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[hsvmonarogen3]

job is good. i cant believe i get paid so much to do so little, but be around cool crap. like we had to tie up a ship today. took about an hour. and working on ship loaders and bucket wheel reclaimers is pretty cool too.
went for a fish after work. didnt catch anything. but 2hrs of fishing after work is awesome.
8 hour days are heaps better than 12s. but its convincing me to buy a boat.



also kylie is pregnant.

also congrats to damo n tess!

[Captn_Awesome]

Thats awesome news! Congrats to both you and Kylie!

also wasnt rear main - the rear filter had blown out the seal (never seen that before?) and under load it was unloading all the oil out where the seal used to be all over the starter motor and down the bellhousing and along the sump.
Big sigh of relief.

[hsvmonarogen3]

cheers. yeah we are pretty stoked.

down side of owning a patrol - pulling everyone out.
yesterday went for a drive with a few mates. 3 cars. gq patrol, amarok and a ranger. we get to the beach (which was bloody awesome, water was very warm, but saw some turtles n stuff cruising along) driving along, amarok gets bogged. (clutch still smells this morning) so the ranger snatches the VW and in the process gets bogged, but the vw got out. so i pull the ranger out. decide to call it a day (3pm anyways) so we head off. come across old mate in a vitara sitting on its diffs in the mud flat. he is sunburnt to all hell, pissed as anyone could possibly get, so we pull him out. then a couple k down the track a hilux stuck. he tried to get across what looked solid, but was very muddy. his front right wheel was completly under mud. so i snatch him out.

and not even a beer was offered.

i will put some photos up when we get settled. all of our stuff got delivered yesterday so trying to get organised. and that boat that was for sale dropped his price 3k. now 11k ono. damn tempting....

[perrin_07]

congrats

[hsvmonarogen3]

cheers mate. everyone needs to be congratulated for owning a patrol. lol.
cheers tho.

[Damo95]

Congrats to you and Kylie!!
It sure is a good feeling.. Our little Audrey Jane is settling in really well so far..

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[Captn_Awesome]

hsvmonarogen3, on 05 February 2012 - 08:13 PM, said:

cheers mate. everyone needs to be congratulated for owning a patrol.

LOL that is a WIN!

Im so jealous of your access to good country up there. They dont have any jobs for me do they?

Man I nearly god bogged in suburbia yesterday!
Been down gippsland took a few tracks off grand ridge road after having a BBQ at Mossvale park with the funbuster and Yoshi. All was well - was a little nervous as I didnt have straps or even my hitch reciever but I took to a couple of chicken tracks where I was a bit nervous about getting through some tougher (bloody gippsland mud!) spots. Any way come back we're going through dande and I say to kel how about checking out where that fire was a few weeks ago. So we head down a dirt road then theres a small track and a sign "dry weather only" being summer I'm thinking all is good. head down there track is rough getting bounced around a bit. wack it into 4L for a bit more throttle control as the bumps are knocking us about a bit. Next thing I'm slidding towards a creek on near flat ground - WTF. I didnt even have my stauns with me so I couldnt air down and I was looking at being in the wrong spot across some pretty serious ruts and I did not have enough diff clearance for that (seriously they must have been dug out by 37" claws!)
Managed to use the side bitters to get out (dont think the steering box liked it much though) and back straddling the ruts. Decided "f**k this" the ground was mostly organic matter top soil so it I would have been well rooted if it started digging.
Would would have guessed you could (nearly) get stuck half way between work and home in the metro area

[hsvmonarogen3]

get a job in perth.

well my trusty billion7800n bit the dust the other day. been going strong until i unplugged it. anyways. dlink something or other has replaced it. speedtest indicates a drop of 5mbps from 3 days ago. WOW.

[Captn_Awesome]

Meh if i was moving interstate it'd be to adelaide.

[hsvmonarogen3]

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[perrin_07]

lol, they r a great 4x4 tho. had one that must have clocked over at least 2 or 3 times and in the end it was just the extractors which were dying. body was still as strong as ever.

[Captn_Awesome]

f*** jonesy get some lift would ya. Your making me feel good about how much room I've got in my wheel arches

[hsvmonarogen3]

yeah but it is good knowing that a patrol with rooted shocks can pull out 4 cars in 1 day most of them with 2inch or more. i will be getting lift after our trip down to melbourne, which is only 3 weeks away. might get some time out of the heat. lol.

and i konw your jealous of the places i go up here.... the gibb is more accessable from here too. only like 8hrs away.

[hsvmonarogen3]

wow. so there are 2 H2 Hummers in port hedland.... damn they are sexy....

[Captn_Awesome]

Who you gunna get lift through?

I'm thinking I'll get mine through Shane at suspension stuff as I want a bit of superiour engineering stuff and he seems to be he cheapest on that stuff. But I want drop boxes from Road Runner as they require no chassis cutting.
I want to do a 3" lift as then I can correct the steering geometry properly even though its not legal. 2" you cant really correct the geometry really can only correct castor but thats legal. Bit stupid really when you concider how much unsprung weight there is to keep the car upright.