An expedition truck on portals...

[Oilworker]

Oh no. We didn´t´do anything really spectacular. Honestly.

After my crash during the Sonangol Africa Eco Race 2012 (when I broke through a brick wall on a mountain pass at night) the front left piston was severely bend and since I had already made a habit of having my shocks regularly serviced since I fitted the full adjustable Proflex shocks to my old Defender 110SW aka "Rhino Lady" prior to the Transsyberia Rallye 2007, I spoke with Ralf Berlit a few weeks ago and we decided to now do a full service on the suspension.

Ralf disassembled the 2.5" King Shocks while I took them off the truck...

...after disassembly I started cleaning the tubes. The tremendous amount of salt used during the past two winters on european roads had taken their toll..

...Ralf then spray painted them

...and rebuild them ...

...giving me a great tutorial on how they are shimmed and put together....

...it all sounds easy and straight forward but there are quite a few things that require a fair amount of accuracy and patience....

...and all shiny and new they´re back in the Rhino...

Apart from the shocks I took the time to fix my headlights (everybody told me the switches had gone, but Ralf found out that it was just a contact that had gone bad).
Saved my some $120,- and made my improvised power feed to the headlights obsolete.

...and ready for the road...or better the next stop...

Next will be the underbody, axles, chassis and some major interior work.
I will then also prepare the new expedition rock sliders and the all-new expedition winch bumper.

 

[X-plorenow]

This is exciting! Nice work. How do you like your Kings so far? I am debating putting them on my JK. Can't wait for more!

 

[mk216v]

Moar pics Robert!!

PS--just recv'd my Nolden's today. Excited to install them in my G!

 

[Ray Hyland]

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Robert is this your image? I'd like to post it on the OJ Facebook page but I want to know who to credit.

Cheers

Ray

 

[Oilworker]

Hi Ray,
yes that's my image.
You can find this and many more on my agency database.

I also started a little fan page for the rebel here on Facebook:
https://m.facebook.com/Rallyewerk?v...ofile.php?id=359003330861740&__user=549998812

Greetings from the Desert Foxx workshop ;-)

Robert

 

[Oilworker]

More pictures of my big overhaulin' project will come as soon as I get my Toughbook back on air.
For now I am sadly restricted to my iPhone and and old IOS that doesn't support the new Tapatalk either ;-(

So there are currently only a few snapshots on my facebook page (https://m.facebook.com/Rallyewerk?v...ofile.php?id=359003330861740&__user=549998812 )

I will try and upload some real images and a full report this weekend.

So long,

Robert

 

[Oilworker]

Good morning.

Seemingly it works when I link my facebook images here, so for now I will use these images and will later add the ones I am shooting with my D3s.

I started my overhaulin' trip with a visit at Marc Burauen's, not so little anymore "Landyscheune" (Landy Barn), to pick up some spare parts and see if we could find the reason why my engine is running so poorly for the past months.

Sadly we didn't find the reason and the ECU was all right, telling us that all sensors were working fine...

My trip then took me west towards Belgium, with a stop at another friend's place to chat a bit about...can you guess it?...yes, about lights ;-)

...and after another 3 hours drive I reached my "new home" for a while, the workshop of Desert Foxx, owned and run by my good friend Wouter Tyberghien.

I will, in the course of my work on the LR 130CC-R(hino) also add a few images of the work happeining around me as Wouter is always working on some awesome expedition conversions based on Defenders, but this later.

One of these cars is this rallye asdistance car he build and which he just took on a 10.000+ km expedition of West Africa

For now it's my work to strip the car, clean and service it properly, replace all bushings and most of the bolts and nuts I come across and much more...

More later, I am off to the workshop again now

 

[Oilworker]

Finally back from a tough 2 weeks of work on my little truck.

I am sorting the images from the workshop and also from the Goodwood Festival of Speed now and will put them together to a full story in the next days.

...until later

 

[tacr2man]

Is that goodwood with the Vulcan in the background ?

 

[X-plorenow]

Just noticed, how do you have an Oregon plate Robert?

 

[bobDog]

Your an Oregonian huh? Hiding it but this is the best state......no sales tax and no emissions....you an drive that thing anywhere you want no problems! Own up my friend, you're a NorthWester. That's why you can build that baby...plus you save a small fortune in sales tax. Welcome my brother, welcome! As long as you keep the mud flap on for highway your cool.....make em detachable so off road no problemo! Eat more Salmon!!!!!!! Yes!!!!!

 

[mk216v]

Dammit, you both beat me to it! ;-)
And Bob, we do have emissions testing up here in the "big" city.

So do tell Robert, what's up with the Oregon plate? And when are you visiting???

 

[bobDog]

Dammit, you both beat me to it! ;-)
And Bob, we do have emissions testing up here in the "big" city.

So do tell Robert, what's up with the Oregon plate? And when are you visiting???

Yeah you dweebs in Portland city proper.....just live outside of the city and no emissions. The rest of Oregon is normal. But who wants to live in the Portland city limits unless they are 'Hipsters' as in "Portlandia".

 

[Oilworker]

Dammit, you both beat me to it! ;-)
And Bob, we do have emissions testing up here in the "big" city.

So do tell Robert, what's up with the Oregon plate? And when are you visiting???

Not that long anymore ;-)
But first I need to get the truck fully ready and hopefully find another one or two sponsors for that road trip....

 

[mk216v]

Yeah you dweebs in Portland city proper.....just live outside of the city and no emissions. The rest of Oregon is normal. But who wants to live in the Portland city limits unless they are 'Hipsters' as in "Portlandia".

LOL...now where did I put my skinny jeans and my fixie? ;-)