Offroad-Express

Put extended brake lines in the zook today, no risk of snapping them now

Just received my Auber1813 EGT digital gauge, had a quick test and had a play around with the settings seems to be working fine, just need to fit it to the truck, that will be a Sunday job me thinks .

Also picked up some EFS Elite shocks (rear only at this stage) from Warren at 4WDbits, just waiting on U-Bolts then it will be time to upgrade the rear end.

I will get photo's when I can, I know how you like your photo porn

Cheers.

Started making myself a rolling work bench to store the Lada muds (and mini parts etc) under today.

Ready to go to Dad's tomorrow in Mum's Paj with it's new chunky ATs, may even go for a 'test drive' on the farm

Modified my rear playdoh interior light

During the week, I fixed broken 1/4 window, replaced drivers door handle, and pushed out a few dents from Woodhill teams event, cleaned the top sides. Made up shopping list; radius arm bushes, front and rear brake pads (Woodhill grinding paste strikes again )
Bolted on some worn 31 muds and went in search of the "red line" in the sand, where we aren't suppose to be
Hmm, I'm starting to see the raisin again





Cheers,

started installing rear spring spacers only to find the ID is about 2mm to small
pulled the whole garage out onto the drive and re-aranged everything and put it all back in

work on sunday 6am

next weekend should be a good one. scored a night and breakfast at the crown hotel for the missis and I, then its off to the tron with exec tickets to the 400 corporate style woop woop

sibainmud wrote:During the week, I fixed broken 1/4 window, replaced drivers door handle, and pushed out a few dents from Woodhill teams event, cleaned the top sides. Made up shopping list; radius arm bushes, front and rear brake pads (Woodhill grinding paste strikes again )
Bolted on some worn 31 muds and went in search of the "red line" in the sand, where we aren't suppose to be
Hmm, I'm starting to see the raisin again





Cheers,

Hmm i wonder where that could of been. been looking for that redline for a while now, all iv seem to find are deer and pigs. such a beautiful area

Well installed my Digital EGT gauge from Auber Instruments, and it was a successful install here are some photos

Just to let you know the reading on the photo was taken at random and not when it was up to temprature yet.

Big Thanks goes to madlux for his help and to Hilux Dan for his input.

Thanks a lot on to the next project.

Blew up a th350 doing skids.

drove down new brigton beach to the estray mouth.

Ok it was training for the lifeboat crew as we have to be able to drive on the beachs for searches.

it's a little soft by the mouth

went for a cruise up north range road.
keen to do a night cruise through there on a clear winters night

Changed all the fluids in the new Safari and installe a third row of seats.
New coils should be here tomorrow or Tuseday
And heading out to cut some firewood fore next winter tommorrow, I love being on holiday

got my new fair lead on



Went out to rallywoods but no one was there and the gate was locked.

So decided to go out for a play out the Wanui coast, got very stuck but not all bad as got to use my new winch







set up camp and lite a fire had a mint weekend

bring on the next one

Pulled the front guards bonnet windscreen and old roll cage out of the 40 today. Made it to to drags on sat to watch some seriously quick streetcars. Starting to try and sort out some of the scary wiring on the 40 and hopefully have the body off next weekend before 2 days of motorbike riding

With the aid of a budding assistant, got one side axle seal changed To do the other side today

did some cancer prevention on my truck

Not the off roading we do but I went for a mountain bike on Saturday arvo. Bailed a few times on some decent jumps and broke the gear slector but all in all I good outing.

Mowed nearly 2 achres with a 18inch push mower time for a ride on.

Waiting for bodylift to come from CHCH for the Bighorn and hopefully that will be installed next weekend.

Just to raise the Bar above windscreen wipers and set the standard for the tech level a bit higher I stuck new reduction starters in both trucks over the weekend, the solanoid on the flatdeck starter fell to bits when we stuck it in before Easter, theres usually a few LS starters floating around on TM pretty cheap but of course there wasnt when I looked so I ordered a brand new one and before it arrived a cheapie turned up on TM so that ones now in stock in the spare parts box in the shed for a rainy day, then I went to shift the 40 series out of the shed on Sunday to waterblast 1/2 of woodhill forest off and out of it and it wouldnt start, mostly coz the mud filled fried alternator must have discharged the battery so I gave it a charge up and threw on the reduction starter I brought for my flatdeck 4 years ago when we put the new 350 in and never used coz I had a bit of an Opp's with it but that arrived back from Sigs repair workshop very timely so the crunchy old mud filled chev starter came out and the new reduction one went in... starts good now

Cut guards and painted fitted wrangler flared to my xj. Went fishing saturday in kaipara and got a good haul of snapper yum! Even managed to get up murawai for a beer or 6 with a mate that lives out there. Good weekend oh yea and v8s in coperate box this weekend on work

brought a gu tow plate in tassie fits a gq got two more made one for left side one spare

the org plate and bolt plate

and made up a challenger hubnut tool

Got a new set of tahs for my daily, half worn 31" bfg all terrains, $20 per tyre inc fitting and balancing from the local tyre shop needless to say a box of coldies accompanied payment.

Spent sunday out on a nice little 50ft dinghy caught a couple of fish and got told that we needed to drink the beer fridge dry cos it needed to be cleaned

#Raised My Nissan Mistral 2" with Dobi springs in rear,
#Discovered I had A/M Shocks already, Old Man Emus, apparently these are expensive?
#Tried to raise front by cranking torsion bars, found them at max crank, re-indexed them by 3 splines, managed to half straighten one of the c-clips while removing it, re-shaped it a little too small and spent approx 45 minutes trying to get it back on.
#Had new 31-10.5r15 Bridgestone Desert Duellers 604v's fitted by tonys, upgrade from my un-woffable Goodyear Wrangler 30-9.5r15
#Tried to install a couple of gauges, mechanical water temp and oil pressure, both went badly.
Water temp has a 1/2"NPT fitting which none of the ports in the water system are big enough for, oil temp guage was missing the 1/8"NPT adapter, i discovered this after removing, and loosing, one of the oil pressure senders from the block by the oil filter, dash light still works as normal though... Managed to find an un-needed temperature sensor with 1/8" fitting to plug the oil hole till I could get a new 1/8" adapter for the pressure sensor. Mistral has a very busy engine bay, made for skinnier arms than mine i think.

Finished the weekend by joining the Hawarden Lions club for the Brothers Safari.

Had my GoPro on the roof taking photos all day, time lapse video to follow, some of the stills were at very opportune times.

Drurban wrote:Well installed my Digital EGT gauge from Auber Instruments, and it was a successful install here are some photos

Just to let you know the reading on the photo was taken at random and not when it was up to temprature yet.

Big Thanks goes to madlux for his help and to Hilux Dan for his input.

Thanks a lot on to the next project.

Be interested to hear what your readings are. I have mine in the same spot. I run around 200 around town and would peak around 500.

Matt.

Mattman wrote:

Drurban wrote:Well installed my Digital EGT gauge from Auber Instruments, and it was a successful install here are some photos

Just to let you know the reading on the photo was taken at random and not when it was up to temprature yet.

Big Thanks goes to madlux for his help and to Hilux Dan for his input.

Thanks a lot on to the next project.

Be interested to hear what your readings are. I have mine in the same spot. I run around 200 around town and would peak around 500.

Matt.

Mine is pretty much the same the highest is 480 and around 200-300 just casual driving.

Cheers.