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Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 4:21 pm
by greg
love_mud wrote:Why not ???
If you had a hoop that protected around the headlight and bonnet area .. wouldn't that have taken the load instead of the front clip ?? (thats what it looks like from the pic) As I was not there and you were I will assume you are correct ... but just this once
dont let it go to your head
My original approach on the obsticle was almost perpenticular to the bog hole - the plan was to exit the other side but it could not be performed because the front wheels didn't get to the other side due to front bar overhang. Having a stinger there may have allowed me to push forward and up a bit and hopefully get the front wheels to touch the bank infront and start climbing.
hense - a stinger would work, a front bar would make the issue worse (though less damage would be incurred)...
Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 4:27 pm
by Guy
greg wrote:love_mud wrote:Why not ???
If you had a hoop that protected around the headlight and bonnet area .. wouldn't that have taken the load instead of the front clip ?? (thats what it looks like from the pic) As I was not there and you were I will assume you are correct ... but just this once
dont let it go to your head
My original approach on the obsticle was almost perpenticular to the bog hole - the plan was to exit the other side but it could not be performed because the front wheels didn't get to the other side due to front bar overhang. Having a stinger there may have allowed me to push forward and up a bit and hopefully get the front wheels to touch the bank infront and start climbing.
hense - a stinger would work, a front bar would make the issue worse (though less damage would be incurred)...
I was simly saying that a front bar (that came up around the bonnet and lights) would have help avaid damage to that part of the vehicle ..
Why could you not have a stinger as well as a "bull bar" kind of setup ??
Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 4:29 pm
by bigsteve
love_mud wrote:greg wrote:love_mud wrote:Why not ???
If you had a hoop that protected around the headlight and bonnet area .. wouldn't that have taken the load instead of the front clip ?? (thats what it looks like from the pic) As I was not there and you were I will assume you are correct ... but just this once
dont let it go to your head
My original approach on the obsticle was almost perpenticular to the bog hole - the plan was to exit the other side but it could not be performed because the front wheels didn't get to the other side due to front bar overhang. Having a stinger there may have allowed me to push forward and up a bit and hopefully get the front wheels to touch the bank infront and start climbing.
hense - a stinger would work, a front bar would make the issue worse (though less damage would be incurred)...
I was simly saying that a front bar (that came up around the bonnet and lights) would have help avaid damage to that part of the vehicle ..
Why could you not have a stinger as well as a "bull bar" kind of setup ??
Bullbars are Grimace
Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 4:36 pm
by Guy
form someone who uas pushing greg from being and "made his wheels spin" .. you are not one to talk about Grimace ...
Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 5:55 pm
by redzook
nice pics
bout time i seen some pics of u melb people wheelin
here are some pics from my last run last weekend
Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 5:59 pm
by redzook
Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 11:12 pm
by markil
i had a mate in a maverick start pushing me forward at a set of lights once, i also put it in reverse and lit it up. he stopped pushing me then
and another time i was following a mate who was in a sierra too in front of me at a macca's drive through. as he was trying to order i pushed him out of the way and made him go back through to get his order. he got pretty pissed with me, and told me i had to replace his tailgate cause it got bent. the next weekend he totalled his car at the dunes
but i didn't have to replace his tailgate
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 11:05 am
by droopypete
grimbo wrote:I want my car back on the road again
Yeah, and I want a 12 inch dick, but that is not going to happen either
Peter.
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 11:13 am
by droopypete
grimbo wrote:bigsteve wrote:You should have been there, we were shunting each others cars all day, image to cars nose to tail with mine in reverse with my wheels spinning and gregs in pushing.
It was very erotic
is this pete signed in under big steve because I reckon it might be. Spiderman suit and all
Geeez Graham, will you keep up, Spidyman was last week, it is Batman now.
I gota go, batgirl is in the bat cave, and I have to get some bat lube from the bat mobile for my bat jelly dong.
da na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na batman!
Peter.
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 12:25 pm
by christover1
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 1:45 pm
by droopypete
Chris, you are the man
Where did you get that photo of me in the cape? if it is you looking through my bedroom window at night, could you not leave your McDonalds wrappers in the garden please, and Jeanette finds the flash from your camera a bit distracting.
Peter.
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 2:26 pm
by christover1
droopypete wrote::D Chris, you are the man
Where did you get that photo of me in the cape? if it is you looking through my bedroom window at night, could you not leave your McDonalds wrappers in the garden please, and Jeanette finds the flash from your camera a bit distracting.
Peter.
its not the camera thats flashing
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 6:14 pm
by Guy
droopypete wrote::D Chris, you are the man
Where did you get that photo of me in the cape? if it is you looking through my bedroom window at night, could you not leave your McDonalds wrappers in the garden please, and Jeanette finds the flash from your camera a bit distracting.
Peter.
Sorry the macca's was me, wont happen again .. I was seeing if you and your loverly lady get up to the same thing the your loverly lady and I do ..
What was the story with the midget ???
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 9:17 am
by grimbo
redzook wrote::D
I'm not trying to start a spoa vs spua war again (Greg can do that) but it doesn't seem to be flexing much or is it just the angle of the climb not allowing it to flex.
How do like the setup with the Hilux diffs? Do you find it feels more stable? Has the added width changed the way you approach obstacles etc? Anything you still need to fiddle with or change?
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 10:41 am
by redzook
grimbo wrote:redzook wrote::D
I'm not trying to start a spoa vs spua war again (Greg can do that) but it doesn't seem to be flexing much or is it just the angle of the climb not allowing it to flex.
How do like the setup with the Hilux diffs? Do you find it feels more stable? Has the added width changed the way you approach obstacles etc? Anything you still need to fiddle with or change?
yeh pics neva do an obstacle justice the ones with the wheels in the air are fairly steep and off camber (had a swb mav lifiting a wheel quite high into the air in the same spots
)
and yeh definatly is a lot more stable
dont really change the way approach the obstactes but i dont worry bout breakin any more
still gettin a bit of a vibration from the centered rear diff! from 20 to 30 km hour.
ive borred some wedges off hypolux i am goin to put under the rear to point the pinion at the tcase to see if that will help the vibes any
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 12:19 pm
by droopypete
redzook wrote:ive borred some wedges off hypolux i am goin to put under the rear to point the pinion at the tcase to see if that will help the vibes any
You will have to move the centre bolt back on
ONE of the springs also
Peter.
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 1:10 pm
by redzook
id say it would have to move the diff back 2 holes on the drivers side
the angle isnt as bad as i thought it was goin to be.....
i should have the wedges under it by the sarvo
so i will be able to tell if it worked or not tonight
