Offroad-Express

Pretty quiet weekend, except now $300k poorer!
Wife and I brought our first house on Fri night/Sat morn. Fully furnished 3 bedroom house only 3 years old.
Too poor to do much else to the surf for a while, except maybe my intercooler when it arrives...

Congrats...

I almost finished building a sand pit, went to orana park, took more of the prados interior out, looked through the stuff that came with the rancho in cab controller... spent a good few hours with rick going over the auto wiring and decided it might be easier to use the original ecu to control the auto...

spent weekend at freinds place n we went fishing drank a few rums did a bit of 4x4 n came home

Took off front bumpers
Stole DieselBoys Old bullbars
Attached with new mounts lifting it slightly higher
Sprayed front winch and rear bars
Drilled holes in lift blocks
Attached front tow hooks
Went wavesking for 3hrs
Then had two 3 hr gigs
now im Stufffffed haha i thought weekends were suppose to be relaxing
Haha
all good

Well not much happened during the weekend except going to a 21st Sat night.

But today Me and my old man were soil testing in a forestry block near Rotorua. We had just finished a block and were driving to another along a gravel road when we were waved down by two guys that had just walked for 2 hours towards the main road to try to wave someone down to come pull out there stuck terrano. They were stoked at seeing us in my surf all kitted out and mine was the first vehicle they had seen. So off to find thier vehicle. As we approached the vehicle we discovered a absolutely stock standard terrano on road tyres with no recovery gear at all stuck in the middle of nowhere (45min drive to closest town) in a soft bit of clay. Stupid bugger had owned it 3 days and thought he would go for a skid in it to "test it out" well if it wasn't for me driving past they would still be down there! They had no idea about 4wding as this was there first 4wd. After a quick tow they were out. Very thankful they were. This seems to be happening all to often they were young guys 20-22 (couple of years older than me) just going for a skid and got stuck and never thought they would. VERY LUCKY GUYS!!

put yet another gearbox in the surf, now replaced 4 gearboxes in 3 years
and most complain about CV"s only blown one of those
still can't complain about the price of the box (24 pack of speights) cheers monaro427, and seems to be a pearler so far

Saturday, bit more rangie stripping, early classic rangie seats suck the big one too remove - especially when threads are covered in hardened sealer

Sunday had a club run too a local farm, dragged Callum along too see how the "Vee Bug" went. Very impressed, and fiddle brakes made light work of some of the switch back tracks we did Still waiting on footage dude Couple of other ORE members there, BrentC and Frosty.

Today did some stripping of a lwb zuk I have..... another farkin vehicle covered in hardened undersealer and rusted threads Hope what is left of this vehicle may make a name for itself in winch comps for the owners too be

token poser shot of Lil Pig and Vee Bug (dunno WTF Vee Bug stands for )

Learnt that AVM hubs are shit and fitting superwinch ones tomorrow
Al.

Sunday

up at 2am, pick up mate and RX2 on trailer,
Drive from Hawera to Aucland for the 4 and rotary natsat meremere, got there around 7:30am for scritineering.

Awesome day, first tme at a "real" drag meet, mates best time in the C3 class (blowen rotary) was an 11.33s @ 200.18kph, and third place.

Left at 6:30pm, home by 11:30 (after dropping off trailer)

Today i am stuffed well and truly !

albundy wrote:Learnt that AVM hubs are shit and fitting superwinch ones tomorrow
Al.

Hey, at least they normally break before CV's, I'd much rather have weaker hubs.

Cheers, Jeff.

Fart arsed around trying to get my old S3 going again - still no luck.

albundy wrote:Learnt that AVM hubs are shit and fitting superwinch ones tomorrow
Al.

They are the same deal , just rebadged. I have superwinch, they are hard to keep water tight. Get your mates/family in OZ to send you over a genuine set from a Patrol!!!!!!

Saturday:
Started collecting the bits for a sway bar quick disconnect, just keen to see how much of a differance it makes

Replaced the temp sender unit as the guage hasn't really read for the last year or so, man it was good timing

Sunday:

Morning, put some more ORE stickers on the Isuzu.

Afternoon, went on the Selwyn River trip, this is where I found out the joys of a fan that meets water, which for some reason makes said fan hungry

Here are the pics of the result of the hungry fan

worked all saturday.. played for a while on Sunday with lilpig.. nearly showed him up..... vids to come, my internet going slow....

callum007 wrote: played for a while on Sunday with lilpig..

thought you two were 'friendly'..

niblik wrote:

callum007 wrote: played for a while on Sunday with lilpig..

thought you two were 'friendly'..

Nice one Nibs

Tip for the day, there's always one who will razz how you word things

Afternoon, went on the Selwyn River trip, this is where I found out the joys of a fan that meets water, which for some reason makes said fan hungry

So how do you prevent a hungry fan from eating the raidator ??

dazza85 wrote:So how do you prevent a hungry fan from eating the raidator ??

Looking at a couple of ideas, cheap one, but not nearly as cool as option two, is to mount a panel steel ring on the inside of the radiator, just wide enough to cover the area the fan would hit, with hollow centre to allow the airflow through the radiator still.

Option 2, which I'm angling towards, is electric fan.

I like this option far more as it allows more advantages!

1. Does away with old radiator eating fan which will also give a little gain in performance (HP)

2. I can turn it off while river fording to stop it doing the same thing!

3. Its lots more fun and will make a better forum topic to show the mods!!!

lipigzuk and callum007 went for a bit of a jaunt in the mud...

check it out...

http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/images/ ... titled.wmv

your 'daihatsu' goes well callum.. even with the 'stealth' option.. (read-smoke)

billyvanboheman wrote:

dazza85 wrote:So how do you prevent a hungry fan from eating the raidator ??

Option 2, which I'm angling towards, is electric fan.

I like this option far more as it allows more advantages!

3. Its lots more fun and will make a better forum topic to show the mods!!!

also makes less noise, mount fan on OUTSIDE of radiator, IE, in front, stops water, mud, etc being flung all over the engine bay.

tie it into the heat sensor thingy which sends signal to temp guage on dash.

put switch in series with this sender, for over riding purposes. use double action switch, so when fan switched of, a big glaringly red light shines in your face to remind you to turn it off!!!!

Moriarty wrote:also makes less noise, mount fan on OUTSIDE of radiator, IE, in front, stops water, mud, etc being flung all over the engine bay.

tie it into the heat sensor thingy which sends signal to temp guage on dash.

put switch in series with this sender, for over riding purposes. use double action switch, so when fan switched of, a big glaringly red light shines in your face to remind you to turn it off!!!!

Cheers Mr Moriarty, I have a lovely aircon core on the front of the radiator, it still works so I'm planning on keeping it for now.

I have the plan for the switch all sorted as well, and that's part of the attraction to this option!! Big flashing light on top of the dash