Offroad-Express

Well sort of has been a week long thing really. Took out rear trailing arms and front radius arms, burnt out old bushes and have had new ones pressed in. New front rotors fitted, wheel bearings replaced and all ready to put back together this afternoon

weather is shit up the mountain so no sliding today,fitted a led light into my rear interior light ,looks bright as will try it tonight in the dark,now off to hamilton to pick up a corolla for my nephew to drive to work so we can finish his turbo conversion on his falcon ute,then down the river for a fish/play on the rocks/bourbon.

Fixed the annoying knocking noise coming from the steering. It was the stabiliser hitting the steering arms.

Then got WoF done without the noise distracting from the important stuff.

hunted up part for new turbo intake 76x76 fine, 100x76 has to be ordered in.
and turbo output wall to thin for drilling to put in boost gauge and pump control air fitting so need to tig ali block to cross over pipe for that,never a bolt up job is it

fixed up my lift pump wiring. couldn't replace the oil pressure switch without pulling turbo out so used a spare oil port for the new one.
so now have it wired so the lift pump turns off when there is no oil pressure.

of course it started raining while doing that and soon as i finish the rain stops. typical!

Took the truck in for a wof yesterday, stoopid poxy starter motor died on the way in, its only been in for 2 weeks and doesn’t look like its ended up surviving the costa plenty teams comp, I've now been through 3 starters since Easter the joker still took the truck through for the wof and passed it and only just in time coz I lost half the electrics on the way back home, lights, indicators, heater and fawk knows what else and no doubt an earth problem also attributable to costa plenty so I've got that to sort out now had a hunt through the shed and found a pile of old starters and tested them all out and it looks like I've run out of working starters other than an a couple of LS starters that wont fit the old chev blocks. To add to that the trucks running pretty rough and keeps dropping a cylinder and running on 7 so will have to go through the ign and leads and plugs and shit to sort that out once I find another starter for it

Water blasted the costa mud from the truck, that shit is horrible!! radiator cleaned out and re-fitted, then the charge indicator on the dash was reading 36v!! took it to the auto sparky and he said internal regulator is naffed... pulled it out and should be back by Wednesday.

Reece

the joys of on road 4x4 in comps huh

Through a kit into the passanagers side swivil hub. Was pretty happy with myself it only took 4.5 hours to do but was then followed by half an hour with the sludge gun filling the diff back up

i use a 16mm metre long hose and funnel but still take 1/2 to fill it up but most of the time I'm on two feet

went down waimak on Friday to run the dog heard funny noise coming from rear diff on went to inspect and fond this.



how hard is it to pick up your rubbish and not leave it lying on the stop bank road .

Went for a drive today with 10 other trucks and drove here and there. Dropped off a power steer pump to Campott.
Ended up top of Thompsons.
Nice meet up with CRAZYBUSTARD again, it's been a while.
Track dryish.
Poked our noses down Kati side too. I think I'll book a whole weekend and do it when a little drier

Cheers,

helped mate pull out his TD42 as there were 4 broken mainifold studs, drilled out 4, 3 sucessful, 1 fix with loktight haha. then in between, finished putting on my new PTO winch, already had the drive in from last weekend, got leaver, cable and shaft all in. started raining halfway through and my truck was out side... and lost the one bolt you need, and the found it when i was done, always the way eh? up the mamaku's tomorrow to lear how to use a winch

Spent the day learning all about chainsaws and how to operate them properly.
Done some practical... More tomorrow then exams.
Very interesting... Have learnt a lot.

kbushnz wrote:Spent the day learning all about chainsaws and how to operate them properly.
Done some practical... More tomorrow then exams.
Very interesting... Have learnt a lot.

Good on you for doing the course. I wish more would

tryed to recover a mate from a rising river and ended up havin my 60 series floating and needing a tractor after a hour of endless trying to get to him, reason why you dont 4wd alone or un prepaired, river rose two foot while he was stuck, and filled up the inside of his truck

Found that the front diff in the Suzuki has broken two mounts. So will pull out this week and try and find another one before next weekend.

Spent the weekend camping and 4x4ing at Pouto.

Was an awesome weekend - truck did have a little lie down half way up to the light house looks like it will just buff out

Yesterday another day in the workshop still haven't got the buggy finished but getiing closer. Today over to Tangiteroria to do Marshall training for round 1 of the nationals, and then another look at the rally site. Without trying hard we could have 43 obstacles, but would makle a long day

I need mud tyres...!

The weather held out al day while we were at Woodhill.
Started Bucketing down as we left which was a good thing...







This was a fraction too deep.
Christened the inside of the car...
Bugger, gonna have to hose the carpet tomorrow

MNC wrote:Spent the weekend camping and 4x4ing at Pouto.

Was an awesome weekend - truck did have a little lie down half way up to the light house looks like it will just buff out

Bugger! What was the damage report?
Hope everyone was ok

Cheers

Went for a drive yesterday in my hilux,1st time it has been 100% legal in 3 years
went up to birch hill in loburn,took a detour down the garry river on the way back,truck went really well.
Had a look under it today found no cracks or damage. thats great

Spent Saturday in crazybustard's jeep doing the te aroha side of thompsons. Had an awesome day and left with a head full of ideas for the landy. Anyone interested in a 245 hemi mated to a 4spd cruiser box with a custom adaptor plate (near new clutch and hydraulic thrust bearing)

phraza wrote:Bugger! What was the damage report?
Hope everyone was ok

Cheers

Yeah, all good - snapped the fiberglass windscreen (I have a spare) and has a crack in the guard which i'll repair so no biggy.

Was drifting sideways across a step dune (the waves look close in the photo but are long way off and quite big) - all part of testing truck stability

Drove it for the rest of the day.

Was an awesome day at Pouto - cant wait to get back there.

MNC wrote:Was an awesome day at Pouto - cant wait to get back there.

Mint Cruiser mate look the same ish color as mine haha

MNC your cruiser makes that light hose look small

00falcon wrote:I need mud tyres...!
This was a fraction too deep.
Christened the inside of the car...
Bugger, gonna have to hose the carpet tomorrow

good thing Jeep made the TJ's carpets so easy to remove. Shame they didn't put a breather on their auto boxes though. Filled that jeep up with mud many times, took the roof off and hosed the interior sweet as, but those bloody auto boxes don't like a mouthful.

Yesterday, weather was to shi*e to do anything even going for a wheel seemed like an ominous idea. Today the sun has just appeared and looking like its going to stay that way, so hoping to get on to front wheel bearings and axle seals and maybe pinion seal depending how times going, while im under there and already covered in grease/oil

CLUMZ1 wrote:good thing Jeep made the TJ's carpets so easy to remove. Shame they didn't put a breather on their auto boxes though. Filled that jeep up with mud many times, took the roof off and hosed the interior sweet as, but those bloody auto boxes don't like a mouthful.

Yeah, gonna check out the Auto tonight.
Fingers crossed as i was only there for a few minutes...