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I'll still be around mate

mate in reality they're pretty shit. vague steering, rough riding, noisy, leaky, slow, cold, uncomfortable, high maintenance (drum brakes all round, wat). you shoudn't buy one. tbh I don't like when people put landcruiser/patrol diffs and other whizz bang shit in them. I like them pretty stock. holden motor is a good conversion - much more grunt and way less gas used - but if i wanted to make one too flash I'd buy a deefer or something else entirely. 50mph fast cruise gets old pretty quick. i drove it all the way to work this afternoon at 60-65mph and holy shit. shitty brakes are shitty. I wouldn't give mine up though. they're bloody awesome. I cheese at taking people places in it (use it at work one day a week and ferry people around in it a bit) and effortlessly clicking through crash 1st and second. driving with the vent flaps open and the windows slid open on a cold day.loading a shit-tonne of people in the back and cruising somewhere. mine's a legal 9 seater. hilarious! but yeah. get a resonable bush crasher and have some fun. if your jag was too much for you, i doubt you'll love a landrover. They're simple as but they're a different kind of rewarding to most vehicles. yeah man i reckon I can get a queen matress in there eh. gotta make up a ply baord for the middle then will be doing some camping in it over summer!! yeah two. I doubt i'll ever drive the series one. it' just so rooted. they're neat though you should buy one. so cool! would love a 3door discovery one or an early defender with those! I love landys, esp series, with cookie cutters though. mine are 750r16. ~32" diameter. 7.5" wide ona 5.5" (widest factory series rims except for 101" FC's) rim. tall and skinny! most jokers running 32s or 33s in nz run a 12.5" wide tyre which is massive in comparison.

oh jesus. What've I done? Blake hooked me up with the dealz on this. 1953 series one 80". 80s are apparently super SUPER rare now, and this one's an ex army one which is pretty cool. His mate Dazza's old man has had this in his backyard for about 20 years. last wof was 1995/96? anyways, sorted a deal and collected it tonight. left a trailer of rust from wanganui (literally, this thing is rainin' rust from teh chassis) everything's fucked. engine is a 186 holden that'd had a full rebuild and covered about 6000miles on CNG before parked. Run a few times since then but whatevz Pretty much that's all I want from it. Will do a few bits and pieces on it then slot it into the 109 when I get to the end of the clutch in that thing's life (slips a little now and then now so will prolly be toward winter next year) has widened steels and super lush (albeit perished a little) 750-16 crossply wranglers. must've been some super rowdy tyres back in the day. hilarious!

definitely.

heck yes. I could spend days just hooning around the various roads around there! just flicked an email through to wendy from the apiti pub. i was super impressed with those guys yesterday. I told them a group of about ten and they said even though they had that function going on that they'd look after us. i was skeptical, let alone when a whole lot more of you lads turned up than I expected but I reckon they did really well. A++ would trade again.

heh, weirdly enough it was pretty much only a trot for the 205, with a few spots of minerals here and there too. It's not fast on a track by any means but give it a bit of road like that and it's amazingly casual to drive quickly. I've been thinking of flicking that thing but when you drive it on a road like that it reminds me why I have it in the shed. I think I used about $15 of gas for the whole day too. such economy. Love that loop road. There's an extension you can do (instead of turning left at the Tee to come into apiti, turn right) which links through to Rangiwahia. Can go through to Mangaweka or back down to Kimbolton. Another great set of roads. We did that loop with the french forum a few years ago mid winter. I didn't have a french mobile so took my old man's 1000cc mini and was working seriously hard to keep the pack at a fun pace (I was leading). We were driving amongst snow lined roads and all. So awesome! Glad all you jokers enjoyed. I'm not good at organising stuff, and I don't always catch up with everyone that comes along but I really love showing people around the backroads of my home region. There's some damn good roads, beautiful scenery and great 'left to rot' sights to be seen on plenty of backroads. I'll start planning the next one now

as low to the ground as that thing is on an umfamiliar and rough in places road as that one is I'd be anything but rapid along it!

New WOF on Friday our closest thing to a jim carrey lookalike to pilot her to a safe resting place for the rest of the day

This was bloody grouse you jokers. Cheers for coming along! especially those from Welly. KK and Sherie, Niki and CDL, Paul and his mate whom I can't recall the name of. Awesome! Not pictured is waggy's chuvit that had a rock through the windscreen within a few km from the start, and peedubz whom was already at the pub when we got there (shot down through rangiwahia to meet us on his way down from Auckland this morning) next one I'll try have a bit more of a fun aspect. chur!

dayum also, I contacted teh apiti pub and it looks like they have a function on sunday? whoops. edit: they're keen for us in apiti so bugger it, we'll go there for a beer and a sharn

chur! heh, I forgot about letting apiti pub know until just now. should be good, don't expect too much see youse fullaz on sundee you thinking the commy, chris, or full french forum spec it with the xantipants?

everyone has their off days I guess!

in auckland I wouldn't go anywhere but beattys for driveshafts eh.

I saw an SD1 on my way home today that had so much stuff in the boot that it was on bumps at the back. Thought of you, Jim

This is next Sunday! come one come all!

SHIT SON i AM CHEESIN' KEEN TO EFI A SHITTY HOLDEN RED 6 FOR NEXT PROJ?

GOOD MAN!

so good you cunt

Righteo! We'll kick of on Sunday the 6th of December at the grubby gravel pit located at 44 Cambridge Ave, Ashhurst Plan to set off around 11.30am, so aim to be there around 11am. Come mingle at the start. We're all shy. We're all not hugely outgoing I'm sure, but we all don't bite and we all love cars so there's something in common for everyone. https://www.google.co.nz/maps/place/44+Cambridge+Ave,+Ashhurst+4810/@-40.2946584,175.7515998,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x6d41b74255e5e4f1:0xdb1ecc05871d86d9 We'll stop for lunch at a country pub/cafe type place along the way. bring ya o/s car. bring ya daily. bring ya work ute. whatever. everyone welcome. Bring your camera! This part of the North Island is pretty awesome. great driving roads and great scenery. LOW CAR FRIENDLY: Don't be a sook and stay home coz your whip is slammed. come spin some yarns and do some hooning.

pretty keen eh! will make a bit of an update later today.

haven't commuted in welly without indicators eh I used to hav a ts50 road regod pos thing a few years ago that did that whack knock on the overrun thing. sounds pretty weird. never came to any harm on that and it was always 6krpm plus

progress

THIS IS AWESOME

che! sweet scooter! sweet motor!

Haven't come across any parabolics that I'm keen on the price of, and for my useage I'm reading mixed reviews so I'm gonna run with stockers for now. whipped front springs out tonight. These run a bit of a weird swining shackle at the rear of the spring - the top part has a thread cut on one plate, which I guess can preload the shackle plates against the chassis bush, then a locknut over top. Once I had the springs out (very easy - was frightened the bolts would be frozen inside the bush crush tubes) I couldn't move the swinging shackle wth even a big bar. Whomever recently replaced the bushes in the rearward end of the spring must've done it up with a rattle gun far too tightly. Probably didn't help the uncompliance of the front suspension! She rides like the only suspension comes from the tyres. Much worse than my last rover. left hand side of the front axle was able to walk by a good 1.5" which is pretty dangerous in all honesty. Made it pretty hard to hold in a straight line when coupled with a fairly sloppy steering box. There's also a fair ridge in the underside of most of the leaves where the next one down slides against it and a bit of rust heave. I'll tidy that up, maybe add some uhmw tape to aid in frictionless win, modify the leaf clamps to have bolts in the top rather than the folded over type and taper the ends of the leaves. May whip one leaf out to add to the ride quality as well and go from there. The bolt type clamps is purely for futureness - easy to pop the bolt off and let the diff hang down and spread the leaves to fire motorcycle chain wax in or something if they need a bit of a lube up. Have had a couple of new main leaves made up by archers in rotorua (6mm stock rather than 3/16" coz they don't carry the 3/16" anymore) Hoping to have them all back in by the weekend. Need to get a couple of centrebolts and a couple of new flap discs for the grinder and I'm good to go. after that, I still need to replace the brake master cylinder, and then move on to the rear springs - they're an afterthought which seems to have been built to take a seriously heavy amount of weight and they don't move much at all. plus the thing's jacked a good 3 or so inches from original so I'm pretty keen to sort that to make it a bit morecomfy. I'll never want to put a tonne of shit in the back so there's no point leaving them as they are.