Offroad-Express

Went to the Landslip Rally just out of Pukerau (north of Gore) today... didn't enter but was great watching - great weather and lots of mud flinging action....

Spent the morning at my kids primary school gala.... Then this avo put all my recovery gear in the playdoh. Off to Woodhill on patrol Sunday...

Up north (mangonui) for the weekend at the in laws. Got rust taken out of the wife's car for compliance then got a call from the grandfather asking if I wanted to help him with moving bee hives so did some off roading in a little Suzuki Carry ute, man that was impressive went places with only road tyres haha.

Finally got the winch back in the bar, looking real nice just needs to go to the auto lekky to get wired up. Also had a look at the Delahuntys Bundy, real nice guy.

Went to an airshow at hood aerodrome yesterday, had come cool vehicles as well

Finally got some offroading on the new beast, Wiring drain sorted, but I have overheating problems, likely related to headgasket... Ugh, more work to do.

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Jerry wrote:Went to an airshow at hood aerodrome yesterday, had come cool vehicles as well

did your lovely lady not want to let you go for a night drive

you missed a cruisy trip

Oil change and new oil pressure sender fitted to 350.

nzdncjw wrote:Went to the Landslip Rally just out of Pukerau (north of Gore) today... didn't enter but was great watching - great weather and lots of mud flinging action....

That "Boat Anchor" did happen to have broken front left cv and flat rear tyre, may have added to its mass..
You get any pics of my vehicle? the ugly blue thing with rear steer...

callum007 wrote:

nzdncjw wrote:Went to the Landslip Rally just out of Pukerau (north of Gore) today... didn't enter but was great watching - great weather and lots of mud flinging action....

That "Boat Anchor" did happen to have broken front left cv and flat rear tyre, may have added to its mass..
You get any pics of my vehicle? the ugly blue thing with rear steer...

To be honest the boat anchor was my favourite truck... having owned one for nearly ten years.... Miss her dearly! anyway.... is this your truck? I don't actually have many photos of 'colour' trucks they were more all of the mud colour!

If anyone is keen on photos.... there were 4-5 of us from the Southland Photographic Society.... there was probably 1500-2000 photos taken I would say.... I took 400 odd myself! get in contact with the club via the website....

Is this your truck?

Its a bummer chitty chitty bang bang wasnt up in the air

Nice shots from out at pukerau, i was going to go but got busy, looks like i missed out on a cracker of a day.

Any idea on the placings?

Spent most of the weekend getting the truck ready for westport this coming weekend,put new bearings through the front and rear diffs,replaced a front wheel bearing and put a swivel hub kit through the front aswell,fitted rated tow hooks,put a replacement driveshaft on front as my old one was stuffed.
Only got a few small things left on my list now,including a winch rope dampner which i need to purchase this week

Well a bit of progress on the winch bar, brackets are made and the winch plate tacked on for the final weld, then it will be on to the awesome part the pipe work

A very big thanks go's to madlux for all your help and HiluxDan for your input.

Cheers

Jerry wrote:Went to an airshow at hood aerodrome yesterday, had come cool vehicles as well

Heard so much about the Hood aerodrome, I will get there one day and great photos, love those old bi planes, once saw one flying backwards. Head wind was so strong, full throttle and still went backwards

Saturday; WOF day for daily driver car and trailer. Called around to pick up my DTI gauge from kbushnz.

Sunday; packed up a TD27 turbo manifold and stashed it in the missus' suit case for a quick trip over the Tasman to be posted to a fulla in Queensland
Dropped her at the airport and had an invite to go to Woodhill and jumped at the chance. Who do I meet up with there.....kbushnz Could of got my DTI off him then
Took all the guess work out of which CV was clattering......it would be the one that shat itself half an hour into the day. Woodhill more fun with 2wd in the dry so no great hassle. Had couple of trucks following me and they still found it quite a challenge even though they still had 4wd
Didn't get to my list of things to do, like EGR blanking plates and finish andy3542's solenoid pack....sorry boys.

Cheers,

Dirtydog wrote:Any idea on the placings?

Super Modified - 1st ME!!!!, Tony R, Joel??
Open - 1st equal Richardson's.
Cant remember the rest
"nzdncjw" pics of this one? c-bond@vodafone.net.nz if you have please.

good to see Richardsons are still in the top few, luky you for first lol, i want to compete one day, but need better tyres are and better truck lol

Dirtydog wrote:Its a bummer chitty chitty bang bang wasnt up in the air

Nice shots from out at pukerau, i was going to go but got busy, looks like i missed out on a cracker of a day.

Any idea on the placings?

Not sure of any placings sorry - I had to shoot away... It was a cracker day indeed!

More photos are on this Web Site:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/southlandps/

^^ some really cool pictures cheers

Camped overnight at Waiohine Gorge. Squeezed the 80 down some very overgrown logging tracks while collecting firewood.

callum007 wrote:

Dirtydog wrote:Any idea on the placings?

Super Modified - 1st ME!!!!, Tony R, Joel??
Open - 1st equal Richardson's.
Cant remember the rest
"nzdncjw" pics of this one? c-bond@vodafone.net.nz if you have please.

great picture, so chains are ok in some competitions??

Was the open round so anything goes... Obviously not allowed during normal rounds.

Super productive weekend 2nd in a row haha.
Replaced timing chain, changed oil, changed spark plug tube gaskets, then got a WOF today and went to pickapart and rounded up the last few odds n ends for EFI conversion got way undercharged so happy there

Went for a cruise down to Manfield to help out with some racing, then headed out to the West Coast for an adventure

Arrived out at the coast late saturday afternoon, found a likely looking track up over the dunes, so dropped the tyre pressures and pushed through the dunes out onto the beach for a quick drive. Wished I had the rod on the truck!!! We found a nice sheltered place out of the wind, set up camp and watched the sun set.

Sunday the weather was a bit average, but I did remember to take some pic's. Even in the weather it was still awesome!!!!

Headed back off the beach and found an interesting track that followed the river down to the sea. Heaps of white bait stands!!!



We could see tracks on the other side of the river. It was quite a drive up river to the nearest bridge, but had to be done

We stumbled accross the ferry that used to cross the river in 1857 not far from were the above pic's were taken. Would have saved a hours driving


We found the tracks we had seen on the other side of the river. A pretty special place, wished I had way more time to explore!!!


We found the point directly opposite where we had parked in the the earlier pics:





Then found our way out onto the wild looking beach for a quick spin.


Further up the beach, I saw marked on the map the position of the ship wreck Fusilier 1884. That's a spot to try and visit for next time!!!

you can get to the fuselier wreck more or less on open forestry road 'fuselier road' as well.
I didn't see the shipwreck when we went for a cruise there the other day... went just past the bombing range, though . Shot in through the bush to the end of fuselier road but didn't hang around/look for it as it was after dark and we weern't sure if they'd shut the road gate at night (sign says they may do) so had to gap it

DieselBoy wrote:Went for a cruise down to Manfield to help out with some racing, then headed out to the West Coast for an adventure

what happened to your dog he usually appears somewhere in all your pics?

Sadam_Husain wrote:

DieselBoy wrote:Went for a cruise down to Manfield to help out with some racing, then headed out to the West Coast for an adventure

what happened to your dog he usually appears somewhere in all your pics?

True, didn't notice that!! He musta been nose to the ground exploring out of camera range on Sunday

made a new clutch pushrod to replace the one I bent this morning, might have to make up a stronger 10mm one

Bombing Range with my old man and brother: