Levuka 2012

[CheekyD1]

The Cheeky Report

Cheeky and I got up really, really early 7:30, we were warmed up and running on 7 cylinders.
We trundled down to Levuka, stopping for fuel at Kyogle
Signing in we rolled into camp, to find Chrissie on guard in the camp, We had just missed the convoy by 15 minutes. Cheeky was keen to do some wheeling, she is only really happy in low range, so we set of in search of the crew. Did not take long, they were playing in the rainforest south of the campsite. Levuka being Levuka it was described as moist, much to Grimace’s amusement “She said Moist”
After some splashing around in the mud, it was a quick stop in the camp for lunch, then we broke into twp groups. Steveo disappeared with group 2,.Pete led the other group into the harder stuff.
We were heading for Dingo’s but wound up doing Rosemary’s which was very moist (poo now I said Moist) We were at the bottom when Pete came on the radio announcing that he was going to have to break out his winch.:o
The rest of the group looked at each other, if Pete is winching we are screwed.:(
After Pete cleared the top, Harry revved up his V8 and hit the track, after a long period of very big RPM we all celebrated Harry being able to get to the top, right up until we saw his break lights sliding back down. After several attempts Harry was winched also. NOS was next up, he made it to within a couple yards of the top, after some more sliding he also winched.
Cheeky was up next, she was copping some from the spectators, mocking regarding the number of cylinders still working, seemed to be the order of the day. All this spurred Cheeky on and she just scampered to the top under her own steam. Yeah..:twisted:
After that all the others managed to summit the hill as well.
We drove down the bottom of Dingo’s after much slipping and sliding we all got down safely, with the exception of the eggs in Grimace’s fridge.
We then drove up the other end of Dingo’s which was untypically dry and therefore much easier than usual, finally we did Havoc, Cheeky has never managed to get over that stupid tree root before but after a couple of tries Today was the day.
So all in all Cheeky did good even if she was only working on 6 and three quarter cylinders….

[harry]

well a big thankyou to all for coming on this trip.
sat morning grimace and i with pete as naviguesser in grimaces car did a quick recce, about 20 minutes and set a plan to run a quick trip to take all the cars on, this was to be an easy intro to levuka rainforest with a simple creek run then a bit of easy but technical challenges.

sorry chaps and chappettes, pete made a slight error of judgement and grimace and i agreed with him. how silly of us.

in the end it all turned out ok with everyone getting through with some assistance and some real recoveries and tows up the slippery slopes.

note to self, don't put a d3 or d4 behind a d2 diesel, the d3's are a bit heavy and need a v8 to extract them when sliding down a slope backwards.
good work though stevo.

the arvo proved a different story, with the cars separated into two groups, 'ar, don't wanna break it but'
and the 'don't want to scratch it or break it'
stevo led the others and i went along behind the 90 of pete and sam.
we had a good time and sam even drove some tricky hilly bits leaving pete to fend for himself.
i sort of got lost later in the day and found myself alone stuck sideways across a wet rutted deep crossing with the rear jammed into a bank, causing the engine to stop and refuse to start due to the exhaust being plugged with 4000 tons of australia jammed in the exhaust pipe.

saved by stevo, thanks for that.
i then gave it some stick and went back to havoc to join the others,
seems on the way i chopped the front locker hose and needed some big numbers or noise to get up it, but made it ok.

then things started to fall apart,
jack or grimace informed me that fluid was decending to eaarth from my vehicle,
bugger cracked another steering box pipe, thats three, new one coming.

then this morning we packed up to leave,
took the maps back to the house and rolled my trailer in the front yard of the house, turns our the right spring broke all three leaves, the wheel drifted aft and upset the whole shebang,

**** **** ****, as grangmother would say,
we managed to set it back on its wheels and shoved all the stuff back into the car, with noz taking the club's generator home and mate david taking my bbq box.

the woodenbong nrma popped out to take the trailer to hospital.
the trip home was interesting with no power steering, but all ok.

thanks everyone.

oh, some pictures.
some people say i am a bit anal about tying down my loads, nothing fell out.

[Grimace]

-Grimaces Trip Report-

There was lots of numbers....






































in action :D

The End

[WhiteD3]

note to self, don't put a d3 or d4 behind a d2 diesel, the d3's are a bit heavy and need a v8 to extract them when sliding down a slope backwards.
good work though stevo.

Can't wait for the pics :wasntme:

[djhampson]

note to self, don't put a d3 or d4 behind a d2 diesel, the d3's are a bit heavy and need a v8 to extract them when sliding down a slope backwards.
good work though stevo.

Can't wait for the pics :wasntme:

I'd like to point out that one of the D3s got up without needing a hand from Smokey!

[WhiteD3]

I'd like to point out that one of the D3s got up without needing a hand from Smokey!

Never doubted you Dave :D

[inside]

My Trip Report:

We went to park, made fire, drove in mud, made another fire, drove in mud. Went home.

Here are some pictures:

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Here's my Isuzu revving at 6000rpm. Well it does when the video is running at 300% of normal speed. Boring but yeah....

Levuka 2012 - YouTube

[NOZ]

I'd like to point out that one of the D3s got up without needing a hand from Smokey!

I think Garry's D3 did make it up under its own steam, it took a few goes.

[Psimpson7]

Ok, Here goes!

Firstly, the 90 not only made it to a trip, and around on the trip, it also made it home... and not on an RACQ truck this time!!! Woo and indeed hoo!!!

We left home in convoy with Grimace and headed via Beaudesert for some food and last minute supplies arriving at the park about 9pm.

We set up camp, sat by the fire and then went to bed.

Early on Saturday morning, Harry and Grimace with me as passenger, went for a quick run to scope out an easy track for the mornings first run. We thought it would be reasonably trouble free and everyone would get round quite quickly... That proved to be wrong:D sorry for how long it took to get everyone round.

The plan was to head down track 1 out of the campsite and then head up rock n roll gully (most cars taking the first exit and 5 or 6 taking the second harder exit) and then go around one of the loop tracks back to camp.

Jason and family in the start of the creek run.

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me:

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Grant (Presto) taking the second creek exit bank:

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Guy doing the same:

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Grimace:

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DJ in the mud hole on the loop track - both the d3's were very impressive in this:

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Gary:

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Grant:

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Noz in his very smart 110:

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Garry - possibly the best sounding v8 of the weekend!:

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Craig:

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Harry:

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After lunch we split into 2 groups. Group 2 was led by stevo and took half the cars, and we headed off with the other half and onto rosemarys road.

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This was ridiculously slippy. Even after a few tries I only got to about 50m from the top and we had to winch. The problem was that as soon as you stopped turning the wheels the cars slid backwards at about 30kmh. We had another problem here in that I hadn't got any recovery gear set up and every one else was at the bottom.

I had to swap seats with sam and to do this, I had to leave it driving in gear with no one in it while we swapped over so I could go and rig up the winch. It took 2 pulls to make it up.

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As the slime got removed most people after the first 3 managed to drive up which made it a lot quicker going!

Down Dingos Run:

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Sam and I:

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Gary on Havoc crossing:

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JohnR:

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Sunday Morning we again split into 2 groups - our group had a slight hickup when the coil wire fell off on grants car - Grimace fixed it pretty quickly:

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What are they laughing at?

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LOL:

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That's all the pics I have - thanks everyone for a good weekend. We had a really good turn out of about 15 or 16 cars and I hope everyone enjoyed it.

cheers
Pete+Sam

[Garry]

Gents

But let's be honest, smokey could not skull drag my sorry a@&$ up the hill as it turns out, not that it was'nt appreciated :D

Thanks anyway stevo

Turns out it just needed more ponies whipped from the 4.4 to get up said slippery slope, I think the few before me polished the track for me though :angel:

I too had a trailer incident on the way home, just 100m from Harry's. I forgot to latch the pin on the hitch and it bounced off, the chain catching it but not without damaging the hitch beyond repair it did latch long enough for me to get home safely though with the help from a claw hammer and a wheel brace :o

All that aside it was a very enjoyable weekend, can't stress enough how good it is to catch up with everyone as I miss too many trips

I look forward to the next trip and plan to learn from my experience from this one

I can and will take away from this trip the best sounding low range first gear hill climb and the most likely to succumb to peer pressure ;)

G

[djhampson]

Some videos from this morning. Grant and Grimace using lots of 'numbers'.

GCLRO at Levuka January 2012 - Presto - YouTube (http://youtu.be/hWyM6HxL6DY)

GCLRO at Levuka January 2012 - Grimace - YouTube (http://youtu.be/A8Ciq22ilvQ)

I wish Gary had a go at this one that 4.4l would of sounded so so sweet!

Edit: Fixed link to Grimace's video which wasn't working....

[dungarover]

Bloody hell that place had some rain, I haven't seen it like that for a while actually but made your weekend by the looks of it very interesting. Wish I was there, it's bloody dry as down here (haven't seen rain for about a month :()

Bugger about your woes harry, **** happens and always when you don't want it to after a weekends wheeling :mad::mad:

Trav

[stevo68]

Yes folks....it's time for the Stevo Report....no doubt some folk have been waiting with baited breath for the Stevo Report to appear. So here we go.........

The Gossip

Seems Coopers Sparkling Ale and myself don't agree so will be heading back to my old fave Stella. My head space ain't the best at the moment as those close to me will know......so much so I ummmed and arrred about going camping ( hasn't happened in 6 yrs). So as they say what happens on a trip stays on a trip but my sincere apologies for my moment of narkiness on the first night and to anyone I may have upset :(.

Cruel and Unusual Punishment

The pic that I won't go into that Grimace showed me on his mobile phone will forever haunt me and no doubt others :eek:.

The Clarifications

Yes....Smokey did attempt to snatch up 10 tonne of D3 :p......on an already slippery slope. However what is missing is that this particular D3 ( we'll call him Garry) had already had 4-5 attempts. So Smokey was called into action and nailed the section...first go :cool:.

Just like at the bog hole......first go. However...and again we will call him Garry....got first prize for the beautiful sound of berries applied and full bore to ( having being inspired by Smokey)...........finally got up and over that section. This wasn't the first time that Garry had to be inspired :D.

The Awesome Group 2 ( remember what happens on the trip stays on the trip;))

Smokey and I were called in to lead group 2, which consisted of Chris and Diane, Garry and his better half( inserted as no hope of spelling Sharene correctly :)), Craig and his missus ( Kate?), Jason and family, Andrew and his dad, and Dave as tail end ( thanks mate).

What a great crew this was (remember shush now :p) and we had a pleasant drive, tackled some fun tracks.......did plenty of learning, team building and some cases of what not to do. Unfortunately a bit of peer group pressure creeped in at the Play Ground where....funnily enough Garry was showing off in the berries department and having the V8 sing at full song...but not making the track.

So again....Smokey was bought in to...well...I guess...show how it is done. Thankfully with full crowd looking on...Smokey did it. This then inspired the rest of group 2 to throw off the shackles of fear and give it a crack. Even the 2 D3's after numerous attempts made it as well :p.

As noted later in the day....had to rescue harry.....just before that a group of Nissans and Toyota's were getting bogged......once they got through by changing course....they sat and waited to see if Smokey would get through. Now after some of the "alleged" boggings I had earlier...Land Rover and GCLRO pride was on the table. So giving Smokey the berries ( as best as one can with a 2.5 tonne TD5) we bounced and slid our way through and made it...much to the disappointed nissan/ toyo mob who then slunk off. Jason also followed up by belting his V8 through. The pride of group 2 was well in tact.

The next day myself, Garry and Jason and families went and tacked a few more tracks. Again I showed them a few "what not to do's" again inspiring confidence and having an all round good time. So thanks group 2 for being willing partipants and jumping in to help in "certain" situations :D.

Other than that, for me it was great to catch up around a camp fire with Harry and Chrissie...been a long time and overall being with top folk. Normally I am the one who takes 200 pics....this time it was a self indulgent expose :cool:. Yes folks....all of that for one person...Noz kept asking me when the kids were turning up :D ( oh PS Noz...in case you forgot.....Byron Bay Chilli Company).

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Smokey thick with mud.....fun speed wobbles on way home

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That's all folks....see you soon,

Regards

Stevo

[NOZ]

Got the Chilli sorted Stevo, bloody nice with 2 min noodle :p joke .

Yep had a great weekend also my first trip with out my 4 children and to be honest I felt crappy about not bring them all week end.

Got to put the Defender in Low range for the first time and I have to say I was really happy with what it could do. Lockers no doubt help but use em if ya got em I say.

Another first reving the Defender to 4800rpm whilst trying to climb some slippery hill and then sliding backwards @ a great rate, which gave me a few puckering moments.

Thanks for your help with the winching there Pete.

There was a great range of vehicles to watch, they all performed in different ways, those D3's are amazing considering they both only have slight offroad tyres.

Thanks all until next time.

ps Harry I will bring the Kipor to the next meeting

[Grimace]

So glad we have a crew of camera men out there! I didn't take a camera this weekend, so have been saving all the images from peoples reports.

Also nice work on the video footage of Reggie Dave, I got to figure out a way to save you tube videos!

-Grimaces Trip Report- take 2 :cool:

Ok so now that I have had time to reflect on the entire weekend and have a good nights sleep, I will try to elaborate details that have not yet been reported.

Firstly Reggie & I travelled in convoy with Pete & Sam in the 90 towing their new track trailer, which was full of 35" BFG Krawler goodness!
Pete did mention to me that he would like someone in convoy as he was a bit nervous about the 90s maiden voyage in such a long time. I gladly agreed to be the safety vehicle, but in all honestly I think it would be much more likely for the roles to be reversed, and I myself was the one that felt safer travelling with a convoy.

The first stop on the way down to the park was McDonalds for a healthy quarter pounder burger , coke & fries! Second stop was the botLO for some hydration supplies. Then all the way to the park arriving at about 9pm (I think)???

At this time the fire was obviously well under way and the amount of wood in Harry's trailer was impressive. So impressive that I believe there was still a fair bit left come home time on Sunday.

We did some 4wding on Saturday, as per previous reports. I would like to highlight that I was impressed with everyone for being so patient, it took us a while to get everyone through the morning drive, but the final result was well worth it. Everyone stepped up and drove very well. My highlights for the morning drive are;
*Dave in the D3 droving the mud bog with relative ease, and then the slippery slope back up to the grassy fields. That's my first well done for the day.
*Craig in the 110. The bog hole may have proved difficult but the slope out was driven in text book style. Well done!
*Now onto Gazza (lol) in his V8 D3, as you may have read previously he struggled a bit on the slope out, even to an extent that Smokey could not snatch the heavy weight over the first hurdle. But after Craigs text book driving, and also the fact the other D3 in the group was already at the top waiting, Garry called upon the powers of dungaspec Trav and fed all the ponies all the way to the top. On the limiter in a car that's worth more then all my possessions.... Lets just say I was impressed, and cheering at the sound that was released to the wild :cool:

Now onto the afternoon run were we split of into two groups. Group 1 was lead by Pete, followed by Harry, Noz, Gary, John, Guy, Grant, Jack & finally myself. Being at the back of the pack I missed viewing everyone climb the first section of Rosemary's road and over the log at the creek.
It wasn't until I caught up to everyone waiting at the bottom of the long hill climb that I was informed Pete had not made it and was now going to winch :eek:
The first thing that came to my head was a swear word, second was another swear word, followed closely by about seven more.
But I could see that I wasn't the only one concerned about what was ahead, so I put on my can do boots and told everyone they could make it :D
It almost worked.... lol.
I honestly thought Harry conquered the hill on his first attempt, but unfortunately I was deceived. Thankfully while under winch Harry kept his tyres in motion in an effort to strip as much muck from the surface of the track in an effort to expose the more tacky clay underneath.

This coming to my first highlight of the afternoon run;
*Noz in his shiny 110 was noticably concerned about the climb ahead but he put all fear behind him and done an excellent job of stretching the Puma out to an unherd of amount of rpms :D. Although he did not make the climb, I think he made a stellar attempt, well done!
*The first car to conquer the arduous climb was Gary in the 7 cylinder disco, how he even got to the park let alone up the hill still amazes me ;)
*The final highlight (or low light) being my decent down dingos, which I foolishly thought I would try something different and see how reverse works in slippery ruts... IT DOESN"T!!! Final result was a fairly knarly nose dive near the bottom, a flying engel with lid wide open now on a 45 degree angle that ejected four beers and an egg. So one broken egg in car, 1 split beer can in car, another split beer can in the engel and four other busted eggs! DO NOT TRY THAT AGAIN!!! :eek:

I must have been in fight or flight mode for the rest of the wheelin adventure cause I can't recall to much of it. I'd say the adrenaline was clouding my mind :eek:

I do however recall being back at camp, chilling with great company, adults & kids alike. Harry had started the fire and with the combined help of others we managed to keep it going pretty well. We made a cool log chimney and it kept us entertained for a short period of time, right up until it collapsed.
Young JohnJohn had a go of the chilli biltong (like jerki) which I shared around for those game enough to try :eek: I am gonna be such a great dad :D

Sunday morning we said some goodbyes to the early movers, and then a small portion of the original group 1 headed out to complete a track which I have now forgotten the name of... bah.
It was an excellent track and my highlight of the trip all together. It provided just enough of a challenge without to much of a hassle and I am glad we all made it to the top.
I would like to say that although every one drove really well, I put a special mention to Guy who I personally think showed a much higher level of confidence in the field, well done mate!
Last well done for me goes to Elliot who was the only one cheering for Grant as he tried to take a slight detour on the nasty climb out :eek:

After all the above we headed to the play area, which was relatively easy going for everyone except myself, as prior to reaching our destination a little voice appeared from my radio telling me to try and drive a certain section of mud ruts... it was a dare, which I foolishly accepted :bangin:
So I was now stuck and required assistance :angel:
Thanks to Grant in the disco for giving me a tug :D
Thus allowing us to proceed on to the playground and back to camp!

So i'll rap this report up now by saying thanks to all for the excellent weekend! Good to see such a good turnout of members, both new and old on the first club trip of the year. I hope to see you all, on many more trips to come.

Over, chhhhhhhssshhhhhhhhh!

[Grimace]

p.s. the trip back home also resulted in a McDonalds stop for three cheeseburgers, chips and a coke :D

[CheekyD1]

Getting down to Levuka was fun actually, I have had a blown exhaust gasket for a while so I was not phased by the noise of leaking exhaust, I just lowered the two windows and enjoyed the drive.
Whilst filling the tyres with wind before leaving the park for the return adventure, I noticed that the exhaust puff, puff, puff noise was under the car not behind the left exhaust manifold in the engine bay where expected….
Rolling under the car I found a clamp between the headers and exhaust had lost a nut. Pete kindly delved into his assortment of spare rovers which he carries and found me a nut.
I did feel a bit awarkquard asking Pate for one of his nuts…. but needs be.
Pete’s nut reduced the exhaust noise down to a large din
So we headed off feeling good, unfortunately the new found quite from the exhaust leaks allowed me to hear the noise that the tappets were making.
Some of the noises climbing the hills in third gear were truly terrifying; around Lismore I really doubted if she would make it home. That and the down on power was also concerning.
There is a small hill after a set of traffic lights, which were red, when they went green, I attempted to move off, only to find that it was more than the old girl could manage, I thought I was driving a series rover for a while, I thought of snatching low range, but slipped the clutch and just got her rolling again.

Any rate she made it home under her own steam, and all the tappets stayed in the block.

One thing of concern this weekend was that Cheeky was officially declared Dunga Speck……:mad:
I am not quite sure how to take that, at first I was alarmed :o but on reflection I think I am proud now..:cool::twisted::twisted::p

Sorry I could not stay for the whole weekend, friends 50th on Sunday, but we enjoyed the day Saturday, Thanks to all involved.

PS I had Hungry Jacks in Lismore, onion rings too.

[dungarover]

See my infulence has well and truly been embedded in GCLRO folklore even in my absence :twisted:

Trav

[Presto]

An awesome weekend was had by the Presto crew! ...unfortunately I had to fly out to Sydney 5:30am this morning (yes I'm knackered), hence the lack of report!

Could I be the only one who suffered damage? I ripped a rear flare off going through a very tame "puddle" - just wasn't watching my quarter! :angel:

I should be able to get some pics up next week when I'm back, but wanted to say a big thanks to Pete for organising the trip, and everyone else who attended making it a typical GCLRO trip to remember! :cool:

[NOZ]

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Here is a picture of Grimace demonstrating one of the positions required to create the masterpiece photo he showed us all

[Big Dog]

See my infulence has well and truly been embedded in GCLRO folklore even in my absence :twisted:

Trav

Even the Great Lord Vada shall neel before Lord Dunga:D

[WhiteD3]

Even the Great Lord Vada shall neel before Lord Dunga:D

Only if he can understand your spelling Big D :wasntme:

[DRanged]

Even the Great Lord Vada shall neel before Lord Dunga:D

You know me Rod "Kneeling " is something I dont practice. (probably because my knees are shot mate)

Darth

[Presto]

Hi All,

Sorry for the delay in posting something.
Having looked at our pics, 95% are of my car (good work Mel! :angel:), but I have some videos.....

At the end of the second section of the creek run (which we explored on the Saturday), there's a small climb over some exposed roots. I used waaay too many numbers which resulted in a fairly bumpy ride and some momentary air for the front axle! :angel:

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Grimace showing how it can be done with far fewer numbers and no lockers! :mad:

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Cheeky running all 8 for once!

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Harry trying to recover Inside.....

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Grimace applying some numbers on the slippery climb - Rosemary's Road

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Harry discovering his front locker and power steering was stuffed!:(

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Some of us (Pete, JohnR, GuyG, Me & Grimace) went for an explore on the Sunday morning. Pete led us through a tricky gully: (nice video of the mud Mel! :angel:)

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See Dave's (djhampson) post for videos me and Grimace through the same gully. Elliot was shouting "Go Daddy, Go", even when we nearly drove down the side of the bank (see JohnR's pic).


And the last one - Elliot talking to the cows eating the "gross grass", "cows, no eating the grass please".

Levuka Jan 2012 068 - YouTube

[CraigMarlow]

We arrived to camp just in time to see everyone making their way to the tracks. Big thanks to Grimace for staying and helping us to air down so we could join in the morning fun.
We had some great new driving experiences. We watched all going through the nice little mud hole and wondered how we would go. :unsure:
Thanks to some great tips from Pete we almost made it - now we have muddies high on the "wish list" for upgrading the car. We got so close, but needed just a little snatch to get over the last slippery log - thanks to the recovery team[biggrin]
After lunch we headed back out with Stevo's group and had a little fun in the playground. After some encouragement from the group, I got up the nerve to try the dips and what a rush when I made it out the other side.
Big thanks to Stevo for being the trip leader and guiding us around (and for showing us what to avoid ):clap2:
We both had a great weekend. Thanks to all.
Kayti.

[JohnR]

Sorry my report has taken a while. I got a new piece of software and I have been playing with the photo's.......

What a great weekend, as everybody else has said. I am not usually a huge fan of Levuka as it has the tendancy to scary the pants off you at times when sliding down muddy hills :eek: I must say I still scared the pants off a couple of times when we slid down a couple of hills as passengers in our own car :o

But the new KM2 tyres and twin lockers made a huge difference on the rest of the tracks. :D I can highly recomend the KM2's they're awesome!

anyway on with the photo's:

First creek run was fun with a few slides on the rocks!
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A tight exit and then a quick climb out
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Another fine Puma gracing us with it's presence (that made three on this trip :D)
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A nice bog hole. Which had a few trying hard. I must say I was really impressed with the traction control on the D3's and the Puma's! I am not really sure what tweedle dum and tweedle dumber are doing here???
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I don't think Pete even noticed the hole in his revamped Beastly "Little Landy!"
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Back to camp for some lunch. Then we split into two groups to make the going a bit easier
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Pete's Defender has some awesome mods now
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2012/01/101.jpg

A fun climb, which Guy drove brilliantly!
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Grant giving it "Some Numbers!!"
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Grimace just chuckeling at the madness :p
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Two mighty Defenders :cool:
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Grimace foolishly sucoming to a silly dare :p
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Pete's mighty machine. The mods are fantastic! I am just not sure about the new paint job :p (Sorry Pete couldn't help myself)
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A quick dip in the mud
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Guy ploughing his way
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Grant was having a ball in his play car :angel:
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Grimace, as dirty as ever
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Steaming up the hill with the roar of the V8 :twisted:
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Another shot of the mighty little landy :eek:
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I even got a drive of the Beast! Mind you I was only allowed in 1st gear Low Low just to show off the new under-drive :p:wasntme:
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2012/01/112.jpg

Thanks to all who attended and made for another great GCLRC weekend away and a special thanks to Pete & Stevo for leading the groups :D

Oh and thanks for letting me have a drive of the Little Landy Pete, It's ok even if it isn't a Puma! :p

Cheers,

[CraigMarlow]

I would like to second Kayti's thanks, and (I hope) I have worked out how to post up a few photos we took:

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Don't worry Stevo, we won't mention what is going on here....
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[harry]

Don't worry Stevo, we won't mention what is going on here....
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so what happened here stevo?
the cat's out of the bag, time to fess up!

[Presto]

....looks like the same hole Grimace tried to destroy with numbers...almost scared Reggie out of the hole! :angel:

[GuyG]

Couple of pics from Levuka Trip. Was great fun.

Arrived Friday evening having had the diff pinion seal replaced (thanks Pete) setup tent and then sat around the fire. Saturday morning I had to go get fuel, (Urbanville has Deisel, 91 and 95 Octane Unleaded and is only 10km away), the tank was reading about half but it drops extremely quickly after that and I didn't want to run the risk of being out of fuel somewhere in the bush. Saturdays driving was fun - pretty sure I did all the tracks that Pete took us through, even a couple I've chickened out of in the past. Sunday morning I packed up everything as I wanted to see what was the best way to carry it all in the car while 4wding to ensure that it didn't move. The last thing you need is a jerry can bouncing round the back of the car. We installed tiedown points for the Cape Trip but didn't actually need them, however they did work very well as nothing moved during the Sunday morning drive.

Got rid of any cobwebs that may have been lurking anywhere in the car:twisted:. It was a nice change to be able to use the car properly and not have it start to overheat due to a) the incorrect timing (Gordons Country) or b) an old viscous fan hub (Emu Creek).

Thanks to Jaffa for the suggestions on where to trim the inner rear guards to stop the tyres rubbing/being sliced - this worked well, the only rubbing I heard was from the tyres on the radius arms on full lock, although there was evidence that they also rubbed above the rear springs.

[GuyG]

Couple of simple fixes utilizing a bucket, tape and zip ties:o.

Grimace has Mel cleaned your fridge yet after daring you to attempt to drive through the right hand set of tracks, unfortunately she didn't specify that he had to make it through or get out under his own power:twisted:. It was funny - as he accelerated the front right tyres just sunk further into the mud, so he had to climb out the window. The third picture was before he tried to drive through it.

Thanks Pete for a great weekend.

[dungarover]

See the fire went well and Stevos falling asleep in front of it. Some things don't change and my influence is still strong in that department :twisted:

Trav

[Presto]

Couple of simple fixes utilizing a bucket, tape and zip ties:o.


Dunga spec lives on in most of our cars! :cool:

[Grimace]

Grimace has Mel cleaned your fridge yet after daring you to attempt to drive through the right hand set of tracks

..... the fridge has remained unopened since about two days after levuka... I don't dare open it. Look out for a cheap 40l Engel on ebay :D