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Few pics of the event so far. A lot wetter than last year, and tougher, quiet a few winch failures so far, even the pto winches are breaking, one roll over and one fire. As of about midday today, Sam Baddeley and Huddy were leading followed by Bruce Hughes and then Roger McKay.


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some good pics there,do you have any more?or know a web site that has them?
That white one looks like a late model hilux?do you know what it had for power?

Shane

...also is that new hilux IFS or solid axel....? Interesting to see a late model truck in there....

The Hilux is Bruce Hughes' new truck...it actually his old Hilux with the new 2005 body on it....has a new Lexus V8 etc.

Who's truck went up in flames?

Any more news/updates on who is still in the running?

Bruce Hugh's truck looks so shiny.

The truck that had the fire under the bonnet was Graham Kerns from North Shore. Lexus powered Hilux etc. I think they're been able to re-wire it...they also rolled on Sunday after their winch rope broke on the fairlead.

Klem had some problems yesterday with electrical issues. Pit crew work overtime as usual and was going again as of last night.

Donald Preston and Grant Castle are they only ones that I know for sure that have pulled out altogether.

Grant Guy busted a winch and were looking at getting aprts down from Auckland today.

Bruce Hughes damaged a diff, but were able to repair and keep going.

Sam Baddeley blew PTO winch in a stage and finished by using rear mounted elec winch and reverse winch the remaining hazard....winch was replaced and is going strong.

Steve McConnell had auto trans problems before he even started.

Steve Reid and Kev/Troy both blew PTO winches.

Thanks for the update.

Sounds like the PTO's aren't having the best ride. ANy news on Nigel Reid and Wane Lovejoy in there zuks? I'm a bit bias... towards them

Wayne had a shitter on Sunday on the Rock Garden stage and broke steering box at the same point he broke his diff last year. They had some other probs too and decide to for-go the night stage on Sunday to sort their issues. Went well yesterday, but broke LH CV/axle so DNF'd one stage.

Nig and Ben doing well....no DNF's as far as I know. Both working really well...Nig driving smart and looking after the truck, Ben running like a trooper and making good winching calls.

Last night's Night Stage was cancelled, so hopefully things are better for all today.

bruce hughs truck is the hilux from the sheep shagger ad when he got it it still had the dents from going through the shed

yeah hard to beleive its that one aye

i thinks bruces is a blown 1uz with 80 series drive line..?

Correct on the 80 series running gear but no blower on the 1uz.
It is one smart looking truck!

rumours

does he have the hydraulic winch?

and to be honest bud id rather have youres like any new ute theve all turned to shit...

what am i saying i drive one everyday :scratch:

He's running a PTO winch, It broke on sunday morning so he finished the day with his backup winch (8274)
On monday he'd fixed the PTO and it was damned fast! He was winching up hills at a speed i'd be happy to drive at!

it is actually a 80 series chassis and running gear

results in....... Sam 1st, Rog 2nd, Nigel 3rd, Bell 4th. Bruce disqualified for running with uncertified beadlocks.......

diffsx2 wrote: Bruce disqualified for running with uncertified beadlocks.......

That would of gone down like a cup of cold shit Would that have not been brought up in scrutineering??

Comp is finally over.

Bruce had the non certed beadlocks noted at scrutineering but chose to run with them anyway, which left him open to protests.

Hard to believe really.

Jungle

Job well done again too Jungle, BTW, do you or anyone else have the full results available?

Cheers, Jeff.

hey jungle, many thanks to you and your merry band of helpers, without you guys we wouldnt have a comp, sweet job dude!
its a bit strange that after deciding to call it quits then grant and i giving bruce a hand to swap diffs over and keep him going that he ends up behind us??? whoo weve made it off the bottom of the table!!
ah ya gotta laugh about it, someones gotta keep the fun in these things ay?

clear ya calanders cause the norwest events gonna be full of sunshine, hard yakka, good company and plenty of prizes! Bring it on!!!

Another fun event, cheers to Sooty, George & the team for a great effort.

All our mods since the Rotorua challenge worked well. A few minor changes should get our winch working much more reliably for the next one. We might even have time for some testing beforehand!

Cheers
Clint

Thanks guys.

I imagine we will see Klem's truck at the superwinch coming up early next year.

Thats a great event. All camping on site as well.

G

Thanks to all , realy thanks a lot for the happy smillie faces even when it was pissing down with rain and the tracks were undrivable , and most of us were going to get realy stuck and need a tow out . We did have a small falt with the rev counter wire it melted to a alternator wire feed , TOO much revs . which blow a fuse , so we changed the alternator then found that a fuse had blowen . In the water the truck went well but just as we left the water we lost some power which made it hard in the rock garden as i needed to keep the revs to about 4000 to get the supper charger to boost , We did have trouble with the drive on the pto winch so we went to the back up high mount , the main feed to the controll box shorted out and made the winch drive hard out and un able to turn off , At the same time the large log we were hocked to came free and headed straight at the truck . just be for it got to the truck we got the winch in to free spool . Thanks to Jungle with the big chain saw to cut it up and the recovery of my truck with a flat tyre and a bid rock stuck in the rim , another quick trip back to our w/shop rebuild pto drive and back to the next stage in time . Sweet .
Leading up to the comp we removed the hilux diffs and fitted GQ nissan front and rear diffs and coils , this was done because at the last comp in Rotarua we blow front and rear diffs cvs and diff lock and LSDs . We didn't have any trouble with the winch , pto or the high mount (only operator trouble )All the work was done to the under side and nothing to the winch . So now we have most things sorted with the truck we will now rebuild the mountings for the winch and look out we will be back with more power as well ,
Ps The supper charger is pumping 10 lbs and going hard on standard 1UZ
and pulls harder then a school boy . Man toyota make one strong v8
Cheers Klem
Thanks again to all that helped out.

Hey Klem have you got any pics/specs on your truck? Sounds like a beast and would be interested in seeing it.

does any one know who protested to brucies bead locks? be no xmas card for him.

.......waiting waiting waiting for the DVD..........


...or more pics if anyone has any..... please.....

Re protest,We were told it was Nigel Reid,As a competitor there i did not have a problem with the protest only When it was made,It seams to me that if it had been done after the prolog then Bruce would of had time to do something about it ,But to leave it to the last day SUCKS,To be honest if you were to be picky you could go over proberly 90% of the trucks mine included and find something wrong.Cheers..Steve

it seems pretty bad, bruce travelled a long way to compete spent lots of money and put in a huge effort just to be disqualified on the last day, sour grapes to nigel

Made it home ok, top event bar a few technicalities..... Thanks to Jungle as head of the marshalls, we knew what we had to do.

A couple of the stages were real tough - Stage 3 took two days to get 17 vehicles through. 5 made it within the 40min DNF.
It was here there was a few breakages, Klem's 2 winch's & tyre, Grant Guy's CV & damaged the hydralic winch, Wayne Lovejoy - broke the steering box output shaft, Ranna did a CV & PTO winch. The big water hole at the start put the Rangie into limp mode - It would idle but no more and so slowly PTO winched out at idle. Once clear it was away.

Further to the disqualification - Bruce has two sets of beadlocked rims. When certifying you must get the largest rims certified as far as i'm aware. Bruce had a smaller set of rims on the vehicle than the ones certified for the vehicle at the time of the competition so what was on the plate did not match what was on the vehicle.

Thanks for the hospitality guys, mostly a bunch of neat people, great to have the ozzies there to make sure there was a roaring fire at nights, seen some neat machines, the whine of the Klem's supercharger, the speed of Bruce's PTO and Steve's hydralic winch's, and the shear sound of the TVR powered Rangie wil be missed.

Cheers to all, Glen

full stage and overall results are now posted on both the http://www.warlordautsports.com and http://www.warlordautosports.com/kiwi

overall national title points as well, with some major surprises....

Can someone post the results up,I cant open the page with them?need some programme or something??

Thanks