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My turn to start this thread and there is even something 4wd in it to stop those moaners

Those that know the Orange Hut in the Aka's, well Thurs and Friday we dragged some volunteers from work (we get 1 days volunteer leave at work) and we painted the Orange hut....its looking positvely ORANGE now and is an impressive site when you turn in and head into it. Great to be out bush for 2 days rather than sitting at the desk.

Jerry wrote:My turn to start this thread and there is even something 4wd in it to stop those moaners

Those that know the Orange Hut in the Aka's, well Thurs and Friday we dragged some volunteers from work (we get 1 days volunteer leave at work) and we painted the Orange hut....its looking positvely ORANGE now and is an impressive site when you turn in and head into it. Great to be out bush for 2 days rather than sitting at the desk.

great stuff Jerry. I see andy is still a fine looking speciman

I'm going to wash last sundays mud off after 1st round of club champs and do a check over to try and get ready for wellington in 3 weeks. Cheese factory cant rush these things

so I got the call on Friday. Klem wanted a passenger in lexlux for our annual club trip to Minginui.

"Sweet as", I said.

"We're going thru the forest to get there, not on the road", he said.

"Do you know where you're going", I said.

"Was quite a few years ago, I'm sure I can remember", he said.

So I meet him at the workshop and we're leaving Taupo at 7.30am, down SH5 and into the forest to get lost for 1.5 hours and then we work out where we are and make it to Minginui, just as the second group are leaving. Get instructions to find first group and then fill gas tank, coz its empty already after 2 hours.

Go looking for others, can't find them so we go play up a track on our own. After a bit of spade work we get through the hard stuff and run into the 2nd group coming down the track. So we turn around to follow, only to find the 1st group coming up the track.

20 trucks converging on one point of one of the harder tracks in Minginui. Oh dear.

After watching one truk kill a motor ( don't buy a truk off jerry ) and the rest having trouble, we decided to call it a day and head out, only to find a baby pig on the track. Funniest thing I ever saw was Klem trying to tackle this little pig.

Headed to Murapara to gas up and saw the oddest thing. Mormons walking the street in Murapara ( keen boys )

headed home only to stop to gas up along the way. Klem realised he could piss faster than the jerry can was emptying( see pics).

thats was my day. awesome shit.

see pics for a detailed pictorial of the day..............

http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/modules ... _album.php

You'l have to show me and Ben where that track is, looks meen

yeah looks good so shall we organise a trip then

Had a busy day down at the panel shop.

Dan got most of the body ready for a final sand before primer, I cleaned and serviced the radiator, mounted electric fan, rebuilt the front calipers, bled the brakes, tested the new CV's, figured out how to mount the tank, and in the meen time Mike Sanson from Te Rapa 4x4 Parts and Repairs brought his kitdown and stated on the roll cage for us.

Oh, and i fixed the 50 ready for tomorrow


One side finished ready for final prep work

Bit of work with the dent puller and its ready for a skim of pooh.

Whats left of the guards:

Rear panel, not finished yet

Suzuki tribal dance LMFAO

or just to much coffee

Well um

I'll Update My Post Tomorrow Once I Do Something haha

got a call from my bro in law at about 8am on friday,saying he was going riding in karipoti ,sounded a whole lot better than work so loaded up the quad and went playing in the mud, and low and behold whos out there painting but jerry . last person i expected to see when playing hooky from work.i think jerry really wanted to play in the mud BUT i suppose a man has got to do what a man has got to do , so i left him there and played in the mud .awesome weather and a great day .i,m sure jerry really wanted to go playing and not painting. aaaah well maybe next time jerry

I went playing in the mud today

Frab'ed a winch mount and got the winch on the front of the Feroza, tossing up weather to frab a complete new "pipe" front bumper or chop the factory up around to fit over the winch and leave it looking more stock.
oh and stuck my ORE sticker on that turned up

what breed off winch is that you fitted

coxsy wrote:what breed off winch is that you fitted

Hey Coxsy, just one of those cheap 5000lb Runva ones off Trademe ... not looking at using it for heavy duty winching ie pulling the Feroza up a steep hill, mainly the odd time i or the mrs gets gets bellied and i cant be fagged getting the snatch rope out.. oh and pulling fence posts out (as i discovered when i pulled half my fence down during "testing" )



just refitted the factory bumper with a few modifications

cool, looked different to the one i fitted to a zuk, looks the part with the bumper on nice an tidy , you did a jod job with it

I started fitting my PTO winch to the kzj78, but the 2 year old and wife (now week overdue with second) are pulling me out of the shed alot, also let the smoke out of the drill press (bugger) thats slowed things alot.

went for a play at ashurst with Haynzy, na-drifter and taxi(?) meet up by luck with basics and had a blast pluggung thru bogs and the likes but its very dry so most of the trails are water/mud free!!

http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/modules ... _photo.php

supra power at its best!!

Played in some tanks on Saturday am at Ohinewai... took the lad, who had a ball.

Lunchtime decided that id put together the plates that had been cut for my winch mount. The company that measured everything up for me, and had the plates cut, shall remain un-named, but im bloody glad that i decided to put it together myself, 'cause the way they had measured and intended on doing it simpy didnt farking fit. I would have been left with a mount that didnt fit, and would have to have waited another month to get it fixed and remade. So, sat on me arse for a few hours and tried to figure out how to make the most of a potential right cock-up.

Slept on it, and today managed to get it all re-cut, drilled, ground, and tacked together for Dixie to weld it together. Tomorrow it'll get a paint, our sparky can sort some lead extensions and im away laughing.......

Should have just forked out $600.00 notes for the Warn one and saved meself the drama

badnuz wrote:went for a play at ashurst with Haynzy, na-drifter and taxi(?) meet up by luck with basics and had a blast pluggung thru bogs and the likes but its very dry so most of the trails are water/mud free!!

http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/modules ... _photo.php

supra power at its best!!

i now see what you mean by your avata, was a great day and thanks dave for the parts

didn´t do to much put the interior back in the mudcedes as well as the rear bumper
would have put the front left panels back on as well but i ran out of insta bling that is all i have left to do though and i should be ready for the warrant man

Entered the sheffield mud plug, had ball, killed the LR's engine......again But i managed to crawl over the finish of the last course running on about 3 or 4 cylinders.

Mike

badnuz... here are my pics

http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/modules ... _album.php

got a rim off madaz (cheers dude) gave XJ some helpfull advice on his winch mount then buggered off bought a water blaster and cleaned last weekends fun off the truck....well mostly

ohh and met shell and tonka. nice to meet you two

i got myself a coffee maker from the powers that be.. glee!!



also got feckin nil sleep between workin saturday night, watchin cv's break and trucks roll on sunday, and then another shift sunday night...

well worth it..

Nice coffee maker dude!!

Mike has one for me apparently..... It's in the surf.I asked him to deliver it to me in the surf when he gets it going. It may be some time.

Great day at sheffield, if a little cold.....

basics wrote:
i now see what you mean by your avata, was a great day and thanks dave for the parts

no probs bro, anytime

cool pics guys, f#@kn flu

where is this play area, is it off to the left of the bridge behind the park?

yeah to the left of the bridge as you head towards the gorge.... not to bad of a area, more fun in the wet thou, but with the river low as it opens up more tracks going up river towars saddle road etc and chhers for my stuff to DBW im off now to install them all

Got a 2 inch lift in the Escudo aswell as fully rebuilding my cv, chucking some manual hubs on and putting blocks on the top of the shock. Need to make up some for the front though coz there's only about 10mm of droop now. Hopefully be putting the extractors on during the week (Crack exaust manifold) and get a wheel alinment. Will get pics when it drys up outside.

badnuz wrote:went for a play at ashurst with Haynzy, na-drifter and taxi(?) meet up by luck with basics and had a blast pluggung thru bogs and the likes but its very dry so most of the trails are water/mud free!!

http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/modules ... _photo.php

supra power at its best!!

Cool weekend guys... shame about the overheating problem... after fit back the std diesel cap, it got alot better. The mate with the Safari is Pete. Because of my truck still very clean, I went out again on Sunday with Taxi, as he got to work on Saturday and can't join us. I went to have a go at all the deep mud that I didn't try on Saturday, and end up got stuck at the one at the back with 2 ruts next to each other.. got stuck at both of them. I need taller tyres, LSD/locker and suspension lift.. for next time.

NA_Drifter wrote:I went to have a go at all the deep mud that I didn't try on Saturday, and end up got stuck at the one at the back with 2 ruts next to each other.. got stuck at both of them. I need taller tyres, LSD/locker and suspension lift.. for next time.

i got stuck in the same ruts.... need the same mods

was all good indeed, will tee up another day to do it again

well, finished painting the mount plate, and fitted it all this arvo, but seeing as how I started it Saturday, I guess it still applies here......







Just gotta extend the leads by about 400mm, rewind the rope and I'm away! Now...... whats next.........