Offroad-Express

a bit early but its closer to next weekend than last weekend so a new thread it is. Pulled the truck out of the shed to make sure it still goes before heading over to costa for the weekend, the batterys pretty poked so maybe time for a new one, gave it a bit of a grease and bled the brakes to get the air out of the rear callipers. Freespool on the winch has never really worked properly since I've had the truck so I pulled the hub off the end of the winch and it all looked fine so I looked a bit deeper into it and the drum has seized onto the shaft so rather than piss about trying to free that up when theres a pile of other shit that needs my time I dug out the spare winch and started throwing that on and will look at the old one when I've got some spare time



stuck the spare winch on but the stoopid fawking thing didnt line up properly and was all twisted up trying the get the bolts in the holes and I've had it in and out a few times and its always lined up easily so a bit of a closer inspection revealed the end cap on the spare winch is off a MK not a GQ and is about 15mm longer and the mounting holes dont line up the same so I stuck the GQ end back on and still ended up having to elongate the holes slightly to stop the winch racking and tightening the drum up when I tightened all the bolts up

had that on problem on my shorty winch. Had to soak it in crc for few days then smack the shit outa it to get i off the shaft. Once off cleaned it up and it worked sweet as from then on. Just make sure you use a lead head hammer as you'll mushroom the end as i found out

crazyclark31 wrote:had that on problem on my shorty then smack the shit outa it to get i off the shaft. Just make sure you use a lead head hammer as you'll mushroom the end as i found out

Are you talking about sadam or one of his internet..............

No weekend for cow farmers .. Cleaned up the old hilux wheels with wire wheel and spray bomb satin black .Were painted with house paint when i bought the grey hilux

Sadam_Husain wrote: the batterys pretty poked so maybe time for a new one

pulled the 200 year old optima out of the truck and stuck it in my flatdeck and theres nothing wrong with the battery starter motors a brand new reduction starter I stuck in a few months back when I started having problems so it might be a HT lead or isolation switch problem... one of tomorrows jobs now

re fitted the starter that I had to get rebuilt today in the Suzuki. new bearings, brushes, a good clean and grease and even a lick of paint. works mint now.

Main problem was it was so gunked up it could not slide to activate starter.

stick the poked battery on low power charger for a few months will be good as new after that

dug out the pile of old starters and out of 6-7 the oldest grubbiest looking one seemed to work the best so I pulled out the brand new reduction starter that only lasted a few weeks and isnt under warenty anymore coz I've owned it for about 4 years and never used it so I've got a truck that starts properly now and my optima battery isnt farked after all had to take the trailer I borrowed to get to costa in for a wof coz it turned out it didnt have a wof after I was told it did so I had to go to repco and buy a pile of shit to fix it and pull half the lights apart to get them working and repair the broken safety chain, tighten the wheel bearings, fix the ramp that nearly fell off etc, had to stop off at vtnz to get it checked coz I was on the fly and didnt have any time and the joker wouldnt take it through with my little pot licker dog sitting in the passenger seat of the car coz he said its policy so I found a piece of string to tie him up and took him into the waiting room where He did everything bar piss all over the place, he jumped up all over everyone he saw, clawed away at the counter trying to jump up on it, tried knocking the pot plant over, knocked all the magazines off the table and was a general nusicence but that was fine with their policy he just couldnt be sitting quietly in the car.... go figure

Well I have started a bit early....
Cut all the extra bits off my intercooler radiator....and its ready for my bro to weld on the new tubes...
Intercooler part has had one plenum cut off so it can be reversed.. Bro to weld that one up too...
Gave the GT4 intercooler water pump a birthday, commutator was very worn so it got machined up again and replaced the brushes.....And worked out where I am going to put it.
Also added a hand throttle which I will finish today (Start a new thread)
Had to fix the gas flap pull handle.... plastic broken so made a new one from some bolts


Beads added to wheels after having them check balanced to see how much I needed to add (Thanks Warren 4wdbits)
So I might have a rest this weekend its all done

Went and got $420 worth of windscreen labels
And that only for 6 months and 4,000k's RUC.
Fitted simex's back on for Woodhill patrol tomorrow

Cheers,

made oil feed for the garrett turbo and weld exhuast pipe to flange, overboost valve piping tomorrow

finally got around to finishing my rear bar,
slip in tow bar half made, slip in deck chair and fishing rod holder half made too

Picked up new rims (thanks Warren 4wd Bits). Tomorrow's mission to find a shop that can swap the tyres over to new rims.

Also picked up synthetic rope to rid myself of wire rope on the winch.

Starting to research which tyres to get in a month or so.

Anybody need relatively usable wire rope or 5 Jeep alloys painted black.

Spent over 10 hours at work on saturday first saturday i've had to work in a year and a half...

Now am waiting to be picked up and taken to the airport, and off to Thailand I go for a week

Will have to see if I can commandeer the keys to something crazy like this:

kricky if you look closely enough there is a truck hidden behind all those shocks

I couldn't find any tyre shop open today. Rims will have to wait.

woodhill today,took a couple of hard side impacts on front wheels,trashed steering box took powersteering belt off and drove the rest of the day with no powersteer still a good day as always.

Started thinking about sticking a turbo on the Lada

My dad's old Fuego Turbo has a suitable turbo setup, handy that it's for a 1.6 engine, and that the Lada engine is low compression...

All seems so perfect

Oh, and I'm on holiday for the next two weeks, so I can do a fair bit of work (weather permitting), so hopefully I can order the master cylinders etc soon

Woodhill for me today too, no damage, got hung up a few times
Had Frazer with us testing new boots, and bumped into LOLYF testing his rev limiter.
Here's the only footage of the day.


Cheers,

had a few mates turn up fri night so got juiced then thought it was a good idea to go for a hunt let the dogs out and they buggered off about a k so stuck with the truck untill we got the truck stuck so had to walk home from over the back home at 4am up at 6 for 2 days shearing now im buggered and had to take the tractor over the back to get my truck back ah well at 36 i should grow up sometime YEA RITE

Hell yea, awesome day out at Woodhill today.

Tested the new tyres pretty good i reckon! Got stuck a few times, but Jeep came out a different colour

New tyres rock, cant wait for the next outing! Got several pics and videos, will upload later!

Cheers

Fraser

chrome wrote:, slip in deck chair and fishing rod holder half made too

oh yes, been a while since I drove and parked up with a fishing rod in me hand looking at the sea catching nothing, must catch up over summer dude

just adding a bit more wire as the mate infront didnt like the way our bridge looked......

left friday morning and headed over to the 2012 Costa Tuff Truck event.
set up camp for the weekend



watched an awesome event even got sunburnt.
fair bit of exercise walking around the place

was super happy with the 80, ran like a dream and didnt miss a beat all weekend, used half a tank of diesel for 360kms, so fairly happy with that

even got to take photos of Jerry stuck before I had to pull him out twice, hahahaha

datsunsafari wrote:woodhill today,took a couple of hard side impacts on front wheels,trashed steering box took powersteering belt off and drove the rest of the day with no powersteer still a good day as always.

I'm on my second steering box , in tassie they fit twin steering dampers return/to centre shocks to their patrols to save the boxes

so was a good weekend for me. sorted out the misfire with 4wd on sat and on sunday took it for a very tame drive out to the river. was gutted couldnt take on the fundraiser trip for its shake-down trip. always next time

And yet another weekend in the shop trying to get the buggy ready for round 1

Dr_PC wrote:And yet another weekend in the shop trying to get the buggy ready for round 1

Photos's or it never happened! ( I know it IS happening but it would be good to see something of the re-build )
Al

zukmeista wrote:

Hell yea, some awesome pics there Harry, i need to upload mine to here! Will do tonight!