Offroad-Express

Went to Al's training day, and had a lot of fun. Learnt heaps. I would like to thank Al and Mike for their tuition, Rik for having it at his place, and Tim for doing the BBQ.

Apart from a sometimes stroppy 3 year old, both me and the handbrake loved it.

Mike

started dealing with stuff for a warrant on my wagen

tried to have a look at the bumpstop on the LHS of my wagen but it wasn´t where it should be


it should look something like this


i´m thinking of just welding a 50mm strap across it and bolting the bumpstop to that

took the missile to petes dads place and managed to not break anything or overheat it

cleaned up the yard and sat on my arse the rest of the day

stripped out a 86 L300 van for parts.
trailered away a rusty old 40 for a mate

went to replace the pads in the front of my 413 and the ones in it were near new anyway so i now have a spare set tried to do the rear shoes but the ones i was suplied with were wrong then spent the rest of the day helping mro and turoa.....and thats all i got to say bout that.

wopass wrote:took the missile to petes dads place and managed to not break anything or overheat it

Where are the vids?

turoa wrote:

wopass wrote:took the missile to petes dads place and managed to not break anything or overheat it

Where are the vids?

http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/modules ... hp&page=40

oh, weekend achievements, rebuilding hubs for rallywoods, and got attacked by garage door

wopass wrote:took the missile to petes dads place and managed to not break anything or overheat it

sweet see you in welly next weekend then Sure DB will co-drive for you, or he could throw his bike on the back and teach me how to ride all weekend

add this to the front off my saf

mike wrote:

wopass wrote:took the missile to petes dads place and managed to not break anything or overheat it

sweet see you in welly next weekend then Sure DB will co-drive for you, or he could throw his bike on the back and teach me how to ride all weekend

could allways bring my 2 wheeler and show you how to fly


so much fun in such a small package

wopass wrote:

mike wrote:

wopass wrote:took the missile to petes dads place and managed to not break anything or overheat it

sweet see you in welly next weekend then Sure DB will co-drive for you, or he could throw his bike on the back and teach me how to ride all weekend

could allways bring my 2 wheeler and show you how to fly


so much fun in such a small package

Might be time to open a trail bike side up for offroadexpress That thing looks dangerous. If your not bringing the cruiser down you boys could just bring your bikes as thats all ive got for that weekend

Had an awesome day at the canterbury training day. Due to the amount of participants we couldnt get through everything. Was good to see people learning lots and those who already knew the stuff brushing up on it and practising. LR went well again, nearly got towed by a nissan but nearly being the big word, managed to wiggle my way out of it in the end.
I WASNT STUCK - I STILL HAD MOMENTUM!!

Mike

striped the seats and interior out of my safari today measured and marked where to cut

put my winch back in and painted my new bars

took the truck for a trundle down by the river to get some wood for the chippy heater, did a bit of flexing while i was there



my new improved flip arm is a little higher than i thought,not bad tho




playin with dog


boy driving......

at bayleys beach got the V6 bogged in loose sand and spent a fair while digging the bloody thing out ... Mrs with her LSD's creamed straight past me .. dont you just hate that!





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coxsy wrote:add this to the front off my saf

Could you not get it on straight coxsy? :scratch:

Did the brakes on the rover....went to aotea

Sadam_Husain wrote:

coxsy wrote:add this to the front off my saf

Could you not get it on straight coxsy? :scratch:

BWahahha....

drove to tokoroa so i could fix the bumpstop issue i showed earler so that is all done drove home and thought man this thing is using a bit of diesel got home found some spots on the back of the wagen that weren there before so have to find where my diesel is leaking from.

should be ready for a warrant check now though

no

still pretty novice and feeling out my new truck but well i was playin in a deepish mud hole met up with a guy in a nissan with a full load of fire wood, he showed me some cool tracks that i never thought my truck would manage, all and all great day.

Well finally got off my ass and got some feeling back into my hand after trying to raise funds for a new rig after trying to cut off a few fingers.

Got a bit too dark and the neighbour probably wasnt to impressed with some of the colourful language echoeing over the fence each time i bumped my F@##in fingers. So i gave up for the mo

As you can see im building a new fishing toy,the donar trucksupplied front and rear factory lockers, a 4.2lturbo diesel, and a fully rebuilt trans. So it should make for a reasonably good whale.

Have been playing down the river every day at least once if not twice since I got my cruiser.

This morning took the surf and cruiser to compare them, Found a place I couldn't get the surf up even at speed, the cruiser just idled up

Have been rabbit chasing in the cruiser (yes honestly) we drive round till we spot one then chase it with the dog going crazy and yelling at the top of her voice until the rabbit disappears into the scrub where I'm not prepared to take off for lack of vision!

Also managed to get the truck bellied off a bank that was steeper and higher than expected (was dark and I couldn't be bothered getting out to check) took a bit of heaving and thought but finally managed to push it forward onto it's nose, then got a wee bit of back motion and shoved it forward and free!

Went on a lil fishing trip up lake sumner, managed to catch 1 brown trout but saw heaps of the damn things

Removed 2F engine mounts, and mounted power steering box (would have just overlapped the old engine mounts.

Got extended steering shaft and bolted up rest of power steering. Can steer from inside the truck now .

All ready to take to Jono's tomorrow night

Picked up a new heart for my wreck

At last!! This last weekend was the "odd" one for us, which meant up to Taranaki for the weekend.

Hired a trailer cos its cheaper to hire than own one!! ($10 per day) and off we went.

Having won the auction on Trademe, I had had paid for this and was now going to get it and put it in my garage!

How much? $29.00 Do I feel guilty? Do I hell!!!

Damn near had a hernia getting it on and off the trailer! heavy as lead, bloody thing is older than Cocroft and me together!!

Whats wrong with it? One of the previous owners had had it apart cos it was "faulty" yeah, Right!! a couple of young fellers, not too sure what to do, more used to working in the bank or sech-like, heheheh pulled it down, replaced the bottom gasket, filled it with slippy stuff to half way up the sight glass,and ran it.

Hmmmmmm slight air leak.

Pulled pump off, tapped the top of the reciever under the pump with welder's chipping hammer. MISTAKE!! the large flake of rust that was containing 120 PSI of air jumped off, and the air all fell up out of a large hole.

Trusty welder, blew holes in rust, chased the hole all over the place with weld. Finally!!!!! !! Reduced air leak to a tiny hissssssssssss.

In business, now to aquire all sorts of air driven stuff, like a gizmo to blow up tyres, Air ratchet, staple gun(s) Impact wrench, stuff like that, essential stuff, Siwsie!!!

Ran the Canterbury training day, good turnout and alot of fun. Spent sunday cleaning the truck and greasing everything, 3 tubes of grease, those swivel hubs sure swallow alot.
Al

albundy wrote:Ran the Canterbury training day, good turnout and alot of fun. Spent sunday cleaning the truck and greasing everything, 3 tubes of grease, those swivel hubs sure swallow alot.
Al

Damn Al!!! I knew a girl like that once...................!!