Offroad-Express

We braved the weather up in the far north, Herekino, 90Mile, G.E.Bay, Mitimiti etc etc

Little vid if the link works:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... 1832970047

Wrecked the mistral, built a tandem axle trailer and brought a pajero. Still got two weeks to go.

Karamea caverns. Denniston. Lyall track.. an area north of charlston. Slab hut creek. napoleon and surrounding tracks. chasm and rock garden . Kumara track. Big river .And others i cant remember names off. Most enjoyable ten days on the west coast.

Pedro

Crash bandicoot wrote:Wrecked the mistral, built a tandem axle trailer and brought a pajero. Still got two weeks to go.

any plans for the pajero? forget it just saw your thread.


I finally got the truck road legal and mobile, so took it on its maiden trip to mangawhai, but yet to be tested offroad. God how good is that 2wd steering mod

fh2014 wrote:

Crash bandicoot wrote:Wrecked the mistral, built a tandem axle trailer and brought a pajero. Still got two weeks to go.

any plans for the pajero? forget it just saw your thread.


I finally got the truck road legal and mobile, so took it on its maiden trip to mangawhai, but yet to be tested offroad. God how good is that 2wd steering mod

Now to just convince all the facebookers who keep asking for replacement steering bits every weekend.

WORKED

Central Otago, Danseys Pass, Old Man Range, Lake Onslow, Serpentine, Saint Bathans to Manuherikia Valley to Omarama Saddle Lake Ohau up Hopkins River for New Years

sweet f all !
been resting a few minor injuries.
but started to clean the garage.
decided to tidy up the wiring on the surf. then found the alarm system wires where just twisted together. so ended up doing a bit of solder work to repair all that.
back to work, tho did find a tiny we bit of mud on one of the farm tracks to play in

the closest i got to anything 4wd related was looking at my G wagen while at my parents and rethinking the V8 swap

Couple of nights at Sutherlands hut, plenty of BBQ and swimming in the river, repairing lawnmowers (not even mine)
Still two weeks to go

Worked
And this

Very cool vid DB .... i need to clone myself so I can finish the SII (the other clone will have to keep working so I can pay the mortgage )
As for what I did.... bought a house on the edge of town and did a bit of landscaping lol

Thats before I put in 30 odd truck loads of gravel.... now its all flat well apart from a ditch I dug I'm going to do the "tussuck garden" theme on and I have a 20 x20m pad to store stuff on... or maybe build a shed on

camped in whirinaki for four days, no one near for 20 kms in that spot two days 4wd lot to eat chill relax then 3 days in or near turangi at a mates new place
down side cracked my screen, newbie in now and the 40 did in a axle seal ,

Got up the Nevis for a look







Need to pull finger and get out on some Shotover 4wd club trips me thinks...

Smurf wrote:Central Otago, Danseys Pass, Old Man Range, Lake Onslow, Serpentine, Saint Bathans to Manuherikia Valley to Omarama Saddle Lake Ohau up Hopkins River for New Years

Nice!

We did an Aussie Christmas: Hedland, Wickham, Canarvon, Geraldton, Perth, Wave Rock, Albany, Agusta, Margaret River, Dunsborough, Bunbury, Bilborough, Perth, Mt Magnet, Mekatharra, Tom Price, Wittenoom (Blue Sky Mine), Hedland. Abut 6,500km, and stopped at pretty much every roadhouse.

Pico42 wrote:

Smurf wrote:Central Otago, Danseys Pass, Old Man Range, Lake Onslow, Serpentine, Saint Bathans to Manuherikia Valley to Omarama Saddle Lake Ohau up Hopkins River for New Years

Nice!

We did an Aussie Christmas: Hedland, Wickham, Canarvon, Geraldton, Perth, Wave Rock, Albany, Agusta, Margaret River, Dunsborough, Bunbury, Bilborough, Perth, Mt Magnet, Mekatharra, Tom Price, Wittenoom (Blue Sky Mine), Hedland. Abut 6,500km, and stopped at pretty much every roadhouse.

Sounds way more impressive htan our 1400km trip.