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I had a couple of early starts for the weekend, 2:30am Sat Morn, and 12:30 am Sunday, spent Saturday in Mayfield cutting firewood, finally got the chainsaw cutting properly.

I did go for a recce in the Hinds River bed, went from the Mayfield Valetta Road Bridge, to the Oakley’s Road ford.

Nothing really difficult in that bit, but scope to play if you wanted.

I'm keen to see if I can eventually get from my Saturday starting point to at least SH1 around the Hinds area.

Also forgot, helped Niblick with a parcel of Friday, not technically part of the weekend but very close too.

I thought there may be some photos of the new toys floating around by now

worked saturday ..........bolted on my front and rear tow hooks with high tensile bolts and fiddled around with the rover today so im ready for rallywoods next weekend

worked.....and worked

Terawhiti Play, weekend started on Friday...trip preperation...etc, chased 2 possums inside the woolshed with my Axe where some of us were sleeping,

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Had DB and Satelite come over on sat evening too pick up a piece for the fiddy, payment was booze of course, which they promptly drunk and took what ever was left home - how does that work
Our club hosted the national trials today, so was viewing in the morning (load photos tomorrow - awesome one of Furgus and he didnt even know I was taking it ) and marshalled in the arvo, farkin shagged now...

billyvanboheman wrote:Also forgot, helped Niblik with a parcel on Friday, not technically part of the weekend but very close too.

I thought there may be some photos of the new toys floating around by now

oh and there are fella...



with thanks to billyvanboheman, recieved these seats for the 40 on friday arvo.. just about finished mounting them friday night.. my son (joey) test ran them for me.. seems to like em.. i think he put more of his tea on him and the seats than in his tummy..

sunday went for a wheel up the ashley with h20, mudbum and the goose man.. was a great day out with superb swimmin hole and sun abounding.. lost all brakes in rusty tho, so drove half the day with 'slim to none' stoppin power..

hopefully h20, goose or mudbum will post pics/vids..

great weekend..!

Helped my brother in law fix his work hack, found a fault with a temp controlled vacum valve that we needed to wait till it cooled before we could fix it.
So decided togo for a drive up the Waipiwa river which its just behind his place.
Nice easy track, a few dry potholes, no real challenges
Until ...
As I drove through a narrow section I ran over some small sticks burried in the grass and punched a piece of wood the size of your thumb through the side wall of my front tyre
Changed the trye ... Have to buy a high lift jack ...
Went back and finished the car ...
The car now runs sweet but now I'm looking for a new tyre

pukekohe swapmeet saterday, sunday u[p at 6.00am marshelled at the rally from 8.30 to 2.00 finally left the site 7.00 long day.

Repaired brake issues

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And got very hot doing so...

tested out in the Ashley and took the river routes to meet family at waikuku for tea and cut back through the river home. Surprising how many people hang out down the river at night. saw three vehicles parked up and people just enjoying the evening (think that's what they were doing.) I knew a place good for crossing so was aiming there (dark by this stage so was headign for a place I knew was suitable - some one washed dad's truck today and told him he wasn't allowed to get it dirty so I can't expect a tow from him). at my crossing spot was a guy and a boy fishing or some such, rather than causing a stir I found another crossing in the dark and got through no issues, river is low at present.

Loosely planning on heading into the pinnacles next weekend with family and a crew from Aust.

Did more tidying up of the loom
Fitted the second battery tray
New front brake pads..
Started playing with templates for my roof console

Fitted most of the Rancho in cab controller, but couldn't get to the valves on the front shocks...grr... also the system seems to loose pressure quickly so will have to pump the suspension every morning, I'm now having second thoughts about the in cab system..

coxsy wrote:sunday up at 6.00am marshelled at the rally from 8.30 to 2.00 finally left the site 7.00 long day.

Ditto - except marshalled all day and I was still writing certificates at 9.30pm - managed to get home at 10.30

niblik wrote:
sunday went for a wheel up the ashley with h20, mudbum and the goose man.. was a great day out with superb swimmin hole and sun abounding.. lost all brakes in rusty tho, so drove half the day with 'slim to none' stoppin power..

hopefully h20, goose or mudbum will post pics/vids..

great weekend..!

Ah yes, the "Ugly Gosling" first trip.... sadly, I was too excited about it and forgot the camera...... and the steak...... and the milk......

He of muddy bumness had his camera, so we'll all give him crap until he posts them

Real pleased at how good the Lux went, bloody good for 2 open diffs and a set of 31" tyres... how hard will it go with a locker and 33" ?????

Yeah baby!!! LOCK AND LOAD, LOCK AND LOAD!!!!!!!!!

lilpigzuk wrote:Had DB and Satelite come over on sat evening too pick up a piece for the fiddy, payment was booze of course, which they promptly drunk and took what ever was left home - how does that work

Not sure how that works either, but deffinatly made for an entertaining trip home

Spent the best part of the weekend in the studio recording the last two songs for the new CD, but shot up to Mt Eden to drool over Rubberneck's LJ50, dropped into Lilpigs, raided his beer fridge, talked shit and. stole zook parts from his garage.

Manged to find 10 mins to pull the wiring looms out of both 50's and put the loom from the parts 50 into the good one. Seriously took all of 10 mins to get em both out and plug the other one back in

Did a bit of a body lift on the ol wreck. managed to fall out of it and twist my ankle bad.
Had to be carefull backing it out of the garage, its getting clost to not fitting.

hey matt put up some pic's haven't seen it for a while, bout to pull the front diff housing to clean paint and replace all the seals and bearings, shims etc then cut 3.5 inches out of the rear guard to remove rust so should have a nice bit of clearence between tyre and guard, just need money to buy some to buy 35's instead of my 33's

monaro427 wrote:hey matt put up some pic's haven't seen it for a while, bout to pull the front diff housing to clean paint and replace all the seals and bearings, shims etc then cut 3.5 inches out of the rear guard to remove rust so should have a nice bit of clearence between tyre and guard, just need money to buy some to buy 35's instead of my 33's

the latest ones I have

Struggled like hell for an hour to get the fancy airfilter off the twuck.

Mostly dust etc. Siwsie came out to shed to see what I was doing, then went inside.

Came back in a minnit and said the "The dishwasher is empty, set to high, soap dispenser fulla soap, all ready to go. Just put filter in and close door".

what a find THIS lady is.


Nice clean airfilter, twuck runs gooder now.

You re-oiled it before you put it back on right??

DieselBoy wrote:You re-oiled it before you put it back on right??

Natch, the dust has to stick to something.
nice light oilfilter oil.

MATT4U wrote:Did a bit of a body lift on the ol wreck. managed to fall out of it and twist my ankle bad.
Had to be carefull backing it out of the garage, its getting clost to not fitting.

Give the shed a body lift.

Moriarty wrote:Came back in a minnit and said the "The dishwasher is empty, set to high, soap dispenser fulla soap, all ready to go. Just put filter in and close door".

..... and the filter got a nice iron after it came out of the wash? :bounce:

Came back in a minnit and said the "The dishwasher is empty, set to high, soap dispenser fulla soap, all ready to go. Just put filter in and close door".

So whats going in next???? a diffhead? engine block??

Jerry wrote:

Came back in a minnit and said the "The dishwasher is empty, set to high, soap dispenser fulla soap, all ready to go. Just put filter in and close door".

So whats going in next???? a diffhead? engine block??

No, not yet awhile.

But lookit the precedent she has set!!

to be able to wash twuck bits in the dishwasher!! Man, the woman is a treasure!! Bet all you bastards are as jealous as shit!! LOL

You may want to be careful there Bob....this could be used as evidence when you eg accidently back over the daisy's or something, the last thing you want is "the look"

Bahh, and i thought i was doin good to be alowed to put snatch straps in the washing machine

DieselBoy wrote:Bahh, and i thought i was doin good to be alowed to put snatch straps in the washing machine

That is why you go to motor camps