Bolted in some nice new shiny Raw Nitro rear shocks. The ride is now much nicer. The old ones were so shot they had nothing left no rebound at all
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Bolted in some nice new shiny Raw Nitro rear shocks. The ride is now much nicer. The old ones were so shot they had nothing left no rebound at all
Rewired the light bar so I could get a WOF. 30" 180watts man it makes a difference :jawdrop:
Winters over so first thing in the morning I gave it a good wash and spot treated the rust that is starting in the stone chips on the bonnet, scratch marks on the roof. Then toward the end of the day...
Made a start on making my front bar. Have decided to use the factory pot winch basket and build off it
Stripped my pot winch down. The drum had frozen onto the shaft, so I made a puller up and got to work. Man it made a ........ big bang when it finally let go. Greased it up put it all back together...
Bolted in my new oricom UHF radio
Came home and started the process of drying it out and rang the insurance company to lodge a claim for some West Coast love rubs, pulled the drivers side wiper boss out and have glued the mounts back...
Made mine a cargo barrier today that's moveable so I can have behind either the 2nd or 3rd row of seats. used some 25x25x3 RSH and a pipe bender to make the frame it worked out better than I thought...
Drove it the way it should be driven and got agreement from my lovely wife that I should make up some front rear and side protection bars
Bolted up the new clutch and put the gear box back in, just need the new UJ's to arrive, they should be here first thing
The fly wheel arrived back from being machined and the new UJ's arrived. Down side is that the UJ's are the wrong size and have now gone from being $25 each available everywhere to $125 each and only...
Started on replacing the clutch, got the gear box out and the fly wheel sent off for skimming, couier is picking it up in the morning so putting it all back together tomorrow. Also discovered the...
Lost my clutch on my way home tonight, 80kms of secondary road from the turn off to home. heading toward the first hill and the clutch was slipping in 5th, then slipping in 4th. I could see some...
Stripped the passangers swivel hub down and put a kit in it, new seals, king pin bearings ect. Hopefully the diff oiul will stop draining out the hub now and the water will not be quite so keen to...
Finshed my roof baskets and mounted it up. It is 1.2m x 2.4m and is mounted on 4 roof rack bars so it shouldn't go anywhere.
Also picked up a rebuild kit for the front swival hubs. The passanger one...
Washed the mud and clay off o that my wife can get in and out without getting it on her good clothes:blowup:
Some how I almost forgot, I gave the wagon some new feet. First time I have taken tyres off a Safari rim and man they were a pain to brake the bead on the inside. So now I am running around on some...
Gave the Safari a service, still struggling with teh fact it takes 11lts of oil with the filters
Started work on the roof basket for the Safari, making it big and strong 1.2mx2.4m and 250mm high the bottom trayu is made out of 34mm pipe 3mm side wall and 50x50x4mm steel mesh. The top frame is...
The guy (a local) got a pretty good smack to the scone thats scrambled him for a while. I was getting my mail at our Firestation and watched him come around the corner going like a cut cat. To be...
Went to an accident in the middle of my village (high speed multiple rolls and end over ends) once we had him sorted out and packaged away me and my Safari got to recover his Surf which was in the...
Installed a snorkel onto the Safari all went well except for the crap template that came with it it was 20mm too short had to spend a bit of time with the angle grinder and die grinder to make it...
Lay in the mud with my head down hill and water running up my back to tighten up a plate on the side of my injector pump so that the desiel would stop leaking out