Dates: 8th and 9th October.
Meeting Place/Time: 8am - Big Ass BP Servo with food outlets and stuff, has one complex on each side of Bruce Highway a few minutes south of the Caboolture turn-off - *meeting at the one on the west side of Bruce Highway* (that's your left if you're heading nth toward the sunshine coast out of brisbane, noob!)

Cost: $70 (2 x $35 per 24hour park entry)

Who's Going?

Jim - Patrol
Obes - Jimny, may be late saturday is having sex.
Stinky - Subaru o' Death
SirGollum - Ford Maverick
Shane - Subaru Leone
Fuknukle - Asia Rocsta
Rancid Faeces Boy - If he gets a car in time.
Tonka Tuff - baby poo yellow Patrol.

Itinery: being that you pay for 24 hours, it may be worth checking a few 4x4 spots ( Bribie Is, Kennilworth Nat Park, Glasshouse mountains, etc ) on the way up and make it nice and leisurely getting to LCP mid afternoon ( giving us till mid afternoon sunday ). Alternatively we can just pay for 48 hours and get there early saturday AM.

Bring: Camping Gear, Cooking Gear, Recovery Gear, Firewood, Stuff. Oh and a 4 Wheel Drive!

http://www.landcruisermountainpark.com.au/html/findus.php

oh and bring your own re-fueling tanker as well suckaz

My patrol gets better mileage than the family falcon, even off-road - and has at least twice the fuel-carrying capacity even with the standard tanks. At worst I'll get 900k's out of them, but thanks anyway!

Don't mean to derail the thread, but obes needs to be a 4wd like this one.

I'll try and make it to this trip.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4209546023705504959&q=burnout

That's mega tough.

Suhaib ... don't make me dob in a terrorist

Guys, we need to make a decision what we're gonna do.

1) Arrive @ LCP at 10am ( or earlier ) saturday, do the full day, overnight, and stay till mid afternoon. that will require paying 2 x $35

2) Do some 4x4'ing on the way to LCP, get to LCP mid arvo, quickly set up camp and go for a play, then stay till mid afternoon sunday. pay 1 x $35. ( kennilworth state forest, bribie island, etc )

Gollum reckons LCP needs two solid days, so suggests option # 1.

yeah do the two days

2 days

I will be up late saturday arvo or sunday morning .. so I will be doing option 2 regardless

Ok, so are we gona meet somewhere and convoy up ? A servo over north or something perhaps ?

how about that big bp on the bruce highway, it's south of the caboolture turnoff, which I imagine is the way we'd be going

Yeah, that's usually a good spot to meet up. say 8am there ?

sounds good

Hey typo, are you coming ?

he'd better be!

Have any non drivers wanted to co-pilot yet ?

Ive got a Mate from Bundy that wants to come down and join us....Hope thats OK.

absolutely fine by me, the more the merrier


obes: buba is prolly gonna grab a seat in my car

guys a good mate and his missus is comming in the jeep of j0r so thats 4 for us

me&mrs
him&mrs

4 peeps

4way_bush_XXX_[DVD]Xvid.avi

hook a ride wit Snoring Obes, my cars full the only reason your not my copilot/driver for the weekend

heh snoring obes

I've got 1, maybe 2 passengers coming along which leaves 1, maybe 2 seats free

jim how many L/100k does you patrol give you. My family falcon gets me 11-12

10-12
I have to do a fair bit of sand driving before it'll go near those high 11's too

have you recorded each tank and the k's you got from it since you bought it in order to work that average out though? it seems really hard to imagine a 4-ish litre 6cyl consistently getting 11-12. I jot the numbers into fuellog.txt in my mobile before I leave the servo.

My car does 8 (+/- 1) per 100k

4 peeps in your car Fuknukle! ... heh that'll be cosy

Also more the merrier.

Mine gets does about 17 - 18L/100km :)...of course it only costs me $25 to fill up :)

LPG ?

fart gas?

poopoo juice?

Boiled dogs balls....Cheap but quite hard to come across 80 litres worth a week :)


LPG :P...Gets about 450Km to a tank. (About $6/100km)....when on Petrol it costs about $22/100km... *OUCH*


last edited by SirGollum at 13:09:14 03/Oct/05

that's awesome

Where do you find so many dog's balls ?

Local asian resturant :)

So how many cars we got now 6 ?..I might make a quick booking on the cruiser website.

Jim - Patrol
Obes - Jimny, may be late saturday is having sex.
Stinky - Subaru o' Death
SirGollum - Ford Maverick
Shane - Subaru Leone
Rancid Faeces Boy - If he gets a car in time.

heh who is Rancid Faeces Boy :)
surely not fuknukle!

Well i am only a maybe for over night. 99.9% for being up there nice and early Sunday morning tho.

Fuknuckle is a cert I think (and he has 3 passengers!) .. is LCP ready for him ?

yea im comming f*****s sif leave me out of the list im hardcore
and the other couple dropped out and my missus is a maybe :(

so its me in my green monster truck

edit:!! wtf bathurst is this weekend>>!!??
fuk someone better record it full quality; qualifing warmups the whole dam lot

last edited by Fuknukle at 13:39:54 04/Oct/05

Rancid Faecus Boy is Khel's brother. He took a s*** in my laundry once.

Well...I booked fot 6 cars anyways. Im not really sure what good that will do. I think 99% of ppl just rock up and pay the money.

haha matty
it'd rock if he got a vehicle in time

hurry up saturday

Bugger! I wish I'd seen this thread earlier. I'd have liked to rock up in my racing Rodeo :) Been meaning to try LCP for a while but none of my mates have 4wds any more :(

http://www.users.on.net/~skrybe/leftside_fixedt.jpg

doh :(

there'll be more trips

You can still come can't you ? Or is it too late notice ?

3 MORE SLEEPS!!!!

yea sure you can, pack your s*** and splash out on yourself this weekend

Oh f***les, don't forget to bring my set of cutlery and stuff that I left in your car ... otherwise I'll be eating with my fingers!

or my fingers ;)

phwoar all my suspension upgrade parts have arrived so the car is going in tomorrow morning as scheduled

hurry up saturday

yea i cant wait to tow the patrol out of some thick action ;)

As a general rule we use a subaru to recover Patrols ... :)

I refuse to be towed by anything less than a suby

in other words, I'm not too fussy lol rofl uhghalglaghalighhghaghaghHhghHhHHHAHA

Hey Guys,

I found my old cruiser park map last night and did a very quick scan...

Can found be here..

http://www.monster4x4.net/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=2452

On looking at the map, i thought i might try and make up some courses for us to do.

Oh btw, if Cruiser park is still like last time i went, the Std cars 'really' dont wont to be doing anything harder than Orange. And im not particularly sure anyone without lockers and plenty of body protection should venture into the red stuff.

also ive asked around, and unless its quite it has been advised to NOT camp in the designated camping grounds (Too many possible d*******s, and just drive to the showers when needed)

Ive been told this
"drive to the start of claw george and just past jims jump up in the clearing on the left hand side!!!"

Which 'does' look like a pretty easy spot to get to. But ive just assumed a camp spot for bellow.




Anyway heres my ideas on some possible courses.

Possible Camp and Cowah Falls.

Down to Telecom Hill for warm ups :)
Down to Saltshed Rd
Up Rocky Rd
Right into Yelburn Rd
Up to the Rain forest.
Left to Rav Ridge
Maybe TimberJack hill ?
Back to camp via Prado Pde.



Camp.
Down Club Rally circit to the Pig Pen. (MUD MUD MUD)
Down the Claw Gorge
Up Hawkins Rd
Up Top davidsons Rd
Down Diaper Rd to Camp. Maybe play on some of the hard climbs on the way back.


Camp.
Down Tarago trail.
Left to Camp Rd
Onto Hawkins Rd
Onto Lower davidsons Rd (Not sure of we will get past the red stuff)
Do Toyota Trial
Left to Frying pan Rd
Follow frying pan rd down
Right on kinds rd
up to Cooper Corner.
Maybe do hard climbs (Hilux hills / The Claw)
Back to camp.



Let me know what ya think.

Thanks

Glen.

sounds fookin fantastic

im headin to bribie sat morning with about 4 cars to camp the night

might cyas there :o

sweet

cept we opted for the two full days at land cruiser park so we won't be swinging by bribie this time

okie have fun

its great out there but dont get stuck on the advanced tracks... trust me it happens lol :P

heh I bet =]

hello i'm just want to say HI !!
see ya on the saturday :)
i'm glen mate from bundy !!! i have a older 4x4 i hope thats ok :)

oh yer stinky i will go where you go but no mud for me i'm over mud

later

ps dose anyone know if m/phones work out there ??pm me if you know !

last edited by hammer at 13:02:14 06/Oct/05

last edited by hammer at 13:02:24 06/Oct/05

it Hammer Time!
dur nur nur nur,
dur nur,
dur nur-nur

ahahaha.....Nar Hammer's 4x4 has just got a snorkle...which means a MANDATORY MUD RUN!!!

hehehe

i was gonna make my own snorkle before this weekend but had to get my diff seals redone :(

g'day hammer, cya out there =]

not sure if mobiles will work out there, probably not would be my guess

The website says they don't work ... but the CBs will!

cool thanks :)

so are you guys gonna LAN out there in the forest or what

..nnnnnnnnnnno :)

PSP Link-up!

Stupid work... Would of loved to come up.

I was planning on heading out Friday night to west end with some friends from work to have a few drinks. Which leaves two problems, no money and hangover saturday. :(

Hmmm... drinking or 4 wheel driving...

scooter :(

skrybe: what sort of friends would keep you from 4wd'ing&%@!$# =]

LOL! It's a celebration cos we all got promotions :)

Do you know whether they allow dogs in the park? I noticed dogs in a couple of the promo shots at the site but I couldn't see anything in the wording. I've got a pair of little furballs that I'd have to bring.

heh congrats =]


The website for landcruiser park says: "Pets are allowed but must be kept under control to avoid disturbing other campers, cattle or wildlife."

http://www.landcruisermountainpark.com.au/html/findus.php

Tah.

Doh! Need my eyes checked. Might see how tonight goes and make a last minute decision :)

heh that's the spirit =]

flexin a little better now after the suspension work, nothing special, this is the best spot I could find between home and work this morning :) swaybars are still connected too

http://jason.qgl.org/images/4wd/1.jpg

http://jason.qgl.org/images/4wd/2.jpg

nice big Chief, should make it a bit easier for the sub to recover ya hehe-heh :D
can totally see the front swaybar doing what they were designed to do

;)

stinky update first post

Place -big ass bp* just before caboolture turnoff.
Time -8am

*1kb file-GoogleEarth placemark, click it and it'll take you straight to the BP

Nice! Pretty decent travel there.

don't forget my stuff f***les!

looks good Jim did you get any body lift ? ?

nah no body lift
yet =]

I'll run it as is for a while I think, maybe later when those 33's wear out I'll consider going 35's and getting low range replaced and lift the body a bit then maybe

what time is everyone leaving brisbane tomoro to be there at 8am?
another words how long to get there.

An hour or so should be sufficient to get to the giant BP @ caboolture.

ooorrrrrr yeah

TAKE CARE GUYS!

How did the weekend go? Any pics?

With out the Jimny there to guide them safely I hear they all broke their cars!

So Obes, did you get some sex0ring ?

pics and vids are comming, im sure they will be up really really soon ay guys??
was fukn awesum, shame you were having sex Obes could've had some real fun! :P

I managed to find 2 new (to me) 4wd parks one near warick and 1 near woodenbong, 2 new (to me) national park trails spicers gap & condermine river gorge and Girraween NP. I also did a bunch of trails we didn't do at Sundown. ps. Total fire ban at Sundown.

I was just tired of driving, I did some 1200 k's in 4 days. Besides had to go be morale support for someone.

heh I didn't take a single pic myself cos I am a total lazy bugga. michael grabbed a couple of snaps with my camera for me when we were doing a good old tree stump flex test, can see them here: http://jason.qgl.org/images/4wd/wankyflex/

ps: obes that's just not good enough bud

last edited by Jim at 14:58:03 10/Oct/05

Three important things I learned @ Condomine Gorge :

1. Never go down sidetracks @ condomine gorge ... cars fall over if you do.

2. Never jump in a friend's 4x4 and think "we're only going up this little hill i won't put the seatbelt on".

3. When you and Gollum are in said friend's 4x4 and Gollum suddenly looks scared and hops out of the car it means you only have about 10 seconds before lesson's 1 and 2 are learned.

OMGWTFBBQ! Jim's car lost a wheel!

http://jason.qgl.org/images/4wd/wankyflex/6.jpg

gollum walked somewhere ?

haha was that at condamine gorge stinky? I had no idea there was anything decent down there, I followed the Dirty Snoozeworthy-4wd Weekends trip through it and found nothing :(

Yeah we did the same thing, so we turned around and went back the other way and Gollum said the fatal "Hey, let's go up that track off the side there!" It was nothing tough, just a n00b driver.

i'm upload some photo that nathan had taken
http://www.monster4x4.com.au/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=2468
later michael

Stinky spits not swallows!

http://www.monster4x4.com.au/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=2510&g2_serialNumber=1

hehehe thats some funny s*** :)

oh yer all photo are up now that we have i try to do some vids soon :)
later

sweeeeeeeeeet hangin for the vids

Next time eat some f***ing pineapple Jim ... it makes it taste better ...

that's a myth, believe me

What the hell was happening here:
http://www.monster4x4.com.au/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=2528

Looks like fun, but really dry too. How hot was it? Between predicted 37 degree temps, hangover and no money I thought being a wuss was a good idea.

Sometimes suby's have a slight issue with ground clearance, so in order to get up some hills they need to take a run up and hit the hill at speeds of 80kph or more. This has the effect of launching the car into the air so it can clear a mountain top and gracefully come to land on the other side.

So to answer your question: basically what you see there is shane looking out the passenger window to see if he could see his house from up there

hell yea pics!!
me and my beast :D


and haha Jim

last edited by Fuknukle at 18:36:25 10/Oct/05

haha how awesome was the rocsta
going where no patrol (driven by me anyway!) has gone before

hey all i have rip a moive it is a fast rip no time spend on it at all but it is ok to look at have fun
http://home.gil.com.au/~infodigg/4x4movies/glenoppslcp1005.zip

up load now takes about 20 mins and it is 9:10 pm should fine to download at about 9:30 pm
later and have fun :) michael

9:30? oohhh but i want it now :(
thx dude :) cant wait to check it out heh

yes Jim it was indeed the pinicle of cool ;)

hehehe i can only up load at 10 k a sec but it is up now :)

nice 200k/s it evened out to be,
heard the distinctive crack of Gollums hehe

cant wait for the rest of the movies :D

snap goes the axle
but at least he saved his mudflap ;)

mad props to nathan for the camera work, cheers michael =]

Heres some piccies of the said broken axle. :)

http://www.monster4x4.net/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=2454

only 15mb of video? disappointing

nah there's heaps more than that, I think it's just a hassle for folks to convert it and upload it all

i guess me and the boys should head back to the carpark then...

lol thats a perfect tent peg you have Gollum

LOL maxe that'd be kewl

I demand a real broken axel from the carpark mob!

LOL! Did he break the axle doing that flying leap?

Great photos BTW.

heh the flying leap is actually just the front left wheel dropping down into a deep washout

the broken axle was on the white ford maverick/gq patrol

Looked like fun, but damn 4WDs seem to fall apart alot offroad. If only you all had dirt bikes instead :P

yea my dirtbikes never have any drama, cept when you have some narly shiz and fall off. but only s*** like clutch/brake levers and other s*** u dont need.

not enough links to 4wd vids from the weekend trip in this thread

yer there coming soon sorry i been really busy :)
here is 1 more jim's left hand side 27 mb
just starting to up load now
http://home.gil.com.au/~infodigg/4x4movies/jims%20leftside.wmv
later michael
2 opps 37 mb
http://home.gil.com.au/~infodigg/4x4movies/opps.wmv

last edited by hammer at 21:59:05 12/Oct/05

haha sweet
you rock =]

o yea baby, downloading now :)
thx guys :)

also on a side note i think i just found TFlockers for my rocsta!!??!!
been looking for ages and had given up, fuk i hope this accually happens
linkage

edit:lol thats a real retard shot of me hehe :P
slider seems weird, does it stop when old mate takes his second step for everyone else?

last edited by Fuknukle at 22:53:04 12/Oct/05

How'd he manage to break it? Doing something mad, or just bad luck?

it's in this movie from an earlier post: http://home.gil.com.au/~infodigg/4x4movies/glenoppslcp1005.zip

jim no it is from the same tape just more of it if you know what mean
later michael

Rocksta at play :)
118 mb
http://home.gil.com.au/~infodigg/4x4movies/Rocksta.wmv
later

woot, downloading now, watch when i get home, thx dudes!

you cant get enough rocsta loven

last edited by Fuknukle at 07:19:14 14/Oct/05

Scare the s*** outta me why dont ya! lol

yea nice work fellas thx heaps for that :D, im sooo dieing to go back out somewhere now.

I figured out what that dam rattle was -the exhaust, the metal mounts had cut through the rubber inners holding the rear muffler up, so i unbolted them and no more rattle :) the muffler is being held up by the rest of the exhaust on the nonbolted swaying rubber mounts. i'll sort some rubber out later on.

im gonna fit a snorkel, they're fukin expensive just for a piece of plastic $100-$300(second hand-ebay etc) fuk that so found this snorkel head which i'll use with some PVC pipe and flex pipe to the air cleaner after cutting a hole in the side of the bonnet. should be good.

yeah need a november trip somewhere, maybe fraser island or something. probably not a lot in the way of 4wd challenges but at least there'd be no shortage of cold water at this stinking hot time of year =]

if you went to fraser i'd have to shotgun a seat in obes' girls car

take me to that omera place sometime Jim
i'll bring some booze for you ;)

sounds like a plan boba

fuknukle: my wife and I went for a run through ormeau today on our way for a drive through murwillumbah and back up around the back way to nerang =]

via nimbin?

nah thru chillingham and then up and around past the hinze dam

My car is manly boba you fag hat!

slowly rippin bits out of sirgollum's dvd :)
http://jason.qgl.org/2-take3.wmv

edit: replaced the link with one that hopefully has working sound

last edited by Jim at 18:56:59 16/Oct/05

^ no sound :(:(

It's weird watching someone fail for 2 minutes at something yet still feel kinda satisfied

heh I have no idea why the sound doesn't work for anyone else but works fine on both my pc and my laptop - I didn't even realise until michael (the dude driving) told me

I'm such a video newb

what's the best way to rip video+sound from a dvd into a format that people don't need a bunch of codecs and crap installed to be able to view them? the guy who filmed that stuff put it all on a dvd for me

hehe nice,
Gollum whats your msn i wanna grab a copy of the dvd please
mine: peterfinnthekiwi@hotmail.com

:( sound or no sound i still did not get the hill :( and there a video out there to show it :(

next time mate :)
bring a grader and kick that hills ass

you didnt need to get up it to show how good you are, youve got a Nissan!

Did anyone get up that hill the Yellow Patrol was struggling with? I assume that's the one that killed the Ford? I take it from watching those movies that wherever there was a hard obstacle they had an easy way around as well? After watching a few of the movies I wish I'd gone after all.

Fraser would be nice, especially if there are as many Europeanpean backpackers as the last time I was there :) Pity the last trip I did had a massive storm in the middle of it. Actually snapped the poles on my mates dome tent and tore it to pieces. We were camped just off the beach and it washed away over 6 feet of sand in one night.

BTW, the sound worked for me. It's windows audio 10 I think. I have the KLite Mega Codec pack installed. I know people don't like these all in one packs but I've never had problems with it.

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/KLite_Mega_Codec_Pack/1080441198/1

nah only the mav and yellow patrol tried it, I didn't give it a try in my patrol since I know the mav and other patrol both have front and rear lockers and I don't have any in mine yet - so short of some fluke I wouldn't have gotten up either. and yeah that's the hill that the mav snapped an axle on. as usual it looks totally tame on camera

Actually the outside video of the Patrol looked pretty cool, dust everywhere, thumping, swearing. Gave a pretty good idea.

So that was one of the hills they mark as "difficult" wasn't it?

nah no one else, i whimped out it was really narly, the vid really doesnt give much of anything justice(for eg. my Rocsta is accually a monster truck)

huge arse lips and ruts and ridges up that hill there.

last edited by Fuknukle at 22:21:44 16/Oct/05

You got the green rocsta?

BTW, what was the video camera? It was kinda like watching a 4WD version of Blair Witch :) I take it it was an old one with no image stabilisation.

yea green rocsta = me

The Roctsa seemed pretty good. Not as grunty as the Patrols but it coped pretty well. Does it have low range?

heh it's a completely suprising vehicle, seems to be as rugged as guts and pretty hard to stop. not bad at all for what is essentially a jeep knock-off, in fact it completely surpasses the status of being just a copy of another car.

Yeah it is a surprise. My neighbour has a Roctsa and it looks like the bastard love child between a suzuki and a jeep. Not quite as tough as a jeep but not as girly as a Sierra ;) After watching those vids though I've got a lot more respect for them. Especially considering (I assume) that Fuknukle's Rocsta is stock standard. Looks like with just a little work it'd make a tough little, go anywhere 4wd.

My neighbour has a Roctsa and it looks like the bastard love child between a suzuki and a jeep.

yea needs more mud ;)
yea its stock, sagged springs need a reset etc. open front diff and rear lsd(thinner oil) make sure at times you gotta pick a good line
and those are road tyres at 30 psi heh.

Its got quite a good low range, most of that footage is in low range 2nd or 3rd, 1st is unstallible which is great for those hardcore climbs where a run up just wont do the trick or too predictible.

while its got nothing much done atm, ive got couple things planned/doing.
i'll do a spring over conversion or settle for getting someone to reset my springs(i got no idea how to reset em)
weld in bash plates-front and gearbox,
make a snorkel,
install aircon
maybe air compressor tho ive got no lockers to run em on but airtools

nothing major like huge ass lift tho the spring over will give a fair lil bit.
ive only done lil s*** so far such as;
water proof electrics(working on airbox)
full service such as air cleaner, oil/oil filter, redo spark plug gaps, regrease all joints and hubs etc.
clean and check for rust(nothing cept for 2 lil spots of rust stain which is from steel pins in the rear door.
adjust hand brake
and ive finally fixed the rear brakes(drums where covered in diff oil).
i got a workshop to put in a new diff the old seals leaked and diff dried up. so got a lsd put in. im gonna put thinker oil in it tho, so it doesnt slip as much.

thats all i can remember atm

Sounds good. It looked like it could use a little more height. Redoing the springs might give you enough. And bashplates are a must. I've got them on my Rodeo and they've saved my arse a couple times. If you plan on beach work make sure you get it rust proofed too. Not the fisholene though that is rank! Sure it works, but it's foul and takes ages for the smell to clear up.

posting these links again, realised I had ballsed up a couple of the dvd rips (mainly #3 and #7), fixed them up now - thanks to glen for putting the dvd together so I could steal all these movies off it =]

pig pen - 36mb
michael vs a gnarly hill - 14mb
bulldust hill, apparently called jim's jumpup - 39mb
some goofing off in a dustbowl - 36mb
how to roll along a boulder and some random washout - 30mb
some night fumbling and what looks like some lost footage from another section of the dvd - 48mb
telecom hill - 103mb
some rock crawling along a 'red' track - 53mb
how to drive your car into a washout - 47mb

last edited by Jim at 23:02:42 17/Oct/05