keen for a wagon

shuffbag · Post by **shuffbag** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 7:52 pm

yeah in my pic they are on. in the subis around adelaide thread theres an updated pic with front/side pics.

i went whole way around the front guard, removed the mad flaps because my wheels were rubbing them any way.

and the rear almost the same except i left the mud flap on and pulled the last little bit of the flare across and bolted it to the mud flap kind of tapered it off

acousticjase88 · Post by **acousticjase88** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 12:37 am

shuffbag wrote:next time it rains should have a little fun up around the dirt road that leads to the ttg motorcross track. its not 4x4ing but it gets slippery and theres little banks either side of the road

where abouts is this ey? keeen...

today my girlfriend and i went for a big drive up gorge road...then through williamstown...and near the start of whispering wall rd there was this mini quarry thing off the side of the road....liiiitttle bit steep...and exhilerating....man im softcore haha...i wont pretend im pro. still, i was stoked, gotta start somewhere....it looked better in realife tho..

....i'll un-sook hopefully soon

acousticjase88 · Post by **acousticjase88** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 12:40 am

oh and cheers for linking me to some shots of your flares..i needa do that to the suby soon...

mrflibbles · Post by **mrflibbles** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:56 pm

can you weld? if you can might be worth making your own spare wheel carrier, ive nearly finished the one i made for my landcruiser, and it has only cost me $50 so far! although i would rather have an l series now than the cruiser!

acousticjase88 · Post by **acousticjase88** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:58 pm

naaah i cant weld....i could however get a mate to do it.....i wouldnt know how to do it all though man...as in...what it attached to...what it should look like :P....i sorta just wanted to know how those things worked anyways! they certainly look tough as.

mrflibbles · Post by **mrflibbles** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:00 pm

i couldnt weld when i started mine either, but a mate showed me where i was going wrong, and now i weld heaps better (good having a welder/boilermaker as a mate!) i spent some time surfing the net getting ideas and taking photos whenever i saw one!

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:51 am

Here's a prety good write up about a rear wheel and jerry can carrier with swing arms... Probabily a little too heavy for what I want but a good construction and design. It is from another subaru forum, but when it comes down to it life is all about networking

Cheers

Bennie

mrflibbles · Post by **mrflibbles** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:07 pm

thats a tuff as bar, me being me though would have made it more simple like! (that and im lazy!), but that is really cool.... maybe i will have to get rid of my landcruiser and get an l series wagon....

acousticjase88 · Post by **acousticjase88** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 7:40 pm

cheers for that thread about the wheel and jerry can carrier...it looks rad! verry keeen...but perhaps at a later stage when i have $$$...still needa sell my old car!

acousticjase88 · Post by **acousticjase88** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:29 pm

has anyone heard of or been to, the 4WD track at Pt Gawler...? i was informed of a track which goes from pt gawler(at the old bike track) to middle beach about 67KM's long or something like that....just wondering if anyones sussed it out?

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:25 pm

acousticjase88 wrote:i was informed of a track which goes from pt gawler(at the old bike track) to middle beach about 67KM's long or something like that....

Mate, 67km long?!! That's insane, would love to do a track that long! Is it slow going or stop/start stuff?

I'll let you know when I'm over there again, would love to check this track out

Cheers

Bennie

dylan · Post by **dylan** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:03 pm

dont get ur hopes up bennie, coming from vic to go 4x4ing out at pt gawler aint nothing special! would be better off doing a decent trip to the west coast (SA) or Yorks or Flinders, somewhere scenic!

acousticjase88 · Post by **acousticjase88** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:40 pm

Mate, 67km long?!! That's insane, would love to do a track that long! Is it slow going or stop/start stuff?

I'll let you know when I'm over there again, would love to check this track out

Cheers

Bennie

duuude...heaps wouldnt want you to suss it and be dissapointed haha..i know NOTHING abotu it, which is why im wondering if anyones sussed it before?...i dont even know if its an actual 4wd track...or if its just an old road or something...no idea...i will try and find out however!...it could be a huge let down though :P...we'll see

hey heres a stupid question people!...i got the second car key from the previous owner and its a key with a light in it?..has anyone got one? apparently you can get abattery in it and its got a little light and button etc,,..heaps dunno how to get a batery in it!???? a very unnecessary thing to have made right..but the novelty would be neat :P

Whats Goowla beach like for driving? im goign..probably the first weekend of november....im goign cockling...seasons back in!..a mate of mine paid $56 for 2 scoops of (non-goolwa) cockles the other day! needa get bait!...good excuse to get the suby on sand

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:50 am

Hehehe... ditto - I'm getting up my "repoitoure" (or how ever you spell that word) for when others drop in...

Next time I'm headed to adelaide I'll let you all know when I'm there. I hope its not a rush trip this time around - we seem to always duck over for 3 days or so to do the whirl wind catch up with rellies. Last time it was for a weekend, driving through the night on friday, then leaving sunday night to get dad back to work on monday!

Crazy times!

Cheers

Bennie

shuffbag · Post by **shuffbag** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:33 am

i hear that pt gawler closed down. would that not mean theres rally/motorcross tracks, big open areas and a go-kart track out in the middle of no where.....might be fun

mrflibbles · Post by **mrflibbles** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:00 pm

i saw it for sale somewhere on the net, but the nets always correct isnt it?

acousticjase88 · Post by **acousticjase88** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:46 pm

yeah im going to try go out to pt gawler sometime after work and suss out and see if there is indeed a track that links pt gawler to middle beach....my mate just said it might not be an official offroad track...apparently there are stages where you must get out and have a suss of the sand...litttleee bit boggy...we'll see.

got my rubbber flares too! i decided id bite a bullet and go for the official flare kits which are more expensive..perhaps im crazy...but the fact it had the thick metal wire which ran through it for support...it appealed to me...apparently they can sag after some weathering(the ones without the wire)...so i dunno...i just got the kits....$140 in the end...EEK!

im thinking i'll go al the way round the rear arches...but im undecided abotu the front...people seem to remove the front mud guard and go all round although some have removed the front mud guard and havent gone around the whole front arch either...little bit puzzled! it seems my front tyres, on full lock, rub the mud guard, so much so its worn a fair bit of the mud guard off i reckon...

if i remove the front mud guard and flare it all the way round, it wouldnt rub on the new flares would it? (Shuffbag?) or if i removed it and i didnt go all the way round, like only the top half...woudnt stones flick up at car?......

any one got advice? i dont even know if it is necessasry to remove mud guard....i assume it would be if its rubbing though?

haha....i think thats enough thinking(typing) out loud(sorta)

cheers fellas, ideas would be siick

acousticjase88 · Post by **acousticjase88** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:00 am

rubber flares are on! only had to use one box in the end! had about 100mm left! so i can return the other box!,,,so it cost 70bucks in the end to do...yeeew....looks sick...especially with armourAll on them...looks neat! but man o man...TIME CONSUMING!

pictures soon!

shuffbag · Post by **shuffbag** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:42 pm

yeah mine rub on the corners a little, but i think my problem is wide track and worn bushes

acousticjase88 · Post by **acousticjase88** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 10:51 pm

had a full car of mates in it...it was 'tyres rubbing on flares central'!!(when turning) i might needa cut the finishing angle a bit differnetly at the bottom....:P oh wellsss...

Shuffbag...what roads were ya talking about up TTG bike track which are cool to cruise on? you mentioned it once...keeen....

cheers man