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WhiteD3
18th February 2008, 06:17 AM
I won't steal Bolt's thunder re the trip report but want to post my pics, so in summary:

We met:

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Bolts, Steinzy, Richard, Navron and myself went our way.

YouTube - Ormeau 17-2-08 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzMFfJHYwJ8)

I followed Bolts through some water (Camera boy forgot to press Record at this point:(), then Steinzy.

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2 hours of mucking around resulted in the rangie being towed for a few hundred metres where it decided to play ball again. Cameraboy talked to the dog.
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It's 11.30 by now so we're heading out. A Patrol is broken down and blocking the track. A pair of Zooks squeeze past us going the other way, one gets a flat while 3 cruisers blocked our rear. Another 30 minutes sorting out our exit.

So down we go only to come across another cruiser stuck on an exit out of a creek. He backs out for us, Navron gets up and has to snatch myself, Richard and Steinzy.

YouTube - Ormeau 17/2/08 Snatching (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSGPLaOGUMo)

Stikman's now joined us and I find myself in the lead banging up against big rocks. Clear that and find I've managed to put a rock through the wall of my rear passenger tyre. Said tyre had suffered a puncture late last year reccing a GCLRO trip with Inc and was repaired and put back on by a well-knowing tyre repair company.

We spent an entertaining hour or more possibly, with ten blokes breaking 1 D3 wheel brace (LR tell me this morning they'll replace it under warranty), a tension wrench and later a socket (PM me Stikman with the $$). Using 3 jacks (Yes, I'm out this week to replace the scissor jack) and everyone secretly wishing I could actually afford this D3 and hence was willing to drive outa there on the alloy rim (yes, no one said anything but you were thinking it), we managed to strip the "for show" casing off the nut so it was slipping around the actual wheel nut. Lots of groaning at this stage, I can tell ya!

To the rescue came a Patrol driver with a broken leg (no joke) with an old 4 spoke wheel brace and hammer. Somehow the wheel nut casing came away in the brace, which allowed us to apply a smaller socket on the brace and with the assistance of a hammer and D2 bottle jack (to keep the brace square to the wheel), the nut finally came off.

Stikman gets past me and we wind our way out where Steinzy's RR over heats. We pool our water supplies to get it going, then it rains and his wipers fail. I think there was more trouble on the day but others can add that detail.

Bolts, I know you were shaking your head with all the goings on but Andrew and I had a good day, learned heaps and got to know some people a lot better. Thanks for leading and getting us all outa there!

Cheers,

Mark

DRanged
18th February 2008, 07:26 AM
Geez

You guys made our 1 slashed tyre trip seem quite boring. Trav had his wheel nuts off before we even pulled up to help. Got to love tyre places with rattle guns hey:(

Steinzy P38,s dont like swimming mate, definately a dry ground creature;)

Navron how did the new tyres go, did we cut enough of your guards to clear?????"

Had a good day in our group. Well led and no major problems. Although I had one of those ""pick the worst line days"" you get that from time to time. Also ran my tyres a bit soft for the terrain (8psi) probably should have been around (12psi) you never stop learning hey. Had some good displays of wheelstands and more than enough side slope angles but other than a couple of tree hugging moments all came out well. Glad to see Phillippe not making out with the trees again hey mate!!!!!!. Must admit the Creepies are missing some rubber off the side lugs, that rain has definately uncovered some sharp rocks. Its reassuring to have so many capable cars and drivers together in a group, its makes it easy on everyone.

Regards justin

Zakros
18th February 2008, 03:03 PM
Those tires where great, didn't hear the wheels touch the guards at all.
I do now have a problem, the steering lock on the disco is now two small. off set rims ?

Navron

dungarover
18th February 2008, 03:25 PM
Those tires where great, didn't hear the wheels touch the guards at all.
I do now have a problem, the steering lock on the disco is now two small. off set rims ?

Navron

I see you have 265's, try running 285's with std rims and big-**** lugs on your tyres :eek::eek::eek:. Could get some offset rims, that means I have to spend money on something that could be put to use elsewhere.

Like Justin mentioned, Our 'hardcore' group was pretty uneventful, probably my tyre issue was the worst of it and apart from that bloody AFM issue that is (end popping off). Just another job to sort out.

Trav

bolts
18th February 2008, 06:08 PM
A great trip report from (mark) WhiteD3 with all the photos and Videos to back it up. Could not have done it better, so thanks Mark great report.

I have to say though we have some great members and a great club as with the issues we had on the day the members were great as no-one got upset and all pulled together to get everyone going or at least home, even when it did start raining. Despite having a few issues on the day we still got some driving done and found a few tracks that i had not done before.

The members in our group made my job of trip leading very easy on the day so thank you to everyone. Speacil thanks to Stickman for coming back and finding us and leading us up and out of the creek and his help with the tyre on the D3.

Although we were the easy group:o we had our fair share of break downs but also got our share of driving done and most of all we all got out in one piece and everyone got home safely although with damage to Steinzy and White D3 vehicles. Was a great club effort and a good bit of driving even if a little longer than we all wanted;):D.

Cheers again to everyone for a good day out.

WhiteD3
22nd February 2008, 10:18 AM
LR replaced the brace under warranty yesterday and the wheel nut cost $30, which I thought was reasonable given LR's parts pricing. New tyre was $446:(. I went out and bought a 22mm socket and 450mm wrench to use as a wheel brace.

Still looking for a suitable jack.


We spent an entertaining hour or more possibly, with ten blokes breaking 1 D3 wheel brace (LR tell me this morning they'll replace it under warranty), a tension wrench and later a socket (PM me Stikman with the $$). Using 3 jacks (Yes, I'm out this week to replace the scissor jack) and everyone secretly wishing I could actually afford this D3 and hence was willing to drive outa there on the alloy rim (yes, no one said anything but you were thinking it), we managed to strip the "for show" casing off the nut so it was slipping around the actual wheel nut. Lots of groaning at this stage, I can tell ya!

To the rescue came a Patrol driver with a broken leg (no joke) with an old 4 spoke wheel brace and hammer. Somehow the wheel nut casing came away in the brace, which allowed us to apply a smaller socket on the brace and with the assistance of a hammer and D2 bottle jack (to keep the brace square to the wheel), the nut finally came off.