some pics jim took (no car = camera bitch)
Stinky's photos
Movie (400meg)
movie mirror up now
DVD to come .. as are more photos for sure
(most of them were stills taken on a video camera and are as grainy as balls).

It rocked.

Casualties.
Stinky regraded every trail there with his underbody. And he deicded to see if his suspension looked better bent.
Fuknuckle decided to creat a performance exhaust mod on some boulders.
I felt that some of my suspension was hanging to low and need to reshaped on some rocks.
Glen's trailer had some issues with having the crap bounced out of it.
And we staked a couple of tyres.


More to follow.

I see no dirt hackies.

http://obes.ausgamers.com/Sundown210805(obes)/images/dsc00144.jpg
Nice looking place for some rockclimbing.

eu4ia ... I think its all unclimbed granite and there were cliffs all over the place.

Nice looking place for some rockclimbing.

heh yeah but just avoid that river of bird s*** flowing out of that crevice =]

How long / far to get out there (wherever the hell "there" is)?

Unclimbed rock - yeahbaby!

jesus, you'd think you would learn to 4wd before going 4wd'ing

seems nearly every car is busted

ohh well I guess it adds 'character' to the car :p

eu4ia 3 hours sw of brisbane west of Giraween and Balandean, I have a rock climbing friend who knows sundown and says the cliffs aren't safe...

Heardy ... the only car with visible damage is a little muffle damage to the rocksta. Also damage to cars and tyres getting staked is the nature of the beast.

So wheres all the random drunken photos :P? did you guys do any boozing out there?

http://obes.ausgamers.com/Sundown210805(obes)/images/dsc00120.jpg

nice lens flare

unsafe? damn.

heardy: you need to turn your computer off
right now.
and never turn it on again, EVER

I think we forgot to take photos of night time/fire/drinking and yes there was some liquid warmth drunk ..

Thats only my 2 cameras of photos there ... Scooter had a camera and so did stinky.

Plus I am yet to convert 35mins of dv footage... but that was all cars doing silly things.

also that suby station wagon looks like the awesome fun :D

obes, yes I was just baiting ;)

The one and only time i've been 4wd'ing we blew 2 tires due to the terrain etc etc and this was with my mates uncle who has 20 years 4wd'ing experience

all part of it I guess, tho I don't see the logic in buying a 60,000 car to thrash about in bushland (yes I know that's what they are intended to do) my mates uncle has 2 4wds one for bush bashing crazy stuff (85 land cruiser) and the newer one just goes on sedate 4wd trips.

http://obes.ausgamers.com/Sundown210805(obes)/images/dsc00114.jpg

ftw :)

that subbie wagon is a beast for what is costs heh

haahhaha who's is the little girly greenish blue 4x4 ? its soo cute :P

scoobs: you need to turn your computer off
right now.
and never turn it on again, EVER

hehehehe is it urs jim? ... maybe its just the picture that washes out the colour or something. Im sure its a very manly black or dark blue in real life ;)

haha i wondered who owned that car. Well, at least its a 4wd.

On the way home just before Willowbank I blew a wheel bearing ... after working out it was the wheel bearing and not something that would cause death @ 100k/h on the freeway we headed off again and the handbrake hadn't come off on that wheel and a couple of k's down the road there was a brake burning smell, pulled over and the disc was cherry red! f*** YEAH!

hahah that suby is a beast ... much more interesting then a rex

nah it's not mine - my cute little girly car is here: http://jason.qgl.org/gallery/albums/Ormeau_12-06-05/dsc00199.jpg

the car you're talking about is fuknukles - the green/blue you describe is pretty much how the colour looks, although the terms 'little girly cute' never occured to me any time I looked at it. maybe if I could travel back in time to when I was THIRTEEN I might giggle and call it girly ;)

it's a suprisingly tough and capable vehicle, and isn't really little at all - it's the average size short wheel base vehicle

last edited by Jim at 23:54:38 21/Aug/05

I like to stuff 6 cocks in my mouth.

heh stinky :/
you gonna be able to tie some wire or something under there and have it ready for next month?

I think what stinky meant to say is the girliest car on the trip was the one lying in parts at a 4wd repairer in brisbane... big black hoebag of a thing.

white Patrol was Glenn's.
white super manly penis enhancing stud wagon suzi was mine.
blue/green rocksta that pete proved bounces off boulders is fuknuckle's
The green jeep cherokee with the driver and the bitch was scooters
The white suby that was held together by gaffer tape and loose nuts (including the one behind the wheel) was stinky's.

Jims (not photographed) was the black prado sitting with its diff spread between here and townsville.

Yeah I'll have her ready to go!! just needs a working bee to bend it back into shape :)

is that a ausgamers sticker on the windscreen of the white subaru

nah, it's a sticker for www.ausubaru.com

Bean why do you always try to put so many cocks in your mouth ?

That looks like fun.
I think the little subaru thing looks like a complete death trap though.
From the pics etc it seems to tilt a lot :-P

a deathtrap in the hands of a noob maybe - but in the hands of someone who knows how to jump out the window in time, no

haha talking of jumping out windows... the funniest thing on the weekend was imo when fuknukle started to tip and his trailbike riding instincts told him if he stuck his hand out he could stay upright...

Actually fuknukle was responsible for a lot of the funny stuff. His little car is a beast.

The green jeep cherokee

Not quite sure what you were smoking all weekend, but my car is Blue... ;)
Also, Luke's the bitch.

Didn't have net access at home last night so I'll assume that Telstra is still gay and it didn't go up all weekend.
Will upload the stuff as soon as I abuse Telstra some more. Luke took a lot of pictures/vids so I'm going to have to sort through half the s*** first.

Was a Good Weekend all in all. My first time doing anything semi-serious in my Car. Going to have to get a Rear Locker, lift Kit and Bigger Tyres now though...

I don't know if the pictures really show it, but My car is a magnet to the dirt/dust and I have already had a few strange looks from people driving past.
It's like these people don't know what offroad is.

also that suby station wagon looks like the awesome fun :D

The suby sure is f***ing fun, rough as guts on those rocks though. I'm half tempted to buy one and turn it into a bush pig.

haha, i was pushing pretty hard on the bank, at the time i thought i was doing a good thing and worry free coz i had my milk the night before, strong bones :)
that green beast is more man than you'll ever be sc00bs :D
Obes in his tonka tough cheat mobile made it look easy
awesum weekend, good to see you made it Stinky love that machine.
Glens beast just monstered anything.

cant wait for next time

Obes look really fat in all of those photos.

looks like awesome fun.

i'm spewing i missed out :\

the one on the far right of that pic bung posted looks the manliest, whose fourby is that?

That was Glenn's and yeah it was...

Out of the 5 Vehicles I think mine (Cherokee) probably was the most panzie...
Plans to upgrade now though... soon as I get some more cash in my account.
After I get some work done on mine it should go very well on all the stuff we went on. Don't think I'll be doing any Double Black Diamond traks at a 4x4 Park anytime soon though...

My Dad has the new version Cherokee's which have LSD and some other extra's in, but they look like a fairly 'Soccer Mum' style 4wd so he wants to go and test it out to see how well it goes.

opec wants to have my babies

Sorry I don't dig fatso. Jim on the other hand is dreamy.

the one on the far right of that pic bung posted looks the manliest, whose fourby is that?

I don't think he's your type though, so don't get your hopes up

looks like mad fun. I'm going to get a 4WD I reckon :)

Once i rip the videos thats when the fun starts.

Also edited the first post with updated pic links.

Try it on dirt bikes next time. Get some big chunky dirt bikes like a XR650, DR650 and ride out there and then you'll experience awesomeness.

omglol get the videos up obes

so did obes and jim sleep in the same tent?

that'd be so dreamy

I have my uber fold out tent bed of slaw. And no one was coming in .. even tho typo in his man sized woolen dress ...

I typed;
"qgl 4wd trip #1 leaked sex tapes" in google and nothing came up.

tref, add 'all male' and you might get some more results - that's what I usually do when I'm feeling frisky

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The second lot of pics are extremly slow to load.

yeah, my box is old and crusty :)

we should have had obes pose as if he was lifting the corner of my car in this pic : http://obes.ausgamers.com/Sundown210805(obes)/target49.html

.. even tho typo in his man sized woolen dress ...

I left my tent open obes, but you didn't pick up on my sign.

*cry*

Typo has red hair!!!

It used to be fire truck red, but it has now faded to copper/orangeish

He may not have entered your tent but he sure pitched one.

so, how fast do you guys do the quarter in?

2 hours

So where are the man-sex pics eh? Looks like all you guys are heterosexual, glad I didn't go, I was almost gonna cum along and spike your drinks so I could get me some camping mangina.

....oh for a penis

....an anus

Where the f*** can I find some gay men to go bush with?
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last edited by Ditch at 09:47:12 23/Aug/05

phoolly sydewaez

Poor ditch didn't get breastfed as a youngster.

Paul and glenn would be able to express the difficulty of the sections in terms of landcruise park difficulties if you are really interested ditch.

ps. it was 4wding, a country pack falcon wouldn't have even gotten to the camp site.

the subaru does 0 to 100 in maybe.

Obes if your four wheel drive can get there, I will definitely need to go get another lift on mine. My penis is feeling incredibly small right now and the only thing I can do to compensate is go and get my car lifted another inch. You'd be suprised how complicated it is to go and hand over money in exchange for getting your 4wd lifted - no-one else but me is capable of doing it, so it sets me apart from the rest of you. In hindsight though, it would've been a lot easier if I'd just been born with something that doesn't get mistaken for just another pube

Its funny you feel so threatened by my car.

Threatend? Nah it's far more deep-seated than that. Basically, I used to like chicks but there's only so many times you can take it when they undo your fly and die of laughter cos they can't actually locate your dick. So I turned to men after reading about homosexuality being more accepted in the past few years and seeing a strap-on penis in a gay magazine. Unfortunately though, even gay men laugh at the size of my 'manhood' so all I have left is to try and compensate with the height of my 4wd and how deep a mud pit it can drive through with a toolbox and spare wheel strapped on the tray to help me feel like I'm fully hardcore. So when I see your little 4wd in the bush I get a little narky. But definitely not threatened.

If I put a number on it painted it an ugly colour and drove it round in a mud pit for a bit would that make it a "real" 4wd ?

Does a country pack Falcon have 4WD and have more than 200mm ground clearance ?


last edited by SirGollum at 10:54:30 23/Aug/05

Haha no I dont think it would. It would however if you drove it somewhere where a country pack falcon wouldnt make it.

haha, its funny cos I banned Ditch from my forum ages ago cos hes a tool.

You did indeed. I still check it regularly however. Loving your skid pan day, getting some sidwahz action. Infact I particularly liked your hunter quote thread, that s*** had me in tears.

you all need to get your cars lowered

I think this thread should be renamed "qgl 4wd trip #1 vs Ditch".

qgl 4wd trip #1 wins. Fatality.

I actually think Hunter's country pack Ford would have made it ... probably not up the big hills, but definately to the campsite. Next time we go we'll have to make sure Hunter comes along, he's often left out of stuff and I don't think it's very fair, sure he had a rocky beginning but he's not a bad guy.

Hunter, wanna come to Landcruiser park next month ?

Quick movie done.
Movie (400meg) should be finished uploading by about 8.30pm
movie mirror up now

Updated first post with links.

dammit wish I could have gone! am a bit broke atm :(

So whens the next trip?

age: 1995

Sex: Female Vitara JLX hardtop

Location: NW

We were talking late September and probably Land Cruise Park ... lots to do up there for all levels aparently. The more the merrier even if you just want to come and sink piss and shoot the breeze aroudn a fire.

Just have to avoid the homosexual small penis patrol tray back owners that have massive viagra inducing lifts .. they get angry when little cars have fun.

yeah late september, we were going for 4 weeks away which is 17/18 sept but scooter looks like having to get on a plane on the 18th and we want him to be able to come along again, so maybe the week after - once we sort if out there'll be another post about it

ok, so the video is slightly cool

man, them wheels got some travel!

last edited by Spook at 19:34:31 23/Aug/05

ok, so the video is slightly cool

Next time I am going to take some video footage from inside stinkies car. That should give you an idea of how much fun it is when you don't have low range and you want to climb a hill. :D

heh I didn't realise he had no low range
his clutch must be made of kryptonite

just watched the vid, 600kB/s awesum :)
im glad we at least got some of the action, i totally forgot ive got a camcorde here aswell :|
will bring it next time, and me lil XL250 moto. o and my new nitro

hopefully i'll have more than one spare and wont pop me tyre 20 minutes into the weekend.

last edited by Fuknukle at 21:32:45 23/Aug/05

haha @ arm out the window fuknukle!

Yeah I have a low range ... it's just not very low compared to everyone elses :)

i had my choclate milk that morning
strong bones :P

heh I didn't realise he had no low range
his clutch must be made of kryptonite

There is a low range, but it isn't like the low range on the patrol.

I would strongly advise you blokes to invest in a winch

and a wench or two

Hah i bet alot of yas would stick your arm out as well, human instinct, if the car did fall down, his arm would of stopped his head from slamming onto the ground.

I would strongly advise you blokes to invest in a winch

the patrol had a front-mounted electric winch and probably a hand winch inside. the jimny has a hand winch inside. the suby has a roll of wire and a besser block (=winch)

So was it scooter who blew the tyre on the uphill?

I couldn't make it out from the video.

it was his vehicle yeah, but I don't recall who was driving it at the time. the tyre blew from a small stick supported by something solid, pointing in the right (or wrong depending how you look at it) direction and piercing the sidewall which is pretty common, even for tougher tyres sometimes.

looked cool

that nitro rc car is even cooler fnukle.

Hahah obes your "super enhancing stud wagon" did not do to badly at all.

Rofl at the guy sticking his arm out of the window to keep his car up.

I would strongly advise you blokes to invest in a winch

I always carry a full recovery kit in my car. Its bulky, annoying and so far been totally useless but I am glad I have it.

Good thinking Obes, winch can be pretty versatile. One day it will save your ass severely.

I live on a large property myself and often winch myself through a few spots similar to where you guys were trying to get through bo and luke style.
I reckon a few spots you guys needed abit more teamwork and less spectating. If you have a few blokes with shovels and a matic or bar, those spots you were getting stuck on would have been alot easier and less hard on the gear.
If everybody hooks in you can cover alot more distance in a day as well.
I luv thrashing my gear as well but in reality if you belt up your gear too much the fun dissipates as the repair bills increase. I have been up top end/cape/NT and I have seen some imaginative stuff with tow-ropes and the like. So next time get the c***s digging! lol

The one spot I got stuck was a washed out track that has a way around. Last time I was there, I didn't see a single vehicle attempt it (including the trayback patrol with step ladder lift and spotties on the roof). Its a rather large hunk of rock (not dirt) and its a nasty shape, and just as you clear the rock there is a decent bump (and its steeper then the videos look). With rockcrawlers and sliders I might have made it instead I had to use momentum (I stalled when I tried control) and bouncing on a rock in my car with out the under body protection is not something I make a habit of.

Part of the challenge was to try and get up there without reshaping, but if we had needed to get up it, we would have made it so we could all get up. We weren't Gary gearsticks and if someone didn't feel comfortable doing something we worked out options for them to get around it.

None of us did any real damage, Pauls car is heavily protected, and mine everything important is out of harms way, all I damaged was a bit of plastic and a big protector/guard for my radial arm mounting.

lol @ Gary gearsticks.

For severe fun if any of you have an AB licence (firearms) you should try out some rec shooting as well. Excellent early AM and nighttime activities. All you need is permission from someone on a big property. It ups the fun factor immensely. Easy to get an AB licence.

If you are a greenie (aw the cute widdle kangawoo) its fun just setting up some targets etc and having target comps even. Plus they go bang liek teh CS lolz.

You have to be a little more selective who you take along then though ;)

4WD + GUNS + MATES = FUN

I reckon a few spots you guys needed abit more teamwork and less spectating. If you have a few blokes with shovels and a matic or bar, those spots you were getting stuck on would have been alot easier and less hard on the gear.
If everybody hooks in you can cover alot more distance in a day as well.

We'd already arrived at the destination and set up camp, the footage in the video is when we went for a couple of drives for the sake of going for a drive and having some fun as well as to pick up a bit of firewood on the way. You don't want people helping you most of the time - other than the odd suggestion about where to put the wheels to save you having to back up too far just to be able to see the ground under the car - the fun is trying to get your car over the terrain by yourself most of the time, and the fun for the other people is watching you - especially with an amusing mix of cars like that =]

If everyone had had lifted cars with lockers and big tyres it would've been a snooze-fest because nothing entertaining happens, everyone just crawls up hills barely spinning a wheel, unless you only go to places with fooly sik mate hill climbs

Thorpey says that hill climb is fully sick.

Watching the suba do just about anything was pretty awesome. Suba == automatic fanclub.

and doing it in style - the graceful lines of the bullbar elegantly flowing into the streamlined bodywork as though they were one, and not at all merely fastened by mismatched bolts and insulated electrical wire - the velvety flow of the aerodynamic undercarriage protection plates literally gliding over the rugged surfaces as a ballet dancer would over a highly polished floor...

that's exactly right jim! suck my cock.

Ditch's comments inspired this little video

Jimny

heh

finally got my car back, check out the broken ring gear: http://jason.qgl.org/images/diff/crown1.jpg

You where obviously abusing that when you did it!

reckon
ah well, in another week or so it'll be gone and I'll have a patrol instead

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Jim!!!

so why you getting rid of the toyota jim?

Ok finished watching the video.

Was pretty cool (didn't really have the profession feel you'd get from an S1 video, but hey).

Also, the jimny ruled.

cant go wrong with a nissan

also missed all the bits that made me and Rocsta look awesum... :(

suhaib: cos it keeps breaking, so anytime I look at a hill that's slightly bumpy I'm gonna be wondering if I'm about to break the bloody thing again

I have that same problem Jim ... then I put the right foot down to the floor and close my eyes! when the crunching noises stop I open my eyes and find myself on the other side. you should try it!

haha =]

Cars need to be made out of whatever the hell stinkys grader attactment ... I mean bash plate ... is made of.

They are....its called a Nissan Patrol :)

f*** off out of our forums gollum you maverick driving wannabe!

I'll see your broken diff Jim, and raise you mine :

http://xesla.ro/gallery.old/gallery/Subaru/diff/DSC00752.JPG

http://xesla.ro/gallery.old/gallery/Subaru/diff/DSC00751.JPG

Although I should mention in fairness to Jim, mine did only cost $50 to repair, while Jim's cost more than my car :P

haha nasty

yeah $1100 for the replacement parts alone, had to buy genuine cos apparently noone else has ever taken a prado grande or vx off bitumen before

my clutch and thrust bush
clutch closeup
clutch back
clutch front
spigot bush
springs that are supossed to be in the holes you see in the clutch, deffinatly not supossed to seperate

last edited by Fuknukle at 12:11:29 25/Aug/05

oh baby thrust my bush while i clutch your piston

my patrol has arrived, will take delivery on tuesday arv

pics asap!!

http://www.nissan.com.au/patrol/images/ms_polarw.jpg

;)

hmm, needs more scratches

haha
I'm sure I can have that taken care of by the end of the first weekend I have it

I say we take it to diana's bath and break it.

i do highflow exhaust systems now Jim, if your interested

heh :)
I've heard of an old but newly-improved method involving a boulder and a body panel in conjunction with a monkey wrench - do you do those for friends at all?

i hear jim drives a girl 4wd now.

I hear yo momma is fat

haha pwnt

Jim loves fat chicks.


PWNT YOU

suhaib is a fat chick

i like lesbians

you wish obes...so you can touch me more.

Hey all. I'm still alive... kinda.
Net is still out at home, was a dead cable... and now it's C-Map issues or something...
Don't know when it will be fixed but telstra better not be charging us for this month.

It was me Driving when I staked the tyre nF, Sif let Luke drive my car. He could have brought his own if he wanted to drive.

Anything been said about the next trip yet?
I found out my flight dates, I fly out Sun the 18th and get back Sun the 25th.
So that wastes 2 weekends for me...

hey stinky, ive got your yellow cuttlery set, must've fell out of that container.

i can bring it qgl lan, lemme know

Cool f***les ... I was gonna post asking if anyone had seen it. just bring it along on the next trip unless something happens before then.

Anything been said about the next trip yet?
I found out my flight dates, I fly out Sun the 18th and get back Sun the 25th.
So that wastes 2 weekends for me...

scooter: doh
maybe we could make it the first weekend in october, or if that's too far, the 10th/11th of september. trouble with early september though is that I prolly won't have my new vehicle up to scratch by then

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I can't do early september ... might not have the suby back up to scratch either :)

no worries Stinky
i gotta get my spare tyres up to scratch :S
since i cant repair the one that got staked and the one im using atm doesnt suit the rest of the tyres on the car, ima have to buy a new tyre which means more than one to even it out.
so ima just buy 2, put those on the back,
the ones currently on the back on the front,
the 2 currently on the front will be my new spares. 2 spares :)
tho i still need to buy another wheel for the left over tyre.

Great video dedication for me, thanks boys. Sound track seems to fit you guys perfectly...

I especially love the part where you try to put your arm out the window a number of times to look "tuff" but you then realise you can't steer with only one hand, f***ing classic.

Very hardcore guys, very hardcore indeed.

whats that you say?
you like to stick 6 dicks in your mouth?
s*** man thats HARDCORE! Go ditch!!

I can't do early september ... might not have the suby back up to scratch either :)

yeah no dramas
early october sounds like the go

Hey Jim,

So have you got modding plans for the Patrol yet ? Lift ? Lockers ?
mmmmmm...lockers...

I would suggest a 2" suspension lift , cause standard they do tend to drag there belly a bit.

Front and rear bars....i cant stress these two enough.... Patrols have big fat asses that get in the way of everything :)

yeah heaps of plans =]

I got a couple of quotes yesterday for 3-6" lifts and some associated bits and pieces to bring things back into line (panhards, caster bushes). Some steel rims and probably some 35" bfg muddies, although I haven't looked into other brands yet. I was pretty happy with the bfg at's I've had on the prado, they've stood up to punishment pretty well, but definitely not getting at's for this car.

Nissan are fitting a steel bar to the front, I'm pretty sure they're an arb bar. I'll get a single air locker for starters and see how it goes, can always add another later. A little bit later a replacement rear bar, 6th rim + tyre, second battery, electric winch and a storage system again if I can sell the prado one.

Pretty keen to get a rooftop tent cos I'm lazy and wouldn't mind checking out bigger fuel tanks. The list goes on =] Just a lift, tyres and locker for now though prolly.

6" lift ?!?!?! woohhaa.... Remeber anything bigger than 1/3 of the distance between the dumpstops makes it illegal...(Basicly 50mm Suspension)....Anything bigger than that needs engineering....which would kill your warranty.

If you want bigger and legal you can have 50mm suspension and then 50mm body lift...that will fit 35's....(Which are also illegal...stupid QLD)

Just remember that COG is the big killer of high lifted Patrols / Cruisers etc....I reakon go for as low as possible while providing enough lift to ramp over stuff.


I run 33's....and they are only legal on a technicality. I also went for a 3" lift in mine...but thats mostly because i knew i would be putting a lot more weight in it (Winch bar, winch, dual batteries etc etc) and that it would sag down to 2"....

If your going for one locker at the moment...put it in the front. The LSD in the back of the Patrols is pretty good. And dont worry about breaking CV's etc....its a GU Patrol...they are pretty bullet proof.

You prolly knew all this stuff already.....But just incase, i thought i would write some stuff down :)

6 cocks ditch ? really ? ... wow! but why are you telling us we don't bat for that team.

Nah I'd only heard some of it, but I don't mind hearing it again =]

One of the guys at extreme4x4 where I had my prado diff fixed last week was telling me he just tightened up his patrol LSD clutches a little and put a locker on the front only and it works really well. I figure I'll take the car out a few times and get a feel for how it behaves before I decide too much though.

qld 4wd spares and repairs reckon 3" is legal, and they said they fitted a current GU last week with a set of dobinson's that actually resulted in the car being 110mm higher. They reckon it settled 5mm over the weekend after a bit of bashing around in the bush and will probably drop another 5mm and settle on about 100mm higher than before. He also said that 'a 3" lift is a 3" lift' implying that by fitting a legal set of springs, the fact that it resulted in the car sitting 4" higher didn't matter. I dunno how much truth there is to that, but it sounded good ;)

I guess this stuff is documented somewhere, but I blame obes for not providing me with links on a silver platter

I am sure i have before

maybe via msn or something, but definitely not on a silver platter

The DOT measure the distance between your bumpstops to figure out your final lift.....So if you had 2" branded springs and it magicly lifted the car 12"....they would put your car off the road for having a 12" lift :(

3" isnt legal....but the DOT isnt really going to hassle you too much about 25mm....it will just muck with your warranty if something bad happens....3" will sag to 2 1/2" anyway after 12 months.

if you go over 2"...get castor bushes....dont let anyone talk you out of it.

I have heard that Dobinsons springs are the goods...But have personally seen the TJM XGS stuff and EFS springs working pretty well....Although the EFS stuff just doesnt seem to have 'quite' the right spring rate.....

Shocks....I had EFS shocks all round for a while...but the rears started leaking...so im not very fussed with them....Im now running Rancho's in the rear and they are holding up very well..

For a new truck i would suggest spending the money and getting the big bore Tough dog 9 stage adjustable shocks...you wont be disapointed. You can even get a in cab adjuster for that extra bling :)

For tyres that are good offroad and onroad get the Goodyear MTR wranglers. The BFG's are ok....but are really just a AT tyre and dont have sidewall grip, the Wranglers bag really well with the pressure let down too... Again i would just buy two sets of tyres, i reakon it works out cheaper in the end...have the bling rims with roadies for 99% of the time...and then put the tough stuff on with steelies for the weekends :) A decent Trolley jack and a impact wrench make short work of changing tyres.

Make sure that the front bar is a winch bar. Otherwise if you ever decide to get a winch (And seeing the plans for the car, you will) you will need to fork out another $1200 for a winch bar.

I nice rear bar is a Kaymar...They arent cheap but look factory and protect the rear quarter panels nicley.

Thats about all i can vomit at the moment :)


Hope it helps.


PS...heres some quick links..


Tough dog shocks.
http://www.4wd1.biz/gu_45mm_bore_shocks_adjustable.htm

Goodyear Wranglers. (Mates Car)

http://www.monster4x4.com.au/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=238

Kaymar Rear Bar
http://www.kaymar.net/nissan/gu4endproducts.htm









last edited by SirGollum at 16:11:15 30/Aug/05

I've read the same recommendation regarding the tough dogs elsewhere, and the dude above who quoted the dobinson's also recommended the mtr's. I checked out the tread pattern and wondered if they might suffer the same chipping that my bfg at's did due to the little snipes in the lugs, they seem to weaken the lugs a little. Every time I look at a set of used bfg muds on someone's vehicle their solid lugs don't seem to suffer the same problem. The wrangler tg's look similar in that regard too, solid lugs without the snipes cut into them. Are you running the mtr's yourself?

yep the front bar has a winch mount point, pic here:

http://www.nissan.com.au/patrol/images/a_accessories_02.jpg


I priced a kaymar rear bar for the prado before it started breaking, I think it was about 2700 fitted, but so worth it.

thanks for the info

(you too obes, but via msn again? sad)




last edited by Jim at 16:34:23 30/Aug/05

All the cool kids run Wrangler TGs :)

and weld there rear diffs closed ?

their

haha u guyz

Wranglers do suffer from chipping etc...but that just means they are doing the job :)

Youve seen the "Mongrels" on my Rig, and they get chewed up something shocking...i think if you do the harder stuff and the tyres dont get chewed up a bit, the compound is to hard and arent supplying enough grip. I think you will be reasonably hard up finding a Mud Terrain that doesnt get chewed up pretty quick.

I havent run MTR's myself, but have driven Patrols with MTR's and have found them pretty tough, and plently of grip...About the only bad things i could say about the MTR's would be that they stake easier, and dont clear mud as good as my Mongrels, but then again they are MUCH MUCH better onroad.

You should be able to pickup a Kaymar bar for less than $2g's fitted. If you price it up lemme know how much they wanna charge for fitting...cause its only a couple hour job.


In regards to the long range fuel tanks...ive heard and seen 'very' good stuff about the LongRanger stuff. Ive seen a fully loaded GQ Patrol come down hard on a sharp tree stump with a Longrange tank.....it just blunted the stump..didnt even leave a permanent mark on the underside of the tank.

possible alternative to Landcruiser park :

http://janowenhills4wdpark.bigpondhosting.com/photos.htm

there's a new one opening @ Beaudesert soon too.

hey I didn't even realise that was you glenn until that post about the mongrels, how could I not recognise the avatar!

stinky: looks good

hey obes I wonder if the one stinky is talking about at beaudesert is that one you said you knew of?

I came across some roadworks on my way to work this morning, check out the mad factory flex ;)

http://jason.qgl.org/images/patrol1.jpg

http://jason.qgl.org/images/patrol2.jpg

last edited by Jim at 10:40:50 31/Aug/05

that patrol looks like a prado, i'd get my money back if i were you jim.

also nice car!

Yeah guys, too right, 6 cocks. Yup.

That mad river (puddle) crossing had me on the edge of my seat.

Breast feeding is natural, i like it.

last edited by Ditch at 14:22:06 31/Aug/05

Possibly ... One of the guys on jimnyworld was setting one up out there.

Poor ditch, it really annoys you that people had fun.

Obes,

That dude came up to Ripley that time you wussed out. He was a mad bastard, a few spots he just wouldn't give up and I was sure he was gonna roll the poor jimny.

Yeah that sounds like pete

He rolled his last Jimny, he was probably out there stock on highway rubber at the time. He wanted to me to bring mty car around and do a bunch of stuff to it. Nice guy but he's a little happier to do stuff to a vehicle then I am.

He's in the process of making sliders and a rear bar atm for a Jimny.

http://videos.streetfire.net/Player.aspx?fileid=545FC50D-624A-41C8-8180-83BC800033E2


i laughed.

What a pair of Gary Gearsticks.

ahaha, thats awesome....its prolly got like 100Kms on it, and its already getting dirty :)

So whens the first real 4x4 test ? Im keen :)

I am hoping for a nice little Mt Mee run. You can all laugh at the place jim broke his prado and bogged his xtrail.

So when is the next one?

ahaha, thats awesome....its prolly got like 100Kms on it, and its already getting dirty :)

So whens the first real 4x4 test ? Im keen :)

heh

gonna go for a nice easy run through mt mee on saturday just to get used to the car, there's nothing challenging there but it's a nice drive. all are welcome as usual, just sing out and we'll work out some details

first real test will probably be landcruiser park when we go I guess


astroboy: probably the first weekend in october, not definite yet. plenty of day trips between now and then though, cos when I actually have a working 4wd I like to go somewhere every weekend

just went for a little night drive out behind greenbank

sharp rocky summit of steep hill: 1 - left sidestep: 0

I am all for more trips ... sometimes I may even have a seat free for passengers if you any is that bored.

way to english, noob

you f***ed get

ive got this sunday monday off..

schveet
might be a good time for an ormeau run

I need to match up my sidesteps

no spare tyre yet, so hopefully i can get it tomoro morning before work at 12:30pm..
anyone recommend a good place to goto hopefully around moorooka/archefield/mt gravatt/springfield/annerley way?

Yeah fuknukle there is a place in moorooka 4bees or something "975 Ipswich Rd, Moorooka" they trade as 3 different names depending on how old the add is hehe I got a good price from them on my Coopers


also I am worried about the hetero sexuality of patrol owners ....

Jason says:
I like the idea of that thicker centre shaft

that's out of context obes
I was talking about manmeat, not patrols

Hey Jim,

Get some rock sliders mate.....I had normal side steps for about a month when i got mine.....at that was waaaay to long....they were smashed to bits.


Cheezy racing does pretty good ones..

http://www.cheezyracing.com.au/Cr_Product_RockSliderBars.htm

heres a GU with what looks like a kaymar copy rear bar, and some side steps / sliders.

http://www.outerlimits4x4.com/PHP_Modules/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=47053&highlight=barwork



Id be up for a Ormeau run or something on the 10th / 11th etc ? If i went this Sunday id have to drag my Dad along :)

Oh BTW...I just saw another place that does rear bars for GU's...might be cheaper than the Kaymar stuff..

http://www.allterrain4x4.com.au/index.php?page=product&prodId=90&deptId=2&catId=12



last edited by SirGollum at 08:52:43 01/Sep/05

last edited by SirGollum at 08:53:06 01/Sep/05

awesum thx Obes im like 1 minute away from there huh :)

Get some rock sliders mate.....I had normal side steps for about a month when i got mine.....at that was waaaay to long....they were smashed to bits.

heh yeah I said the same thing to obes on msn last night when I got back

I like those sliders that have standing space on them, good for getting easy access to your roofrack. and yeah that other rear bar looks pretty good.

and yeah the following weekend would be fine by me for ormeau, I'll still prolly have a quick bash thru there this sunday tho =]

$1900for 6 wheels and tyres.
15x7 white x6 ($65 each)
9R15 STT x6 ($251 each)
they'll also do 6 months interest free from GE.

what do you guys think?
good sidewall protection, 3 ply cross mesh Jamie down there tells me.


edit:from fourbys
www.fourbys.com.au

last edited by Fuknukle at 11:37:54 01/Sep/05

is that for cooper stt's?

http://www.fourbys.com.au/pages/cooper.htm

I assume they are the Super Tranction Tyre

so yes cooper

that's the old stt

make sure they are actually the new 'armour-tek' ones and not the older variant they show on that site, there's still plenty of those floating around and they don't have the 3 plys in the sidewall

http://www.coopertires.com.au/tyres/index.htm - shows both old and new

edit roffle lol I read the post properly..

I like my coopers and I only got the AT (they don't make the ST or STT in my size).

New or old stt they'd be good (new is better)

I am a cooper fan boi (I want a cooper sticker for the shopping list on my back window).

last edited by Obes at 12:02:03 01/Sep/05

yea mate the new armor-tek ones, so what you fellas reackon i really have no idea when it comes to tyres so help me out :D

last edited by Fuknukle at 11:56:44 01/Sep/05

I vote go for it (just ring around and make sure the price on the rubber is good but it sounds good to me)

Those rockstas rock .. even got a good tyre size on them.

Yo jim!

Let us know because a mate of mine is really into it and im sure he would be keen to tag along

I don't really have any idea of tyres either, all I look for is a tread pattern that looks pretty grippy on dirt/mud and some information about how the tread and sidewall are constructed for resistence to being staked/torn

I had cooper st's (not stt's) on my xtrail and loved them, and was going to get the stt's on my prado except they didn't have the size available at the time. I've only read good reports on them so far.

sirgollum might know of people who've run them

astroboy: you talking about the next actual weekend camping trip, or even just keen to tag along on a day trip like we're doing saturday? anyone is welcome to either - if you mean this saturday, meeting place will depend where you/your mate live. I'm way out near browns plains, obes is at indro so I'll be heading over to obes' place just before 8 or 9 am prolly, what do you reckon obes

I havent heard much about the New STT's actullay....they look 'very' similar to the MTR's :) So I would expect that would be too bad...

althought you should be able to get generic "sunraiser" type rims (Like the ROH Trac) for $55 / rim. Maybe less if you are spending $1900 with them.

You 'might' be paying a premium for those tyres too...being as they are pretty new on the market.... Id be checking out MTR's, Radial Claws, Maxxis?? and if you are on a budget. The Motorway tyres.

http://www.motorway-tyres.com.au/p227.htm


Hope that helps :)



last edited by SirGollum at 13:32:37 01/Sep/05

Yeah i am jiggy with whatever .. I may be seedy sunday morning (party on saturday night)

I'll have 1 seat in my car for anyone who wants to come. (unless g/f wants to co-pilot, but she is working 12 hour night shifts atm so I doubt it)

Yeah your size has lots of good options.

also fuknuckle whats ure msn ? or add me obes_au@hotmail.com

I can comfortably take 3 people along

it's no prado but it's comfy enough

last edited by Jim at 15:10:43 01/Sep/05

one in the ass, one in the mouth ... where does the third person go jim ?

i shotgun a seat with obes.

last edited by Suhaib at 15:30:35 01/Sep/05

heh well at the moment...
g/f has first pickings (but unlikely to come)
then saint
then suhaib
then matty

...

Its all about the jimny!

stinky: I'm working ditch's example and trying to stuff as many into my mouth as possible

Jim: yeah, i will check with him to see if he can do it this weekend. We could meet up with you. Where would you head for a day trip?

im at work atm
12:30-9

astroboy: we're gonna go for a spin thru the mt.mee state forest on saturday. looks like we're leaving obes' place at indro at about 8am, then heading out thru the gap and samford on to dayboro, the park entrance is few k's west out of town

eh im working saturday, so im out this weekend, i dont have a spare atm anyways.
have fun guys :)

ah I thought you had sunday morning off or something

I just found this picture amongst all the s*** I have horded away. It's of a guy I went to highschool with's dad. They were mad about 4wd'ing

http://images.ausimages.com/upload/2005-09-01/TN_original.jpg

that's one way to cut down a tree I guess =]

Chimes in with his own wanky flex shot :)

http://www.monster4x4.com.au/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=683

and wheel tuck..

http://www.monster4x4.com.au/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=685

last edited by SirGollum at 10:20:08 02/Sep/05

heh =]
go the mongrels

I just found this picture amongst all the s***...

Am i missing the point of him doing that?

heh maybe
it's to show how his vehicle's suspension can articulate

That and to show that should he ever need to, he can park his car on a tree stump.