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Nothing on the Hilux but replaced the rear struts and did an oil change on the daily driver Laser.

Unpacked more of the house. Slowly making more room in the garage to work on my old XL250. Anyone have a round speedo head to suit 83 Honda XL/XR?

did some skids in the cruiser

lovin it

well went to auckland on saturday to pick up a cheap runabout for those cold wintery days when i don't want to hop on the GSXR to go to work in the mount, also looked at the surf but slowly losing interest in it now, don't get enough time to fix it and spend time with my wife and little girl who turns one next friday my god that year went fast.need to pull motor out and give it a freshen up, usual story no money, work to spen work to spend, haven't really decided yet but may sell it

helped the flatmate change the rear shocks on his car he isn''t the most mechanically minded person
also took the rear door and bumper off the g wagen and drove it to the panelbeater he is going to deal to my rust this week if i am lucky i might have time to take it for a warrant later this week we shall see really depends if it rains or not

whilst tidyin up the yard to prep for the extensions, was movin remainders of disassembled carport and put a nail through the palm of the left hand.. oopsy

then later was moving a chest freezer and dropped it on my left big toe.. bugger..

what a 'frank spencer' of a weekend..

did manage to change starter on gold member and get that all up and hummin.. rolling..

and helped get h20's rig rockin..

niblik wrote:whilst tidyin up the yard to prep for the extensions, was movin remainders of disassembled carport and put a nail through the palm of the left hand.. oopsy

then later was moving a chest freezer and dropped it on my left big toe.. bugger..

what a 'frank spencer' of a weekend..

did manage to change starter on gold member and get that all up and hummin.. rolling..

and helped get h20's rig rockin..

DOH !

Spent Saturday finishing off the rebuilt supra ready to go back in the hole....shifting the supra alternator up top, this means getting rid of the supra powersteer pump from position where alternator is going, a hilux powersteer pump was purchased from goose...for a jug and a pint of beer made a bracket to hold and adjust the pump
Rang & got some ideas from Supasurf, and MATT4U......then though oh yeah..and....no... i'll do it like this


got the alternator plan sussed (yet to do) and i'll be spinning cogs soon

Oh and shouldn't forget that I took my oldest boy indoor rock crawlin, didn't need the marlin ....gr8 fun






Think he's better at it than me

Put a new rear muffler and pipe on my car friday night and spend Saturday fixing the tryes on my Disco as well as removing thing piece of wood I found wedged up in the chassis while trying to find the fuel filter before heading to pub . Also spent all day at work on sunday.

Saturday worked
Sunday worked
Monday day off wiring up lights on truck

Was supposed to go to the pub and play pool on saturday afternoon, but got called to do a rescue upWorsleys spur: another stuck toyota, with a springover and on 35" creepies too Go figure. I will let him own up to that one, he is a forum member.
Spent yesterday out at Rik's planning the training day. Checked out the waipara mouth, spun some mud and headed up stream. Rik and I nearly got both stuck in a really soft spot, look out newbies
Al

did an oil change on the zuk....did more packing.....loaded as much stuff from the garage into the zuk(amazing how much i got in)....cant wait to move next sat......

Competed in the Central Zone Teams Challenge, Had an awsome time lots of MUD MUD MUD. Managed to complete every stage but the last where we got 2 of our 3 trucks through.

Just got the repair the truck for rallywoods now, broke a CV, bent steering arm, smashed indicator, pushed front guard back into door.

I only got one shitty pic off my phone of the end result but there was a guy following us around all weekend with a video and still camera so will post some when i get a copy. 4x4 action was there also so there may be a few in their mag as well.

Saturday - took towbar off the escudo, did oil and filter change and fuel filter, removed all factory mudflaps, went to 4WD acc to check out lift kits (very busy so going in today hopefully).

Sunday - took the mrs to the North Canty 4WD adventure and let her drive. She bloody loved it and is all keen for the lift to happen now (all thats required now is funds ) Rear tyres hit the wheel wells a few times but all in all was a bloody good day out :thumleft: .

Moday - Umming and ahhing about taking my old pajeros (now the old mans) gearbox out as the release bearing has packed up .

completed lots of little things on the landrover - re-fitted the headlining, fixed a rattly window, put a clip in to hold the aerial, mounted the hi-lift where it won't rattle, snugged up the door stops so the seals are tight, removed an old external CB speaker I didn't need, tidied up some wiring, wirebushed and painted some rust, removed all the crap behind the seats

took it for a drive - it's amazing quiet now - no rattles! Should have done it years ago...

Went to the Tararua Teams Challenge, pics here, http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/modules.php?set_albumName=Tararua-Teams-Challenge&op=modload&name=Gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php

Dak did you get any pics of my team??

Friday night unpacked more boxes, saturday finished shifting the rest of our stuff from the old house... only the sand pit to go now... saturday lunch time, mrs starts getting contractions... so we go buy some lights for the kitchen and dining room... saturday night, started sorting bedrooms out for the baby... sunday first thing... into hospital, I now have another boy born at 10:47 .... mother and new son home from hospital at 3pm, assembled three beds, plus went to old house, dismantled cot, rebuilt cot at new house, put up curtains, etc etc etc.....

hectic weekend!!! hardly any sleep either... two younguns, we had to move our 17 month old to another bedroom so he didn't sleep which means I didn't sleep.. baby didn't sleep much so mother didn't sleep.... ahh well!!! same again tonight I expect.

Bill, Congratulations to you and family on the new boy , good luck with finding sleep...

Congrats on the new winch and navigator, remember if you can't sleep you may as well be planning modifications for the truck.

Good luck and love the fact you planned everything into one weekend

Sat morning - built the wife a huge potting table - legs were 150x150 posts that came from a crate that our chinese granulator arrived in Top was part of a 50 yrd old deck - half rotten - still, it was what she wanted

Sat afternoon - helped to reckie the Hunua School 4wd Safari

Sunday - all day - very slowly followed around about 100 4wder's of varying ability - used my near new Mitzi Outlander company car - rather than the Cruiser - to make it more interesting for me it went amazingly well.

spent along time goin to katikati over thompsons track

there are some huge holes n that track

dug a few more wth the digger to make it more interesting to
nothing worse than whats allready there took the sloppy mud out of the bottem of some holes too

mates little 2 stroke zook spat the front shaft and became rear wheel drive then became 1 wheel drive after he blew the diff so i towed him out

amazed to see he could snatch my turbo safari out of the big bog holes

and on the way home t started heating up so i cleaned the radiator and had no more problems cept when exhaust temp went up over the kaimais it melted one of the non return valve on the vacuum pump
so breaks didnt work very well neither did my clutch

finished this off too

doddzee wrote:Dak did you get any pics of my team??

More pics coming dude.

Cheers, Jeff.

doddzee wrote:Dak did you get any pics of my team??

looks like he was following you for half the day! glad i didnt have to clean yours after that!

WACKO wrote:

doddzee wrote:Dak did you get any pics of my team??

looks like he was following you for half the day! glad i didnt have to clean yours after that!

That was the final hazard of the 6 we did that day, the only one we DNF'ed. It was made hard because there were no winch points and the ground was too soft for the ground anchor to hold in. Where you see me winching up the bank there was about 60m of winch extensions hooking me onto rogers truck.

Dak wrote:Went to the Tararua Teams Challenge, pics here, http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/modules.php?set_albumName=Tararua-Teams-Challenge&op=modload&name=Gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php

holy crap that looks like fun!!!

PM next time ones on and ill see if i can come and look