Whaddon 4x4

Off-road driving at Whaddon

Another practice off-road driving at a 4x4 play site Whaddon near Milton Keynes. A massive 80 acres.

Preparation

  1. Moved the hydraulic feed pipe. It was the lowest point on the vehicle, going under the gearbox guard.I did that ready for the exhaust work. It is now moved back and is protected by the transfer case guard.
  2. Oiled and greased this and that.
  3. Fixed the front diff lock (two wires were a bit loose.)
  4. Put a proper clip on one of the large outer front CV boots. Fantastic service from Panda tools - ordered on Friday arrived on Saturday. A jubilee clip protrudes too much and cable ties, even the thin stainless ones, are not up to the job. What works are ladder clips that you crimp with nail pincers. Because the CVs are so big they need a pair of clips, which gives two crimps to tighten.

Aims

A.  To try out the winch under a significant load.
B.  Practice a bit more on rough ground.
C.  Go in deep water. I should be able to manage 1m
D. To meet Rich

Conclusions

Well see the videos.
  • I met Rich and Lisa and saw their new pickup.
  • Plenty of practice, some scary tracks.
  • There was some deep water but that was in the bottom of muddy ditches with steep sides. More of a landrover challenge.
  • The winch was amazing and word soon spread. it effortlessly pulled out landrovers that  even a pair of 4x4's could not manage to drag out. I just reversed up and pulled him out. The 4 tonnes vehicle weight was a help !
not bad ... I left before I got too tired and made mistakes. First the pond




Then some winching. Too busy to take photos really ... Lisa where were you when we needed you?

Then along the low road:


This is the scariest one: Blogger would not get it from YouTube, so here is the link:
   http://youtu.be/BhBpxhbgBwQ



camper moves independently on the torsion-free mount
falling over? ... close (20degrees?)


Rich gets a bit stuck and practices with his winch:

It's not broken, just setting the isolator switch
Lisa watches.

And afterwards ...

After all that activity ... one cupboard had pots and pans in it - that stayed closed. Every other cupboard had come open and dropped the contents. Well what do I expect from push fit fastenings?


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