Offroad-Express

went for a mission to get nzhunters hilux last night getting my jungle treckers today and a new door

Took the family in the Hilux to the Nth Bank of the Waimak for a play in the mud. Had a ball as always. Saw a few other ORE members out there also.

fix the car alarm in the number one car,
looked at the truck and thats were i stopped.

Spent most of the day cleaning, and trying to find a clutch for the hippo.
Might be cheaper to get one sent from oz. $475 there compared to $1300 here for the exact same item

I'm having a good day.... finished welding up the rear cage on my bully where a previous operator tryed to winch a tree into the cab
slotted two sets of new disks, for rear disk conversions.... Matt your stuffs ready to go now and Shorty I'm almost finished just got to sort the caliper handbrake mounts... gona do that after tea along with a another set for a 60 series landcruiser
If I can clear a few more bits i might even get to do some more on the Lemon
Oh well off to buy lotto and chips

Cheers Reece

I've finished the bottom end of my new engine, crank polish, new main bearings, big end bearings, hone, new rings, and all the bottom emd timing gear on.
Still to put on the head and modify (move) power steering pump, and alternator, supra will be screaming again for Al's west coast trip
Looking at plumbing in a idiot light as well as pressure guage, large light on dash to let me know when the angles i'm on are causing the pump to run out of oil, which i'm adament caused the bearing failure

hosehustler wrote::
Looking at plumbing in a idiot light as well as pressure guage, large light on dash to let me know when the angles i'm on are causing the pump to run out of oil, which i'm adament caused the bearing failure

I have one of those idiot lights in the hippo, but it only goes off when within 2m of a toyota owner

Looks like Sunday will be spent stripping the radius arms off to get ready for new bushes. Should've bought the body lift from Rik when down there, could have got that done while it's off the road

Removed running boards/side-steps, and thoroughly cleaned the crap out of the sill drain holes - releasing a swimming pool of water.

Finally figured out the sloshing sound wasn't the fuel tank.

Guess the truck will be about 20lbs lighter now.

Both sills were full of water!!

Moved most of our stuff to the new house and got puked on by the boy, and spilt about 10 litres of trans fluid on my old house drive and then my new house drive....

spent the day down at ness rd clevedon farm,
had thirty people from civil defence to show what are type of 4wd s can do with winchs and cables to move vechicles ,run along a slidling on a cable and two pulley blocks, then we run through a manmade mud bog with them as passangers to give them a bit of fun,
bbq to finnish,

well was on my way to pete's place for a bit of off roading but didn't make it as i may have blown a head gasket runs rather rough and the first pull on the throttle jecks the whole engine, i thought one of the engine mounts had broken, so anyone in the bay of plenty have a compression tester, might check that first before i pull apart the moteor,BUGGER, does anyone know of a good engine recondition place in te puke or tauranga,

Hi Craig
Try Tauarnga repowers [ask for Joe] 5712303
situated in Courtney Road in Gate pa
they did the rebuild of my surf motor [for the previous owner]
cheers Brian

or Te Puke Auto Machinists in Jellicoe Street

i got the zaust done on the missile and a whole bunch of other stuff so that i could start it up on the key ....... and start it i did .

video uploading now, has been for ages it seems........

100meg file !!!

might take a while its funny as crap tho aimed at all sorts of people

Im waiting wopass . Me and Tu's took the nisco out to my engineer guy and he said he might have it done by next weekend Then today I helped Tu's take the petrol tank out of my old 413 shell and chassis i gave him and we mounted it in the back of mongrel (his LR)

Turoa hopped in to see what its gonna feel like when he rolls his LR

Hmmmm...seems im not allowed to perform this action.......... must be too big

will have to shrink it, that sux as it will ruin the sound quality

The link Wopass ... Where is the link

wopass wrote:Hmmmm...seems im not allowed to perform this action.......... must be too big

will have to shrink it

No need to brag, we just want the video

I spent a couple of hours today stripping down the top of the motor so I can get the starter out. The Lexus V8's have the starter in the intake valley in the wasted space which is a great idea as long as you don't have to take it out!

Managed to break two of the injector connectors and snapped the EFI temp sensor in half! Everything was badly affected by heat and water and dirt which made going slow.

Time to rebuild the starter during the week then put it back together again next weekend.

If you are contemplating a Lexus repower, definitely do the starter completely including the pinion clutch. Looks like the PO did brushes but the pinion clutch has nearly completely failed now. It's hard on the back doing it in the truck.

Spent yesterday testing out the new kumhos up Worsleys spur ( read wet, muddy,rutted, rocky hill climb) . Suitably impressed thus far. Spent the morning doing house shit to keep the handbrake off my back. Spent the afternoon panelbeating out yesterdays panel damage , all good now
Al

worked

wopass wrote:Hmmmm...seems im not allowed to perform this action.......... must be too big

will have to shrink it, that sux as it will ruin the sound quality

I can give you an FTP site to put it on, then link it PM me or better still text 0211904411...

Did the fuel tank mounting on the LR today. It has a nice dent free suzuki tank in it now(yeah, yeah, I know its going to break down because I have suzuki parts now)

Im just doing the bumpstops now, so I dont know what im doing here

Back to the shed.....

Oh, and rolling the suzuki to poach the tank was easy, 3 people just pushing, I could probably do it bymeself if I tried hard enough

Done a few bits and pieces on the 50, starting to actually look like a 4x4 now

DieselBoy wrote:Done a few bits and pieces on the 50, starting to actually look like a 4x4 now

that looks soo cool dude

love it

DieselBoy wrote:Done a few bits and pieces on the 50, starting to actually look like a 4x4 now

Looking GOOD
Nice Blue too
The hound is growing too

had a kiddies sleep over for em's birthday on friday night..

family lunch for em's birthday on saturday..

kiddies birthday party on sunday... 8 of them i tells ya... crazy!

also pulled down the carport ready for the extensions...

all partied out...

Yesterday ent down mcleans with aza in his rugger, as a mate had to try out his $100 pajero... Being a $100 vehicle the inevitable happened and it had a hissy fit and shat it's pants when the driver put it's nose in a decent sized rut. took 1.5 hours trying to get it started again and then to tow the bugger to the exit. By this time it was about 5.45pm.. So off home to get the Bighorn to tow the pajero to it's home, all the while large chunks of it's rusted exterior falling onto the road (pajero not bighorn ). There's a moral to the story somewhere in there, no doubt you can find it!

well had an interesting week end
some progress on my turbo manifold

i blew both my head lights in rotorua and had to cruise back at night so hard wired a 12v bulb to one battery


got pretty stuck in some crazy gullies and ruts