north wales today

[mud skipper]

i am back home now. sorry no pics, camera phone does not work at night

lights are great, articulation is better but got to do something about that cross member, it caught 3 time up there on the top of chapel steps .

lucy had a drive, she now wants a 4x4 as a first car, best of all she wants an auto now. Mats not immpressed

[mud skipper]

yea, more articulation at the cost of hmmmm..more body roll..lol

if you check yotatech John, I've seen aftermarket cross members that allow the transfer box to be twisted up out of the way allowing the bottom of the truck to be armoured with one big skid/belly pan...nice. Not sure if the same applies to the auto mind as most of the yanks are manual V6's

going to have to look into them

[VidaMusic]

top pics there lads! I am only new to this green laning stuff, and can't believe how addictive it is!
Hey, those tyres on the red L reg Surf look ace, what are they?
I've also been looking at winches, dunno if it's an easy fit on the surf or not/>?

[Apache]

I'm sure I remember asking Mark if it would be possible to copy one I saw on an American site years ago.

The Toyota one is pressed steel channel, which is about 3" thick in all so naturally gets in the way by that amount. The one I saw was plasma cut stainless sheet, and gave you back that 3" or so.

Having said that, I never caught it once, even on the big steps up the now closed bit of Sarn Helen but that was probably cos of the lift / 33s I was running. I did hear various clangs and scrapes from Plumb Bobs unmodified truck though.

Seeing your photos reminds me of how much I'm missing my truck

Oh well, gotta move house and buy an old biffer of a 2nd gen to do up!

[Calos]

You want another one Apache!

I don't know what I'd do without my'n now, thursday I drove upto haydock way and back other halfs familey thing up there, then went to gig and back saturday night then up and over the hills with the guys on sunday without missing a beat.

Not many vehicals out there that can manage that for the price I paid for my truck.

Go on you know you want to... lol

peace
cal

[Calos]

top pics there lads! I am only new to this green laning stuff, and can't believe how addictive it is!
Hey, those tyres on the red L reg Surf look ace, what are they?
I've also been looking at winches, dunno if it's an easy fit on the surf or not/>?

The red L reg is Mudskippers truck, those tyres are kumho ventures I think, not sure wich exact ones, but yeah they are dammed good.
An!mal_69's where liberated from the front of a parked tractor lol

Funily enough Mudskipper is also looking at fitting a winch so worth checking in on that.

peace
cal

[mud skipper]

watch this space.

off to bala this sunday anyone comeing along?
so my list of bits is sure to grow,


got to get over to bibs to rape her











































































































































































































































TRUCK

[TonyN]

has anyone done owt about the gearbox x member, it's bl00dy low

I copied these for my pickup....

http://www.budbuilt.com/new/cross_members.html

[Bibs]

watch this space.

off to bala this sunday anyone comeing along?
so my list of bits is sure to grow,


got to get over to bibs to rape her

TRUCK

Lol - Gutted - found the source of my clunk an it turns out the bushes on the rear leaf shackle are blxd an the clunk is the leaf jumpin in an out of the shackle. Worn part of the shackle away so is not safe to offroad. Hopefully fixed next week.

[Calos]

watch this space.

off to bala this sunday anyone comeing along?
so my list of bits is sure to grow,


got to get over to bibs to rape her






TRUCK

Bolloxs I'm in work sunday would love to come otherwise.
ho hum we can have another run soon, you fancy our chances on the wayfarer John/Nik? And any chance of givng me a little help with ARB removel? want moe ARTICULATION lol

peace
cal

[Calos]

Uploading part two, takes a while I'll post a link soon after.

peace
cal

[mud skipper]

Lol - Gutted - found the source of my clunk an it turns out the bushes on the rear leaf shackle are blxd an the clunk is the leaf jumpin in an out of the shackle. Worn part of the shackle away so is not safe to offroad. Hopefully fixed next week.

atleast you know what was making the noise, all you got to do now is get hubby and his spanners on the go

[mud skipper]

Bolloxs I'm in work sunday would love to come otherwise.
ho hum we can have another run soon, you fancy our chances on the wayfarer John/Nik? And any chance of givng me a little help with ARB removel? want moe ARTICULATION lol

peace
cal

no probs with the helping hand.

phone in sick, their a good bunch they can cop without a manager

[mud skipper]

I copied these for my pickup....

http://www.budbuilt.com/new/cross_members.html

excellent link Tony, cheers for that.

looked under truck earlier and found the rock dents in x member are on bottom front edge so that skid plate would have ment i would of cleared that rock as i would have and extra 2"" clearance.

[Calos]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwL8sp5ZzE4


Part two

peace
cal