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ooooh bugger - have to cut back on my fishing for a bit

Posted by fin-nor <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/surfcasting/info/user=fin-nor' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 5/11/2013, 9:16 pm

Was meant to go fishing on Sunday conditions were ideal for the waikato part of the west coast for a morning fish started up the isuzu Bighorn and all I heard was a nasty dry bearing sound popped bonnet found a very wobbly radiator fan a sure tell tale sign of knackered water pump. Replaced yesterday refilled radiator and found water pouring out everywhere and then found water coming out from behind the back plate between the front of engine block indicating the steel gasket behind there had gone. So it is off to shop for front end engine strip down of timing gear, diesel injector pump, crank pulley to remove that plate to get the new gasket in which is going to set me back $1500 so now have to reduce my frequency of surfcasting trips and forget getting back into fishing comps until this mess is paid off the fishing and TAS withdrawl symptoms are all aready kicking in. Would do the job myself like all the other work that has been done to that wagon but when it comes to resetting timing and never dealing with a diesel injector pump I am not touching this repair job with a 10 foot barge pole.

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Posted by GaryK <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/surfcasting/info/user=GaryK' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 6/11/2013, 1:37 pm, in reply to "ooooh bugger - have to cut back on my fishing for a bit"

Know the feeling mate. My advice, ditch it and start again. I held on to mine just long enough for more to go wrong, then ditched it.

The snapper don't know where the car park is!
Sometimes it is better to travel than to arrive.

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Posted by kevynz <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/surfcasting/info/user=kevynz' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 6/11/2013, 2:55 pm, in reply to "ooooh bugger - have to cut back on my fishing for a bit"

bugger ditch it and get a nissan.

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Posted by fin-nor <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/surfcasting/info/user=fin-nor' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 6/11/2013, 3:22 pm, in reply to "Re: ooooh bugger - have to cut back on my fishing for a bit"

Believe me I will be ditching the damn thing december next year once it is paid off if I have enough money together to trade it in for something better

EDIT: Just got a phone call after I made this post to say my wagon is ready to pick up it wasn't what it was suspected to be and was a simple fix so this one won't be costing me $1500 like it was estimated to be, thank god for that.

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Posted by Phill <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/surfcasting/info/user=Phill' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 6/11/2013, 5:11 pm, in reply to "Re: ooooh bugger - have to cut back on my fishing for a bit"
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Safari's rule , cheap as to run and plenty of parts about . Just watch for rust around the roof guttering.

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Posted by fin-nor <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/surfcasting/info/user=fin-nor' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 6/11/2013, 5:46 pm, in reply to "Re: ooooh bugger - have to cut back on my fishing for a bit"

Agreed Phill ws driving a 3.6 safari while in Australia on wheat harvest but definitely could not keep up with the boss's Dodge Ram which has got a 350Hp Cummins Diesel in it. But still it was damn nice to drive and they just absolutely cruise at 120 - 130K's an hour I spent alot of time driving it as the safari also doubled as the pilot vehicle when we were transporting the combines on the trucks to head off to the next property.

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Posted by GaryK <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/surfcasting/info/user=GaryK' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 6/11/2013, 6:32 pm, in reply to "Re: ooooh bugger - have to cut back on my fishing for a bit"

Swopped my Nissan Terrano for a Kia Sorento. No issues at all. Its big enough to sleep in has 4x4 low ratio and twice the grunt of the Terrano. Rides like a car on the open road and the 2975cc deisel auto is really cheap to run.

The snapper don't know where the car park is!
Sometimes it is better to travel than to arrive.

Re: ooooh bugger - have to cut back on my fishing for a bit

Posted by GaryK <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/surfcasting/info/user=GaryK' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 6/11/2013, 6:34 pm, in reply to "Re: ooooh bugger - have to cut back on my fishing for a bit"

OK if you want to be critical and I know some of you will, it could do with a little more road clearance for off road stuff. It still surprises thaough where I have been able to take it.

The snapper don't know where the car park is!
Sometimes it is better to travel than to arrive.

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Posted by fin-nor <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/surfcasting/info/user=fin-nor' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 6/11/2013, 9:00 pm, in reply to "Re: ooooh bugger - have to cut back on my fishing for a bit"

I did have a Kia Sportage for a while till the missus wrote it off 50 meters down the road from home on the gravel while we were living in Te Maire up in Dargaville it was a good wagon used to take it along the beach at Glinks Gully to go fishing along the beach side of the farm I worked on. Another wagon I would not mind getting is the honda CRV they are also magic little wagons. I just have to get by for another 13 months til the Isuzu is paid off and hopefully by then I will have enough to go in with straight up cash and use it as a trade in for a later model vehicle to try and get away from the 1990's models and would love to go back to a manual but would look for something with a 6 speed box if I can find one lost count of how many times I have hopped into the auto after driving a truck all day and first thing I go for is clutch and gear shifter lol plus I do like to be able to work through my gears to slow down, climb hills etc.

Phew

Posted by Rex HB <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/surfcasting/info/user=Rex+HB' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 6/11/2013, 9:22 pm, in reply to "Re: ooooh bugger - have to cut back on my fishing for a bit"

Dodged a bullet by the sounds of it. When they referred to tbe certainties of life they should have said death, taxes and mechanics bills.

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Posted by fin-nor <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/surfcasting/info/user=fin-nor' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 6/11/2013, 9:36 pm, in reply to "Phew"

Not wrong there Rex it certainly was a close shave.

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Posted by fin-nor <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/surfcasting/info/user=fin-nor' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 19/11/2013, 10:17 pm, in reply to "ooooh bugger - have to cut back on my fishing for a bit"

Well it looks like my fishing just got cut right back for a bit but in a positive way. I just secured a job at the whitford landfill in auckland driving an articulated dump truck 6 days a week moving dirt for the landfill upgrade I think there may be a penn prevail and penn squall surfcasting combo in the pipeline once I have tidied up a few loose ends

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Posted by GaryK <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/surfcasting/info/user=GaryK' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 20/11/2013, 7:41 am, in reply to "Re: ooooh bugger - have to cut back on my fishing for a bit"

Ha ha! Get to work! Easy to save when working six days.

The snapper don't know where the car park is!
Sometimes it is better to travel than to arrive.

Re: ooooh bugger - have to cut back on my fishing for a bit

Posted by fin-nor <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/surfcasting/info/user=fin-nor' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 22/11/2013, 8:46 pm, in reply to "Re: ooooh bugger - have to cut back on my fishing for a bit"

yeah true Gary just got home from my first two days (started yesterday) won't be home again for two weeks absoltely loved it taking my boat/rock rod and one of the surfcasters with me and may head to Kariotahi or go out for a evening out in the rangi channel with one of the boat charters that does casual trips one sunday.

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Posted by Hangler <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/surfcasting/info/user=Hangler' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 25/11/2013, 3:52 pm, in reply to "ooooh bugger - have to cut back on my fishing for a bit"

Fin'nor, you have a private message.

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