Offroad-Express

Always wanted to start one of these threads

Anyway, Today i decided to make use of the machine buffer, & turn the bighorn into a shiny.
Its all of a sudden become a head turner





in the last couple of weeks ive sorced some recovery gear ie Snatch rope, tow rope,hook, highlift & also got a PRS radio.

So im all set to go and get it dirty again

Hey Maddog, Thats come up realy sweet

What did you use on the buffer ??

natural glow by the looks!!

damn thats shiny!! nice buffin

dazza85 wrote:Hey Maddog, Thats come up realy sweet

What did you use on the buffer ??

Just a basic cut paste from pacer.
Didnt try to hard,it was just a quick job, to prevent the paint getting oxidated. like the roof.

Its still got visible scratch's ,so you know its a real 4wd, its funny how much extra attention it gets when its all shiny.

if you need some emergency mud theres always http://www.sprayonmud.com

Jerry wrote:if you need some emergency mud theres always http://www.sprayonmud.com

Ha ha, classic

I should import some & sell it to soccer mums in auckland.

If i had someone to tag along with today,id go out to the wiamak.

Put up a post next time...see if anyone id interested.....

worked satday,went for a quick ride on the bike today with the boys....and came to a descision.....

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing ... d=88678374



i have too many hobbys, so im cutting down

I rolled a surf yesterday


































Because I wanted to chop the driveshafts out. The tractor made short work of flipping it on its side

Today, me and my dad fixed the hole in the front of the RR diff housing, and made up a place to put all the guages.

turoa wrote:today, me and my dad fixed the hole in the front of the RR diff housing, and made up a place to put all the guages.

what about 'sheddy'?

niblik wrote:

turoa wrote:today, me and my dad fixed the hole in the front of the RR diff housing, and made up a place to put all the guages.

what about 'sheddy'?

Yea, the place to put the guages was for the LR. I dont think I like the name shedrover. I might change it.

It ended up being wood (covered in black vinyl) for the housing, and the bit that the guages are on it aluminium. Probably gonna paint it black

niblik wrote:

turoa wrote:today, me and my dad fixed the hole in the front of the RR diff housing, and made up a place to put all the guages.

what about 'sheddy'?

I think Turoa has more 4wds at his place than spanners I reckon shed rover will be back on the fix it list soon Maybe I should put shed rover on the front page that should inspire him to fix it over his RR which is currently on the front page now.

This weekend I decided to start fixing the surf again I only decided it, didnt actually touch it

Mike

went for a play.. broke exhaust mount. burned few litres of oil.. finished the day with no oil pressure and noticeable knock noise.. o well

Cut the bottom off the rear quarter panels on the safari, put in new stainless bottoms and bogged and bogged some more. Grinded the old rear protection bar off the terrano up to fit the safari, get it all welded this week. Much better departure angles and it kinda looks mean
Al

did a bit of cutting up on the winch bar of the disco, looked at it some more and found a few things that need to be done

Did nothing ofroadish except put my newly painted tractor rims in the back of the surf (to take to the tyre outfit to get tyres fitted) and also loaded this year's wool crop in the back too to take to wool merchant.

Apart from that I made noticeable progress on the tractor project

wopass wrote:worked satday,went for a quick ride on the bike today with the boys....and came to a descision.....

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing ... d=88678374



i have too many hobbys, so im cutting down

You'll be able to buy a real nice rifle if it sells.......
.22 Hornet? I allus wanted one of them.

Apart from that I made noticeable progress on the tractor project

tractor project? is this some hard out tractor tyred offroader? If so pics pics pics!!! or are you just fixing up an old tractor?

gomulletgo wrote:

Apart from that I made noticeable progress on the tractor project

tractor project? is this some hard out tractor tyred offroader? If so pics pics pics!!! or are you just fixing up an old tractor?

You know I was loading the rims into the surf and was considering bolting them on the rear instead, would be quite a beast!, ignore minor issues like body rub.

No this is a tame project, just a rebuild of a Fergie 35. I'll be using it offroad mind you, just maybe not in the river beads and mud holes (it'll be a shiney), but then that might be fun

Saturday - put 2 coats of grey bondall on the floor of my new 4wd shed - not happy - so will do 3rd coat tonight

Seems like a lot of us were otherwise busy judging by the lack of posts for this weekend.

I had an early start Sat morn, 2:30am, than after 4 1/2 Hrs work, headed for Mayfield to cut a load of firewood.

While there I had a look at the Hinds River to see what potential it had.

It was a very short recce, but it didn't seem too bad for the short section I had a look at.

I hope to go back this coming weekend for more firewood, and a more in-depth recce.

Eventually I would like to see if you can follow the river from Mayfield to SH1 Hinds area!

Sunday was family picnic day and showing the motorbikes the light of day again after a long hibernation.

Not very exciting I know but it's a start.

Spent friday,saturday and sunday in the studio laying down the guitar tracks for our new CD.

I got 9 songs done. Not bad at 3 each day.

Bloody mission, any idea how hard it is to play two guitar tracks perfectly exactly the same but each on different guitar a so you get the stereo effect with one guitar track on the left speaker and the other track coming through the right speaker. Trust me, its farken hard work

Only another 4 songs to record then lay down the lead guitar tracks with solo's etc etc for 8 of the songs then i'm done

Its sounding bloody good for the hard work though

Managed to sneak in some time early Sunday morning to spray the LJ though

i didn't do anything 4x4 of mechanical over the weekend

but over the last couple of days i have fixed a couple of little things on my car after i got home from work
replaced the bushes on the sway bar and rebuilt the gearshift assembly so the gearshift is alot more precise now means i can get some mean fast shift changes in now to deal to those pesky boy racers
not really i am a responsible driver

DieselBoy wrote:I got 9 songs done. Not bad at 3 each day.

Bloody mission, any idea how hard it is to play two guitar tracks perfectly exactly the same but each on different guitar a so you get the stereo effect with one guitar track on the left speaker and the other track coming through the right speaker. Trust me, its farken hard work

ProTools audio quantization is your friend for timing issues.

Believe me, ProTools is getting a work out!!!! We using every trick we know with the program

Soundin good though