Offroad-Express

Well thought I would kick off this one....Being a looong weekend.
Spent today getting the playdoh ready for a trip out Sat am in Thompsons...
4 of us heading out to see how far we can get....Its one of those tracks thats always been on my bucket list. Now I have a good winch and decent tyres...
Even put the light bar on in case its a late one Should be a great day out..... Photo's Sunday... when I recover...

kbushnz wrote:Well thought I would kick off this one....Being a looong weekend.
Spent today getting the playdoh ready for a trip out Sat am in Thompsons...
4 of us heading out to see how far we can get....
Even put the light bar on in case its a late one Should be a great day out..... Photo's Sunday... when I recover...

kricky you should be at the other end by 10am and back to the car park by midday.
stop off and do maratoto on the way home, might need the lights by then tho

Went for a casual drive up to the Waipara gorge with my lady and the dog. Mint day until.................... On the way back the dog was on the deck of the 60, it decided to jump off and got tangled up......... Broken rear leg!!!!!!
So as we speak the dog is at the vet retreat, having x rays this morning and having surgery on Tuesday
Wreaked my day seeing her in such pain Didn't really realise how much I loved the dog until then.

tomsoffroad wrote:Went for a casual drive up to the Waipara gorge with my lady and the dog. Mint day until.................... On the way back the dog was on the deck of the 60, it decided to jump off and got tangled up......... Broken rear leg!!!!!!
So as we speak the dog is at the vet retreat, having x rays this morning and having surgery on Tuesday
Wreaked my day seeing her in such pain Didn't really realise how much I loved the dog until then.

Thats not good. i know the feeling of something happening to your dog and it does make ya realise how much you actually love them.

tomsoffroad wrote:Went for a casual drive up to the Waipara gorge with my lady and the dog. Mint day until.................... On the way back the dog was on the deck of the 60, it decided to jump off and got tangled up......... Broken rear leg!!!!!!
So as we speak the dog is at the vet retreat, having x rays this morning and having surgery on Tuesday
Wreaked my day seeing her in such pain Didn't really realise how much I loved the dog until then.

shell be all good mate there prity tough animals . thing is they neva seem to lurn from there mistakes.

tomsoffroad wrote:Went for a casual drive up to the Waipara gorge with my lady and the dog. Mint day until.................... On the way back the dog was on the deck of the 60, it decided to jump off and got tangled up......... Broken rear leg!!!!!!
So as we speak the dog is at the vet retreat, having x rays this morning and having surgery on Tuesday
Wreaked my day seeing her in such pain Didn't really realise how much I loved the dog until then.

Bugger!
Ran my last hound over on Muriwai....saddest day of my life. Got a new puppy soon after and ran her over when 10 weeks old. Her back leg owes me 3.5k
Titanium pin in there now for the rest of her life.....still named Zoom (Zoom by name, Zoom by nature) Hopefully will fully recover.

Cheers,

spaced up some spotlights


my last boy paid the vets $$$$$ - would of sold hilux to keep him.
knock a few bars an sliders out in a day an chuck on ebay / gumtree aus- you'll be back in front.

mudlva wrote:

kbushnz wrote:Well thought I would kick off this one....Being a looong weekend.
Spent today getting the playdoh ready for a trip out Sat am in Thompsons...
4 of us heading out to see how far we can get....
Even put the light bar on in case its a late one Should be a great day out..... Photo's Sunday... when I recover...

kricky you should be at the other end by 10am and back to the car park by midday.
stop off and do maratoto on the way home, might need the lights by then tho

We survived Thompsons , wasn't as quick as that but not too far off. Started at 9am and we were at the bomb site just after 12.... And out of the track completely on the Katikati side sometime after 4.... Did plenty of winching.... we had 5 trucks ranging from a zuk, nissan's and a couple of toyota's. Pulled a local who rolled his 40 series at the Katikati side. He was lucky to be alive ... That held us up for a bit...as his pto had sheared a pin and turfor winch they were using sheared a pin, So with a triple line pull we got him back on the track and escorted him out dragging him thru the last few winch area's.... Will do a better write up later with pic's.
Thanks monstr (Steve) my winch man....and advisor. Steve was working hard all day

Picked up my new White Playdoh from the other island


Crossing was smooth as



Started setting up the navi seat

Stripped out the Right front CV / 1/2 shaft assembly from my KZJ-71 Prado on Friday. 1/2 shaft splines all munted, so looking for another one 2nd hand.

I had got one from Nathan at Kaiapoi Repowers, who wasn't sure whether it was Prado or Hilux. However the 1/2 shaft was too short and the inner seal diameter 33 instead of 35, so that's going back.

Anyone got any Prado RH axle, CV & stub axle bits?

Inboard of the axle housing ball I found what looks like a oil shield loose inside the housing. Note I have removed the oil seal at this point, which took some doing due to the garks, and this part is not part of the seal (much larger in diameter).


I managed to start to get it to locate in the bore near the ball.
Which way does this go round - open side of 'U' towards diff or hub?
What does it do - reduce oil coming at 1/2 shaft seal?

replaced the faulty lift pump, redid the plumbing and wiring.
new pump is 1/10th of the noise, half the flow rate but still does 3 psi at full rev. now to see if it leaks overnight.

Got up friday, drove 8 hours for a conference and AGM.

Got up saturday competed in final round of National 4x4 Trials, came 1st in Class and 4th overall, including rolling 4 times off a hill and then later on I managed to roll my ankle, tweak my knee and stick my hand on gorse to break the fall all at the same time.
Went to National prizegiving where we managed 3rd in Class and 11th overall for the season.

Got up sunday drove 8 hours back to a very happy dog

IcedJohnno wrote:Stripped out the Right front CV / 1/2 shaft assembly from my KZJ-71 Prado on Friday. 1/2 shaft splines all munted, so looking for another one 2nd hand.

I had got one from Nathan at Kaiapoi Repowers, who wasn't sure whether it was Prado or Hilux. However the 1/2 shaft was too short and the inner seal diameter 33 instead of 35, so that's going back.

Anyone got any Prado RH axle, CV & stub axle bits?

Inboard of the axle housing ball I found what looks like a oil shield loose inside the housing. Note I have removed the oil seal at this point, which took some doing due to the garks, and this part is not part of the seal (much larger in diameter).

RF hub axle seal.small.jpg

I managed to start to get it to locate in the bore near the ball.
Which way does this go round - open side of 'U' towards diff or hub?
What does it do - reduce oil coming at 1/2 shaft seal?

open side of u towards diff, keeps ya oil in the diff, a new seal only a few dollars
looking at pic the housing looks damaged where the seal is supposed to seat

tomsoffroad wrote:Went for a casual drive up to the Waipara gorge with my lady and the dog. Mint day until.................... On the way back the dog was on the deck of the 60, it decided to jump off and got tangled up......... Broken rear leg!!!!!!
So as we speak the dog is at the vet retreat, having x rays this morning and having surgery on Tuesday
Wreaked my day seeing her in such pain Didn't really realise how much I loved the dog until then.

Oh bugga. Poor Puku. She's young and fit enough, she'll be ok.

Washed the log truck friday (it really needed it)
Spend saturday at the airshow, was a fantastic day and well worth the price of admission
Went out to the old mans today to help out with a few odd jobs and gave the 'rano a flex up as well

The red one is dead standard vs. mine with a 50mm lift (note the bricks)

Went down the Awatere while i was out there and had a bit of a play

Went for a play in the back yard with Tim, and Jase. Primo day

wed night did the mish to auck and back to pick up the lada. also picked up a dining table and chairs, who knew you could fit 8 chairs into a lada . thursday was a long drive back to gizy. poped a turbo hose off going up the hill outa Opotiki, thank god i had a screwdriver, the only tool in the car, cept for me . left auck at 9pmish stoped for a snooz at paeroa carried on around 12ish and got home at 5:30am. slept all of friday.
good fun

Took a run up the Thompson, tearoha side on friday with my nephew in his terrano.



then sat entered Greerton auto show, and won a digital camera in the raffle!



also checked my tWo week old lotto ticket and won 20 bucks!

kricky Robssei you have used your quoter of good luck up ah
1 good day up thomos
2 good day at air show plus winning a camara
3 old lotto ticket paying out, that another good day there

thats 3 out of 3 no more for luck for you now is there......

good stuff

mudlva wrote:kricky Robssei you have used your quoter of good luck up ah
1 good day up thomos
2 good day at air show plus winning a camara
3 old lotto ticket paying out, that another good day there

thats 3 out of 3 no more for luck for you now is there......

good stuff

Ha i hear ya. It was an auto show, free entry to show ya car. Got some interest.

hosehustler wrote:

IcedJohnno wrote:Stripped out the Right front CV / 1/2 shaft assembly from my KZJ-71 Prado on Friday...

Inboard of the axle housing ball I found what looks like a oil shield loose inside the housing. Note I have removed the oil seal at this point, which took some doing due to the garks, and this part is not part of the seal (much larger in diameter).

RF hub axle seal.small.jpg

I managed to start to get it to locate in the bore near the ball.
Which way does this go round - open side of 'U' towards diff or hub?
What does it do - reduce oil coming at 1/2 shaft seal?

open side of u towards diff, keeps ya oil in the diff, a new seal only a few dollars
looking at pic the housing looks damaged where the seal is supposed to seat

Thanks Tim
Useful to know re the shield. Was as I figured and I suspect is yet another piece of the botched insurance axle housing replacement job, done 2 years ago.

Yep the outer edge of the seal housing bore is kind of riveted over in places where it got garked. Will repair this with some carbide burrs and one of my die-grinders prior to fitting the new axle assembly.

Thanks to Suzolla, I will be able to fit one of the new Longfields in here. To do this I will have to fit a steel sleeve into the seal housing to take the seal that fits on the Hilux sized seal diameter, on the custom Prado length Longfield axle. 33 instead of 35mm ID
Looking forward to the added strength and being able to use larger chains on bigger wheels sometime in the future!

Another couple

Went to Zukfest in Reefton once again a great event run by the Canterbury Suzuki club.
Woody

IcedJohnno wrote:Stripped out the Right front CV / 1/2 shaft assembly from my KZJ-71 Prado on Friday. 1/2 shaft splines all munted, so looking for another one 2nd hand.

I had got one from Nathan at Kaiapoi Repowers, who wasn't sure whether it was Prado or Hilux. However the 1/2 shaft was too short and the inner seal diameter 33 instead of 35, so that's going back.

Anyone got any Prado RH axle, CV & stub axle bits?

Inboard of the axle housing ball I found what looks like a oil shield loose inside the housing. Note I have removed the oil seal at this point, which took some doing due to the garks, and this part is not part of the seal (much larger in diameter).

RF hub axle seal.small.jpg

I managed to start to get it to locate in the bore near the ball.
Which way does this go round - open side of 'U' towards diff or hub?
What does it do - reduce oil coming at 1/2 shaft seal?

my hilux did the same,what is that dished thing and where is it supposed to go? sorry didnt read far enough down,found the answer

Had a really choice day today, lead a group of 6 4x4's on a family day trip to Hanmer for a swim. Went down the Rainbow Road, left St Arnaud at 9am and got back at 6pm.
One of the best things for me was that my Dad was down visiting so he got to see a heap of new country that blew him away. I only get to see him once a year so it was really cool.
The only real bummer was a Hilux in the group broke an axle on the way back out. It wasn't a huge issue we had enough spare seats so we carried on and then went back to recover it with a trailer

Well spent Friday and Saturday doing a couple of tracks in Pureora Forest one of them was at the end of Bog In Track, some minor damage, broke off snorkel, and drivers side wing mirror, and drivers side front gaurd was dented all in all was a good Easter weekend will post up pictures.

are the water holes at bog inn still excessively deep? last time we did that track took 17 hours 2 days to get 7 4x4s thru.... needless to say we had a shocker but a blast!!

badnuz wrote:are the water holes at bog inn still excessively deep? last time we did that track took 17 hours 2 days to get 7 4x4s thru.... needless to say we had a shocker but a blast!!

Nah it was pretty dry out there Hole at start of Bog In was dry.

Can not fit more than 5 pictures so here are some more photo's

put some new tracks in at river over 4 days,test drove them....more dents,broken tail lite,front indicators,fked clutch,cracked window screen,
another good wkend out

Buggar Andy. Must still be a bit dry down there? Nig