Offroad-Express

early start to the week, this happened on the way home


the mitsi that pulled out in front of me looks like a writeoff

Jerry wrote:early start to the week, this happened on the way home

everything still all good for your trip to Auck tomorrow?

you may have to go visit stinky and get some real bars on your truck now

Hey Jerry. Sucks to see. Hope you are still all good for the trip to aucks

sitting here onewhero waiting for the competitors to arrive for the manakau winch challenge, taz cooked whitebait fritters for breakfest there are leftovers

came up in stinkys GU as mine was a bit of a mess .... thanks for the lend

Jerry wrote:sitting here onewhero waiting for the competitors to arrive for the manakau winch challenge, taz cooked whitebait fritters for breakfest there are leftovers

came up in stinkys GU as mine was a bit of a mess .... thanks for the lend

see you fullas in a couple hours... hope we make it in time for scruitineering!!...

Well the plan is up early tomorrow and head out and watch the Manukau winch challenge guys and girls thrashing about in the mud...
Then they can go out in thier trucks

stood in a field from 7.30 to 8.30 watched 14 truck run stage 5 a jeep into a fence afew relines all sweet .
then up to onewhero to catch up with taz jerry ben and others till late

Only stickers on the Jeep this weekend

Zombie outbreak response team!

Forgot to post this, my landlord's matte black Ford something-a-rather with a V8 in it and 35"s. Sounds like a beast when its running. He wants to take it to Woodhill soon, so there will be more pics then

Wednesday pciked up a replacement auto for the buggy supposedly good condition dropped it to the trans man Thursday Morning, by lunchtime knew that it was stuffed, gear set was melted together it had been that hot. Buynow Thursday night on another auto for the trans man to check, owner was happy to drop it to the trans man for me so must be a good one. Today pulled old auto and transfer case out so was able to strip modified bits out of auto ready for replacemnet trans to go in.
Then bypassed the on off switch on the 12000lb Runva so it will work again.

saturday started with this

followed by watching this

with a jerry in pic

coxsy wrote:saturday started with this

way
would have been a blast to see and hear a mosquito flying.

my weekends been fairly boring, just fixing up fuel pump mounts and fixing broken spotlight mounting.

first flying one since 1996, last one was clipped by a vampire both crashed the other flying one was sold earlier to kermit weeks planes of fame in the states never flew again

phraza wrote:Forgot to post this, my landlord's matte black Ford something-a-rather with a V8 in it and 35"s. Sounds like a beast when its running. He wants to take it to Woodhill soon, so there will be more pics then

man that's sweet, although the step-side deck made me cringe.

Did the orongaronga loop with the CCVC. Great first day of proper offroading. Loved it.

Extended my 4wd family today. Now have the hilux, x2 prado's and now a Little suzuki escudo 4dr for the missis. first thing she say's.... Its a bit low, can we lift it?.

Dr_PC wrote:Wednesday pciked up a replacement auto for the buggy supposedly good condition dropped it to the trans man Thursday Morning, by lunchtime knew that it was stuffed, gear set was melted together it had been that hot. Buynow Thursday night on another auto for the trans man to check, owner was happy to drop it to the trans man for me so must be a good one. Today pulled old auto and transfer case out so was able to strip modified bits out of auto ready for replacemnet trans to go in.
Then bypassed the on off switch on the 12000lb Runva so it will work again.

yah!! you have put a winch on your truck , oh maybe me thinks you are talking about your transporter

Put a new slave and master cylinder on the bighorn to try and get the clutch going... still not going but its better, might throw the water blaster up there tomorrow as the normal hose isnt helping just got to remember im on tank water so cant use to much.

Forge stones and bits of vegetation will be jamming the fingers on your pressure plate in the release position stopping it from going back on to the clutch plate.Get a hose running in to your bellhousing onto the pressure plate is the best and with the engine idling pump the clutch for a while and try and rinse it out.I have had this problem before and fixed it this way.Good luck.

worked this morning, then spent the rest of the afternoon/evening stripping and rebuilding my partners front diff on her 80

tomorrow I plan to chop down a tree close to the house using the winch to stop it falling on the house

wish me luck

Cameron wrote:man that's sweet, although the step-side deck made me cringe.

Yea, the sound of the V8 makes up for it, he has an electric fan on it, sounds crazy like a supercharger!

klompy wrote:Forge stones and bits of vegetation will be jamming the fingers on your pressure plate in the release position stopping it from going back on to the clutch plate.Get a hose running in to your bellhousing onto the pressure plate is the best and with the engine idling pump the clutch for a while and try and rinse it out.I have had this problem before and fixed it this way.Good luck.

Hey Mate thanks for this I got in there and did what you have expalined and I now have all my gears back and the clutch is working mint. Had to use the water blaster though. I think this is what Sadam said aswell thanks heaps. Maybe it will sell for more now that its driveable.

Ray

went to waipara found some cool rocks someone had balanced well


edit - and my rear u-bolts on passengers side came undone but like everyone says without pictures it didnt happen haha

have managed to get out in the garage a few times lately and have made good progress on the playdoh.finished the adapter plate for gearbox/transfer.installed motor and gearbox/transfer so i could start the exhaust.made good progress on that and finished and painted it in aluminium paint to slow down the rust .modified the auto linkage and made a new bracket to hold the low/high lever on to the side of the auto.next step is to pull the motor out for the last time so i can paint mounts ,run cooler lines,reroute wiring and brake lines etc ,then its finish the engine loom and install it plus computer .Hopeing to have it drivable for xmas.Lots of little things to do as well ir temp gauge,oil pressure gauge etc.picked up a fuel pump off stinky ( thanks stinky) .

FORGE1 wrote:

klompy wrote:Forge stones and bits of vegetation will be jamming the fingers on your pressure plate in the release position stopping it from going back on to the clutch plate.Get a hose running in to your bellhousing onto the pressure plate is the best and with the engine idling pump the clutch for a while and try and rinse it out.I have had this problem before and fixed it this way.Good luck.

Hey Mate thanks for this I got in there and did what you have expalined and I now have all my gears back and the clutch is working mint. Had to use the water blaster though. I think this is what Sadam said aswell thanks heaps. Maybe it will sell for more now that its driveable.

Ray

Dude you can always come and use my water......it's free and there's lots of it!

skid wrote:worked this morning, then spent the rest of the afternoon/evening stripping and rebuilding my partners front diff on her 80

tomorrow I plan to chop down a tree close to the house using the winch to stop it falling on the house

wish me luck

Tree large Cruiser smaller have seen it happen, Good Luck

Spent the day at the Trials site, all obstacles are now pegged , next weekend will have a working bee out there to clean up obstacles and we will check line of sight and turning radius mark ground for peg loactions etc etc

Me muckin around with an air rifle. Notice clean jeep:


Then went hunting for mud and found some! Notice muddy jeep:

Haha saw you on the M/way on Sunday, waved but ya didn't see me