WA Tech Day

[fishnut Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close fishnut]

too right!

What a great day.

Thanks Jeff for the venue and all the tools and bits and pieces.
Thanks Chippy for getting my snorkel and helping fit it - including drilling the big nasty hole
Thanks to everyone else for advice (useful and otherwise...) and great company.

Thanks to Deb and Bek for the afternoon tea.
Good to see you there Matt. And great to meet a few new faces.

pics soon.

[fishnut Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close fishnut]

ah Matt,

can you figure this out? Chippy started a conspiracy to keep you in in the dark as long as possible

[Russ WA Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Russ WA]

Well guys I only turned up at the end but what a great site to see a brand new car with all that gear on it.

Well done Matt and Jeff and the slaves.

I love Mototrims new theater in the Grande.

Good to meet some newbys to. :lol:

Russ

[fishnut Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close fishnut]

OK - here are a few photos. I didn't get too many because I was hands on.

Chippy on his working platform (Chuck's car)


some of the lads


Chuck getting his initiation from Chippy


And of course my truck can now come diving with me

[Chippy Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chippy]

WOW !!! What a great day ... and a great mob of blokes.

Met a few new faces .... got shitloads done ....

.... and I took a few pics :lol: :lol: :lol:

Leachy started the morning with attaching his modified steps



















Fishnut's snorkel went in a treat





























Parksy spent most of the day fitting up his new dual battery system ... Piranha battery tray, Trojan deep cycle battery and Redarc controller.











Begs bash plate got the full treatment. Why muck around with drill bits and a jigsaw when you can chuck the whole thing on a milling machine.









I had a new set of stainless steel rollers for the winch fairlead ... but they needed a little trim.









Mototrim had a fairly new TJM bashplate ... but didn't like how the bolt heads were exposed ..... easy fixed.













Then we all descended upon Chuck's new wagon ... like seagulls around a chip.

















































































Huge thanks to Jeff ... who hosted the event and looked after everyone. Thanks Heaps. .... and Jeff didn't even have a Prado there ....





A great day ... and a great way to learn how to do a few mods to your rig .... in the safety of numbers :lol: :lol: :lol:









Cheers
Chippy

[samo Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close samo]

wheres them photos of leachys sliders, i want some ideas so i can knock some up or does anyone have some drawings . Nsw tech day sounds like a good idea. cheers samo

[Chippy Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chippy]

wheres them photos of leachys sliders,

Have a look at the first 9 pics mate.

They're a set of ATS steps that needed a bit of remodelling.

Cheers
Chippy

[fishnut Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close fishnut]

brilliant photo set Chippy and Jay and Bek

I look like I'm about to be sick...

[Chippy Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chippy]

You may look like you're about to be sick ..... but have a look at the concentration on Chuck's face :lol: :lol: :lol:



Cheers
Chippy

[Chippy Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chippy]

Its a bloody setup ... thats what it is.

I was built to work on standard height Prados ..... but some smartarse jacked this one up while I was working on it.

You can see the two bricks I was using ... but they still weren't tall enough for me to see what I needed to see.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Cheers
Chippy

[lofty Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close lofty]

Wow, great work guys, and well done Chippy for all the pics :!:

Love the pics of the carpark full of Prados :!:

And Jeff for hosting :!: :!: :!: :!:

[zookcubr Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close zookcubr]

Good to see people wearing there PPE while drilling, where do you get the sill protectors?

[Parksy Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Parksy]

Cheers Everyone that was involved in todays efforts ,it was great to finally meet all you guys and put a name to a face . I would just like to say thanks to Jeff and Matt for organising today . It is allways good to have a look at the different mods and the way that people have done things .Also good to have the available knowledge on hand that we had today.
Once again Thanks Everyone.
Looking forward to next time we all catchup.

Cheers
Parksy

[jeff s Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close jeff s]

Good to see people wearing there PPE while drilling, where do you get the sill protectors?

Some of us were.....

Sill protectors??? I think you are meaning the Sliders, the first 9 pics in Chippies post??? If so they are from ATS in Victoria somewhere. They do look good, A bit close to the body for my liking but clearance par excellence from the earth.. They give the car a more manly stance in my opinion. Im going to have some on my car soon. I'm getting mine from JRS.. (me).

Jeff

[Chippy Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chippy]

Did anyone else notice that Chuck's brand new car is a cheap Taiwanese clone .... :lol: :lol: :lol:



.... right down to the way they spell Toyota on the aircleaner box. :lol: :lol: :lol:


Cheers
Chippy