Morocco - Early 2010

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Booger said:
A bit off topic, but here is a bicycle with an air horn...

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No doubt that plays a tune. :D
 
woods767 said:
Simon and i made some good progress on the landrover today, but found more bad stuff than what we fixed. basicly the rear cross member consisted of a fiew layers of paint holding rust together, so weve rebuilt the lower side of that with angle iron. Nice and strong now and looks good. Got another plate on the suspension too, will weld on the spring seet soon. Found a big hole in another cross member though, in front of the tank, but there like ice burgs, you can only see 10% of it. No doubt more fun fabrication ahead. This chassis :censored:. :rolleyes: Never mind, im gona get some big bits of steel and beef the hell out of it for the trip, it will be back to streangh once ive finished patching it, but just to be sure :D. I will re build it into a nice landy when we got back, will have space too with the move.
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O dear :( As long as you don't have to go home in a Jeep :p
 
woods767 said:
No doubt that plays a tune. :D
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No Doubt :)

I have gone off the idea of a musical horn, mainly because I found a very good quality two horn truck air horn very cheap, so I'm just going to bang that on and if I want to hear La KakaRachcha (yes I know that is not the correct spelling) I'll just have to listen on the radio :rolleyes:
 
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Booger said:
No Doubt :)

I have gone off the idea of a musical horn, mainly because I found a very good quality two horn truck air horn very cheap, so I'm just going to bang that on and if I want to hear La KakaRachcha (yes I know that is not the correct spelling) I'll just have to listen on the radio :rolleyes:
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Thank the good Lord for that!
 
Hi All,

I am Ray and I too hope to be joining you all on this trip. I have met Richard & am an old friend of Booger.
Hopefully the 2nd gen Surf I have just purchased will be strong enough to keep up, although I expect I will still have to avoid any extremes.
The Surf has been checked over by the very knowledgeable Tony at 4x4Toys, being in great shape for its age. The visit next week will give me a 2" lift, an ATF Cooler and some new shocks. Money is tight (now jobless), so only absolute essentials I'm afraid.

I am looking forward to the trip... learning from you guys and of course getting to know the culture of Morocco.

I understand that there is a test run to the Lake district soon, where I will get to meet everyone.

Cheers

Ray
 
Crayzi said:
Hi All,

I am Ray and I too hope to be joining you all on this trip. I have met Richard & am an old friend of Booger.
Hopefully the 2nd gen Surf I have just purchased will be strong enough to keep up, although I expect I will still have to avoid any extremes.
The Surf has been checked over by the very knowledgeable Tony at 4x4Toys, being in great shape for its age. The visit next week will give me a 2" lift, an ATF Cooler and some new shocks. Money is tight (now jobless), so only absolute essentials I'm afraid.

I am looking forward to the trip... learning from you guys and of course getting to know the culture of Morocco.

I understand that there is a test run to the Lake district soon, where I will get to meet everyone.

Cheers

Ray
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Good to have you on board. :D Sounds like a good wagon. Whats an ATF cooler? My dads Jeep could do with extra cooling, the engine he has is renouned for overheating and having cylinder head failure.

Thanks for the brackets booger, just looked at them, will fit the cross member pefectly and have enough space to clear the tow bar too so very handy.
 
woods767 said:
Good to have you on board. :D Sounds like a good wagon. Whats an ATF cooler? My dads Jeep could do with extra cooling, the engine he has is renouned for overheating and having cylinder head failure.
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Glad to be coming along. :5bdriving:

ATF Cooler is an Automatic Transmission Fluid Cooler; which compliments the standard cooler integrated within the rad.... hopefully keeping the tranny more stable when working hard.
The 2.4Lt Surf has a reputation for head failure too, but the 3Lt diesel which mine is, seems to fair better.

I'll post a pic soon of the erh "slitty" when I get a chance.
 
woods767 said:
Thanks for the brackets booger, just looked at them, will fit the cross member pefectly and have enough space to clear the tow bar too so very handy.
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No worries. I'm making progress too..

Twin Batteries and new battery tray fitted, but not the split charge.
Winch In, then out again cause the cables were too short, new cables ordered, (not going to connect to the starter motor).
Made some brackets for the Air Horn and PA Speaker, busy painting them.
Main Tank Guard fitted, (by Kris cause I don't like drilling holes in my chassis :D)
Cooker Housing fitted.
Pygmy Safe fitted.

If you are free next week why don't you pop in at Ripley and see what's going on.

Hope to get all the hardware done next week (unless it rains every day - which looks likely :() And then it's just the mother of all wiring jobs left to do.
 
Booger said:
No worries. I'm making progress too..

Twin Batteries and new battery tray fitted, but not the split charge.
Winch In, then out again cause the cables were too short, new cables ordered, (not going to connect to the starter motor).
Made some brackets for the Air Horn and PA Speaker, busy painting them.
Main Tank Guard fitted, (by Kris cause I don't like drilling holes in my chassis :D)
Cooker Housing fitted.
Pygmy Safe fitted.

If you are free next week why don't you pop in at Ripley and see what's going on.

Hope to get all the hardware done next week (unless it rains every day - which looks likely :() And then it's just the mother of all wiring jobs left to do.
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That is some very good progress. You say "not to the starter motor" like its some kind of bodge.:eek: Was it the tie wraps over the air box, then the wire squeezing between the manufolds that put you off?:D

I got the other spring mount on today, but found another cross member to rebuild, the fuel tanks gona have to come out. :doh: Shouldent be too much trouble though. I also have a similar wiring task, ive decided to re do all the spot light wiring with relays, move the sterio head unit to the roof and remount the CB too. Then it sould all work properly.
 
Bodge, who you ?? :D No the manual specifically says direct to the battery, and I did some reading, and apparently going through the starter motor/body earth will put extra load on the winch, not sure if it's true, but as the winch is hardly a cheapie, I'm not taking any chances ;)
 
redwingslandrover said:
Landy looks great booger didn't make it to see you and kris today as i was suffering from a hangover.Got the disco to sort out for MOT on wednesday try to get down to you this week
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Thanks, No Worries, & Will be back at Kris's this Saturday doing the long range tank, and whatever else I can get him to do for me. ;) Also around Sunday if you want to pop in, help me with the wiring :D
 
woods767 said:
Bit off topic, but my landy is famous! Its appeared on "Time" (US magazine webite), in an extreem ironing video which feaures Disco jamez, a friend Gordon Fox and myself and some good old fashined sillyness.
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That's great, a sport that the missus could be interested in, I'll just leave out "extreme" when I mention it :)
 
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