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G'day all,

I'm not going to write the story of yesterday's totally awesome offroad session, I'll leave that to the images.

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Tracks hit up: Pole Tk, Camp Tk, Soil Pit Tk.

From here Subaruby departed.

Then Reily's fire break tk, some random fire track, Croziers loop tk, another random track or two before popping out on Mooney's Lane to end the day's session.

Thanks to Subaruby and Deadman for coming for the day. Apologies for not having done a reccie before the day as the tracks had severely changed since I was last in the area!

Cheers

Bennie

Nice pics Bennie

Nice day out, thanks for the organisation.

Very happy with the performance of the stock foz on the tracks, much better than I had expected.

Although comment from the wife when I was uploading my pics of Dedman and El-freddo, "You didn't take your car were they went did you?"

From the day after due to the camera turning off after stalling on the day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3MIRV9Ux7Y

Alex got his foz up here too - that's him on this track in the later photos.

The Land Rover crew were gold. Two hours later they were still there getting the last two vehicles up the second part of the track. I'm sure they stopped for lunch...

Cheers

Bennie

Looks like fun.
Anything get broken ?
Looks like there was some potential for breakage.

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

Jan

"Canadia" seemed to really enjoy herself lol. Great track, Ruby Scoo did well

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

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

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:



^ 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!





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

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

Cheers

Bennie

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?

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...

Cheers

Bennie

Roger.. not much going to help if you hit boulders

Bugger! Sounds like you got it fixed though