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Yeah i will have to get some PICS of the hole in the top of the diff centre!

I haven't started pulling it apart yet!

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dumbdunce wrote:javascript:emoticon(':P') so once both diffs were blown, how did you get out?

Oh now i get it!

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Anyway, sorry to lead you down the path on the breakage, but i did it at XRCC on the weekend!

Strangerover (aka Mogrover) pulled me out bakwards!!!

worst breakage so far is in me old mans GU, slid off a rock out at appin on sundayand tore a hole in the front diff, right in front of the crown.

lucky the hole is the only damage, wouldnt want to hurt those lovely 4.6's hey.

Rule number 1:
NEVER EVER go 4x4ing in the otways by yaself in da middle of winta and if ya do............ take the winch controler !!! DOH !!
Rule number 2:
when ya mate finally turns up 5 hours later ta get ya out and the snatch strap breaks......... DUCK !!!!

DAMAGE
rear tailgate--------- totaled
pride------------------ ditto !!!

a paperclip makes an adequate winch controller.

On Saturday night i blew the shortside axle on my 60 and drove home on one wheel drive on my detroit. Put a new axle in on sunday and went for a drive went to rip it up and i was still on one wheel drive. Took the diff into Sams from overkill monday morning and i have stuffed my detroit locker as well. Currenlty runing an open diff that Sam had lying around while an air locker goes in my hemisphere that i had lying around the garage that was meant for the front diff. This is my most recent damage but lately it has come down to eveytime i take my truck out i break something. Best thing though is I have never been towed home can always drives toyotas home they rock.

I hear you were getting real nasty with it too Monty!

A few years back we did a trip at Carters Brush in Barrington, going thru a nasty part of the track a Hilux in the group gave off a very loud bang and started clicking.

Assuming it was a CV I towed him thru the last 4km of the track with him in 2wd.

After we set up camp that night we had a bit of a look and found the problem.

It was a damn shock rubber!!!

Hehe yeah was giving the truck heaps Simon nothing nasty about that.

Only thing that sucked was that we didnt get to keep going and let joels have a crack at prado hill

pft monty like you know how to go hard, with your drives to winchbreak to just have a look. DRIVE IT!

Late one Fri night many years ago I rolled FJ40 off a mountain in Barrington tops. A stump stopped it after 3/4 roll - the bottom was way down there. A tractor pulled it out next day. Broken screen and fibreglass roof, a few dents and fluids lost from battery and master cylinders. Replaced fluids with ice water from esky, finished weekend trip and drove home.

I don't know if this has been mentioned in another post but I heard of a near new Pajero (no chassis) on Stockton Beach that was used to snatch another vehicle. The windscreen popped out, a guard fell off and the doors sprung. Wasn't warrented because the owner's manual warns against using single recovery point.

I was a front passenger in a Chev powered FJ 40 soft top.

Silly mofo driving it gunned it coming out of a water hole and swerved left, swerved right, swerved into big fricken tree at enough speed to obliterate the bull bar (u know how huge an FJ's bull bar is!), anihilate the radiator and bent the chassis. All in the middle of Wombat state Forest!

It was a very quiet two hour WALK out of there

photos?

First time out wombat state forrest,
stumbled onto a killer track.

3 hours later made it up to the last creek crossing, with only 100m of bog then a steep hill climb to go.

clutch had been playing up all day but had been managing to do the job.

mate goes through first no worries
i manage to make it to the middle and the clutch decides to stick.
stuck with no drive, no winch and water not far off the windows, my mate comes over to ave a look,
during which another mate(passenger) (pissed as fawk ) decided to jump into his truck to come and tow me out.
reverses flat out, over the enbankment and rolled it.

to cut a long story short we waited till morning and legged it to the nearset house we could find which luckily had a tractor.
I drowned the hilux, had to replace the engine, clutch and starter.
my mates hilux was totalled.

dumbdunce wrote:photos?

I wish...no camera at the time, though the bloke went back a while later to take a photo of the tree that stole $4,000 from him.

308LUX wrote:First time out wombat state forrest,
stumbled onto a killer track.

3 hours later made it up to the last creek crossing, with only 100m of bog then a steep hill climb to go.

clutch had been playing up all day but had been managing to do the job.

mate goes through first no worries
i manage to make it to the middle and the clutch decides to stick.
stuck with no drive, no winch and water not far off the windows, my mate comes over to ave a look,
during which another mate(passenger) (pissed as fawk ) decided to jump into his truck to come and tow me out.
reverses flat out, over the enbankment and rolled it.

to cut a long story short we waited till morning and legged it to the nearset house we could find which luckily had a tractor.
I drowned the hilux, had to replace the engine, clutch and starter.
my mates hilux was totalled.

oh man...that does sound nasty - and a frigin expensive day out!!

Yep sure was, learnt a few leasons that day!!!

funniest part was the gungho farmer driving his brand new tractor down the face of this hill (steep as fawk) to get to us. nearly rolled it a few times

he's enthusiasm scared me

RUFF wrote:My front windscreen fell out, my back one got smashed, my roof caved in a little, all my doors caved in, both my front guards shattered(fiberglass), my tray got all bent out of shape, bent the bullbar, got a hole in the radiator but none of this bothered me even a little.

What did bother me was the fact when the guard shattered it smashed the coil wires off and i couldnt re-start to continue

I just remembered this trail damage was nothing. I drove away from this one.

This one time i went to the car wash in my rig and it didnt drive after that

But damn did that carwash get in everywhere

Towing a car trailer (Hired) with a load on it in my modifed S11S landy Ute, coasting along to find the trailer overtaking me. (The trailer brakes were badly adjusted apparently) Ended barrell roling on the highway, trailer and load upside down in table drain. Blocked highway for 45Mins while 4 of us pushed it onto its feet. Started first kick and then used it to clean up the mess. Drove it the 65Km home. Police where happy they didn't need to report anything so they let me drive it home.

Damage:

Rear tub written off, moved sideways and upwards 8 inches
Roof, gone
4 inch Role pipe - broken in three - but saved our lives!!!
two scrubbed out tyres
firewall bent in two places
rear chassis bent
four broken mounts (Gbox and Engine)
one door written off
one guard written off


Load on trailer usable but now bent!!!!


Three weeks later and about threeee million curse words later, fully rebuilt.

Then the b;loke who hired the trailer to me had the hide to forge my $100 Credit card slip into a $900 Dollar slip to recover damage to his trailer, which was reversed by the fraud squad.

that is a crap carwash ruff, your car isn't even clean. I'd ask for my money back.

dumbdunce wrote:that is a crap carwash ruff, your car isn't even clean. I'd ask for my money back.

It wasnt to bad it cleaned inside the engine and gearbox as well as both diffs. And it was free

grungle99 wrote:Then the b;loke who hired the trailer to me had the hide to forge my $100 Credit card slip into a $900 Dollar slip to recover damage to his trailer.

Cheeky mo foker's!!! That is dodgy as hell....

Easy to forge the numerals though - how easy was it for the fraud squad to prove it? did u have a copy slip - or was it your word against theirs? (umm if it is their policy to charge $100 only for all trailers - did they think a NINE HUNDRED DOLLAR ONE would go unoticed?)

Didn't have a copy of the credit darc slip - clacker type, but had a copy of the trailer hire contract. Worst thing is that the next day was talking to a tilt tray operator and found out they charge the same rate for weekend Trailer hire, for weekday pickups.


Lesson - don't use unknown trailers for carrying bigger loads - ie car trailers, and check the price of a tilt tray operator first!!!

Busted the White Knight right front wheel assembly come clean off. So just sat on the hammer and give it some luvin.


Check it

hey ask TERRAFIRMA he broke both his arms ridin a nifty fifty hmmmm awwe was the bike bigger lmao

Singo17 wrote:Busted the White Knight right front wheel assembly come clean off. So just sat on the hammer and give it some luvin.


Check it

you sat on a hammer? OUCH!

Went for a porters to cranstons run one day in the MQ, Monty came also in his 60. Both unlocked and both looking for breakages. Lets just say we started the trail at 2 in the arvo and drove out at 5 the next morning after two broken front hubs...

...then there was this other time down porters when we were just minding our own business and this chopper dropped in to pick up an unconscious 80 series passenger that was just lying on the road infront of us... that guy's biggest bill that day wasn't his truck reapirs...

I miss you porters

what about your axle down cabbage tree? or broken shackles at menai? or busted tailgate down winchbreak? in fact, shannon, can you name a time you didn't break something on the trail??