow then weld flares onto cut guards only 2 weekends til paint..........pics to come

I was sorting through my Lada parts at Dad's (considering whether or not I should make me a buggy as a project alongside my Mini, lada and fiva, and my Dad's SP250 that I'm helping to rebuild ), and was playing with a rear diff, and came to the conclusion that it is, at the very least, an LSD.

Hmmm......

just get a lada going, bro. alternatively, give me a good wad of cash for my pajero coz I wanna buy that landrover in the for sale section.

May have sold the navara, unfortunately cash won't arrive for a little while which means the new whip I have spotted will likely not find it's way to my driveway

And SP, stop finding new projects! get lada going THEN worry about other crap :p

Gah, yeah I'll try. By the end of tomorrow I may have made a few achievements on the Lada (so long as my stoopid summer cold holds off enough )

Oh and Cam, I'm in no position to give you money, I actually need a fair bit of it myself. Donations?

I'm in no position to increase my vehicles from 4 cars to 5 when I only ever drive one
plus I've a truck coming soon.
so buy it you must.

maybe it's time to sell my toyota/scooter I never use. hmmmmmmm

on topic: this weekend I will mostly be boozing and/or broken down on the rimutakas.

Off to Woodhill soon for our club patrol.
And break in my winch man / boy (eldest son)
Also see how the truck performs after manualising the auto....

SP450andLE wrote:I was sorting through my Lada parts at Dad's (considering whether or not I should make me a buggy as a project alongside my Mini, lada and fiva, and my Dad's SP250 that I'm helping to rebuild )

Hmmm......

Hey Mate,

I as you may or may not know I now have a Lada haha its only a 1984 2105-S I just took mine for a wof and it failed on 2 front tyres haha so they will be replaced today.

Do you know if the 1600 out of a fiva will fit into mine as they look very similar and mine is very slow haha. I only paid $100 and going to put some gravel rally tyres on it and then play around on the back roads lol.

Cheers
Ray

SP450andLE wrote:I was sorting through my Lada parts at Dad's (considering whether or not I should make me a buggy as a project alongside my Mini, lada and fiva, and my Dad's SP250 that I'm helping to rebuild ), and was playing with a rear diff, and came to the conclusion that it is, at the very least, an LSD.

Hmmm......

your not related to 86-surf are you?

FORGE1 wrote:Hey Mate,

I as you may or may not know I now have a Lada haha its only a 1984 2105-S I just took mine for a wof and it failed on 2 front tyres haha so they will be replaced today.

Do you know if the 1600 out of a fiva will fit into mine as they look very similar and mine is very slow haha. I only paid $100 and going to put some gravel rally tyres on it and then play around on the back roads lol.

Cheers
Ray

Ah, it should do. Oh also, it's Niva, 'Fiva' is Fiat and Niva combined

What engine does it have now? I'm fairly sure they're pretty much the same, so should be a fairly easy swap.
I'll have to come see it someday

badnuz wrote:your not related to 86-surf are you?

I hope not...

Jeep got a WOF... flew through. Nothing wrong. Only tyres need replacing by the next wof probably.

Oh and replaced the wiper blades on the gf's car. does that count?

just moved the voltage reducer for 2nd time, got stood on and muddy in last place, before i blew it up

just had drain layers in and i believe i may have now just completed the install of our double garage only took 23 months

out with the old...



started in with the new......