Afro Mobile - Front Tow Bar - Tuesday's effort

Tuesday brought and early start for Darren & Ross , with the diff oils to change , then moving onto getting a front tow bar installed.

The photos below say it all, some ingenuity, some cunning , some laughs and a whole lot of hard work.

Ross packing the car ready to roll

Ross assessing the situaution - now thats what you call bush mechanics.

This bit has got to go

HERE

Is this a self potrait Darren?

With much cutting , grinding and engineering one bracket was done.

Ross working with Bob Wright from Farm Implement Repairs , who kindly donated his time, premises and equipment to help Darren & Ross get the tow bar sorted.

Bob's dog thought it must have been safer to be far away as possible .

Just in case.....

It was about this that it was realised that none one was sure what was in the 44 gallon drum - lucky it all worked out OK.

Woo Hoo - it fits and looks good.

A definite self portrait - a good days work.

Well done guys.

Experience esCARpade 29th July 2012

Team Afro set off nice and early to head to Kilcoy for experience esCARpade and to meet up with the other teams from SE QLD. 

Scrutineering went well , except for a cooulpe of minor technical tweeks- like tightening the bolt on the steering control arm and putting in a split pin.

That was soon rectified by Darren & Gordon.

 

Next job on the list is to straighten out the front bash plate which is touching the the front diff - done!

Also gotta get a front tow ball fitted in the event that AFRO needs a helping hand out of trouble on esCARpade.

Thanks to 808 for the engineering idea.

 

Now we are looking at replacing the diff centre , as it was a bit noisy last year , got noisy again thsi year when turning corners under load - so as long as there are no corners on esCARpade route all shouls be OK.

Thanks to Sean from WHITES AUTOMOTIVE for his advice & assistance with AFRO. 

 Another task to attend to is to move the fire exquisher , so both driver and passengers have access to one - another toy to play with. 

PS - new LED lights have been fitted thsi year with fuses , so our interior smoke screen should not activate this year.

Thanks to Sharkmobile for their suggestion of new GPS to keep us on the right track ... well hopefully the Km readings will be more accurate making Laurie's job easier.

Check out photos from the day below....

IS THIS WHAT THE DAY WAS TO BRING?????

DARREN READY TO ROLL

GRAHAM FROM 808 DOING HIS BEST BARRELL GIRL IMPRESSION

AFRO READY FOR SCRUNTINEERING

WHAT YA DOIN ROSS?

 "ME? I DOIN' NOTHIN! WASN'T ME!"

 DODGY CAR PARK DEALS? 

 BOOGER MOBILE ON THE WAY

 AFRO READY , SET ,

 BONNET UP

 THE OFFENDING STEERING CONTROL ARM - TOO LOOSE !!!!

DARREN , GORDON & BEN GETTIN IT SORTED .. ALL GOOD NOW

 AFRO LOOKING GOOD UNDERNEATH

 AND UNDER THE BONNET

 LIGHTS WORKING WELL .. CHECK

LAURIE , ROSS & DAMIAN 

 WATCH OUT ... SHARK ATTACK

 MONIKA, TRINA, JULIE & ROSS DOING ALL IMPORTANT PAPER WORK.

 "HEY TONY , NEED ANOTHER SPARE?" 

 ROSS OFFERING 808 AN EXTRA SPARE.

 DON'T THINK IT'LL FIT ROSS! 

OK AFRO - READY TO GO - ALL PAPERWORK DONE - FINISHED!

 LAURIE GETTING A HELPING HAND FROM GRAHAM (808)WITH ROUTE NOTES.

BEN GIVING FIRST OF MANY DRIVER BRIEFINGS

 DARREN PRESENTING MICHAEL FROM SHARKMOBILE WITH A 

PRESENT FROM TEAM AFRO ...

A SHARK ATTACK BOTTLE OPENER..

SHARKIES FIRST SHOUT !

 Laurie being the great navigator - always prepared.

GRAHAM (808) LETS OFF A SMOKE BOMB - SURE THERE WILL BE MORE TRICKS TO COME.

 THE QLD GANG WITH BEN , GORDON & MONIKA

READY TO GO LOZZA?

SEE YOU AT PALMWOODS BEN ....