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January 20th and 21st.
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:47 pm
by spankmeister
Technically speaking Friday wasn't the weekend, but it was close enough. Went down the Waipara for a play at the horseshoe. Had heaps of fun, was great. Shot a couple of hares while there too.
Saw another member in a gold Terrano. Not sure who it was though.
Mike
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:58 pm
by lilpigzuk
Saw Circ De Soleil Friday night, fawkin awesome - highly reccomend. Stripped Range Rover between hanging with the family, 3rd round of trial series tomoz, have too leave home at 7am... cant sleep (nothing too do with trial, just cant sleep
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Re: January 20th and 21st.
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:19 pm
by lilpigzuk
spankmeister wrote:Saw another member in a gold Terrano. Not sure who it was though.
Mike
wasnt your avatar from the movie "gold member"?? just had too ask....
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:32 pm
by spankmeister
Yes it was. Mini-Me was awesome. He's good for a laugh.
Mike
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:33 am
by muddy
Found a couple of hours to give the old girl a bit of a tune up. It's amazing how quiet the old 2F can be with properly adjusted valves! Now humming like a sewing machine. Cleaned out the carb too - so now I've removed the flat spot I had when hitting the throttle. Never worried too much cos I normally run on LPG. All ready now for the Reefton Challenge in April. Of course I'll break something before then....
Re: January 20th and 21st.
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:09 am
by DaveM
Went up to Lake Sumner with 4wdnuts, Philux,Jeep4079, and Elmo. Good trip, and good to put more names to faces.
Passed someone in a red surf heading towards Blenheim on Friday in a Red Surf with a ORE sticker on the back window, who was it?
Also passed a few guys on my way intpo ChCh for tea on Sat arvo (Tim, etc) where did you guys end up going?
Oh, well, off to clean the crap out of the radiator
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:49 am
by rokhound
Turned the old 60 into a semi useful machine again. She has been sitting in the yard for about 4 yrs now and the body is rusty as hell, but everything else works fine.
So I thought I would turn her into a lightweight crane.
Have lifted up a couple of deisel engines and moved them around and the front of Rokmutts donor car (Toyota royal saloon), So I figure it can handle about 500 - 750 kgs.
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:59 am
by mercutio
i saw a landrover on a website somewhere that has a boom mounted on the front using a winch for lifting stuff
chit
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:34 pm
by long
All i did was mow frekin lawns moved the truck cleaned out the mistral cant wait to get the terrano home so i can work on the sucker
weekend
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 5:48 pm
by coxsy
took a trip up thompsons track , didn't make it to the top as a rock snapped my rear panhard rod, had to use a snik chain to limit the axles movement , still moved over a 100mm to the right In places that track is grade 4/5. My son ran down behind me to make sure ithe chain held, then drove home slowly at first till I got to good roads and managed a steady 80k home. May rebuild the rod bigger and better .
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:39 pm
by billyvanboheman
Usual stuff for Sat, did a bit of that four letter word thing that you normally do during the week, I did manage to finish the WOF work on my brother in laws Isuzu Bighorn.
It was a good list which included front wheel bearings and a power steer pump top seal.
I now have two Isuzu Bighorns in the drive for the week!!
I wonder if he would notice if I gave him back my 1989 one in place of his 95
Re: January 20th and 21st.
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:32 pm
by hosehustler
DaveM wrote:Also passed a few guys on my way intpo ChCh for tea on Sat arvo (Tim, etc) where did you guys end up going?
A few of us got together on Satuday and headed up to the Waipara gorge for an overnighter with the kids
, had a ball and so did the kids, as for the wreck, I destroyed reverse gear towing a 70 series stuck in the river half way up the doors
,............ anyone know someone who has an LN61 gearbox for sale
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:50 pm
by MATT4U
As tim said we were up the waipra, great nite, some people............... well made more of an effort than others that nite, Cough Al, Kev Cough.
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:38 am
by albundy
gave myself a bloody good hangover saturday nite up the waipara gorge, so bad in fact I had to bail the days 4wdriving at Stringers briidge. Shit it was a long drive back to CHCH. Spent the rest of the day on the couch drinking coke
Al
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:06 am
by mroffroader
i tinted my suzuki windows lol i got bored and had nothing to do
looks kinds cool tho haha
extended my diff breather cuz it comes off at full artic and going 4x4ing today in odlins road
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:04 am
by lilpigzuk
Had the 3rd round of Laurie Sanson Fun Trial yesterday. Bloody good day, good hazards, Lil Pig had a wee lie down on one with bloody TV Camera right in front of me
Some nicely modded vitaras there too - 1 vitara body on a shortened rangie chassis (rover V8 etc), vitara chassis/body with Rangie running gear, SR20 engine, auto, and another running a Commy V6 and hilux running gear.... Fawkin camera went flat after 10 photos
couple of pics here, but nothing exciting....
http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/modules ... _album.php
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:54 pm
by niblik
weekend up in hamner stayin at the mum-in-laws holiday home...
mint!!
plenty of sun and fun.. lovin that.. back to work tomorrow...
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:20 pm
by Moriarty
HUH!!! you guys having all the fun!!
All I did was laze around in the sun, boring post holes, and filling them in again with 100 X 100 posts and concrete.!!
Ohhh and garden duties at the behest and direction of the Siwsan..........
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:43 pm
by gomulletgo
Nice work rok
That's all class :thumright:
MULLET
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:46 am
by Shane
engine
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:02 pm
by coxsy
looks like a locomotive engine
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:15 pm
by philux
looks like a locomotive engine
Showd the old man the pic too, hes a loco driver reckons looked pretty similar to the ones they got putting around nz. Wheres the massive turbo??
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:04 pm
by mroffroader
shite!!!!!!!!!! thats massive!!!!!! my old man reckoned it may be a ship engine?
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:20 pm
by Dak
Ship engine? Nah, THIS is a ship engine.
http://www.ultimatestupidity.com/pics/1/diesel/
Cheers, Jeff.
engine block
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:22 pm
by coxsy
way back in my appentice training days we visted the wellington railway work shops , you don't forget a engine that big when you first see one up close for the first time, [made me feel old now]
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:59 pm
by rokhound
Ya reckon I could shoe horn one of those engines into my truck?
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:08 pm
by Mark
That's out of the Monte Stello:
It's the new Strait Shipping passenger ferry, part of the Bluebridge fleet. It went through a massive overhaul at the end of 2006 when it arrived in the country and during a refurbishment they discovered some pretty big issues with it.
That block and crank has been sitting there since September (although it looks as though it's moved since I saw it). I can't remember how much that is worth as scrap, but it's in the thousands apparently.
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:50 pm
by Dak
Ya reckon I could shoe horn one of those engines into my truck?
No worries, with a gas axe, a grinder and a welder we can fit aaannyything.
Cheers, Jeff.