TR: ANZAC Day Cobaw 4wd sesh *Epic # of pics*

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Post by El_Freddo » Sat May 10, 2014 7:02 pm

yarney wrote:Wow Bennie what a rock garden love it they are the best tracks to drive on real technical
Good job on the video too good to see you didn't let us down and get stuck;) I bet the Rover boys got a shock when you went up that track:twisted:
Great country
I'd love to know what those guys were thinking after I kept going... Keen to know if there's some footage from their point of view on youtube - finding it would be the trouble with this one!

Granitic country is the best/worst for rock technicality - the loose stuff is the worst as it moves as you pass over it, so rocks aren't in the same spot when the rear travels over it. One of these tracks was the one that gave Ruby Scoo her signature dint in front of the rear right on the sill...
NachaLuva wrote:"Canadia" seemed to really enjoy herself lol. Great track, Ruby Scoo did well :D
Yeah Canadia goes home tomorrow... I'd like to show her some areas around benders (where I am at the mo, she's with my sis down the road) but we're out of time. So she'll just have to come back!
Cliff R wrote:Looks like fun.
Anything get broken ?
Looks like there was some potential for breakage.
Loads of fun Cliff! Nothing broken on this track except some Rover owner/driver's expectations :twisted:

Later on though I was in a section I've not been in before or a long time (can't remember!), it was insane, to get around one section I purposely put the side of Ruby Scoo onto a boulder to pivot around on a track, then to get around a severely rutted section with a 30cm step I took/created a chicken track but it had a stump buster (boulder in the ground) in the centre of it. Even after walking it I thought I could get around it by putting the vehicle to the left. Not so. Ruby Scoo's momentum stopped immediately, we dug 4 holes and I'd smashed my exhaust extractors on the driver's side.

I'd thought it was my silicon gasket so I re-did those one night after work, but nothing had changed. Once removed again and the heat shields were taken off I found this:

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^ I could see the ding/dent you can see in the top curve of the exhaust pipe (top as it is in the pic) when fitted to the car. The removal of the heat shielding revealed the reason why Ruby Scoo still sounded like a chaff cutter!

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It was a ripper job. Lucky there was no engine damage - well none that's shown up so far but I'll have my eyes peeled. So off to my uncles with this and he welded it up for me. Now Ruby Scoo sounds good and the O2 sensor is happily getting ALL exhaust so my fuel economy should be better!

To get around this rock that caused the issue we dug at it, gently snatched it, then dug a big hole and rolled it out of there and down the hill (out of the way!). Then Ruby Scoo did what Ruby Scoo does best - got us out of there to find the rover crew again :D

Great time out, wish I could do it more often!

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Post by RSR 555 » Sun May 11, 2014 12:07 pm

Bennie, have you got a securing mount (for the exhaust pipe) at the back of the gearbox and a flex joint in the exhaust system?
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Post by El_Freddo » Fri May 16, 2014 7:30 pm

RSR 555 wrote:Bennie, have you got a securing mount (for the exhaust pipe) at the back of the gearbox and a flex joint in the exhaust system?
Got the flex joint in the exhaust but cracked the rear mount off the back of the gearbox off ages ago! Not that one of those mounts would have done much in this case - I ran it fair and square into a rock (read: boulder) in the ground...

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Post by RSR 555 » Thu May 22, 2014 9:25 pm

Roger.. not much going to help if you hit boulders
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Post by NachaLuva » Fri May 23, 2014 12:47 am

Bugger! Sounds like you got it fixed though ;)
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Post by vincentvega » Fri May 23, 2014 11:26 am

thats one bloody capable L series bennie.

what tyres are they on the foz? look interesting..
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Post by El_Freddo » Sat May 24, 2014 11:44 am

NachaLuva wrote:Bugger! Sounds like you got it fixed though ;)
Yeah, it's much quieter now and sounds like it used to :twisted:
vincentvega wrote:thats one bloody capable L series bennie.
Thanks mate! I'm still playing with the setup but I'm pretty happy with her at the moment
vincentvega wrote:what tyres are they on the foz? look interesting..
Don't know off hand, but I'm sure they were some sort of Maxxis from memory. I'll find out for you ;)

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Post by Bumpty » Thu May 29, 2014 6:35 am

The SF5 looks HAWT!
How well does the solar on the bonnet work?

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Post by El_Freddo » Thu Jun 12, 2014 9:47 pm

Bumpty wrote:The SF5 looks HAWT!
How well does the solar on the bonnet work?
I think it used to work better than it does now. I believe it was put there to trickle charge the battery so he knew it wouldn't go flat. Looks pretty good there too IMO.

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Post by NachaLuva » Mon Jun 16, 2014 4:46 pm

Bumpty wrote:The SF5 looks HAWT!
How well does the solar on the bonnet work?
He put that on when he did the Balfour Tr in Tassie...yes, the BALFOUR TRACK!!! Not that many big fourbies do that track & he did it in a Foz with 2 open diffs! A real achievement :twisted:

I think he uses it to keep his 2nd battery charged ;)
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