Oka owners group newsletter
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The weather was not that kind to us with on and off rain periods, but this did not dampen our enthusiasm on having a great time. In thanking our generous hosts we must also congratulate all those in attendance for making the 4 days a great success. Ruedi & Susanne Schoensleben Greg and Maree Boyle along with their 3 active boys and daughter. Rowena Paterson Michael & Virgina Hession along with approx 20 of their friends. Tony & Rasa Mauragis Owen & Sue Jones Jim & Julie Curtin and family. Spike Pike & Anna Coote along with 2 beautiful canine friends. (Molly & Lady) Ray & Robyn Quigley Adam & Rose Purdon Ron & Lyn Quigley John Hendriks Norm & Lynneve Burrell A few days earlier, Ruedi & Susanne Schoensleben with OKA 001 called in to see Ron & Lyn and could only stay for one night, as they had to be in Brisbane by Easter. They left a fantastic presentation with Ron & Lyn, on the Mornington Rally, which they attended. Everyone enjoyed the short presentation. Ron & Lyn took some OKA shots of OKA 001, which became discussions over a hot cup of tea. It certainly would of been 4 • • • • • • • • • • • • • very interesting, if the OKA was still there when we all were there. Easter day was a great day. The weather had improved with mostly sunshine and we were able to have little groups go on a 100 klm trip in the surrounding country site. Ron planned a visit to the Tianjara Falls as well as some other great locations with fantastic views to the coast. We left at around 10.30 in the morning and did not return until 5.30pm that afternoon. The fresh air and great exercise did us all good. The girls put together a great selection of sandwiches, which were most welcome at lunch together with the great location of the Potter Dam. At night, weather permitting, we enjoyed campfires and a Jim Curtin cooking demonstration of a great damper. He certainly knows how to cook in the bush and anyone who hasn't tasted his damper, doesn't know what they have missed. Rowena gave us a detailed explanation of the Didgereedoo along with some interesting tunes while John played along with the sticks. The mood around the campfire become serious as our thoughts travelled, well mine did. Monday morning we were awakened by the bellowing of a calf being born and after Ron checked things out, it was great to hear that mother and calf are fine. In closing the weekend was great, the company as always fantastic and I am sure we are looking forward to the next get together. Many suggestions were thrown around on the weekend and no doubt other get togethers like this will be posted on the website....so why not attend the next one! EASTER RALLY AT YATTEYATTAH. John Hendriks has reported on the rally held at Ron and Lyn Quigley’s property. One of the main benefits in getting together is to see what others have done and get some ideas that you might be able to use. Just a few of the things I noticed – Rowena’s bright orange steering knuckle, she explained that it was a heavy duty one, supplied by Paul Nott. She had this done when she was upgrading her front axles to 35 splines. It is a lot heavier than the standard unit and therefore a lot stronger. Jim Curtin also had a bent steering knuckle with a crack in it to show everyone. It is not the sort of thing you want to happen. Jim has spent a lot of time and money turning his vehicle into his ultimate expedition 4 wheel drive. He has some very innovative ideas. The camper unit on the back works great and is easy to set up. On the weekend he explained how he had recently reconditioned his motor and upgraded the power output by fitting a waste- gated turbo and tuning the fuel pump to get some more power. In Jim’s words “... extra power that you could actually feel...”. He has also strengthened his front axle housing by welding bracing along the length of the axle, underneath, to stop any chance of bending. He has previously upgraded his axles to 35 splines and heavy duty greasable uni’s and fitted ARB lockers for improved traction. Jim has a wealth of knowledge about OKAs and has used his vehicle in some very remote and rough areas. Spike Pike and Anna Coote came along in their psychedelic vehicle, the only “hippy” OKA in existence. It was a GREAT weekend, everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and everyone mixed very well, even the non-OKA owners had a great time. There was always something happening. Michael Hession LAND ROVERS YES I know we are an OKA Owners Group. But I also know a lot of you “have had/still have an association/love for” the Land Rover vehicle. Two events coming up that you may find of interest are: 1. Land Rovers Owners Club NSW – EXPO. This is in Sydney to be held at the Museum of Fire, Castlereagh Road Penrith. Sunday 22nd July. Show & Shine, 4wd Demos, Historic Land Rovers, Prizes, Trade Displays, Swap Meet (I picked up a good tent last year), Children’s Activities, Camping Displays, Family Picnic and more. A good day if you are a Land Rover tragic. 5 2. Land Rover’s 60th Birthday.Next year Land Rover will be 60 years old. To mark this event, a celebration will be held in Cooma, NSW, from Friday 21st to Monday 24th March, 2008 (Easter). This location has been chosen as it is generally considered that Land Rover came to prominence in Australia in the 1950s due to the use of these vehicles in the Snowy Mountains Hydro Scheme. The event is being organized in conjunction with the Land Rover Owners Club of Victoria, Land Rovers Owners Club of Sydney, Land Rover Owners Club of the ACT. The information below has been taken from a website - http://www.landrover60.com.au Highlights you can look forward to are - * Prominent Land Rover guest speakers from Australia and Overseas * Grand Parade of hundreds of Land Rovers through the streets of Cooma * Large static display of hundreds of Land Rovers at Cooma Showgrounds * Prizes and Awards for many categories of vehicles * Informal BBQ plus a Country style band * Catered Gala Dinner with Guest Speakers and Awards Presentations * Promotional Displays by the Organising Clubs * Vehicle Trials Event * Event souvenirs available to be purchased * Meeting like-minded people interested in Land Rovers * Land Rover Trade Exhibitors * Land Rover Swap Meet * Continual videos featuring Land Rovers * Day Trips to nearby scenic locations * Land Rover Trivia Quiz * Local Observation Trail We went to the 50th in 1998, it was a great event. assures me that there will be plenty of camping space and the OKA Owners would be most welcome. This event could be combined with an extended trip through the Snowy Mountains area. If there is any interest, please contact me on 02.9809.5754(Bus) or michael@godfrey- engraving.com.au and I will obtain more information and organize something. Michael Hession Just in relation to the above One of the guest speakers will be Richard Asquith, who has been a Land Rover enthusiast for most of his adult life and, in particular, fell in love with the Range Rover in the 1970s. He obtained his first Range Rover in Sydney, from a private importer, even, before the vehicle had been released by the Factory in Australia. He is a Founding Member of both the Landcruiser Club of NSW and The Range Rover Club of NSW. For many years he with his business partner, Lyndsay Johnston, ran a very successful specialist Range Rover repair business in Sydney, in the 70s and 80s, which latter became a Range Rover dealership “Asquith and Johnston” and is now “Trivett Land Rover/Range Rover” at Parramatta. I have spoken to one of the organizers, who 6 A little known story is the tale of the first success crossing of the Simpson Desert from East to West (the hard way) by vehicle, via the Madigan Line. This was in three Range Rovers driven by Richard Asquith, Lyndsay Johnson and Bruce King and their families, including children in 1981. It was considered IMPOSSIBLE, and it almost was. There were no tracks, they travelled across trackless sand dunes and clay pans travelling on a compass bearing, taking forward and back bearings to plot their journey. It truly is a GREAT story. One of broken shock absorbers, suspensions, diffs, helicopters, bush mechanics, and a determination to complete what they had set out to achieve. We had the pleasure to hear this story last night (25.05.07) here in Sydney at a Range Rover Club Fund Raising Dinner for the RFDS. He had everyone in teas with laughter as he told of the problems and adventures that they encountered. In a long winded way what I am saying it that Richard will be one of the Guest Speakers at the 60th Celebrations and he alone would be great to hear. Michael Hession Guys, I spent the most part of today reading everyones home page, a very impressive group of people with a very hi number suffering from my CIDs condition. I definitely need the network of info to help me fine tune our OKA. I have spent the last three months trying to get mags to find it is not a safe option. I noticed that Michael Jano has mags they certainly look like the Mickey Thompson's that I looked at. Maybe my findings should be passed on so that others are warned or can find away around the last hurdle that stopped me. Basically to leave the mags full thickness of ally under the nut I needed to find wheel studs 100mm long. This is easy to do but OKA sheared studs locally made until they bought the very expensive specially made in America for cranes wheel studs. The standard wheel nuts from the Importer Kowari motors is $35 which is a little over $1,000 special ones more. the added bonus in all this was that I had to de-rate the GVM down to 4.45 tonne to keep within the wheel and tyre specs (1.7 tonne). Finally Mick Thompson refused to offer any responsibility or warranty on the wheels and tyres. Pro Comp seem to be a bit more flexible but if my info is correct they are the same wheels. Not wanting to give Kowari a plug but they do have 75 new T5 gear boxes for sale, they got to be very arm twisterbale! 07 47747577. Thanks, Tim. Hi Marj and Lloyd I have changed over to the Michelin XY's on the Oka and can not seem to get the tyre pressures correct. Could you give me the benefit of your wisdom on the tyre pressures you use on the bitumen please. One of the reasons I changed to the less aggressive tyre was to reduce tyre wear but I am still getting unacceptable wear mainly on the outside blocks of the tyre. regards
Keith Hi Keith, Sorry about the delay getting an answer to you. I believe any tyres with tubes squelching around inside should be run with a higher pressure than the tubeless - the squelching tube creates heat. I used to run my Hankooks at 55 lbs and blew them to pieces. I now run at 75 almost all the time, except in sand, of course, and have had a better run. I've always run my XY's at 75 with no trouble. About the tyre wear, it’s a problem with OKA's and I get a bit of it. You can fit off-centre bearings in the front end to get the alignment right, or if its still bad, they do straighten the axle and weld a piece of angle right along underneath to straighten it, with the OKA which is prone to bending a bit. Off-set bearings can be purchased from: Narellan Truck Wheel Alignment Pty Ltd 1-5 Campbell St. Narellan, NSW 2567 Ph: 02 46471811 Talking about heavy lugged tyres, I could never see the point in them, having lived in the bush all my life, I found that they can easily dig you in, in sand or mud. Hope I've been of some help. Lloyd
7 Endless Air reply I am looking for information from other Oka owners on how to mount an Endless Air Compressor without removing the existing air conditioner compressor. I have all the details about the Endless Air Compressor and the universal mounting brackets but I’m unsure how or where to mount it. Any information or even photos would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Kurt Zanker kzanker@nsw.chariot.net.au I have fitted a standard car compressor (actually from a VL Commodore) on the left side of our Oka engine, on a right angle bracket which is bolted to one of the engine mount bolts, plus a new hole in the front side of the engine mount. This allows the compressor pulley to line up with a new pulley bolted on the crankshaft. It's done 40,000 kms and works fine as a compressed air source, but not without some problems. Flexing due to the mass of the compressor and the fact that it's mounted behind its C of G, has caused the bracket welds and the bolt to the engine mount to break. Also there is a suspicion that the bottom of the compressor has been hitting the axle in extreme articulation, when the tensioner is at full stretch. I have fixed these problems my re-making the bracket with stronger filleted welds, and used 2 bolts to the engine mount. By choosing a (shorter) belt length carefully, I find I don't need a tensioner as the tension required for low speed air compressing is not that great. I only use the compressor at tick-over speeds anyway. I can provide some photos if required. David Below is an email I sent to another member about the Endless Air Compressor. I have had the Endless Air fitted for about 8 years and have found it to be very good. You will have to manufacture your own mounting system as Endless Air do not have a mounting sytem for the Oka. I fitted an air tank under the passenger side opposite the muffler. I bought it from a truck wrecker. The pump is switched on via a dash mounted switch and is also controlled by a pressure switch. I have found it to be as good as a service station compressor. The compressor, I mounted off the left hand(passenger) side engine mount, on the engine side of the mounting. On my vehicle there were already existing holes I could use. Some other vehicles I have looked at didn't have these holes. It is on an adjustable bracket. With adjustment rods similar to the existing Oka Air-Conditioning pump adjustment shafts. I bolted a pulley to the front of the main crankshaft pulley, there are four existing threaded holes in this pulley. These holes are not spaced evenly, I have a drawing from Oka, I could fax if you like showing the exact locations. The only problem I have had is from vibration. I have had the pump fall off once and drag along via its holes and twice the whole unit has come lose. After the unit fell off I modified the bracketing and made it stronger, used Nylox bolts and put a tie-wire through each bolt, so that if they came lose I didn't lose the nut and bolt. I also suggest you mount the compressor to a steel bracket that you then hinge to your bracket attacked to your mounting. On my first installation I used the compressor's mounting lugs to hinge the compressor, these broke due to the vibration. I then made a "chassis" bolted to four of the lugs and hinged off this and have had no problems now for 6 years. If you want any other information give me a call 02.9679.1463(home) or 02.9809.5754(work) MICHAEL HESSION I have fitted one to our OKA. If you would like to phone me I will explain how we have done it & where to fit it Regards Bob Worling 02 66246611 0412 113897 email kiaro@nor.com.au Good Use for Your Old Gas Bottle – Portable Bush Stove/Oven Came across this article below at : Michael Hession 8 Trip Note on Camp Cooking High Country ramble, April 06 Darian - ExplorOz 446 VKS-737 / Sierra 586 darian@picknowl.com.au Ran into Barry Breaden (pictured). Barry is from Tassie and was touring with wife Karlene in his 5th wheeler rig along the Murray, to Mildura. He likes a camp oven meal or two but open fires are often off the agenda, so development of the stove was in order. Made from an old 9kg gas cylinder, the stove holds a 6 litre cast camp oven - a twig fire is established in the base and breathes through holes around the lower section. A chimney welded onto the top gets the fire drawing nicely. Some campers use a gas ring for those times when a good wood fire is not possible, but Barry prefers wood. The chimney is from exhaust piping. The hole was machined on a lathe , then welded round the base. The oven sits on stainless rods - lower holes in the stove sides are for the oven - upper holes can hold other cooking appliances. BARRY BREADEN'S CAMP OVEN STOVE Made from an old 9kg gas cylinder . 9 10 Hi Everyone, OKA OWNERS GROUP (PUTTING PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT FIRST) NEWSLETTER September 2007 Well we survived our 2007 trip very nicely. We were travelling with 5 other vehicles: Ron & Lyn Quigley’s OKA, Eric & Sylvia Yeo’s OKA, a F250 with a slide-on camper, an Isuzu 4x4 Winnebago, and a Toyota Landcruiser tabletop with a camper trailer. While 2 of the Oka’s went well, Eric & Sylvia when investigating a knock in their engine found metal in their oil, so spent about a week at Cape Crawford waiting for a truck to transport them to Katherine, where they put in the best part of another 2 weeks while their original motor was transported from home and installed. Very disappointing for them, but the plus is that the camper they had built on their dual-cab proved to be very comfortable and convenient. The Oka Owners Group continues to grow, and we welcome all the new members. There can’t be many owners who aren’t part of the group, as Oka are only making small numbers of vehicles now. We would appreciate it if you could let us know if you sell your Oka, and if you could let the new owners know the contact details it would be good to have them aboard. It seems that the quality of some of the Okas for sale is now pretty good. There can be very few of the original mining vehicles still in use for that purpose, and as they are turned over the new owners soon bring these vehicles up to scratch. Our Oka still turns heads as we travel around, and often when we park to shop, we return to find someone with their head under the machine, just looking. I have a copy of the switch settings for the speedometer. We sent our speedo away for repair a couple of years ago, and when our auto-electrician installed it again, he had the repairers fax us this copy. It is a couple of pages long, so I won’t put it in the newsletter, but will pass it on to John Hendriks for inclusion in the webpage and if anyone else needs a copy please let us know and we will pass it on.. You will find with Okas that just a different brand of tyres will make a difference to how your speedo reads. I will paste a copy of the wiring diagram onto this newsletter as well, as we have had a number of people enquiring about the wiring for new speedo sensors. Oka Owners are trying some exciting things in their Okas. At the recent Oka gathering here at Eulalia, I heard discussions about changing the Perkins motor for Chevs or VWKombi that they reckon would fit in. As well there was discussion about intercoolers. If anyone has actually tried some of these or any other modifications, we would love to hear from you, as our other members would appreciate hearing about your innovations. We look forward to hearing from you. Marj Parsons OKA RALLY - Walhalla Victoria When: 23rd - 25th November 2007 Where: Meet in Walhalla township (North East of Moe, Gippsland) Friday 23rd November. North Gardens Campground, 1 km N of PO. Other campsites at south entrance to town if larger space required. 1 Ideas: Saturday 24th November - 4WD day trip to Moondarra Reservoir, via Coopers Creek/Thomson River? There is a campground at Moondarra State Park, 26km NE of Moe. Or alternatively a drive north towards Thomson State Forest, 40 km north of Walhalla. Various campsites situated on Aberfeldy River & Donnelly Creek. Please bring firewood. For further enquires please contact Rowena Paterson Canning Stock Route 2007 Pre Trip
Greg Boyle Oka 264
Because we travelled alone and the extreme remoteness of the CSR, We chose to replace the following items on our LT Oka as a preventative maintenance measure, as some items were known weakness’s among oka owners and tour operators, Parts and Advice were supplied by Paul Nott ~ East Coast Oka 0418 125 428 Rear Axles upgraded from 32 spline to 35 spline. Rear diff carrier replaced with LSD with 35 spline side gears Front axles replaced 30 spline outer axles with 35 spline and FWH and greasable unis. Both steering Knuckles replaced. Pinion yoke straps replaced with U bolts Alternator Air Con Compressor & Evaporator Replaced plastic clutch slave cylinder with a metal equivalent Replaced all hoses and heater hoses and belts. Brush Rails The brush rails were made by Peter Furlong (Oka Pete) 0412 376 556 And any one who has completed the CSR or other tight tracks will quickly realise how invaluable they are at deflecting branch’s and brush up and over the roof instead of hitting the windscreen and channel and smashing mirrors off........ Give Pete a call for a set The Trip We left Melbourne behind us Thursday 6 July and headed directly to Adelaide then onto Uluru. Once we pointed the truck towards Docker River on the Great Central Road, and had the Olgas in the rear view mirror, we knew the adventure had began..... Looked at Lasseter’s cave, and then Len Beadalls Grader at Giles made famous as the Gunbarrel Construction Co, once we left Warburton we headed up the Heather hwy. The track condition was great for the first 37km and then the track narrowed and the condition deteriorated due to no upkeep. The Gunbarrel hwy which has sections of overgrown bush and lots of side tracks to choose from running parallel to each other, generally the choice is the corrugated track or the really corrugated track......... The scenery is awesome from open plains to rocky escarpments and mulga in between. The sign board at Mt Beadell has a lot of information on it and the views are excellent, there is now a theodolite memorial to Len Beadell, water is available at the bores along the way. The road improved just before the Gary junction and was excellent through to Glenayle station. We entered the CSR through Glenayle station, Well 9 has been reconditioned and has water that is used for the watering of stock, Well 10 was in ruins as was Well 11 • • • • • • • • • • 2 The 4 kids had to jump out soon after and taste the salt lake, yeah your right dad it is salty......Sand hills were encountered and tyre pressures adjusted accordingly, Well 12 has been reconditioned and we topped up the jerry’s and tank. The country here was fairly flat and open with low bush and lots of flowers on the trees, the voltmeter on the dash was reading 12.6 volts in this section And after pulling into camp at well 13, I discovered the alternator was quite loose !! So tightened it up, and back to 14volts again. Well 13 and 14 both in ruin but still have signs of the troughs. Well 15 had excellent drinking water from another reconditioned well, and windlass so we topped up again. It was about now when you looked at the map you realised how remote this track actually is, Calvert Springs had excellent aboriginal art and lots of it, the 62m climb to Cannings cairn was easy and the views went forever. Yüklə 2,02 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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