Aquasprite
April 7th, 2009, 06:28 AM
:), Hi Everybody, my user name is Aquasprite.
I'm a 4WDriver from Christchurch, New Zealand, down in the South Pacific, just a bit east of Australia.
I've been 4WDriving since about 1982 or 3, startting with a leaf sprung Land Rover 109 Flat Deck truck, which I smartly converted to a Hard Top. Next I had a 1986 110 coil sprung L/Rover, which got rolled over in the Arrow River, near a place called Macetown, the ruins of an old gold mining town, deep in the mountains of Central Otago. Next I bought a brand new 110 Station Wagon when I was offered early retirement from NCR when they merged with AT & T. This truck I used as a tour vehicle, running Peninsula & Alpine 4x4 Tours for 9 years and putting 420,000 kilometres through the old girl. When I turned 65, I said "I've been paying the Governmemt for long enough, they can pay me now!" and I retired. I spent some time restoring the 1986 110 and used it for a couple of years more until it got rolled again and written off this time.
Now I bought my 1994 Toyota Prado, stripped all the "pretty bits" off, gave it 4 inches suspension lift, fitted a "ring of steel" round it, with bull bars, sill rails and channel iron wrap-around back bumper with a socket for either an ex Army NATO hitch, or a tow ball for a trailer. Then I took it off road.
I have had it for about 3 years now and like it a lot. The suspension lift gives it excellent axle articulation, which equates to traction in places where even trucks with locking diffs get stuck.
I've joined this forum to pick your brains about winch motors, but more of that later. It's now 29 minutes after midnight, our time, so I'm off to bed.
I'm a 4WDriver from Christchurch, New Zealand, down in the South Pacific, just a bit east of Australia.
I've been 4WDriving since about 1982 or 3, startting with a leaf sprung Land Rover 109 Flat Deck truck, which I smartly converted to a Hard Top. Next I had a 1986 110 coil sprung L/Rover, which got rolled over in the Arrow River, near a place called Macetown, the ruins of an old gold mining town, deep in the mountains of Central Otago. Next I bought a brand new 110 Station Wagon when I was offered early retirement from NCR when they merged with AT & T. This truck I used as a tour vehicle, running Peninsula & Alpine 4x4 Tours for 9 years and putting 420,000 kilometres through the old girl. When I turned 65, I said "I've been paying the Governmemt for long enough, they can pay me now!" and I retired. I spent some time restoring the 1986 110 and used it for a couple of years more until it got rolled again and written off this time.
Now I bought my 1994 Toyota Prado, stripped all the "pretty bits" off, gave it 4 inches suspension lift, fitted a "ring of steel" round it, with bull bars, sill rails and channel iron wrap-around back bumper with a socket for either an ex Army NATO hitch, or a tow ball for a trailer. Then I took it off road.
I have had it for about 3 years now and like it a lot. The suspension lift gives it excellent axle articulation, which equates to traction in places where even trucks with locking diffs get stuck.
I've joined this forum to pick your brains about winch motors, but more of that later. It's now 29 minutes after midnight, our time, so I'm off to bed.