Offroad-Express

Well my weekend has kinda started. Im on and off work for the day with kids days at kindy and picking up car trailer for our road trip to Hamilton tomorrow. We are picking up another falcon for some parts for our one.

Had to replace the brake pads on the bighorn last night and put the 31s on for towing duty, looks very strange haha.

Since cleaning out the intake its seems to have fixed my over fueling issue so fingers crossed its nothing else otherwise its going to be a expensive trip to hamilton.

Flying to Tauranga on Sunday to pickup my Safari, looking forward to it! Pics once I get it

Heading to Carterton tomorrow to pick up zuk body for my new project.

tomorrow, pulling the safari's engine out

today picked up the Cambelt, waterpump and tensioner bearing, ordered an exhaust gasket, swapped over bell housings and just about to go to jaycar to get some electric window switches.

Tomorrow I will be doing a bit of a pick-a-part mission for some shocks, engine mount, electric fan and alternator. So long as they have a Suzuki in there

its been a reasonably successful week so far.
installed the little 2" lift. had the usual stuck bolts, had a bit of a job getting one of the suspension arms lined up. a jack and a tiedown for a winch solved that by rolling the axle over a bit.
not to sure about front diff drop, might get away without it.

started fitting locker. got half done but noticed there is to many teeth on the ring. looks like someones fitted 4.56 gears. will check the rear in case some dumb bugger fitted wrong gear in the front.

Easy weekend, tighten up a wheel bearing for the WOF man....
And pickup a kitchen unit for my boy to put in his man cave......

Fitting diff breathers tomorrow in anticipation of the Orongorongo trip on Sunday. Should be a good one.

Changed wiper blades. All by myself, and they work!

On to the radiator now.

Well picked up a good fan for the Suzuki.

and also had a cry at pick a part. As we were driving there a guy in a fairly nice FJ40 went round the round a bout in front of us and went into pick a part. Thought oh yea sweet as.

Turned out he was selling it to pick apart for $330. I called all my mates and no one picked up. Forgot to call my mum who had money we could have used to buy it. I offered him $500 for it by the end of the day and he just wanted the money now. It was a mint runner, didn't idle but no smoke, fiberglass bonnet and rear doors, god bumper etc. and bets of all the reg was still live.

I will be talking to the manager at pick a part Monday morning and seeing if I can get it off him whole and with plates Monday. Just too good a truck to go to pick a part. bloody old idiots. Said he bought it on trademe and it was worse than what he thought so he just wanted rid of it. FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARK

tara13 wrote:Heading to Carterton tomorrow to pick up zuk body for my new project.

Photos or it didn't happen...

tried to get my stupid pos commy to start
turns over and has spark but wont fire
farks me off

CLUMZ1 wrote::(

Hmmm why the sad face??

keithal wrote:tried to get my stupid pos commy to start
turns over and has spark but wont fire
farks me off

Do you have fuel in the rail? If so check the injectors are firing.

Matt.

Helped my son pick up his first car to strip and of corse its a Suzuki . So
if anyones interested in bits for a 1984 sj410 soft top let me know .

engine out and on the floor

kbushnz wrote:

CLUMZ1 wrote::(

Hmmm why the sad face??

it was re lincoolns post

suzookyman wrote:Helped my son pick up his first car to strip and of corse its a Suzuki . So
if anyones interested in bits for a 1984 sj410 soft top let me know .

Make the next one a LWB ute and I'll take the chassis and cab.

Beer_Cruiser wrote:

tara13 wrote:Heading to Carterton tomorrow to pick up zuk body for my new project.

Photos or it didn't happen...

Will put up build tread tomorrow.

lincooln wrote:Well picked up a good fan for the Suzuki.

and also had a cry at pick a part. As we were driving there a guy in a fairly nice FJ40 went round the round a bout in front of us and went into pick a part. Thought oh yea sweet as.

Turned out he was selling it to pick apart for $330. I called all my mates and no one picked up. Forgot to call my mum who had money we could have used to buy it. I offered him $500 for it by the end of the day and he just wanted the money now. It was a mint runner, didn't idle but no smoke, fiberglass bonnet and rear doors, god bumper etc. and bets of all the reg was still live.

I will be talking to the manager at pick a part Monday morning and seeing if I can get it off him whole and with plates Monday. Just too good a truck to go to pick a part. bloody old idiots. Said he bought it on trademe and it was worse than what he thought so he just wanted rid of it. FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARK

I had a look at it today. The fiberglass bits, rear tail lights and the chassis where about the only good things I saw. Apartently the idiot took the thing in with no water in it so the engine is all but cooked. It has some Surspicously (sorry bad spelling) placed stainless panels on the body in about the right place to hid rust. I asked about buying it and was told they don't sell unregister vehicals. If they do sell it, which is unlikely they will want about $5000 for it to cover the cost of what they would get for parts. Plus if they keep it they will get more for the scrap metal.

If you could get it for $500 then it would be worth it, but I don't see that happening.

well i finished bleeding the brakes and the sway bar is all mounted up so is ready for the recheck for cert. fingers crossed

Good luck, Can we see pics of your sway bar set up?

sure but truck doesnt live with me so will be a few days if cant find time today to get some. using factory prado sway bar and brackets with slight mods to suit surf chassis

Put battery back into lada, fired up really easy!! happy with that concidering how long since it last ran!! I think my lada likes me

Shuffled cars in driveway so I could work on lada, then took both diffs out, will take into work next week and do some work on them...

Mattman wrote:

keithal wrote:tried to get my stupid pos commy to start
turns over and has spark but wont fire
farks me off

Do you have fuel in the rail? If so check the injectors are firing.

Matt.

cheers man i have no idea what the f@#k is up with the pos coz she fired into life first pop lastnight
oh well gotta get the alignment fixed this week stupid mate hit the curb at speed and f@#ked it

Shiny got some hooks and sliders

Went to the Rally HQ to have a nosey. Didnt have time to check out any of the stages though maybe next time, heres a couple of pics anyway, sort of 4WD related!

Went to woodhill with my mate in his xj, had a pretty good time.

And apart from that, not much else. Oh, got my mini going today

Went for a spin around the Mudfest paddock
No need to add water at this time of year




Bring ya gumboots boys and girls

Cheers,