Got some proper off roading in over the weekend at a Pay & Play in Sittingbourne. Not a bad site but thick with clay so quite challenging and a pain to clean!
110 did perform brilliantly though, TC isn't bad, took some getting used to but worked well. Not sure my 90 would have made some of the hills without the TC to be honest. The STT Pros where excellent, miles better than the old STTs.
Got stuck quite dramatically and lost my rear mud flaps! Found them but still annoying
Not so lightweight Bowlers anymore! hahahaha
After some winching I made it out! The overhang on the rear was stuck on the bank and the tyres where too full of clay to climb up the other side, lucky I did as I may have damaged the rear end! Still getting used to the length of this one
Someone got stuck, got winched out, exhaust dug in and wrapped round the axle!
Overall a pretty good day! No real breakages bar the loss of the rear mudflaps, I did manage to damage a track rod end which gave some pretty rickety steering on the way home and naturally the tracking is out.
Driving home was bloody frighting, could not get that clay out off the wheels with what I had and going above 30 made the entire landy shake as if it was going to fall apart, not to mention I had very little control over steering. Luckily found a services with a jetwash, managed to get it off the wheels and get home.
Did get some scratches though
misjudged the width of a couple runs, got to get used to the width as well! Not too bad though should be able to get em out with some T-Cut
When I got home I noticed a pretty severe oil leak, immediate panic sets in "have I cracked the sump!? or something worse!" All I knew was it that it was coming down from the turbo side of the engine
5 minutes -
12 hours -
Pulled the turbo off, cleaned everything up and so far it looks like the gasket between the turbo and drain has failed. New gasket en route and I polished up the mating face of the oil drain as it was pretty mucky and not at all smooth.
While searching for the oil leak I did notice the f*cking EGR blank plate is leaking, me thinking 'oh no this time it will be different, it wont leak' I stupidly used the allen head bolts which has now obviously rounded its head
.... So manifold off, or painstakingly hammer a torx in there. Why didnt I use a normal bolt! The leak isnt too bad so may leave it for now...
Sadly, even though I am a fan of Terrafirmas suspension, their paint is shocking. ONE jetwash and at least 50% of the paint has come off the springs, 24 hour salt spray my ass. The springs on the 90 however, year old, many jetwashes no problems!
My advice would be, if you fit TF springs give them 2 coats of Plastidip or similar.
Rather and try and fail to replace the broken trackrod end I bought some Raptor 4x4 HD track rods, easier to replace and will make getting the tracking straight much easier.
