Offroad-Express

worked satday then i bought an engine and got it running sunday

NIBLIK has come up with the new name.

ATOMIC MISSILE

love it, cheers dude.

welcome bud..

helped turoa get his project suzuki onto his trailer sold the engine and gearbox out of the zook....umm turoas zook. then cleaned the truck in the rain

sunday ripped up the carpets in the disco to find rust started to wire brush and rust convert then primer and paint and il just have rubber mats where your feet go. god damn sound proofing holds alot of water also found that under the drivers feet has already had patches welded in it at least ive got it while its only surface rust and nothing major!!!!

Went up Rotherham on unrelated trip and stopped in at the river opposite the hurunui pub, Looks like an interesting trip up that river. (Matoki?? or something remotely like it) Any one here done it before?

Went to work on the house this morning and came home via the river (Ashley) found a nice looking water/sand/mud hole but didn't venture in. After painting some tractor parts I got itchy feet and contacted a mate and headed to the river again. Lead him to the hole and suggested he go through. He was too shy so I thought I'd give it a go and was surprised how easy it was so went back through the other way. That built his courage and he came on through after me - an hours or so later we got him out!!

Dunno if he slowed too much or what happened but the back slid across and he ended up against a bank and it was too sandy beside it for me to tugg him out. I shot home in my truck to get some more recovery gear and shovels and after a bit of digging we releaved the pressure on the side against the bank and I pulled him back tuill his back hit something else, after a bit more digging and another trip home to get another vehicle we pulled him out.

After that we got the otyher vehicle straight through but got stuck in the sand on the other side.

A while later we were playing in a much safer hole and met a guy with a lifted surf with lockers in the front and tested them on a hill we couldn't get up. dunno who he was but if you are on here say hi

mroffroader wrote: also found that under the drivers feet has already had patches welded in it at least ive got it while its only surface rust and nothing major!!!!

I get a new peice of floor welded in with every wof

What you doing in Rotherham Fweddy, my old lady lives up there

Sadam_Husain wrote:

mroffroader wrote: also found that under the drivers feet has already had patches welded in it at least ive got it while its only surface rust and nothing major!!!!

I get a new peice of floor welded in with every wof

REALLY??? in your cruiser????

Disco-Blue wrote:What you doing in Rotherham Fweddy, my old lady lives up there

Met up with a few folks and had a meeting in the old church there, didn't see and 'old lady' from Rotherham itself!!

started doin a cv boot but couldnt get cv off the shaft on the truck so had to take the whole front axle out man wat a mish and a half

Fitted the interccoler to the surf, fixed the window reg, mounted the window switch properly and cleaned the ol girl

Hey mike, you got your IC on yet??

well, went up the ashley river with a few of the boys on here, finished my apprenticeship as a sparky so now all registered, bring on the pay rise

philux wrote:well, went up the ashley river with a few of the boys on here, finished my apprenticeship as a sparky so now all registered, bring on the pay rise

congratulations dude good achievement

philux wrote:well, went up the ashley river with a few of the boys on here, finished my apprenticeship as a sparky so now all registered, bring on the pay rise

Did you catch up with Dave Schoolderman or Malcolm Hurley or know Dan with a blue DX corolla? all about finished their sparky time too. Malcolm is my bro, Dave is my sister's boy, Dan lives local and is their mate.

cant say i have heard any of those names, might of seen faces before

I went for a drive in this:

so nothing out of the ordinary then, Bill?

bring on the pay rise

when my mate finished his apprenticeship as a sparky he held of from registering as long as possible because he would loose his apprentice bonus and actually ended up taking a pay cut
now he is in aussie earning silly money the bastard

dismantled the rear wheels of twuck to see what was inside.

The silliest handbrake system ever invented, just like that dumb thing inside BMW cars. SHoulda tooken fotos.... DUMB!!! Next time.......

A one-piece, nearly circular tin shoe with two brake liners attached, have to take the caliper, brake disc off to effect adjustments. BUGGER!!
make adjustment, test fit disc, not enuff, do again again again again till it fits. Of course one tightens it up too much by a tad, then its the devils job to get it off again!! More BUGGAH!!!

Works now, had to steal jack off loinfruit first though.

OHHH BTW, we both have reasonably good tyres at last for the offroading.

vando wrote:so nothing out of the ordinary then, Bill?

Nope, normal weekend for me

is that one of the ones down near cardrona bill? tell us more!! looks sweet. does it have the power of the mighty 2jz lol

Pete

It is indeed, powered by a 454 Chev, tweaked to about 700BHP. It was one of the first monster trucks, could jump 3 cars! no suspension... their latestet one can jump 100ft and has rancho air shocks. Oh the new one has over 1500BHP!!!