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Re: obc

Post by The Fish »

Britswed wrote:
cebarry wrote:Sent Laurie a SMS on sunday as i was out Dubbo way he said he didn't know any updates as he was in Silver City 4Wd for repaairs??

Hi Mal,spoke to Mick,last eve, Laurie repaired & back in..:armsup:........... but he had no idea about Nick's state after damage Sat nite. They about to leave 4 Denian....reception not good as u know!

:) Celia
Thanks Celia

Do you know what happened to it there isn't much Rover stuff left on it :lol: :lol:
I think the rear A frame suffered some damage??

Also heard Mick Hingerty blew the rear diff while transporting out of the Hill. Might be in Silver City for a while waiting for some 4.8 diff gears :bad-words:
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Re: obc

Post by Britswed »

cebarry wrote:Hey Mal, "A" frame, came adrift.....E thinks same happened last yr...gota give it to Laurie G for hanging in there, he so deserves to have a full week & finish.
:)
So agree with that

Hopefully his dramas are over for the week

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Post by cebarry »

Hey Fish, How u doing? long time no see....
Can't believe Michael H also...esp not in transit...that stinks!....gees some people seem to have such bad luck.

Looking 4ward to updates keep getting thru.....
thanks ya all.
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Re: obc

Post by Britswed »

The Fish wrote:
Britswed wrote:
cebarry wrote:Sent Laurie a SMS on sunday as i was out Dubbo way he said he didn't know any updates as he was in Silver City 4Wd for repaairs??

Hi Mal,spoke to Mick,last eve, Laurie repaired & back in..:armsup:........... but he had no idea about Nick's state after damage Sat nite. They about to leave 4 Denian....reception not good as u know!

:) Celia
Thanks Celia

Do you know what happened to it there isn't much Rover stuff left on it :lol: :lol:
I think the rear A frame suffered some damage??

Also heard Mick Hingerty blew the rear diff while transporting out of the Hill. Might be in Silver City for a while waiting for some 4.8 diff gears :bad-words:

Ok cool thanks buddy

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Post by RangieRacing »

Spoke to Robbie Mathieson this morning, Huddy and Andrian left his work shop last night at about 6.00 pm to join the group for the night stage nav run down south. So great effort by all at the workshop - well done.

I was at Robbie's workshop at 3.00 pm yesterday and Nick Mannel was about to leave after repairing his rig.

Robbie's shop has been open around the clock so not much sleep for him. Good to see more than one work shop available this year.

Dave Cameron from Victoria was stage winner at the prologue on the short course (not sure of the fastest car for the long course), beat the next car by some 5 seconds - well done Dave. Daniel is his navi from SA.

Lot of spectators were happy with the Sunday program although it was difficult to grasp the full excitment of the stage as the track was flat, no big drum and no winching. You could go into the stands at the racecourse but that was bloody cold and a fair distance from the action.

Stephens Creek was a buzz with the camp fires and bbqs - so Broken Hill people love the concept of getting out for the night. The action was good with each vehicle completing two laps as there was only twenty three staters. Sometimes small groups are fun.

Had to come back on Sunday to Adelaide to work so hope we get more updates from the people at the action. More pics please.
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obc

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tanx Gary.....
E spoke with Michael H. and his diff.gears arrive am tomorrow so he's looking @ rejoining by 2morrow nite too.
Good to hear Huddy & Nick are fixed & Robbie's business is helping out....will help speed up returns 4 sure, cos as u know, sometimes the lines can be long!!.
We'll call Mike again later see what's new re updates....while he's in BH
:) Cheers
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Post by Alison »

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Huddy & Muppet
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Pete Mihailoff & Alan
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Neil Cooper & Chris Hummer
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Bill & Wazza
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Nunzio from Venezuala
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Greg Scanlan & Liam ARB Bendigo

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Post by Ginger Patrol »

After a mad weekend in the Hill I am back in Melbourne and already missing the action at Denian. After 5years it feels like I have lost part of me but I am sure it is good hands and things move on!

Great work by Huddy / Muppet and the boys that helped out. Thanks to Silver City for all the efforts so far.

On a personel level I would like to thank all those that helped me over the weekend. It is so special when you can go to the Hill and it is like going back home. The local people can never do enough and are so generous. You are all a cedit to the town and the reason we all keep coming back.

To all involved keep safe, have a great week.
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Post by Alison »

Some pics from Racecourse

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Brett Burns & James Simmons
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Other car from Venezuala
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Pete Mihailoff after fixing Harmonic Balancer.
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Andy Miller & Robbie Calvert from ARB Thomastown
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Greg Scanlan
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Max & Cosmo from ARB Wentworthville
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Andy Miller & Robbie Calvert
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Al Mac & Shayne Barkley - stage win on Long Stage at Racecourse
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Ant Kilner & Andrew Norman
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Boys from Rockhampton in Landy and Al Mac & Shayne in Procomp Jeep
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Huddy & Muppet before the roll. Check out the fridge fitment on the tray.
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Al Mac & Shayne
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Huddy will wheels in the air.
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Bill & Wazza
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Post by Alison »

Hi guys

I went up for the weekend for a look and back at work today.

It was great to catch up with everyone again. Just not used to the lower numbers, hopefully this will make the event easier to manage in the new format.

Speaking to the competitors they are happy to be travelling all together and having the scores updated daily.

Will post updates as I hear.
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Post by AJ »

For the "where are they now?" segment :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Post by RangieRacing »

Just some friendly marketing and advertising for Robbie.

Robbie's business, where a lot of the trucks having been going this year (Dave, Huddy, Nick and others) is KIWOZIE 4 X 4 (not silver city) and the guys out on the track all have his number.

This will certainly make it easier for the trucks to get back out on track if they are in need.
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Post by The Fish »

cebarry wrote:Hey Fish, How u doing? long time no see....
Can't believe Michael H also...esp not in transit...that stinks!....gees some people seem to have such bad luck.

Looking 4ward to updates keep getting thru.....
thanks ya all.
;)
Celia
I'm good thanks Celia but like many past competitors it's hard not being there :cry: but reading the updates as they come through is the next best thing.

My wife and Danni (The Trudis) should be at Denian by now so will hopefully get an update on todays stages later on tonight ;)

Should be getting updates from Andrew Norman & Hobzee when they get 5 mins to spare also :armsup:

Cheers, The Fish.
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Re: OBC 09

Post by alloffroad »

cebarry wrote:
alloffroad wrote:Yes AJ great pic's, your are the eyes & ears for everyone around the world. We wish we could be there again. :bad-words:
Can anyone tell me what happened with the South African team that entered this year?

Jacques Viljoen
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Hey AJ.....thanks heaps mate....g8 pix....so miss not being there again... :cry: what with the classes appearing more fair ;)
:armsup: Exo to those who have given updates so far.....esp with the format changing and all.....

G'Day Jacques, we were wondering about the Safrican team also :?: ,
Say hi to all the boeties in the old country...from us here in Sydney.
Cheers,
Celia & Eugene
Hi Celia & Eugene,

Me and Terence are working on something, hopefully see you all soon again

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Post by The Fish »

#########LATEST UPDATE FROM DENIAN##########

Just spoke to Hobzee who's standing by a fire awaiting their run on the Arabian Nights SS and this is a run down of todays news

- PGS boys not seen at Denian all day but reason unknown.

- Hoon running standard harmonic balancer and is taking it easy as he reckons it will come loose again.

- Huddy & Nick Mannell re-joined the group.


- Last nights SS consisted of 20 waypoints with a 70 min DNF. About 5 teams found all 20, 2-3 teams found 19 and then the rest of the field dropped away from there. Lots of dust on the SS with half the field on the SS at once. Anthony Kilner had a minor engine bay fire but no damage done. Believe this to be caused by a stripped captive nut for securing a rocker cover and hence rocker cover leaking.


- GunBarrel SS today had Greg Scanlon finishing 1st even though he was on 5 cyl. due to an injector issue. Bruce Borchardt claimed 2nd.

Hoon and Jeff Redman raced against each other with Redman returning quickest but both missed the same gate and recieved DNF's :bad-words:


- Sand Wall SS consisted of climbing the wall and then a 5 km/5 waypoint run with a 20 min DNF. Also navvies had to climb the wall this year. Only 5 teams finished inside the DNF :shock: with the other teams having a variety of problems including winch/power issues, buried vehicles, anchors not holding, struggling with Lat/Long HDDD MM.MMM format :roll:

No team drove the wall but Al Mac drove the furthest falling one Jeep length short of driving the wall. That's where the stage ended for Al as his winch was in the back of the Jeep in pieces :x When practising in the morning the winch wouldn't stop winching in and self-destructed :bad-words: In the process of pulling battery leads to stop winch a terminal post was also removed :bad-words: They spent sometime grinding/welding this arvo so hopefully they have a usable winch again but will only be 12V.


- Not sure if it was during the nav section of the Sand Wall SS but Huddy ran over a substantial log at full throttle and buckled both front beadlock rims. He finished the last 2km of the SS with both front tyres hanging off the rims but the tyres suffered no damage :shock: He's running the General Tyre and there's a selling point if one's needed :cool:


- Only 4 teams haven't recieved a DNF so far and it really looks like this year, more than ever, will come down to a balance of driving to win and driving to conserve the vehicle. Those that haven't recieved a DNF and in the presumed current running order are -

1st - Coops/Hummer (Team to be beat and looking strong)
2nd - Greg Scanlon (Running on 5 cyl. which may help conserve driveline)
3rd - Lawrie/Hobzee (Not pushing it to the limits until later in the week)
4th - Max/Cosmo (Just cruising along but will hopefully avoid parking the Jeep on a rock this year)


Hobzee is going to ring after Arabian Nights with what he knows providing it's not too late :roll:


Don't have any other placings/details at this stage and as always my apologies for any inaccurate details but Hobzee had poor reception and please don't shoot the messenger :D

Cheers, The Fish ;)
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Post by Ginger Patrol »

Great Report Fish keep them coming.

Sounds like fun in the sand. Do you know is Ant and Andrew are still running?

Huddy is pushig hard and a credit to the only Aussie production class truck! Go the Farm Truck!

The sand hill sounds an interesting format

I wish I was in the sand and not in Melbourne! The first time in 5 years but shit happens
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Post by PGS 4WD »

Brett and James from PGS have had the alternator fan fly apart, bits went through the bonnet and destroyed thier backup fan belt, they are waiting on new belts and should be back at it tomorrow. An issue with the alternators overspeeding on gearshifts, they have been forced to race in the transmissions normal shift mode not the performance mode to reduce the number of gear shifts that occur, it's a full auto programmed auto trans.

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Post by The Fish »

Quick Update - Coops & Hummer have just rolled, both are ok but DNF'd SS.

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Post by RangieRacing »

Great Report Fish, keep them coming. Guess you better let Hobbzee have some sleep now.

Thanks for the updates
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Post by The Fish »

Final Report for the night :armsup:

Results from Arabian Nights SS were as follows:

1st - Hoon
2nd - Lawrie/Hobzee
3rd - Al Mac

Overall top 3 standings after the days stages are as follows:

1st - Greg Scanlon (Still running on 5 cyl.)
2nd - Lawrie/Hobzee
3rd - Max/Cosmo (No rear brakes)

No more details as Hobzee was texting only.

Goodnight, The Fish ;)
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Post by HeathGQ »

Go Lawrie!!!

Thanks for the updates
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Post by Dooma_ »

Great Reports Fish.

GO QLD. Would be great to see Laurie come home with the prize.
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Post by cebarry »

tanx heaps Fish 4 awesome updates!.... :armsup:
sounds like plenty dramas but still heaps of fun!
On ya Max & Cosmo! GO NSW


Ginger, bet Denian isn't the same without ya either.
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Post by HeathGQ »

Dooma_ wrote:Great Reports Fish.

GO QLD. Would be great to see Laurie come home with the prize.
would be a big party at Sean's workshop when he does....
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Post by Britswed »

The Fish wrote:Final Report for the night :armsup:

Results from Arabian Nights SS were as follows:

1st - Hoon
2nd - Lawrie/Hobzee
3rd - Al Mac

Overall top 3 standings after the days stages are as follows:

1st - Greg Scanlon (Still running on 5 cyl.)
2nd - Lawrie/Hobzee
3rd - Max/Cosmo (No rear brakes)

No more details as Hobzee was texting only.

Goodnight, The Fish ;)

Go Max and Cosmo :armsup:

Good to see Greg doing well as well

So how many places did Hummer & Coops drop with that roll??
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Post by Remydog05 »

Is it just me or is there nothing on the outbackchallange website eg updates etc???
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Post by gouldy »

RangieRacing wrote:Just some friendly marketing and advertising for Robbie.

Robbie's business, where a lot of the trucks having been going this year (Dave, Huddy, Nick and others) is KIWOZIE 4 X 4 (not silver city) and the guys out on the track all have his number.

This will certainly make it easier for the trucks to get back out on track if they are in need.
what do you mean by that statement Gary?
Hope your not taking a cheap shot at Silver City, considering their contribution to the challenge over the past 10 years.

I recall seeing you there using their free services more than once.

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update Tuesday lunch

Post by Hobzee »

Here's an update at Tuesday Lunch - we have just completed a very rough point to point nav through heavy bush and pot hole country.

13 cars back on time.

Al Mac had a fire and it is out and mino repairs being done but not at finish yet.

Not sure where Hoon is - was told on radio he is coming.

Huddy's shocks in front both destroyed.

Dave Cameron just blew a brake line and had no brakes.

All tyres standing up really well - hardly seen a plug

Max is launching his new designer brand of underwear here and Andy Miller has "The Apron"

More pics will be on my blog in next hour - www.4h.com.au coz I dont know how to load pics here still.

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Re: update Tuesday lunch

Post by cebarry »

Hobzee wrote:Here's an update at Tuesday Lunch - we have just completed a very rough point to point nav through heavy bush and pot hole country.

13 cars back on time.

Al Mac had a fire and it is out and mino repairs being done but not at finish yet.

Not sure where Hoon is - was told on radio he is coming.

Huddy's shocks in front both destroyed.

Dave Cameron just blew a brake line and had no brakes.

All tyres standing up really well - hardly seen a plug
Max is launching his new designer brand of underwear here and Andy Miller has "The Apron
More pics will be on my blog in next hour - www.4h.com.au coz I dont know how to load pics here still.

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Good stuff....tanx Hobzee
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Post by Ginger Patrol »

Well done to all and keep the updates coming. All this and you are all still in the sand! The mud and rocks should be fun.

It is hard been in Melbourne and not in the thick of the action! I know were I would rather be!
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