Offroad-Express

Maybe a day early but I went for a cruise up the Waimak to the gorge and my dog launched himself out of the window at 75kph. That was the end of my drive! He's been in care overnight and having x-rays today. Fingers crossed! Hope everyone has a great first weekend of summer....

fingers crossed for ya dog, seen it a couple of times with family or friends dogs when they have seen a rabbit and decide to try chase it. its never a good look when they hit the gravel.

Working on a mates winch challenge truck. Few things to fix from our last comp.....

kbushnz wrote:Working on a mates winch challenge truck. Few things to fix from our last comp.....

You're right, that crack in your driveway definitely needs fixing

been reading a lot about guard chops lately so I decided to jump on the band wagon chop chop!

what do you reckon have I gone a tad to far with this chop?


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but really just did at bit of metal surgery on the battle scars of last wood hill outing.


Now my indicator fits again and isn't sticking out like dogs balls.

3 of us headed into Sutherlands Hut for track clearing and tidy up around the Hut ready for Christmas visitors. The heavy rains have rutted the track a lot and high winds over night bought a small tree down over the track.

Just awesome to head in with friends and enjoy driving and working together.

Next project is to mount my new winch thanks Santa

started out with a quick easy radiator flush.........now new cooling system, hoses all round, 3core radiator, water pump. not cheap, but at least its all done now. taken a chunk out of my winch fund.....still after some winch mount brackets for the safari

Stuffed around with my Hilux and got it started for the first time in about 8 months. Then extracted the rear diff out of my Suzuki so I can get a lock-right fitted.
Also bought a new tool - a cordless impact wrench

Spent Friday and Saturday working on Caleb (Filthy4x4) Safari but I'll let him tell you about that.

Today I was working on my project. Diff now has all the mounts finished except for the steering ram but we'll sort that when it arrives. Cheers calum007 for sorting it for me so far. Craig also got the alloy tank fittings and tank welded. Just awaiting the sender then it can be finished up.

Looking for a pair of series 2/3 landrover drive shafts. Not worried about the uj's as I only need the spline.

Cheers

Went hunting in the safari for my wife's wrx that got stolen on Wednesday night. No luck, almost got stuck going through a track into bush to check if our car seats had been dumped but nothing there as well.

Got a lead its I. kaitaia so anyone in the far north could keep out for a Black WRX with gold wheels rego CUF44.
Been spotted around Pukepoto Rd and Bonnett Rd a few times. Police said to us "its just a boy racer car, not on our priority of things to do" so look so like going 4kms+ over the speed limit is on the top of the list.

Highly frustrated as we had to go out and spend $650 on car seats today.

But at least the truck saw some mud lol.

Did pinion seal on the Rugger, was chock full of lovely woodhill grinding paste

Installed a CB in "Te Rino" and fixed the gas struts in the boot.
Also landed a great deal on a Bighorn intercooler so that's the summer project once my holiday gets started

Spent the weekend down waiouru on the offlimits safari. Had a blast, found some mud holes and some technicle parts to keep the punters smiling. And wagon didnt miss a beat. Had to get pulled out once, (because some dumass forgot to stick it back in 4wd after a road section!). Good fun had by all!

A bit late, but cant add pics from my phone...

Huge thanks to Andy for the help in the weekend we got a fair bit done.

So I got a new 4" Grinder and needed to test it out on something... I turned it on and it was so powerful it just sucked my truck into it

and this happened:





Then the rain came down, we were determined not to stop to made a shelter





I take my hat off to all your sheet metal workers, panel steel is a pain in the ass to weld... The smallest I know how to weld is 6mm this was my first time doing any panel work...



Any tips and tricks feel free to voice them You are very welcome to have an opinion, as long as you keep it to yourself

Cheers

Filthy4x4 wrote:A bit late, but cant add pics from my phone...

Huge thanks to Andy for the help in the weekend we got a fair bit done.

So I got a new 4" Grinder and needed to test it out on something... I turned it on and it was so powerful it just sucked my truck into it

and this happened:





Then the rain came down, we were determined not to stop to made a shelter





I take my hat off to all your sheet metal workers, panel steel is a pain in the ass to weld... The smallest I know how to weld is 6mm this was my first time doing any panel work...



Any tips and tricks feel free to voice them You are very welcome to have an opinion, as long as you keep it to yourself

Cheers

That's all good, hit it with a flap disc, and then some filler, it'l be mint!!!

kbushnz wrote:Working on a mates winch challenge truck. Few things to fix from our last comp.....

Nothing to see here, move along