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Thought I would include Friday avo

Completely rebuilt my alternator, rectifier, regulator, bearings, seals.
Soooo much better now. I am amazed how the thing was still going with only one brush and caked in mud.

Finally got winch back together tonight after cleaning much rust & mud out of its innards. Tomorrows mission is modify mount so I can get it in and out for maintenance without pulling so much other stuff off (tui moment - I'm going to maintain it before it stops working this time : yeah right)

Terrano is booked in for wednesday so going to put it in the shed and check over everything again.

Bighorn also has to go into shed and swap mirror/taillight and sort out power steering box, ive run some stop leak through it, now to degrease it and put it back in to get warrant ticked off.

Camry clean sheeted again yay!

Also sorted out piping for intercooler on terrano, filled it up with water so just need to get pump sorted now.

Pulled out my rear diff pumpkin out of the Safari..
Drain oil and found chipped teeth, yup That's where the problem is for the rear diff lock

did fark all..........

Pedro

Replaced front leaf and shackle bushes on the cruiser they were so worn its now an inch higher in the front, also replaced both wheel bearings luckily i didnt leave it for a little bit longer as they had started to spin on the spindles and fix my electric hubs.


Edit - And re-installed front swaybar for race car like handling hahah

spent 3.5 hours to remove one of the brush bars and sidesteps on my newly acquired lux

who needs bolts to hold things together when rust does such a good job

tomorrows job - the otherside

Went up north to help set more tracks for the Norwest 24hr teams challenge. Alot more fun when youre in monstr's winch challenge truck! Cheers for letting me be coey for the day.

As above post ,went up north to check out the tracks for the 24hr challenge ,drove,winched ,walked some bloody awsome tracks ,the guys from Norwest have set some top stages , if the rest of the stages they set are anything like these we are in for one hell of a comp ...big thanks for my co driver today (andrew) who got a bit of a work out ....

Replaced front drive shaft, power steering belt, replaced smashed headlight and inspected rear diff for damage.

just have to change all oils and rebuild alternator then its all set for reefton and lake daniels trip

Saturday managed to get gremlin in to the shed so I can start fixing the steering on it, in the Kiwi challenge I ripped it clean off the chassis... today I helped 'last minute Mike' build a bench for the Lathe that we brought back from Chch three weeks ago...
Started with this....
did some of this....
some more of this...
ended up with this...
all for this...

Cheers
Reece

pulled some weeds out with the cruiser

a big plum tree and lemon wood I thought those things only grew to 3mtrs?

Also went up to Possum Palace for the weekend. Bloody good weekend got heaps done...

Huge thanks to Steve (Monstr) for the input and support... Bring on the comp

More footage to come after the next run up there

Turned my gear box cross member into spiral pasta and dented 3 pannels on the work truck d22 navara. Not suited to do the akatarawas pine forest at all.

Had a big weekend, Saturday we had a club run up the raglan range, awesome view and a wicked track. Found out the truck doesn't like altitude much




Sunday was a trip up to Mt Reiley to have a play on the winch challenge tracks, we had a ball up there in the rain. Managed to get half way up the Marathon before we decided to turn back. It took us an hour and a half to get up and back only to be told it could be done in ten minutes
More pics to come





Started on my onboard air system today hoping to get it finished tomorow

monstr wrote:As above post ,went up north to check out the tracks for the 24hr challenge ,drove,winched ,walked some bloody awsome tracks ,the guys from Norwest have set some top stages , if the rest of the stages they set are anything like these we are in for one hell of a comp ...big thanks for my co driver today (andrew) who got a bit of a work out ....

andy3542 wrote:Went up north to help set more tracks for the Norwest 24hr teams challenge. Alot more fun when youre in monstr's winch challenge truck! Cheers for letting me be coey for the day.

Don't get too comfy in there Andy

Filthy4x4 wrote:Also went up to Possum Palace for the weekend. Bloody good weekend got heaps done...

Huge thanks to Steve (Monstr) for the input and support... Bring on the comp

More footage to come after the next run up there

Same as above, for two days
Had a small fail and wrecked my new passengers door , cracked the windscreen and pushed the lower A pillar in Broke rear right hand spring at some stage too Note to self, take spare springs up next time.
Happened to be sitting there with the camera at the right time

Bent Rear Panhard rod at Woodhill Saturday when winched sideways
We straightened on my bull bars by hand, my school bike had stronger tubing than this! Defintely going to replace them all. Seems rather underspeced compared to everything else on the Saf.

both Panhards, tierod bar, rear lower arms all bend and need replacing at some stage the joys of a safari

coxsy wrote:both Panhards, tierod bar, rear lower arms all bend and need replacing at some stage the joys of a safari

with after market items? im new to the safari scene what ones are a good brand to go for?

EFS toughdog , superior engineering, all good gear, though did manage to bend a super tie rod once, but we couldn't see under the truck to what was stopping it moving,

i have replaced everything on my safari with superior engineering goodies,really strong gear,haven't bent any of it ..........yet

Under 22,000lb via pulley block something moves

Craydiver wrote:Bent Rear Panhard rod at Woodhill Saturday when winched sideways
We straightened on my bull bars by hand, my school bike had stronger tubing than this! Defintely going to replace them all. Seems rather underspeced compared to everything else on the Saf.

lol least I didn't break anything on my truck lol! and or nearly roll it!