Thread: Meet my 90, and share the adventure.

Man that looks like a lot of fun! Best view of anyone you got there.

I made it up there last year but after having our second child in Feb i can no longer venture too far from home haha.

Keep up the good work

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This rig had a hydraulic actuated A frame over the diff, allowing the rear axles to be jacked down to better position around obstables.

This was the track beside us. This drop off claimed a few vehicles over the few days. As you can see, this bloke narrowly avoids a rollover.



Some very skillful driving on display here. With some crazy angles on 2 axes, he was successful in riding out that line to be in a very good spot for the next obstacle on the 80 point gate.

Big tyres don't always win. This vehicle was rocking some massive rubber, but still bellied out on the 90 point gate.
The little zooks were very competent little trucks, and were the basis of many builds at the event.
The biggest truck there was team LowLux, who were running rockwell (monster truck) axles and 54" tyres. He managed to get stuck on nearly every course he attempted, and ended up getting a DNS (did not start) for many tracks... netting a negative score for the entire comp. It can be a cruel sport.



A bit of wheel spin action on the 90 point gate. "A bit of redline for a good time!". It's what the fans want. Sadly not every spectator is in it for watching driving skill... many are just keen to sink beers and watch the cars self destruct.

This jeep meets an unfortunate end on the adjoinging track. He looks like he was going to stick it, but a bit too much gas and a wrong line and he was over.



Successfully traversing the 90 point gate... albeit with penalties for touching the bunting on the rock, and knocking over the cone at the 100 point gate at the end.

This little zook (Vitara) had a bit of a bad run down the drop off on the Rocky horror course. He ended up clipping his LHS front wheel on the rock, and momentum did the rest. Driver was unhurt. All the vehicles need to have racing harnesses, extinguishers and rollover protection.




He was not the first vehicle to go over on this drop:



Other notable pics:


Team rumlux- always good for a rev and some wild driving


This 60 series cruiser was very cool. It was its last Tuff Truck event, IIRC.


Team Elmo- a Hilux covered with red fur... and red balls too


A Rangie getting recovered by the Manitou. Lol.





This rig was running a solid rear axle on leaf springs. He did exceptionally well given that many cars with all the bells and whistles (4WS, hydro shocks, etc) did not get as far as him. Props to this dude.

There is a video of him above, too.

I now know what colour zombie blood is



Night time mud run up on Feral hill.
These blokes had a beer can snake going. Shortly after they were skulling beers out of someones shoe. There was also the obligatory tits out for the boys chant, interjected by a chorus of 'GIVE IT' when a car was revving or stuck on one of the obstacles. In the distance in the feral hill camping area, there was the occasional gas cylinder exploding in the fire, as well as fireworks and revving of their engines.



Anotehr team- Team OPW - The Tractor

This was the first vehicle across our track for the weekend. It went well, given that the track only deteriorated as more vehicles chewed it up. We had a few boulders which would have been a good tonne, move along the track over the weekend. The Manitou was called into to reset the field of play on a few occasions.

This was the track with all the rollovers- Rocky Horror.
Kids for scale. They were some massive drop offs, with very minimal run-off room.


Another track, complete with wrecked cars as an obstacle.


Devils Marbles track.
So.
Many.
Boulders.





This was on the side of the track which I found during event clean-up. It's and old brake rotor... this track claims victims.

In prep for melrose and the critical eye of all the fellow landy nuts at the show 'n' shine, I thought it fitting to give the mule a bit of a scrub up.

Full disclosure- I hate washing cars. I've got 4 of 'em in the household, and it's a task I despise. It's a job of necessity- something that only gets done when it reaches critical mass- usually an event or when the punters struggle to find the car under all the dust and mud. Most of the time I'll drop a few goldies into the car wash and use some high pressure soap and a rinse to get the mud dingleberries off, but this time it needed 'just a little bit more'.

Normally, If the mule is lucky, it'll get about 4 washes a year.
Today, all it's christmases came at once.

I stocked up one some car care gear at supercheap, thought I'd give the autoglym stuff a go (I've never used it, usually bought Meguiars).
Walked out with some shampoo, spray on wax stuff, and some interior protectant and some microfibre cloths.

Started with a wash and chamois.
Moved onto some bug and tar remover on the bits that were a bit stubborn.
Cracked open the long-neglected clay bar cloth and gave the panels a once over.
Followed up with a coat of the spray on wax and buffed it.
Moved onto the trim panels, bullbar, snorkel and window trims, and used some plastic rubber vinyl protectant. Also did the dash and plastic panels insde
Washed the windows and rainex'd them.
Did the tyres. Because race car.
Also spent 5 minutes spraying the plastic fantastic under the bonnet.

Turned out better than expected, but I still want my 4 hours back *grumbles incoherently*










Proof you can actually polish a turd!


Today, I also did one of those annoying little jobs I'd never got around to.
The side mirrors had worked loose and were a bit 'flappy', so I removed the hinges, loosened off the door card a tad, and re-tightened them.
First time I buggered it up and lost the nuts inside the door card. Thankfully they dropped straight down, and I pulled them out the bottom.
I should probably re-visit this job and lock-tite the mirror screws in place. Half the problem is the safari snorkel impinges on the mirror arm when the door is fully opened. So the mirror arm is continually flexing as the door is pushed to the lock-open position. This has likely resulted in a much quicker loosening of the little philips screws which hold the mirror on.