SLRC Seven Sisters September 24/25

[Bowie69]

3 minutes ago, elbekko said:

Plenty of people with trailers around if it breaks spectacularly

Yes... thanks... not really sure what to say about that 😛 

Plus, RAC covered...

There's no REAL reason it should, in theory  In other news, I may need a new alternator...

In a change to advertised schedule, very likely will go up early Saturday morning, much less chance of being stranded on the side of a motorway in the dark then 😛 

 

[Jon W]

Can't make it this year due to too much on with barn/workshop build (also financial constraints). May make the jeep one if its on in November. If not there is always next year

 

[Bowie69]

Should be there now, done at least an hours driving.... Good enough, I think

[Escape]

The Lightweight got some last minute attention and upgrades and is secured on the trailer, ready for @elbekkoto hook up his Range Rover tomorrow morning.

And then a mate came by eager to pick up the spanners. And a bit disappointed I was already done (it was around 20.30h) and didn't really need his help. So we started reassembly on the Lotus twin cam, with Lemmy on the radio and a tasty beer on the bench. A great evening, only downside: it was past midnight when I started packing my stuff. 🙃  

See you all tomorrow (or rather, later today). I look forward to seeing the little green thing!

Filip

[landroversforever]

Enjoy everyone! 

Even if I had the 90 on the road.... I'm still at work  

[landroversforever]

20 minutes ago, Escape said:

The Lightweight got some last minute attention and upgrades and is secured on the trailer, ready for @elbekkoto hook up his Range Rover tomorrow morning.

And then a mate came by eager to pick up the spanners. And a bit disappointed I was already done (it was around 20.30h) and didn't really need his help. So we started reassembly on the Lotus twin cam, with Lemmy on the radio and a tasty beer on the bench. A great evening, only downside: it was past midnight when I started packing my stuff. 🙃  

See you all tomorrow (or rather, later today). I look forward to seeing the little green thing!

Filip

Safe travels Filip and Ben  

[Stellaghost]

Have a great time all..

Hopefully me and Sid will be there next year

Regards Stephen

[Bowie69]

Back home... nothing broke, which is incredible.

Small LT230 oil leak.

Very, very nice to put some names to faces!

My son and I had a whale of a time -thanks to everyone who made it possible.

 

[Bowie69]

P.s. I'm really tired now!

[Escape]

We've just arrived back home, after a long but fairly smooth trip.

We had a great weekend, good to see old friends again and make new ones. 🙂 The Lightweight never got stuck, not for lack of trying. The engine and carb could use some TLC though.

Thanks to all and looking forward to the pictures and videos.

Filip

[FridgeFreezer]

Indeed, a fantastic weekend thanks to everyone who came - and 99% sunshine too, I must buy a lottery ticket!

Was great to see some old faces & put faces to a few names too - I can only apologise that being involved in organising things meant we got pulled away in various directions, including missing saying goodbyes as we were recovering a VERY stuck truck at the top of the waterfall from ~1pm until ~7.30pm

I've got a few photos and videos to go through when I get a moment!

[elbekko]

It was good fun! Nice to meet new faces and see old faces again

[Escape]

@elbekko took some pictures, when he was not too busy navigating, spotting, driving or just being thrown around in the Lightweight.

Brothers from a different mother having a good time:

Getting the tools out to sort the flooded plugs after a sideslope to the wrong side:

Movies to follow. 🙂

Filip

[Stellaghost]

3 minutes ago, Escape said:

@elbekko took some pictures, when he was not too busy navigating, spotting, driving or just being thrown around in the Lightweight.

Brothers from a different mother having a good time:

Getting the tools out to sort the flooded plugs after a sideslope to the wrong side:

Movies to follow. 🙂

Filip

Excellent, the first two photos are good, puts the size of the little green thing into perspective along side Tommy regards Stephen

[Stellaghost]

So the big question is now @Escape  is, are you going to keep Tommy the lightweight ??

Regards Stephen

[Escape]

Put in a row of Defenders, Tommy does look small. 😉 

I really had a great time with Tommy and was pretty impressed with the performance. Especially in mud and ruts, with better (softer) tyres the rocky sections should be more controlled as well. A large part of me wants to take him back, but I've made up my mind and will sell as was the plan all along. Just some more cleaning to do now...
Problem is, if I keep Tommy, chances are I'll soon be busy doing all kinds of modifications. Better to keep the lightweight standard for someone else to enjoy and concentrate my efforts on the P38 project. 😉

[Arjan]

Makes sense.
Standard Lightweights are not common anymore - most have been modded...

[Bowie69]

This is the insanely capable light weight of the Belgian contingent, coming up the same slope as the little green thing video in my thread:

 

Felipe and Ben were excellent hosts on the a econd day, really enjoyed our bimble interspersed with cool, t3chnical lanes I hadn't seen before

Sorry for being a bit slow posting, gone down with a virus overnight.

[Bowie69]

Some more pics, I didn't get many.... cos I was driving!

Three lightweight vehicles

My only stuck moment, quick tug from behind by the lightweight,  and out, 30" tyre are definitely a hinderence at 7S:

 

My son thoroughly enjoying himself...

[Bowie69]

3 hours ago, Stellaghost said:

keep Tommy the lightweight ??

I asked this a few times, was assured not!

[Escape]

I gave Tommy some attention yesterday, few niggles sorted and I had a play with the carb. After finding a manual...I really should have done my homework before 7S, that way I could have tinkered on the site and hopefully avoid the annoying stalling issue. Not taken him for a longer run yet, so I don't know if the power issue is solved as well, but idle is definitely more stable. I'll replace the fuel screen as well, just to be sure.

And I've put up some extra decoration as a reminder of a great weekend.

[Bowie69]

Ah good, I'd have been happy to tinker, but without a gasket kit and o-ring in the middle of nowhere it is a risky thing

I'll have to scrape and then wash the mud off my map before I can hang it up anywhere 

[Bowie69]

Hey, @FridgeFreezer, I'm sure you have more photos to post?

[FridgeFreezer]

2 hours ago, Bowie69 said:

Hey, @FridgeFreezer, I'm sure you have more photos to post?

Indeed I do - just been editing them in between enjoying the lurgi I contracted last week

Also my camera for some reason forgot what day/time it is so the photos may be a little out of sequence

Anyway...

Ready to rock

Experiments in astrophotography on a very clear night in a proper "dark skies" area, AKA the campsite.

A beautiful morning and a great turnout - 110 trucks through the gate plus tow-cars, low-loaders, campers, etc...

@McS Juniormaking an appearance in an incredibly tidy Patrol

A tidy 3.9 EFI buggy and a very sorted 90 with a stretched wheelbase

Who's this bimbling into view?

It's our very own @Escape and @elbekko all the way from Belgiumshire!

This group from the west country are top quality entertainment - by the afternoon they had about 4 vehicles up on jack stands, tools, diffs and shafts everywhere, and a Disco that sounded like several pistons were not in the location they left the factory - but they were having a whale of a time

 

 

Sun setting, hog roast imminent...

Let the night drive commence!

Stripy the 4th getting bellied on a sharp breakover

This 90 was spotless until Aggie got in following some important puddle-depth investigations

Some dodgy bloke and a very cool customer

"It looked fine until we drove in"

 

 

 

To be continued...

[FridgeFreezer]

Well, having a little bimble round on Sunday, I uttered the immortal words "Let's just have a quick look at the waterfall before lunch"...

Meanwhile, up at the very top of a very nasty section...

A very stuck buggy - rear winch dead, front winch unhappy, front prop broken, front 37" so far underground we had to dig just to find the top of it.

Add in the fact he's at the top of a very gnarly challenge section it meant only a limited number of trucks could even get up there - and there's already multiple trucks up there which are stuck and/or broken, blocking the only routes in & out...

It was VERY stuck, winching forward just resulted in pivoting around the front right.

This is one of the non-stuck trucks coming out of section, it's way steeper than it looks.

These guys melted their winch wiring trying to get out along the top track - so we couldn't come in that way.

 

Trying to pull it round - no decent recovery points and a cage made of... well, we don't think it was CDS because it bent like a noodle if you winched off it

Some heavy teamwork and coordination going on, winch lines and strops going in all directions to try and find something solid to pull from and to attach to.

Some hours later - a bit of impromptu re-alignment of the chakras and a few trees being re-homed

 

Inconvenient flora out of the way, and a LOT of winching including repeated snapped plasma ropes, it finally started to emerge - at this point I'm dreading it coming out with the wrong number of wheels, but it came out in one piece... and promptly ran out of diesel.

 

It took us about another hour or more to get him down the hill, as we had to get him to solid ground at the top of the hill, then send the Disco down ahead so that he could winch him down through this section, then get the Disco clear so he could try and drive down with only RWD...

But we got out in the end, about 7pm by my guestimate.