Where are all those daily drivers?

[roscoFJ73]

Hey Rosco,

Cobaw Ridge State Park is 15km East of Kyenton. Its about an hour drive from Bendigo, where I live. The are a few places off road. There is Lederderg SP, Wombat SF and Fryerstown SP (Havent been here yet but looks like there might be lots of creek crossings) Cowbaw was great and really tested out my skills and my cruiser. I did find that the BJ74 was lacking in articulation. The vid of me driving the deep rutts and washout shows limited wheel travel.

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Yeah ,I had a look in the maps. Ive been to Lederderg and Wombat and around that area but in those days I didnt have a 4x4
You have to travel all day nearly to get to that kind of terrain over here.

 

[boogie74]

Hey Rosco,

There are some challenging tracks around and one that I didnt go up as the guys with 35's were bashing their diffs on the rocks.
I'd had a good day and didn't want to end up stranded

Entaran,

Do you have names of the hard tracks in Wombat or the area their in. The ones I've been on weren't that hard. If your going out to
Wombat I wouldn't mind tagging along some time if that's cool.

Hulsty,

I think I've read most off your build threads but I'll go back and study up on them and get some ideas.

Cheers!

 

[Entaran]

Heh, I can't lead wombat anymore. I sold my 73 w/lockers years ago. Wouldn't know what's hard atm it varies season to season depends where the DSE bulldozers go. Usual best bet is anywhere on either side of the creeks that run through the middle, and closer to bacchus marsh is tougher as it's heaps more vertical.

My 75 is NOT a trail rig, it's a daily driver and workhorse. I wouldn't take it on anything tougher than your third picture above, and even then i'd be goin slow.

Building a pirahna atm (offroad buggy, 2wd) for stupid forest fun.

 

[boogie74]

Thanks mate,

I usually go up around Blackwood. I'll check the map and head further south.

Cheers.

 

[prado t]

Sorry for the late entry

 

[NTFJ45]

Love that shot with the Landcruiser coming over the rise !

 

[boogie74]

Nice forest in those photos Prado!!

In the second pic the track looks a bit tight. I've seen chunks taken out of the trees and bits
of car left on the side of the track on some trails. Also blocks of rubber from the tyres
I've come out with no damage so far.

Are you running 80 series rims mate?

 

[prado t]

Nice forest in those photos Prado!!

In the second pic the track looks a bit tight. I've seen chunks taken out of the trees and bits
of car left on the side of the track on some trails. Also blocks of rubber from the tyres
I've come out with no damage so far.

Are you running 80 series rims mate?

The rims are made by Volk, they look similar to some 80 series.
Thanks

 

[benniebez]

Nice photies Boogie, I had a roll this past weekend, August 29...............................

Not much damaged as it was a quick uphill climb and the throwned into the next hole.........

 

[boogie74]

Ouch Bennie....

Hope you didn't get to much panel damage from that one. Did you mis-judge the entry into
that hole? Any more 4x4 pics mate? Look like heaps of fun tho

 

[cicak]

This is my STOCK 1991 LJ77 3L powered snail its also a daily driver it has just ticked over 350,000k's and everything is still original so I gave it a 349,200 pre 350,000 treat of cleaned iunjectors, new battery , new headlight loom and a oil change and radiator flush. Perfect. Apart from changing the shocks this is all I have done to this truck since owning it for the past 14 months.

Plans are underway to repaint it (a nice light jungle green with matching canvas green seats, headlining and door panels etc) , put a 1KZ in and a XD9000 or a PTO or 12,000 winch and kit it out as a jungle truck. However 1/2 cuts have gotten very expensive recently and now set me back roughly $4,000usd .

more pics when we start the coversion to jungle basher.

I made a mistake this is the one

this one is a friends - stock with 250,000k's ont he clock and a new timing chanin tensioner and a new head gasket and a rebuilt carbourettor it's still running fine and drives very well.