Offroad-Express

Removed my snorkel and sanded it back and painted it all, much nicer now without all the little rust spots on it.

Also got a new trim piece for around the hole in the guard.

Matt.

After gauging my head with a fukin ramset nail I headed up to mangonui(Northland)and done nothing but sit on my ass and fill my face with shrimp and terakihi from the fishshop.....damn good!!!

Past a heap of well set up rigs on the way back down to Hamilton,kinda pisses ya off when ya gotto please the mrs aswell by doin the family thing and when you have a ORE Safari approaching the following weekend,and an unfinished truck,you just want to be head down arse up fixing shit!!

Good to see plenty of other rigs cruising around out there.....

Got up early and worked on the LR, by 10:30am I had the chassis painted where I'd altered it and the put the bulkhead back on. Rest of the day was spent doing the final aligning of the body, mounting the rangies brake booster, cutting the guard to fit the range rover booster and master cylinder and making mounts for the radiator.

Managed to spill power steering fluid all over the driveway

Mike

Managed to spill power steering fluid all over the driveway

Mike

HA,HA dont ya hate that......brakeleen works awesome for the dissapearing act.....

Bit of cutting here, bit of grinding there, some welding for good measure, also a bit of paint to make things look factory, (as factory as they can look anyway).

1x air filter housing, old inlet blanked and new inlet welded in to produce this.







1x L/H front tow hook mounted

The before shot.



Looked like this before painting it.





And after I made it look close to factory mount.



Once I put the cover back on and get a bit of mud on it, I'm sure it will look like it's always been there.

Next weekend is a shooting weekend so no welding for me

Tailing lambs.... about 1100 before it started to rain...

saturdaiy i competed in the waikawa rally in my pajero, and it still goes! amazing a. gave it death it loved it, it overheated all the way home.. sunday pulled out air con , radiator shroud, gave it a oil and filter change and got it ready for the land slip rally on nov 11. lets see if the $150 wonder will last 3 rallies.

NJV6 wrote:Tailing lambs.... about 1100 before it started to rain...

Aint it a tad earley to be tailing

spent all day saturday helping my mu round at her new pad doing trip after trip to the dump to get rid of all the old garden shit and old hedge that we ripped out(glad i have a Ute now ) then managed to get some work done on the cruiser in preperation for next weekend, got old crapped out radiator out and managed to slap a new water pump in

just have to get my new second hand radiator into my mate at

COOMBS & REENIE RADIATORS in hamilton

so he can give it a soak and flush to make it good as new does a great job then hopefully get it in with new watery stuff and a new fan to boot all before next weekend


are we there yet ?

Finished putting together engine donated by rowinz, new oil seals, rings & big end bearings, put on the reconditioned head (also from rowinz), then pulled the engine out, swapped over all the bits, and now it's sitting on the garage floor waiting for a new clutch plate so I can put it all back in the truck. A big effort! And some pretty creaky rafters in the garage with a dirty great 2F hanging from them...
Next is the fun of getting it all back in....

Removed rear seats from twuck, did trial pack of SAT's and all the camping stuff a mans gotta bring when he takes his sweetheart to the bush. All fits goodoh, with plenty headroom and can see over the top. made rough and ready tiedown places in back using seat anchor points to hold tyres down. Stop em from jumping about. Removed Hi-stop taillight. threw it in cupboard in shed. WOF guys sez definitly dont legally have to have it. YES!!!!!
Did stuff to please sweetheart. At last we can start on reestablishing the section. lawn next. If the lawn man can pull his bloody finger out!!!


A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do!

Took the Patrol out to test some new front radius arms and had to get pulled out by a damned Landrover after filling almost everything with water. But the new radius arms worked great .

billyvanboheman wrote:

is that thick enough

not that I know - just comparing it to the 100x100x? angle I have on the rear of my cruiser

4WDbits wrote:Took the Patrol out to test some new front radius arms and had to get pulled out by a damned Landrover .

Please dont tell me the Landy got through and you didnt

What brand arms did you get?snakes,3rd's,home made

Shane

4WDbits wrote:Took the Patrol out to test some new front radius arms and had to get pulled out by a damned Landrover after filling almost everything with water. But the new radius arms worked great .

Dam like that 100% !! Go the LR

4WDbits wrote:Took the Patrol out to test some new front radius arms and had to get pulled out by a damned Landrover after filling almost everything with water. But the new radius arms worked great .

Are they the 2dextreme arms?

14/15th
Quiet weekend at home with Mrs Husain doing nothing but making hot water



16th
Did what I hate most and got my hands covered in grease down in the shed, got sick of the old power steering pump squeeking and squeeling. Stuck in a replacement pump that I found on trademe a while back, this one wont flex and loose its belt tension like the old one did.... I hope

MATT4U wrote:

NJV6 wrote:Tailing lambs.... about 1100 before it started to rain...

Aint it a tad earley to be tailing

Na man, 3 weeks is about ideal - it starts getting a bit hard to cut the tails off any bigger and they get heavy bloody quickly!

yea I spose, Im used to doing them a bit older,

DaveM wrote:

4WDbits wrote:Took the Patrol out to test some new front radius arms and had to get pulled out by a damned Landrover after filling almost everything with water. But the new radius arms worked great .

Are they the 2dextreme arms?

Yes, they are 2Dextreme arms. Want some?

I went and bought a new vehicle, it was on the 13th but its close.

nice 'new' truck aaron.

i went out to waimak on sunday with hamish (mud-slinger) was a good afternoon until his clutch decided to call it quits up the top of the waimak and had to tow him home.

Looks like a fine choice of vehicle there Aaron Pretty tidy by the looks, what sort of money did you pay for it, if you don't mind me asking?

Aaron wrote:

thats not the 70 from the chap down south that is moving up to auckland is it? nice by the way.. you'll love having a cruiser..

p.s... you'll have to change your signature line now fella..

Yeah its the one from queenstown, it needs a bit of work but not too much hopefully!
Now I just need to keep it on four wheels eh H2O?

Aaron wrote:Yeah its the one from queenstown, it needs a bit of work but not too much hopefully!
Now I just need to keep it on four wheels eh H2O?

Shouldn't be to much of a problem.........just don't follow me

Aaron wrote:Yeah its the one from queenstown, it needs a bit of work but not too much hopefully!
Now I just need to keep it on four wheels eh H2O?

Richard is his name, mind me asking what he charged ya?

MATT4U wrote:

Aaron wrote:Yeah its the one from queenstown, it needs a bit of work but not too much hopefully!
Now I just need to keep it on four wheels eh H2O?

Richard is his name, mind me asking what he charged ya?

check this thread out matt.. no answers.. but a rough ball park..

http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/modules ... 21&start=0

It was less than 5k, needs a bit of steering work, joints etc
heater is allways on no tow hooks, but working on that.
and some new tyres would be good.

what are the mudzillas like?