Offroad-Express

Off to Singapore this weekend for a week will see if i can spot some crazy modified 4WDs!

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Mine started early....
Went to change the brake pads....
3 out of four no issue..
but one of the rear calipers piston wouldnt go in....
Pulled it out to find it full of crud and a rusty piston...
Quick trip to BNT for seal kit and new piston and cleaned it all up last night at work...
Fitted this morning !
Phew ready for Woodhill patrol tomorrow...
First time the truck been out of the drive since Easter Challenge.
Will do the other side next week.....Just in case....

Fitted CB into Disc, up in the roof /sun-visor area.

Went up Thompsons Track for a thrash today, good break away from work, went for a look on the Tauranga side, usual chaos ensued, dead alternators, broken winch cables, dead trucks.............
Awesome

swapped rear diff yesterday and did the front today took me 5hrs including stripping and rebuilding the front diff (first time iv ever built a diff ) tomorrow some wiring then off to the pig farm sunday!
cheers

Madaz wrote:Went up Thompsons Track for a thrash today, good break away from work, went for a look on the Tauranga side, usual chaos ensued, dead alternators, broken winch cables, dead trucks.............
Awesome

pics or it didnt happen!!

i started my big black 4x4 thing today before starting tonights shift. sounds goooood!!

went to work this morning and lost interest pretty fast so i made this instead. not fully done yet only half welded but came out how i wanted it to be
tow bar insert to come and rear swing away wheel carrier

Well went into Woodhill for our club patrol..
Had a great time, first time out since the Easter challenge..
However I have damaged more on todays trip then the whole event.....
Took out a door and frame on a tree...
Honestly it just jumped out at me...
Had to get the truck pulled sideways to get off the branch....
Kids got showered in glass.... But they are o.k...

So need a new Left hand rear passengers door complete for a LWB Lj or Kzj Prado...
Colour green would be nice but anything really....

wopass wrote:

Madaz wrote:Went up Thompsons Track for a thrash today, good break away from work, went for a look on the Tauranga side, usual chaos ensued, dead alternators, broken winch cables, dead trucks.............
Awesome

pics or it didnt happen!!

i started my big black 4x4 thing today before starting tonights shift. sounds goooood!!

Uh oh, bonnets up.............


Bad look for engine oil..............


Roadside assist.......


Dryin out engine...........


On the way back, dead truck in tow........




Hmmmm, Thompsons mud bath........

Put new shocks and steering damper in the Wrangler today, Went with the Raw Nitro's in the end,( sorry Euan price dictated in the end), but I did buy the spring pads off ya today, finished putting in the last one at 4pm and headed of to work for nightshift.

Rear diff bearings and LSD shims finally done last night between broken and bent bearing pullars and the press now leaking it was a long slow and painful exercise finishing at 3am couple hours sleep go for a drive and no 2nd gear. away to the workshop now to install new box, yay for midnight missions. roll on macetown tomorrow.

fitted bucket seats (in a rough fashion) and got the fuel injection working properly, a fuel pressure gauge showed 32 psi of return pressure from the throttle body supposed to be less than 4psi

replaced the return pipe for a bigger diameter one & found the old pipe kinked.

now starts and runs sweet, just got to fit new leads, sort handbrake & replace the trans sump gasket & give her a trial run

the chev sounds sweet running open headers

Managed to aquire a 70 series cruiser this wekend for a steal of a price to accompany my disassembled 40 and did a 70k trail ride on sunday.

Weemsy wrote:the chev sounds sweet running open headers

it truly is a beautiful sound

Replaced a Hydraulic line on the Mog after I blew it splitting firewood.The PTO shaft had rubbed it through,only had to remove four other lines to get at it.

Thought I would change the oil on the pto winch before I use it. I see the previous owner was using mud and water... Looks like it is from woodhill. Might need to design a breather.

Don't really want to change the diff oils now.. scared

went snow mobiling up at Whistler, had to do a quick 4wd trip in a six seater wranger to get to the machines, had a good ride, bit tame, was going well till one of the group rolled his machine and cut his knee open, about 60mm wide and nice and deep gotta be 6-8 stitches at least, got fun machines!!

Pedro

Cut an "access hole" (read; chopped half the deck out) in the plywood at the back of my deck to investigate how I am going to mount rear tow hooks, rummaged in the scrap steel found a perfect piece of 6mm thick angle and cut to make a bracket running along the main deck rail and butted against the rear frame rail so should be nice and strong, had a break went to get welded out, and along comes the torrential rain. I've done some stupid sh*t before but even I wasnt down for welding in the rain haha

Sold the Green Playdoh

Jerry wrote:Sold the Green Playdoh

And bought a Lada???

I went and watched at the pig farm on Sunday. Took so long to even get through the first few bits.

Locals were also extremely vocal

SP450andLE wrote:

Jerry wrote:Sold the Green Playdoh

And bought a Lada???

I went and watched at the pig farm on Sunday. Took so long to even get through the first few bits.

Locals were also extremely vocal

So if you watched you must have got pics/vids?

My pics are all on undeveloped film, but my mate has a few that I may be able to upload later

Pic a part on sat and grabed a spair transfer case to start moding in rock crawler gears and grabed a rear diff head for when I eventually get around to seting up independantly suported front diff. also hand to have spair diff for now.

Fit new clucth slave cylinder and hose to replace the old cracked and leaking ones.

looked at wheel arches for a long time, umm'd and arr'd at how Im gona get thees muds to fit, thinking I'm just gona have to bite the bullet and start chopping. and add some rubber flairs after.

Went to extend the rear bake presure regulator conector rod that goes to diff to accomidate lift and found presure reg siezed up.. thatll be why the rears used to lock up all the time wonder how much thats gonna cost for replacment

finished up thermofan switch T piece install and tested out. works great, so it took off and painted up

Drove up to Mangatutu hot springs with wife & mate (who has a Jimny).

Was a great trip, would recommend to all. A bit cold this time of year though.

^^^ that is such a cool pic.

its nice up there, did anyone see the jeep that tried to cross the last ford in flood a month ago? turns out i know the guy

it always amazes me how many people camp and stay up there

Yeah, they were stuck sitting on top of the Jeep for about 4 hours i heard

Any one I know?

Keep meaning to go up to the Mangatutu hot springs. Is it much of a walk from the road?

The pools are only a short walk from the carpark, and only 400m or so from the camping area. Some big boulders in the last 2 river crossings so we just kept to the bridges, but the first one was great fun.



Was pretty spectacular having a few brews in the tub and watching the stars move around that night.