Offroad-Express

Went for a play down at the river after work and then after tea took my daughters boyfriend for a run down another river ... not as much mud

Off road in the dark is a bit different

Need more lights including some at the back for when going backwards

dazza85 wrote:Went for a play down at the river after work and then after tea took my daughters boyfriend for a run (out to kill him)down another river ... not as much mud(no where to bury the body)

Off road in the dark is a bit different

Need more lights (so i can see where to dig graves at night) including some at the back for when going backwards

wheeling at night is cool fun !

Sold the Cherokee during the Week.
Put new white spokes and Buckshots on today.
And of course, will be watching the AB's commence their reign of world domination on saturday night.

I did good, i squeezed all my excess LJ parts (cage, rear tub and front cut + other LJ junk) onto one tandem trailer load and took it all down to the scrap metal recyclers made $33 out of it all

Yard looked mint for about an houror so untill i went and picked up my pallet load of parts that came up from nelson

Massive thanks to Smurf for ya effort with gettin them up to me, you sure know how to pack stuff on a pallet !!!!

cleaned my truck and had a hair cut

xj wrote:Sold the Cherokee during the Week.

Congrats!!

Did you get what you were after price wise?

Cheers
Ian

wopass wrote:

dazza85 wrote:Went for a play down at the river after work and then after tea took my daughters boyfriend for a run (out to kill him)down another river ... not as much mud(no where to bury the body)

Off road in the dark is a bit different

Need more lights (so i can see where to dig graves at night) including some at the back for when going backwards

wheeling at night is cool fun !

Naa I don't want to kill him .... yet

After all he did help me to put the moter back into my truck.

Had some money extracted by the dentist today Prado all ready for Terawhiti tomorrow (2 days of Mud, Bonfire and tall stories round the bonfire woth Beer )

downunderxj wrote:

xj wrote:Sold the Cherokee during the Week.

Congrats!!

Did you get what you were after price wise?

Cheers
Ian

It went for what i would think a fair price, and i kept the winch... it went south on wednesday and the purchaser just took delivery of it today, and after speaking to him this evening i'd say we both are happy.

Well this weekend hasnt started off the best, a shimmy had started to appear in the front of Ferozaush took it into Firestone to get them to test the wheel balance, discovered that two of the tyres are starting to delaminate looks like im going to have to bite the bullet and buy a new complete set of muddies next week.

ah well off to a mates farm tomorrow we are going to have a head to head battle between Ferozaush, the mrs's Zook and a 4x4 Polaris (he's the local distributor of Polaris 4x4's and he has a "test track" set up on his farm .. mixure of mud holes, mud holes and MUD HOLES)

so far today i took the dog far a walk and shot 5 rabbits thismorning and then just went for another walk this evening and smashed another 5 mowed the front lawn somewhere inbetween.
might sneak out tonight and smash a few more rabbits to top the day off

Decided to clean out the rear of the Surf this morning

Got a bit carried away





No more carpet to get wet and no back seats , lots more room

Lots of electrics that need water proofing

Well had a few XXXX beers today and one hell of a feed at the Tweed Heads Golf Club, now I feel like a big fat Bastard. Scored a few 4x4 mags gonna sit down have a few more beers and bake my ass in the sun.

UBZ wrote:Decided to clean out the rear of the Surf this morning

Got a bit carried away

You are not kidding

So are you not putting the back seats back ??

went for a blast up thompsons track today on the bike to sus out the loop,
very slippery hills, passed 5 jeeps having there own little problems only to make it to where they are logging and find they have dropped trees
over the track on purpose and no way to get around, told the jeep drivers
and they said the had a chainsaw, good luck to them they probley still
there cutting fire wood

I never use the rear seats, they are always folded down, and I'm sick of cleaning them

Plan is to make a false floor where the rear seats were and use the space under it to house electrics.

They will join the pile of other stuff that may one day get fitted to the truck agian.

spent most of the day in the garage putting the surf back togeather. Its good to see progress. timing is all done, injector lines are in even though i had to go and look at a surf in a car yard and note how they went and to really piss me off the pipes didnt suit the configuration i saw so i put them on how they wanted to go and now i will double check on another one tomorrow That is the pipes onto the pump. removed all the egr crap now and made plates to cover the holes. hopefully tomorrow will sort out the radiator, electric fans (thanks shane for the awsome fans), put the rest of the auxillary stuff back on. Its great being back in the garage

mike

UBZ wrote:I never use the rear seats, they are always folded down, and I'm sick of cleaning them

Plan is to make a false floor where the rear seats were and use the space under it to house electrics.

They will join the pile of other stuff that may one day get fitted to the truck agian.

Sounds like a smart move, don't forget to post progress Pics

I am thinking of pulling the seats out of the back of the Bighorn to give me a bit more room for all the kit that we take off-roading.

good to hear the surfs on the mend mike!

i had to work this morning but this afternoon pulled the drive shaft out of the lux and replaced another shot u joint and replaced a crook hanger bearing as well. no more funny viabrations in the truck now

i took the family for a drive up to the Mangahao dams behind Shannon. easy( ish) drive for the ute, but quite slippery past the 1st dam ( muddy& sloshy but easy) went expolring some of the side tracks on the way back down, some good trails to be done but i wasnt doing them on my own ( no cell coverage, bloody long walk!!)





i enjoyed being able to take the missus and son out for a drive, Joys of 4wd apposed to mtbing lol!!

tintin wrote:went for a blast up thompsons track today on the bike to sus out the loop,
very slippery hills, passed 5 jeeps having there own little problems only to make it to where they are logging and find they have dropped trees
over the track on purpose and no way to get around, told the jeep drivers
and they said the had a chainsaw, good luck to them they probley still
there cutting fire wood

so they are loggin up there now ?

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i think they might be trying to keep people away from there gear maybe ? no gates were shut, i dont know if the jeep boys cleared any trees it would have taken them a while

badnuz wrote:i took the family for a drive up to the Mangahao dams behind Shannon. easy( ish) drive for the ute, but quite slippery past the 1st dam ( muddy& sloshy but easy) went expolring some of the side tracks on the way back down, some good trails to be done but i wasnt doing them on my own ( no cell coverage, bloody long walk!!)





i enjoyed being able to take the missus and son out for a drive, Joys of 4wd apposed to mtbing lol!!

Hmmm, might just need to check the area out, always lookin for new ground to break!

badnuz wrote:i
i enjoyed being able to take the missus and son out for a drive, Joys of 4wd apposed to mtbing lol!!

And it also helps when you need to spend the hard earn as well if they get out now and again

Got the exhaust sorted (new hi-flow cat converter, free flow muffler and tail pipe raised and tucked away to protect from elements).

Got the WOF sorted after that. New exhaust is a bit louder (throatier), but the WOF (AA) guy said nothing to me, all sweet.

I can already feel the difference in how the engine was being choked before with factory exhaust.

tintin wrote:went for a blast up thompsons track today on the bike to sus out the loop,
very slippery hills, passed 5 jeeps having there own little problems only to make it to where they are logging and find they have dropped trees
over the track on purpose and no way to get around, told the jeep drivers
and they said the had a chainsaw, good luck to them they probley still
there cutting fire wood

5 Jeeps???? descriptions please?????????????????????????

had a tinker around the surf today to try and get it firing but wouldn't looked at every thing changed the dizzy,leads, and even the spark plugs in the end found a blown fuse so off to ripco got a couple replaced turned it over and it semi assed fired so just gonn a put the exhaust back on and give it another blast and see what happens moved in to our new rental in papamoa #### it's good to be able to work in a garage with nice floor and room to move, a few littles things left to do got to fit new bar in rear chassis so i can mount the tops of the shocks and do the bottom as well

did a beach clean up at Karatahi beach ,west coast near waiuku ,

That looks like a job well done.

DieselBoy wrote:I did good, i squeezed all my excess LJ parts (cage, rear tub and front cut + other LJ junk) onto one tandem trailer load and took it all down to the scrap metal recyclers made $33 out of it all

Yard looked mint for about an houror so untill i went and picked up my pallet load of parts that came up from nelson

Massive thanks to Smurf for ya effort with gettin them up to me, you sure know how to pack stuff on a pallet !!!!

NO worries DB, I hope it didn't take you too many Hours to unwrap.
I have sent A LOT of car parts around the country and with yours being rareish 50 parts I didn't want to risk having them damaged for you. That pallet load of parts weighed in at 160kg.

I spent the weekend in the Marlborough Sounds scalloping and fishing with a group of mates, Sat night we sat around the BBQ with a few brews, and had an awesome feed of fresh scallops, blue cod and terakihi. Loved it.