Went to Cityview 4×4 Park with the 4wd Monthly forum crowd, had a pretty good day, except i cant get to grips with the map there for the life of me.

I reakon ive got that place figured out, you pretty much have to pretend your not at a 4×4 park, but just on a trail somewhere, and that you cant seperate….ever!

Had a few issues, first Jim drove over some big tractor tyres and mushed his hand brake drum and guard, I flexed out and a rear spring came of the bottom seat, while Jim was attacking the brake drum guard with a club hammer and a screw driver, i cabled tied my spring back in place

After that we chased the group around the park for the rest of the day, not really ever being able to find them. During that process Jim somehow managed to jam a tree stump between his front axle housing and tie rod. We ended up dropping one end of the tierod off and driving forward, reattaching tierod, and then reversing out of the way…

After that we caught up with a couple blokes driving hilux’s and drove “Jeepers Jumpup” which is one of the harder tracks in the park (also one able easily identified on the map)

Heres a few pics of a mate of mine (Jim)

Decided i would put the bash plate that i had on my old wagon onto the ute… instead of using tek screws like i did with the wagon, i made up some brackets and used 12mm high tensile bolts and nuts. The only thing is that when i tried the bash plate upto the chassis of the ute, i found that the transfer case is a full 20mm lower than the wagon!, WTF!!, My only guess is that because the ute has a holden V8 in it, it has changed the position of the gearbox, lowering the transfer case…. So i ended up cutting a hole in the plate and making a cradle 20mm lower for the transfer…looks like complete balls….but works.