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action packed weekend

4wding mixed with some Buggy Driving.

My 'MY' Tourer, Jussy's (BRAND NEW!) 4WD TD 3.0L Rodeo, and ofcourse D3V1L Dave's new to him Buggy.

Few close calls, few repairs while 'in action', few snatches .

All of my photos were off my phone...so not that good, specially at night.

it was an awesome test run

did have a few minor hiccups (to be expected)

excessive thrashing snapped the gearbox mount and gearbox nearly fell out ofd the bottom of the buggy and as a result ****ed out all the gear stick linkages and all that crap...so mondays task....to strengthen and refabricate everything and anything that holds the gearbox and motor to the car and improve on the semi dodgy gear selector.....caus it was gettting annoying after a while having stiff as shit clutch and hard to find gears

dave

yay. Looks like fun. Pity i missed it.

keep us posted on her status dave

Cheers for making me rodeo look bad MATATAK!! the only 2 times i got stuck on me first 4x4 outing in it you put picks up. May i add in this photo it was brenny that got me car stuck

Matatak wrote:

'Deo stuck again

All of my photos were off my phone...so not that good, specially at night.

buggy is up and driving again :D

but it does have an idle issue...it just wont idle..simple...and i dont know why...it could be fuel or it could be something to do with spark..i just dont know...ive tried everything...so new dizzy cap when it gets here...if thats not it then its something to do with fuell...but there is no fuel pump so i dont know

dave

buggy days does look like it was fun. rodeo aint so good now is it jus!

Jussy wrote:Cheers for making me rodeo look bad MATATAK!! the only 2 times i got stuck on me first 4x4 outing in it you put picks up. May i add in this photo it was brenny that got me car stuck

LOL the Deo is still good...but u need to stop crawling everywhere and showing off coz then u bottom out.


didnt even get any successfull hill climbs on vid as they wuld take to long Mr Crawler (maybe u shuld call the Rodeo 'The Crawler' )

I miss my Quad now

mmmmemories

Just thort i'd be a post whore

D3V1L wrote:there is no fuel pump

I think you'll find there is a fuel pump looking thing on top of the crank case. This, if its there, is only good for sucking fuel when the fuel level is above the pump - it won't suck against gravity. I really don't know why its there.

I don't think our buggy ever idled. Our trick was to wire up the throttle and choke so the choke was pretty much closed when there was no throttle, then as throttle was applied the choke opens with it. Other than that we never really needed the engine to idle anyway - we always had the foot in or needed some engine braking at speed

Cheers

Bennie

i knew it, i tried to rejig the fuel lines to go lower than the carb, but was restricted from the way the liens were run. :/ it was high at a kite to start off with

nah...having the fuel lines where they are are not a problem..it has not been a problem for the 12 years the buggy has been around.....there is a lot of underlying issues that im slowly sorting out..mostly caus it sat for nearly 2 years without being run... nearly there

dave