Offroad-Express

Well I will kick this one off, must be the only one at home
Got replacement door for the playdo and fitted it.
Swapped the glass around and changed door card.
Door is blue and rest of the truck is green... Ahhh who cares, all the same colour when covered in mud
Need to get it ready for WOF this month.
Next mod is playing with the auto's valve body... Got a kit coming in from the States..

mocked up my winch mount outta cardboard 2 weeks ago then dropped it to the engineer to get it made up out of steel,picked it up yesterday,said it couldnt be any wider than 675mm!!! went to fit it last night and it was 15mm to wide "wtf,are you kidding me" so now hes got to shorten it next week...

Well good start to the weekend slept in to 10:30, got up and had a coffee, then I replaced the old battery with a 880CCA Odyssey Battery, tidy up the bird nest of wires in the engine bay, will test air compressor on Sunday.

On a non 4WD note managed to get my 1/8th scale Gas powered Radio Controlled car working, very happy with that, this is another one of my toys

Cheers

Mates XJ smelt like crap, so started pulling carpet out to clean it all up a bit.

To cut a long story short, there's a couple of big rust holes on the drivers floor. Not the best thing to find after buying it
Lucky he works at a truck fabricators

^^^^Don't worry Calvin, multi coloured panels all good^^^^

Replaced turbo that let go last weekend as a couldn't be arsed doing during the week. I think the boost controller needs some attention or replacement because with it hooked up and wound out to max, can only get 14psi
Disconnected it will pull 22psi
Trouble is, i want a nice safe 18psi
Had to clean all the oil out of the intercooler and the exhaust
Washed cooler with fuel-lite and took it for a hard long run down the motorway to burn the oil out of exhaust
Here's the turbo. Don't think the exhaust turbine is supposed on the piss


Check out the oil in the dump pipe




Cheers,

Had a hilux follow me home, cheers to andy3542 for towing it back for me

Finally purchased myself an egt gauge.

The rest of the weekend will be spent doing MudFest planning

Old faithfull, working Saturday night... mean.
And working Queens Bday as well. No Life.

went up to the workshop to fit reconditioned turbo, got it half fitted and found i had left the rest of the studs/nuts at home

Stereo turned up from ebay today along with Nalin Mfg plates. got head unit and kicker 5.25 fronts in.

still looking for sound bar if anones got.

I'm in Rotorua , did porters dr here yesterday friday before i headed down there , I refuel the truck when i pulled away to the rd of the motorway big puff off blue smoke, a day of 4wd , went behind the truck for a pee ad saw oil dripping out of the exhaust, there a oh f**k moment puled the hood oil is puff out of oil dipstick , me engines done some rings

Finished work at 5 on friday night, picked up one of my kids on way home, quickly threw some gear in the car and headed off to rallywoods!!

Marshalled on Fawk hill/Calums way, great to see some of the awsome team work and amusing to watch some not so good team work! lol...

Turned out to be a bit of a carnage track with roof's dented, winches broken and even an engine retireing!
...and no I didn't get the corolla stuck all weekend!!
Enjoyed the weekend down there, thanks to the guys who organise it all!!

Dogg.

did a bit more rust proofing on sat.
picked up a highlift jack of tard me for $23. stoked
rebuilt steering idler box with some new bushes and seals and threw it back in.
took the dogs for a blat up bethells beach today
work tomorow

Helped my mate take the bullbars off his xj today.

God there are some dodgy welds on that thing, mainly the 'custom' brackets

Anyone want some alloy bullbars for an xj?

Well mudfest planning turning into playing in the mud couldnt help myself...

Even got the mu stuck

picked up a 60 series power steering box in great nick for cheap, as well as a pto winch (still need the pto and the shafts). had a good read/think and a chat with my mechanic/fabricator about the land rover and it'll be going into my garage for an soa conversion on 60series axels as well as getting power steering. will throw up some pics as it gets done. will be a slow process as i havnt got 80% of the parts or even put the truck in the garage to start work on it.

cheers

Are you sure it rings and not the turbo shit itself as a blown turbo will do the same push all the oil straight out exhaust

coxsy wrote:I'm in Rotorua , did porters dr here yesterday friday before i headed down there , I refuel the truck when i pulled away to the rd of the motorway big puff off blue smoke, a day of 4wd , went behind the truck for a pee ad saw oil dripping out of the exhaust, there a oh f**k moment puled the hood oil is puff out of oil dipstick , me engines done some rings

coxsy: You been down this way mate? How did you find Porter Rd? Nice little drive up there for a day trip not usually too hard on the truck

we took camm8 with us + new guy in v6 toranno, so long day but then again we made it so, , porters is still fun, getting a lot of use it seems.
NA its rings to much pressure in the sump blowby, pulled a joint apart only thin smear of oil + no smoke when driving . never mind pull it new rings bearings, balance the crank, clean head up new guides, seals a bit of porting we should be way again.
not saying the turbo did this, the engine allways had a bit of blow by its 234,000km






DJ's jeep

Yeah a lot of us locals go up there quite a bit..usually someone has been up there most weekends I still havent been down to the harder part yet, last time we had an IFS surf with us so only did the easy track into the old mill site and back up.

we took left track soon after the start looped to porters, down there the right hand track loop around then back on porters for the drive out, due to seeing oil dripping out of the exhaust , i didn't go in sunday the others did caught up with DJ an his mates, called in to the camp on his way back for tea and muffins

Did Porters Road on Sunday with some other people from the Sulphur City 4WD Club. Pretty rutted out and felt like were about to go over a few times. Finished the trailer finally just need a new WOF.

Well managed to adjust the wheel bearing play, also went to sibainmud who helped me with my licence plate ilumination problem this was a 2 minute fix cheers mate for that.

Went for a play up lake mahinerangi pulled up for a stop and went to turn truck back on and nothing... popped hood and terminals r losse and missing the clam so made one up out of sum speaker wire in the back. the bad news dosnt end there tho , the auto hubs let go so spent most the day in rear wheel drive still a good day

sorted out the front alignment in my Surf. also noticed i've managed to bend the arm on the steering relay box adjusting the toe-in. in hindsight jumping on the stilsons probably wasn't the best idea. made up a hori nudge bar to fill the hole in front of the radiator. Will do till i've got time to make something useful.

So much easier messing with a dereg truck.

Gnarly Dude wrote:Did Porters Road on Sunday with some other people from the Sulphur City 4WD Club. Pretty rutted out and felt like were about to go over a few times.

hey thats my red jeep back there thanks for for the cup of Char and muffins, you guys live the good life Coxsy( hotels, hot swims, spas, wife swapping....opps was I not supposed to say that?).Hope you made it back ok ?

yer a nice drive home at 90 km/hr a few clouds of blue smoke, but issu ute in roto had same problem

had our annual trip up to taihape over the weekend.was a great weekend .had about 10 trucks turn up .found some awesome bogs to play in .locker gave up the ghost early on saturday so to compensate lifted the rev limiter on the link computer to 6800rpm ,was singin after that .got stuck big time in one bog and took nearly 2 hours to get out .had to use about 40mtrs of cable plus a triple pull on a pto winch to move me.amazing what 1/2 ton of mud does to a truck.had a go at a one we previously nick named strop bog and managed to get airbourne going into it .then all my recovery gear disintergrated my box holding it all and it all flew into the air at about the same time as my bonnet flew up. a little bit of panic set in and i slipped the clutch for a couple of seconds and then sunk to the bottom .the boys had a good laugh . my boy hurt himself a bit when we landed so took it a bit easier after that.all in all a good weekend .one thing i will say thou is that cool bananas rally truck sounds like a top fuel dragster on song.was awesome hearing it echo round the valley as we played

Headed off to the Mangahao Dams with the wife and a mate.

Great little trip with a bit of mud on the main track and some very cool side tracks with some mud and water holes. Best workout the cruiser has had yet.

Finished installing the stereo in the Jeep, tidied up some of the interior too. And got some tints installed, much cooler in the sun now!

Well its still my weekend(gotta love week on week off ) since it was pissing down and the truck doesnt fit in the garage now. So I thought id start stripping down the back guard on the Falcoon. Been sitting in the garage all lonely for a few years now... Ended up being a case of find the metal!! ahh well, will cut it out and stitch in a new piece now I reckon. Thought I should get it on the road before any new dumb cert laws come in.


Bog was an inch think..


You may think why the f*ck just do that bit. But im keeping it this way. Repair the rear guard, touch it up in lacquer and then lacquer clearing the whole car to try preserve the old paint a bit.