Offroad-Express

My weekend started at 12:00 today, went to Papkura this afternoon and picked up a couple of diif houseings for the buggy to replace what I stuffed at Onewhero

cruiser spat the back diff on the way to work yesterday. Making the same banging and clicking noises as last time, lost the back off a tooth by the sound of it. done about 80km on it, stopped clicking but it's got one hell of a rumble winding down poor thing.

problem is my Escudo's got the stands and ramps under it at the moment. because i'm replacing the back diff.



so much for a quiet christmas.

Broke my rear control arm on the Pajero up at Macetown, a slow trip out with alot of banging going on.
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at mace town? thats not even hard driving at this time of year, must have been a bit rough

nicinnz wrote:Broke my rear control arm on the Pajero up at Macetown, a slow trip out with alot of banging going on.
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we had a guy in the club (2 or 3 actually) that had this happen after a good couple hard trip they seemed to split them there, think one of them got them corogenticly frozen (or how ever you spell that) to make them stonger

Looks like its been cracked for a while with the rust stains...

finished this front bar this morning painted and fitted, in the new year i will beef up the mounts and fit tow hooks

very nice and tidy
make sure you take photos of the finished product after the hooks have been installed

mudlva wrote:make sure you take photos of the finished product after the hooks have been installed

So that Jerry can "approve" the design of the hooks?

got rid of all the water spots off my windows, I will start on the paint after Christmas

went out to the waimak after dark to test out my new spottys,had to modify the mounts as they kept moving when off road.
come across a guy that had been stuck since 7pm (it was 11.30 by now)
he got really grumpy because i wouldnt snatch him off his tow bar, got even grumpier when i suggested that maybe the creek track wasnt designed for d21 terranos on bald road tires with his wife and kids in the back and that he shouldnt have gone out alone.
he got even grumpier when we handed him a shovel and a turfer and proceeded to have a beer while we waited for our gear back.
So he finally gets out, throws our gear to the side of the track and takes off spraying me with mud, only to get 30m down the track and get stuck again.
Was one of the funniest things i have seen.

photos to follow when i find where my kids have hidden the camera cord.

By the way my spotlights dont move anymore

mayhem1982 wrote:went out to the waimak after dark to test out my new spottys,had to modify the mounts as they kept moving when off road.
come across a guy that had been stuck since 7pm (it was 11.30 by now)
he got really grumpy because i wouldnt snatch him off his tow bar, got even grumpier when i suggested that maybe the creek track wasnt designed for d21 terranos on bald road tires with his wife and kids in the back and that he shouldnt have gone out alone.
he got even grumpier when we handed him a shovel and a turfer and proceeded to have a beer while we waited for our gear back.
So he finally gets out, throws our gear to the side of the track and takes off spraying me with mud, only to get 30m down the track and get stuck again.
Was one of the funniest things i have seen.

photos to follow when i find where my kids have hidden the camera cord.

By the way my spotlights dont move anymore

Hope you gave him a "merry xmas ya wanker" wave when you left him behind..

haha no, i hooked a nice short rope between the front of our 2 trucks facing together and made sure that when i pulled him out that i caked him with about 2 inches of nice poo smelling mud, turns out he didnt have water in his window washers either

was just looking through my photos from a while ago and the mrs and i are 99% sure this is the same guy we helped last time

mayhem1982 wrote:haha no, i hooked a nice short rope between the front of our 2 trucks facing together and made sure that when i pulled him out that i caked him with about 2 inches of nice poo smelling mud, turns out he didnt have water in his window washers either

your way to kind plenty of people would have just left him there

if he didnt have his kids with him i would of left him there, its not his kids fault their father is an idiot.

mayhem1982 wrote:if he didnt have his kids with him i would of left him there, its not his kids fault their father is an idiot.

thats so true.

mayhem1982 wrote:if he didnt have his kids with him i would of left him there, its not his kids fault their father is an idiot.

What a wanker should have left him the second time, might make him think about taking a rope and shovel and not being a c*nt when some one helps out next time.

Gave the safa a service man was the old oil filthy, black hands after wiping the excess oil off with a rag. Since this I unplugged a couple of plugs and cleaned them and now my factory glow timer works again haha so don't need to use the manual switch to glow in the mornings now.

Also fitted a 2nd hand wiper motor, now I have my fastest mode working. While I was at it I painted the wipers and got new blades and rubbers so happy with the out come. But boy what a job won't be doing that again

blew the front oil seal on my surf today

really cant be bothered pulling the radiator etc off to get at it. Made a mess, is oil everywhere, hope i didnt damage anything else, temp got up there a bit before i noticed.

joys of owning a 2.4 hand grenade i guess

sorkel is all fitted and ready to go..........

NOT!
Something else took my attention

Picked up some new wheels.

Entertained the wifes shoping desires for a few houres in return for the wheels


Hacked up the rear wheel arches and started bending and tacking the inner skinn into place.


chucked the wheels back on to test, good thing I did as there is more chopping to do

The fronts also hit on the rear and front of the arch when turning

the front will be a matter of cutting away the lower part of the front valance to clear. But the rears are another whole story of complicated.
you pannel beater welder type blokes are tougher than me no way I could do this stuff for a job.

Lesson of the day: Lada's have small wheel arches

Went up to woodhill today for the shake down run for my new truck...

Had a bloody good day, cheers to Datsunsafari and jimnyjeep for tagging along and being patient while i learn how to move the big girl around

Only lost a wing mirror, blew a power steering hose and did a little panel beating drove it home, so I call that a success






Oh and may have some super swampers up for sale in the new year

Cheers

Caleb

ladeda wrote: Lesson of the day: Lada's have small wheel arches

The wheel arch size is probably not so much the issue, I would say its the HUGE offset.

zukmeista wrote:

ladeda wrote: Lesson of the day: Lada's have small wheel arches

The wheel arch size is probably not so much the issue, I would say its the HUGE offset.

its not a bad offset hey, mind you even with 30" muds on other rims with like no offset it was all the same problems on the rear then also.
neva mind ill stick to the old saying of if it dont fit get a bigger hammer and make em fit

ladeda wrote:

zukmeista wrote:

ladeda wrote: Lesson of the day: Lada's have small wheel arches

The wheel arch size is probably not so much the issue, I would say its the HUGE offset.

its not a bad offset hey, mind you even with 30" muds on other rims with like no offset it was all the same problems on the rear then also.
neva mind ill stick to the old saying of if it dont fit get a bigger hammer and make em fit

Maaate, that looks pretty nice. That offset is perfect

But you'll be sitting with a wheel either side of any ruts

Well I picked up my new project yesterday/today

Started a bit of work on it. Idea at the moment is to have it running by February

Pics here:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 886&type=3

^ Well, not just his, ours...

Cut steel, birdy welded some steel (it'll grind out to like a flat panel - yeah right), burned hand with weld spatter and broke a CO2 guage.

All in all a good day in the shed.

[ burned hand with weld spatter ]
they are called welding gloves to save the the pain of little burns