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Thought Id kick this topic off this weekend.

Big weekend for me.

Picked up the electric fan shroud on thursday plus rear axle bearings and rear brake pads from supralux. Set about putting the shroud on yesterday, got half way through working out where and how to mount. didnt get as far as i wanted to, infact i wanted to start the surf yesterday but that didnt happen. Spent most of today mounting the elect fan to the shroud. Turned out much closer fit but I still have a removable fan, shroud and radiator all in one piece - 4 bolts and it all pops out together

also changed the oil today. put the rest of the air intake back on and rung toyota asking how much a new turbo pressure sensor was. Answer i got back (ex japan $600) led me to super cheap to buy some glue/cement to repair it myself.

See if we get to start it tomorrow.

Mike

Some of us up here in Jafa land had a bit of a run in the mud today at Extreme park.

have a look a the 4th page of this topic for pics

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Finished my bars for the Escudo and fitted them on friday. Worked Saturday. Off on the Ashley gorge trip today.

Finished Trussing and capping my front axle and put it all back together with help from Ruf Zuki on Friday. Had an exam on Saturday morning. Flew to Invercargill after exam and drove back the power house for my Hilux. Got back at 1am. Sleeping today!!

dixie and i went fishing on satday out of wangamata with some mates,managed to get a fair few terakihi YUM YUM. nothing exiting but a good feed for a few nights. then working today and just about to head to my mums to drop off her B.day pressy which is 3 days overdue oops.

Spent Sat at the Whangarei rally site marking hazards.. Shit Andrew graham and I must have bad nightmares to peg hazards like that. Worked last night, worked today, got Hilux diff ready to pull out to fit to Jimny.

Wanganui Rally blew the rear diff and chipped a tooth in the front diff, haven't been able to get Jimny diffs so looks that E class is calling

I got the 1600 in and running in the zuk.....then got dragged out christmas shoppin today haha

Had a wee play in the Okuku Gorge on Sunday with a couple of the boys....









And check this out. The drivers side of Riks truck was reasonably straight about 2 hours before this pic, oh and he had a snorkel on the drivers side as well

Took the yacht over to the Sounds on friday evening. Got back this afternoon after two days of sun, fishing, scalloping, drinking beer, more fishing and more scalloping and also more beer drinking!!
Now have enough scallops and blue cod for the Welly ORE christmas bbq, will try and get some more paua for it as well this week.

went out fishing, finally had a crack at fly fishing its great and i can't wait to get out again. Still no 4wheeling can't wait to be able to get out again.

A couple of pics from my tahr shooting trip. Missed out on the Ashley trip to go blow up 2 Bulls, 2 nannies, and a hare haha

went out with suzuki mike on wednesday night, had some fun untill i bet my snorkle. all fixed now tho

Loveing it mate! Driver of the cruiser would of got a few prickles trying to get out tho haha

kruzin wrote:Loveing it mate! Driver of the cruiser would of got a few prickles trying to get out tho haha

the cruisers mine, and i had to climb out passenger door, which was a #### cuse the handles fucked, so to get bacjk in had to climb in from the back. the pic dosnt show the angles, pretty steep.

deisel was coming back out the tank!

Fitted new glow plugs and battery, puled out the air duct that runs across the top of the air-con radiator to the air cleaner.
It starts and runs heaps better. I can not understand why they have a restriction in the tube.
Looked at making a snorkel out of drain pipe ... dropped the idea 'cause it will look really bad ... looks like it will be plan B ... steel tube
I've just got to rember to keep out of the water till it's done.

Diesel comming out the tank? Sounds pretty grarly a. Yea that gorse is a c**t at the best of times! Where abouts were you guys?

30min north of wellington CBD, aotea.
mint place to hoon around

Aw ok then looks like sum good trekin . Have you been out shooting lately? Or anyone else been out?

went deer stalking again on friday, saw lots of sign again but no animals.

thats about normal for me anyway

I know the feeling! Ya just gota keep at it if ya wana fill the freeza.. The other day we walked from 12 noon til just before dark (must of been about 8pm or something) and didnt see anything. Jumped back in the truck to return to the hut for the night, started it up, turned on the lights and drove forward about 50 meters only to see 2 hinds running off in the river bed 150 meters away! Just before it was too dark to see that far. If only we knew they were there... haha!

kruzin wrote:I know the feeling! Ya just gota keep at it if ya wana fill the freeza..

Me three

I spent about 6 1/2 hours on Saturday walking up and down hills, saw fresh deer sign at the start of the way up, nothing else all the way to the top by 2pm, so decided to cut back down through the creek at the bottom to get out, bad idea, took 3 hours just to get down to the bottom, then another hour to walk the creek back out to the truck Of course the only other sign we saw was when we got back down to the creek

Other than that, Thurs afternoon/night, and early Friday Mon was whitebaiting, got 2 Lb for the two days, Sat/Sun Morn was fitting the snorkel so we could go on the Ashley Gorge trip, which in turn led to ripping all the carpets out of the Isuzu when we got home, so they could dry out, It was an awesome trip

More work on the surf today:

Finished up the radiator (what a never ending mission that was).

Learnt howto use the supercheap poxy glue (no instructions, said 5 mins and 16 hours later it was still as soft as i put it on - remixed a new lot today and hey presto 5 mins later it was setting). This was on my ex japan $600 turbo pressure sensor.

Drained the crap out of the fuel tank by loosening the bung. (quite scary loosening that bung when you know you have 60litres of diesel above you and a 10l bucket to catch it if it all turns to custard ie the bung falls out and rolls under the oppisite corner wheel )

Changed the spark plugs in the LR and started it for the first time since sheffield after it died a tragic death.

Filled the surf with with water and started the POS toytoa for the first time in a year

Both startups here -> http://www.4wdtv.co.nz/node/417

Mike

kruzin wrote:Loveing it mate! Driver of the cruiser would of got a few prickles trying to get out tho haha

beer crusier bent his snorkle and lost his wing mirror on same bit of gorse

mike wrote:More work on the surf today:

Finished up the radiator (what a never ending mission that was).

Learnt howto use the supercheap poxy glue (no instructions, said 5 mins and 16 hours later it was still as soft as i put it on - remixed a new lot today and hey presto 5 mins later it was setting). This was on my ex japan $600 turbo pressure sensor.

Drained the crap out of the fuel tank by loosening the bung. (quite scary loosening that bung when you know you have 60litres of diesel above you and a 10l bucket to catch it if it all turns to custard ie the bung falls out and rolls under the oppisite corner wheel )

Changed the spark plugs in the LR and started it for the first time since sheffield after it died a tragic death.

Filled the surf with with water and started the POS toytoa for the first time in a year

Both startups here -> http://www.4wdtv.co.nz/node/417

Mike

Good to see the surf going again Mike,,,,,,,,looks like you'll be able to do a few trips with us now over the Xmas break
And with the LR going......good luck at Mayfield, I guess I now have a spare seat for next weekend

Yep thats a shittie bit of gorse.I got past it but could not get past the hole at top of ruts.I had to back through it
Had a great weekend on south coast. Friday night meet the new owner of D Bs Nassian. He followed me into a soft bit of sand. I(in mitie Toyota) flow through.He (in flash but not so mitie Nassian)didnt make it.Not using the load pedal I think.
Sat was fishing Blue cod Mokie Crayfish and Paua
Sun big sleep in then went for a drive with mrs.Got stuck in some mud with no one to give me a pull. Managed to get some Tea Tree under wheels and drive out

The cruiser had a mud bath yesterday

went for a play on a mates farm,destroyed another front diff #5 or 6 ,which i am getting pretty sick of now, split the diff head itself this time, you would think i would of learnt by now to button off as the front comes down. will post pics tonight.

vaughan

Well I fixed my brakes so now it doesn't swerve all over the road when I touch the brakes

Took out the cancer in the roof, all primed now I just need some more sanding and top coat. Problem is i keep seeing more and more scratched etc that I want to patch up

Fitted a new fuel tank. My last obne had shit loads of BIG dents in it. With the old fuel tank the guage read 1/3 full, new tank guage read just above empty. Won't need to carry so many jerrycans now
Al

mike wrote:More work on the surf today:

Finished up the radiator (what a never ending mission that was).

Learnt howto use the supercheap poxy glue (no instructions, said 5 mins and 16 hours later it was still as soft as i put it on - remixed a new lot today and hey presto 5 mins later it was setting). This was on my ex japan $600 turbo pressure sensor.

Drained the crap out of the fuel tank by loosening the bung. (quite scary loosening that bung when you know you have 60litres of diesel above you and a 10l bucket to catch it if it all turns to custard ie the bung falls out and rolls under the oppisite corner wheel )

Changed the spark plugs in the LR and started it for the first time since sheffield after it died a tragic death.

Filled the surf with with water and started the POS toytoa for the first time in a year

Both startups here -> http://www.4wdtv.co.nz/node/417

Mike

Now if only the 40 project gets finished then the two longest builds on ORE will be complete