Offroad-Express

Club Trip into Sutherlands in the Snow . It was an absolute blast with a trip that would normally take about 3 hrs took up to 12 .
We had to contend with deep mud, snow, fallen trees, dead batteries, loss of brakes, loss of steering, broken axle, blown turbo cooling hose, punctures oh yeah a little electrical fire.
But nothing wrong the Toyota


Pauls 49 beautifully restored, and not afraid to use it


Bugger Getting ready to winch just before the clay climb


Als jeep, Just past the lookout from memory.Heading up into the tops.


Team Toyota , my son Lucas (left) and his mate Jordan (right)


Chilly Sunday, Snow left over from the Saturday night drive.


Never Seen this before, ice crystals growing.


Wakey Wakey



Morning Repairs...and not a Toyota insight, as it wasn't broken


Rod with his Landys broken leg winching across the river, we towed him where one wheel drive didn't work.


Airing up and heading home for a hot shower.

I spent the weekend fixing headlights replacing pinion seal in the rear diff (to find the muppets had given me the wrong seal).
Removed fibreglass guards to have fixed after breaking the panard rod ball joint.

Next weekend find somewhere fun to go.

Fitted the recon'd torque converter to the tow wagon and started work on fitting the turbo and intercooler. Stupid nissan exhaust studs Should be a completely new truck when its done.

Replaced the power steer pump in my pighorn and fitted an LED light bar for an upcoming night mission. Tonight is drivers side CV replacement.

That Sutherland's trip sounds awesome! I will have to come over....

Mattman wrote:
That Sutherland's trip sounds awesome! I will have to come over....

We have another trip planned later in the year, a track and hut maintenance one, stay in touch.

catalystracing wrote:

Mattman wrote:
That Sutherland's trip sounds awesome! I will have to come over....

We have another trip planned later in the year, a track and hut maintenance one, stay in touch.

Ive stayed in that hut loads of times(20+) and shot loads of food not saying too much but from that hut.. bathed in the creek behind it too.. during the later part of the roar.. Awesome spot there..so much country to go get lost in..lol

Yeah its a cool place, deer getting hard to find now, mainly pig hunters on quads. And there is a bath just off to the side if you wanna get a fire going under it

catalystracing wrote:

Mattman wrote:
That Sutherland's trip sounds awesome! I will have to come over....

We have another trip planned later in the year, a track and hut maintenance one, stay in touch.

Me and a bunch of guys would be keen as to come over!

catalystracing wrote:Yeah its a cool place, deer getting hard to find now, mainly pig hunters on quads. And there is a bath just off to the side if you wanna get a fire going under it

Must get raped hard now as when I was going over there I seen 5+ cruising around regularly and only took what I could carry.. But I did put in the effort before all that..2 years going thee not seeing a fking thing..lol Just have to go further away from the hut and all good.. Even down the other side past the top..lookout? they're there.. Got a 13 pointer outter there..

Cool Photos Paul. Was the new gate still in place or did vandals manage to pull it out of 6 feet of concrete?!


Did some exploring an Odlins sidetrack

Interestingly the TD42 5spd Patrol with 4.11s (or was it 4.3s in those?) seems to have very similar real world crawl ratio to the TD27 with 4.88s (both on 33s)

Yup, the gate is still implanted. Tho I hear some tried to winch it and ruined the winch.