Offroad-Express

Been a while since i've started one of these...

Had a good day out playing in a mates paddock today, my poor truck took a beating though

He got stuck and I went around to recover him and ended up with 2 stuck trucks, a torn stem on a tube, damaged sills, damaged panels...

Oh well all part of the fun

joined two strops together to get to some dryish ground managed to snap a tow strop it went through the back window and smashed the front one

jimichelle wrote:joined two strops together to get to some dryish ground managed to snap a tow strop it went through the back window and smashed the front one

So why did the tow strop break? Was it old or unrated....
How did you join it?
Need to be soooo careful...

jimichelle wrote:joined two strops together to get to some dryish ground managed to snap a tow strop it went through the back window and smashed the front one

Pictures of broken windows.....
Oh and the strop as well...........

Well watched the All Blacks Play but they didn't really play there A game was still good though.

jimichelle wrote:joined two strops together to get to some dryish ground managed to snap a tow strop it went through the back window and smashed the front one

Using a a stick or magazine in between were you join them works every time and makes it easy to pull back apart
cause sometimes thats a mission on its own

just fixed the navara this week.
got the alternator back from sparky. one new one way clutch and bearings. cost about half the price of a new alternator
replaced the bearing in the tensioner pulley. couldn't find the same sized bearing so went with a slightly skinnier one and pressed it in with a dab of bearing loctite. used a washer to pack it out the difference. $8 bearing vers $150 new pulley, we will see how it goes.

replaced split intake and bulging water hoses.

still need to find oil filter housing.

Haven't had much off road action what with the playdoh in bits... Welded up the hole for the sun roof....Just a few more weld runs and it will be ready for a grind up and bog...
Then need to think about what to pack for Guavas later in the month....

did recovery patrol for possum Bourne rally Saturday, wasn"t needed



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Swapped passenger door on double cab for the surf one I bought a while ago a bit early as 2 very charming children in the early hours of Saturday morning smashed my window in and robbed tools, cds and an exide battery from my ute. They are under the age of 15 so...no consequences for the little bastards, plus parents don't want to know anything about it and neither do the cops. So after removing both front seats after work yesterday and vacuuming the ute out (something I had been meaning to do since I got it, silver lining and all that shit ) replacing seats and swapping the door, I also have a farked vacuum cleaner haha but on the upside, I should be getting my next light bar within the next couple of hours

went karting today at supa karts indoor race way was good fun.

coxsy wrote:did recovery patrol for possum Bourne rally Saturday, wasn"t needed



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Thats my boss in the evo10 lol

no 4wding but saw this parked up at a reserve just out of town.
Shittiest pic ever, but this thing was MINT and pretty awesome!!

Filthy4x4 wrote: my poor truck took a beating though

Won't be long before it'll look like T2

Went to Possum Palace to clean truck and find a drive train noise. A few things followed me home for some TLC.
Radiator looked like this from the front.......


Not too be bad, huh? But then flip it over......


It was only cleaned a month and a half ago

Pulled rear diff head and threw it in the trailer for a close inspection. I think after 3 years and 2 trucks the Chinese diff lock my be a bit thrashed Some bits inside may have been slung off and run through the crown and pinion




Time to pull the spares out

Cheers,

Succeeded in doing nothing on Saturday. Went out to the old mans today to drop some stuff off and then decided that the 4wd lever hadn't been used in over a week

Well I did some small playing with the hoses and stuff on the Fiva, Bought an HQ race car, and picked up heaps of cool tools for cheap as.

Just waiting on bits to finish the Lada

hamboy wrote:Succeeded in doing nothing on Saturday. Went out to the old mans to drop some stuff off and then decided that the 4wd lever hadn't been used in over a week

Those wee fog lights are begging to get smashed off where they are

bought myself one of those 9ft plastic camo dinghys so now need to find a cheap auxilary for it and build a trailer which im thinking ill use the welldeck of a landrover so itll look neat behind my landrover so anyone no of around a 2.5-3hp motor cheap? and anyone got pictures of a trailer theyve built that is towable of road to cary camping gear?

me 70, took all the way to the mouth down rakaia, the stream off dobbins road, glad i didnt get stuck, went solo, i have a 3L i want to hopefully put in it some day

bigstu wrote:Those wee fog lights are begging to get smashed off where they are

Three years and still going strong They're Hella Duraled's, we use them on the log trucks as it takes a lot to break them.

Took all the kids possum shooting Friday and Sat night for a local school fundraiser. Prize giving on Sunday.
4x4 wise I got a workmate to pick up a trade-me win so I now have some more landy bit's to play with
Also sold a Discovery 3 winch mounting kit on tard-me so I will be dropping that off to it's new owner soon.