Green laning (North Wales) 17th Oct 2010 ***REVIEW***

Hope you all had a good days Laning in Wales...

Please post you pickies, vids and accounts of what went on here..... :wink:

well let me be the first to say i broke my record for having the v6 off-road, this time i made it to 20 minutes in total off roading before breaking it again, not to bad this time, just the viscus fan gave up the ghost, had got about 100 yards up the wayfarer and the temp shot through the roof, had to get huggy to back down to let me of the lane, so i could make my way home, drove home fine, at least i got to do the carwash,

as i was about to back down the lane, simo run to the back of my truck shouting hold on hold on, then he robbed me of all the sausage rolls and pies, hope you choke, lol,

hope you all had fun,

ps, no sign of roo, must still be in Chester zoo

Gutted for you Andy. Managed to get just three pics of you before retirement

Will add more when I get back. Oh, and Mrs and youngest say thanks V much for the cakes

More to follow later, got to go and pick the rest of the kids up .

just got home..will upload the piccies in a moment..

Exhaust just about made it home..it's a bit more wobbly and tad louder than when i left..well it was a blue peter can an gun gum jobbie.

right now time for a swift bevvie, before I go and pick the wife up from the train station...then a few more later.

thank you to the gate openers & closers..it means alot....note for future passnegers/ gate people..Don't wear nice clean WHITE trainers..

Cheers guys it was a good day and very enjoyable.

(pics to follow)

hay all, been offline cos interweb in ours isnt great but had to come on and say sorry for jinxing andy (sorry andy) had a good time, splashy lane was quite splashy, havent bee offroad since bala so it was nice to get out up there. my nephews feet are all dry now after i made open and close gates and one of them was near a puddle and drifty made a wave and soaked his legs (funny)

well cheeres to all that came (even if some of us had to run home after 20 minutes) good company

ps andy i will pass ya stuff in tomorrow in work

Do the AAknow you've got one of there 4x4's :rotfl:

looks well :wink:

in the third pic you can see boxcleva's fag too!

Come on chaps n chapess, we want more piccies n vids.

Sorry to hear about the Scorpion Andy. She is looking bloody good though, I love it, love it, love it. I thought you did the electric fan mod on it or was that on the 2.3?

Got a call from Dwifty earlier when he was waiting for the AA...sorry Andy doing an AA impression in his wannabe AA truck,.....to bring cooling water for Dwifty's wheel bearing... :shock:

It seems that his 2.8lwb decided it would rather be a three wheeler (almost), I thought he must have had the Bobbinsjob wheel nut mod as he said it , but I was wrong as it destroyed a front wheel bearing at speed!!! :shock:

Hope you all got home alright...seems to have been a day of breakages to more or lesser degrees....

Oh, and last one when I got home. It's supposed to be blue :dance:

Yep...fortunately only about 2 miles from home the bearing kinda collapsed from what Ste was saying...they cooled it down and limped it a mile before it was red/white hot again, that was when I spoke to him, as Andy was fetching some more water to cool it down for the last little bit to get the truck home... :shock:

sorry about the quailty

if anyone is wondering why there isn't any of me in the car wash, that's because I was first through..

AT LAST, EVIDENCE, CAUGHT IN THE ACT, WAIT TILL LEE SEES WHOS BEEN WINDOW SHOPPING

Thank you all for another cracking day, and what fantastic weather we had :shock:

Well from the freezing cold Corwen Car Park messing around and chatting and eating cakes for breakfast :oops:

to our first stop at the river, and in that short distance it went from freezing to rather pleasantly warm :dance:

Then onto the Wayfarer, sadly this was the last time most of the guys except me saw Andy today, these where taken while he was going backwards :oh yer:

At the top Si needed to find some shade and the heat affected Simo a little bit.

Then it was onward to white stones

Then it was a trip to the short cut lane we never named but is mostly tarmac :lol:

At this point I hear a metallic noise from my front wheel, I checked and saw the inner cv boot had worked loose of the tie, so sorted that and just put the noise down to a partially locked hub, as it stopped after messing with the manual hub.
And then not so splashy lane.

And then, just over a mile from home as I was leaving the M57 after rather a quick dash, I thought I had blew a tyre, to limped off as was on the slip road, stopped on a grass verge low and behold the grass was on fire around my hub and smoke was bellowing out, so I squirted what water I had on the hub (not the disc or brakes) got the waffle board out jacked the car up took the wheel off, at this point Andy arrived within 5 minutes like a true AA gent in a yellow truck :dance:

So more water and a stop to cool it down, it was the longest mile ever and thew wheel was very wonky :lol:

We got outside my house and set to work on the red hot hub.

stripped down we found this :shock:

That is metal embedded into the mud guard

The other side of the guard

That gooey mess on the left used to be a bearing like the one on the right :shock:

So front inner and outer bearing and seal changed, brakes refitted, wheel wouldnt budge grrrrrr so off with the brakes and the carrier had been damaged and off centre and we couldnt get the caliper and carries separated...so me being a hoarder had a spare carrier and a refurbed caliper I did a while back....success it all works and lives happily ever after..bloody long day though.

Cheers for the help and support Andy, was a giggle lol.

just saw your post Greg....you knob pmsl good one :lol:

Haaaarrrr harrrrrrr :butt: