Offroad-Express

After the door and tail light damage a couple of weeks ago, thought i would change them. Think anyone will notice?







nek minute!



Trying my best to blend the colors

Got water in the cab again.

There was a bit of vibration after getting out of the pond, maybe the weed on the drive shaft was the cause!

Went to the coast and drove some stuff, did some panel damage and gave my interior a through rinsing in nice west coast fresh water . Will chuck some pics up latter when I get them

went bush

played evil comp organisor and sent people on evil stages

saw some damage being done

cleaned up after everyone

waited till I got out of the bush to have my pants staining moment with the 80 and car trailer and comp truck sliding backwards down concrete driveway

lucky that ended well

killed it plus the 80 towing it to top of the sth winch comp.......





great weekend but ,,,well run , people very helpful , good night on the juice at the woodbourne tav , locals even put on a bit of biffo to watch

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so we have a dead 80 to get from kaikoura and a dead jeep still up at the farm......

sucks to hear yati was it mikes mums 80? pay my gas and ill go get the jeep
lol

I was a first time marshal at Round 1 of the Mainland Winch Chlallenge. Had a great time, awesome to watch teams tackle similar problems in very different ways!

Unfortunate to see some very broken trucks. Who knew Wrangler front top arms were so spindly?

Will have to get some pics of the camera card...

Drove from Auck to wellywood with a great team of guys ,drove(winched ) some bloody awsome stages ,one small dent in door ,nothing broken rapped with new winch set up ,drove home .

Got a parts truck and got the proceed running at last, fitted a few small things like mudflaps spotlights and a few things aswell, took it up the forestry to celebrate, next stage wof n reg

Drove to Wellington, came home with one less lung Virgin winchman at the Kiwi Challenge. Had a great road trip and comp with Monstr, Jeremy and Co. Great to meet a few off ORE...
Managed to turn a Prado radius arm into a pretzel... But it was squashed flat with a trucks outrigger arms and we put it back in and finished the event only dropping a few tracks....Time to clean up and recover...

mazdamike wrote:sucks to hear yati was it mikes mums 80? pay my gas and ill go get the jeep
lol

yeah mate mikes mummys one,,,,,pass on ya getting jeep ,,,rd trip next weekend

Jeeps did Pureora for 3 Days.
For the first day of winter, the weather was verging on pleasant...

It is a little bit slippery in there, but we all got out with nearly no damage...





I trailered the tires for the first time.
The Jeep pulled a trailer well... No Stress...

Had an awesome shorty trip, managed the 900 meter track there and back in 4 hours tested Camel's new PTO winch which worked flawlessly without prior testing another mate in V6 terrano with 32" bighorns has done amazingly well, hats off for truck and driver!

Wicked weekend at the kiwi, blew a diff but sorted another and lasted the rest of the weekend with out anymore breakages. Our team got fastest in night stage so that was a huge high for us and 5th overall

Really enjoyed marshaling the Kiwi 4X4 winch challenge at rallywoods, awesome venue, trucks, food and people. A few moments with lotsa in the end.

catalystracing wrote:Really enjoyed marshaling the Kiwi 4X4 winch challenge at rallywoods, awesome venue, trucks, food and people. A few moments with lotsa in the end.

would really love for you to post those special pics you have in the kiwi pics thread

and thanks heaps to you and Rod for marshalling

got money during the week for selling the bighorn, so finally got enough funds to carry on with the terrano.

Couple of little things, got new flares sorted, that will also be mudflaps (yay for cert requirements) and then i have to book her in for a warrent, every thing looks sound so cant see why it would fail other than the cert needed.

Also got a part time job finally, so going to be getting some good things for the terrano eventually, like some longer shocks and/or softer springs so i can unleash the flex in the front.

So all going well i will finally be able to get some action in the terrano, perfect timing for winter!!

New to forum, just purchased new d22 nav and went out to red rocks for a nosy on monday.

Managed to stake front drivers AT3 tyre, lucky I had a new set of Kumhos waiting to be installed. Off to tyres2u in upper hutt today to get them put on

Said goodbye to the Jeep, that's me done for offroading for a bit. But will still be taking the camera to events and trips etc. Eyeing up a new shape 2WD Petrol Hilux for the house renos

found out on friday morning our 3rd truck that was coming from auckland couldn't make it , was told of the huge effort Mike put in trying to get things to work, but things didn't quite go his way.
Got a last minit ring in on friday, Mitch in a nissan, So headed down to rallywoods!

The ring in was the only truck going properly at the end of the weekend, mine out with electrical problems and jafa only having 3wd (broken left rear axle) all weekend, then did a kingpin bearing on last stage!

Ingrid enjoyed her marshalling, even if she made the exaust fall off my work truck!!

Wicked event, will be back again next year!

Drove back to palmy sun night, then up at 5am monday to get back down to naenae for kids canoe polo event!!

I have a photo of jafa on his side too at the the top of "wong way" need to search forums to figure out how put photo up.

catalystracing wrote:I have a photo of jafa on his side too at the the top of "wong way" need to search forums to figure out how put photo up.

Yea, almost forgot about that, was a interesting moment!!

skid wrote:

catalystracing wrote:Really enjoyed marshaling the Kiwi 4X4 winch challenge at rallywoods, awesome venue, trucks, food and people. A few moments with lotsa in the end.

would really love for you to post those special pics you have in the kiwi pics thread

and thanks heaps to you and Rod for marshalling

catalystracing wrote:I have a photo of jafa on his side too at the the top of "wong way" need to search forums to figure out how put photo up.

skiddynz@live.com

rotordogg wrote:Ingrid enjoyed her marshalling, even if she made the exaust fall off my work truck!!

Wicked event, will be back again next year!

Drove back to palmy sun night, then up at 5am monday to get back down to naenae for kids canoe polo event!!

I though that tired old landrover was sounding better by the end of the weekend

Why you not just stay another night and head to naenae next morning :-/

Headed to Pureora with Pruggerdore. Had a great weekend. Here's a pic of Clive's truck showing that leaf springs do indeed "flex"

skid wrote:Why you not just stay another night and head to naenae next morning :-/

Thought about it, but Ingrid wanted to go home, and bed at home more comfortable!

...and didn't want to leave truck on trailer parked outside pool for 4 hours!

Absolutely destroyed my winch, yay only had it for 6 months.

I was up at our clubs winch challenge on Saturday, just as a spectator and just driving around to the different tracks to watch the competitions. Parked the truck up on the side of the road, we all got out and left it for 5mins and then we could hear this almighty continuous crunching sound.

Turns out the winch had decided to start running and I had to disconnect the battery feed to stop it. I checked the wireless remote and it wasn’t even powered on and just sitting in the glove box. There are no external remotes connected to it either. But shit did it make a mess.





Just got to work out what happened now:
- the solenoid jammed on.
- The remote receiver got some water in it and switched the winch on
- Or maybe with the winch challenge on, someone else’s remote activated my winch??

fullthrottle wrote:Absolutely destroyed my winch, yay only had it for 6 months.


- Or maybe with the winch challenge on, someone else’s remote activated my winch??

That would be an interesting theory to test... Could be fun even out with other mates with the same winch!

fullthrottle wrote:Absolutely destroyed my winch, yay only had it for 6 months.

I was up at our clubs winch challenge on Saturday, just as a spectator and just driving around to the different tracks to watch the competitions. Parked the truck up on the side of the road, we all got out and left it for 5mins and then we could hear this almighty continuous crunching sound.

Turns out the winch had decided to start running and I had to disconnect the battery feed to stop it. I checked the wireless remote and it wasn’t even powered on and just sitting in the glove box. There are no external remotes connected to it either. But shit did it make a mess.

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Just got to work out what happened now:
- the solenoid jammed on.
- The remote receiver got some water in it and switched the winch on
- Or maybe with the winch challenge on, someone else’s remote activated my winch??

i wondered what that sound was... thought it was some one hammering something metal... bugga