Well the computer broke as is to be expected, but preliminary investigations reveal that Pepper might have won (or worst case squeezed for second) at the Cape Land Rover Club points event yesterday.
If you scroll down to a post from May called "The next day" you will see pictures from our previous trip to the sand farm in Phillipi.
The terrain was much the same, but the obstacles were nicely set out, quite long and windy, and lots of fun!
Of course it helped that the course marshal Patrick set out the course in a 90 Defender. Wonderful to see the long wheel bases struggling for a change!
Two very surprising points to note, much to Pepper's glee: Andrew didn't get her stuck, and didn't cover her tummy in mud!
Monday, November 14, 2005
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
The Lost City
Pepper decided that a visit to the Atlantis Dunes was in order, seeing as that she has not been out to play for a very long time. Andrew invited ALL Pepper's friends, but as usual Space! was the only one who came along. I don't know what everyone else was afraid of: this is the view one sees as one drives into the dunes:
Yes, that is what it looks like, white white white everywhere.
It is very pretty and if you get there early enough then there are no tracks and you get to drive over virgin sand. By the end of the day there are tracks everywhere, but the next day it is all back to pure whiteness again.
This the view from one of the big dunes, with Table Mountain and Koeberg in the distance, and a very cute car on the right. There is a little hole to the front right of Pepper, she kept falling in but fortunately never had to be pulled out. I don't know what that thing on the left is.
Here is a pretty picture of a pretty car and all the aforementioned tracks. You can almost see the pretty drivers whose birthday it is soon.
This is Space! struggling up a little hill climb, which necessitated a little diff-lock use, after some reminding that the car had a diff-lock. Pepper unfortunately never made it up the hill, she was too embarrassed to try again and again and again...
This is Pepper driving between some flowery dunes, things got a bit scary when Andrew decided to go bundu bashing, but that can be left for another post.
Here is Space! and Pepper all ready to go home. Bye now:
Yes, that is what it looks like, white white white everywhere.
It is very pretty and if you get there early enough then there are no tracks and you get to drive over virgin sand. By the end of the day there are tracks everywhere, but the next day it is all back to pure whiteness again.
This the view from one of the big dunes, with Table Mountain and Koeberg in the distance, and a very cute car on the right. There is a little hole to the front right of Pepper, she kept falling in but fortunately never had to be pulled out. I don't know what that thing on the left is.
Here is a pretty picture of a pretty car and all the aforementioned tracks. You can almost see the pretty drivers whose birthday it is soon.
This is Space! struggling up a little hill climb, which necessitated a little diff-lock use, after some reminding that the car had a diff-lock. Pepper unfortunately never made it up the hill, she was too embarrassed to try again and again and again...
This is Pepper driving between some flowery dunes, things got a bit scary when Andrew decided to go bundu bashing, but that can be left for another post.
Here is Space! and Pepper all ready to go home. Bye now:
Monday, August 08, 2005
Porseleinberg Series Outing
We have to still post a story about Porseleinberg for you all to read, but since we are both too busy, here are some pictures in the mean time. These come from the Cape Land Rover Club's website, but we still have hundreds from Katherine and Lucy to upload. Andrew organised this outing - it was a Series outing, but they all cancelled, so we had to take the Rangies, Disco's and Defenders along with us.
This is Pepper driving merrily along.....
Then Andrew recklessly endangered her life...
Her feet are not even all on the ground, and BA Baraccas here is trying to pull her out! Silly Monkey!
This was very funny watching a Defender 110 get very stuck! 4 High-Lift jacks, 2 spades, several branches, metal mud ramps, an exhaust air bag and 5 helpers later, the 4X4 tractor arrived and saved the day. Pitty about the damage, although the driver seemed rather proud of the battle scars!
Meet Baasie our trail organiser and one of his red Jeep's attempting to winch the 110 out:
We will add some more, but Kat has some pretty ones too, so click on the link above - Mad Bad and crazy Kat - to see more.
Here is Katherine in the mud!
This is Pepper driving merrily along.....
Then Andrew recklessly endangered her life...
Her feet are not even all on the ground, and BA Baraccas here is trying to pull her out! Silly Monkey!
This was very funny watching a Defender 110 get very stuck! 4 High-Lift jacks, 2 spades, several branches, metal mud ramps, an exhaust air bag and 5 helpers later, the 4X4 tractor arrived and saved the day. Pitty about the damage, although the driver seemed rather proud of the battle scars!
Meet Baasie our trail organiser and one of his red Jeep's attempting to winch the 110 out:
We will add some more, but Kat has some pretty ones too, so click on the link above - Mad Bad and crazy Kat - to see more.
Here is Katherine in the mud!
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Poor Andrew's bank balance.
Andrew has been very busy in the last three weeks fixing Pepper up and making her look pretty. It all started with a little service, which include new oil for the diffs, gearbox, trnsfer box and swivel pins. About 13 litres at R20/l: not cheap. Then he decided to replace two front suspension bushes, which is possibly the worst job in the world on an old Landy, but the ride is much better now.
The hilift jack was also mounted in a new position and the sparewheel carrier was fixed after Pepper's fun in the clay stockpile where she broke it. New hinges were made for the tailgate so that it can flap down and Kate can make coffee after a long hard day driving. New seat belt thingies were also made after someone lost them and a new, raised bumper was also fitted. The old bumper was made as a water tank and weighed about 70kg's. Very very heavy. The new one is raised to give a better approach angle and weighs about 15kg.
Burnco Panelbeating also fixed her chassis for her, which was rotting away, probably after fatigue cracking from the heavy old bumper. That cost R1500. All the engineering work (Allbest Engineering) cost R1050, which Andrew has not yet paid for. The exhaust downpipe was also repaired and a new flange was fitted to the manifold, all by Powerfloe exhausts. Cost: R850. The old pipe was dinged which mde the manifold leak, Pepper is not sure where it happened but it won't happen again because they put in a nice shiny fexible section to absorb shocks.
All of this was done after Andrew replaced the alternator bearings only to find out that they were not the cause of a funny rumbling noise. He then replaced the waterpump, which was the cause of the funny rumbling noise. The waterpump job was a huge headache, some fool (previous owner) had replaced bolts that hold the pump to the cylinder head with a variety of metric, imperial and other assorted studs and bolts. The metric ones stripped and all the other bolts were also partially stripped. This lead Andrew to belive that the threads in he cylinder head were also stripped, which would involve taking the head off, which wold not be fun. Luckily the threads were fine, but when the radiator was flushed and refilled here seemed to be some gunk in the water, which would indicate a blown headgasket which would also require he head to be taken off. After a head gasket test at Shell Autoserv, it was found that this was not the case. The gunk was probably from the grease Andrew smeared on the new radator pipes to get them on more easily.
The rear of the chassis was also repaired. Andrew cut out a piece of 3mm steel to replace a rusted section, treated it so that it wouldn't rust and rivetted it into place. He then drove down the road to Tuffex exhausts who welded it into place. Cost: R30. Saving: about R1100, which is what Burnco quoted him to do it.
All in all a fun holiday was had, but Andrew needs another week to recover from the Porseleinberg trail where he spent the better half of an hour knee deep in cold muddy water. But that's another story althogether...
The hilift jack was also mounted in a new position and the sparewheel carrier was fixed after Pepper's fun in the clay stockpile where she broke it. New hinges were made for the tailgate so that it can flap down and Kate can make coffee after a long hard day driving. New seat belt thingies were also made after someone lost them and a new, raised bumper was also fitted. The old bumper was made as a water tank and weighed about 70kg's. Very very heavy. The new one is raised to give a better approach angle and weighs about 15kg.
Burnco Panelbeating also fixed her chassis for her, which was rotting away, probably after fatigue cracking from the heavy old bumper. That cost R1500. All the engineering work (Allbest Engineering) cost R1050, which Andrew has not yet paid for. The exhaust downpipe was also repaired and a new flange was fitted to the manifold, all by Powerfloe exhausts. Cost: R850. The old pipe was dinged which mde the manifold leak, Pepper is not sure where it happened but it won't happen again because they put in a nice shiny fexible section to absorb shocks.
All of this was done after Andrew replaced the alternator bearings only to find out that they were not the cause of a funny rumbling noise. He then replaced the waterpump, which was the cause of the funny rumbling noise. The waterpump job was a huge headache, some fool (previous owner) had replaced bolts that hold the pump to the cylinder head with a variety of metric, imperial and other assorted studs and bolts. The metric ones stripped and all the other bolts were also partially stripped. This lead Andrew to belive that the threads in he cylinder head were also stripped, which would involve taking the head off, which wold not be fun. Luckily the threads were fine, but when the radiator was flushed and refilled here seemed to be some gunk in the water, which would indicate a blown headgasket which would also require he head to be taken off. After a head gasket test at Shell Autoserv, it was found that this was not the case. The gunk was probably from the grease Andrew smeared on the new radator pipes to get them on more easily.
The rear of the chassis was also repaired. Andrew cut out a piece of 3mm steel to replace a rusted section, treated it so that it wouldn't rust and rivetted it into place. He then drove down the road to Tuffex exhausts who welded it into place. Cost: R30. Saving: about R1100, which is what Burnco quoted him to do it.
All in all a fun holiday was had, but Andrew needs another week to recover from the Porseleinberg trail where he spent the better half of an hour knee deep in cold muddy water. But that's another story althogether...
Friday, June 10, 2005
Poor Pepper!
We want to visit Sutherland in September - probably through the backroads to Ceres, and stay at Prince Alfred Hamlet - and then come back down through the Cederburg.
There are some lovely places to stay along the way and great 4x4 trails that Pepper wants to take her takkies over.
In order to do all of this, Pepper's dad wants to take her on this horrid road!
This is such a South African road sign - I just couldn't resist!
There are some lovely places to stay along the way and great 4x4 trails that Pepper wants to take her takkies over.
In order to do all of this, Pepper's dad wants to take her on this horrid road!
This is such a South African road sign - I just couldn't resist!
Monday, May 30, 2005
Poodles...
Last night we took Pepper-Anne on an expedition to find poodles. She wanted to drive over, under and into them blasted poodles. Her underside was still a bit muddy (even the high pressure hose could not get this out!) We found a few good ones, especially the on-ramp at Princess Anne Road near UCT, and her mom and dad soon found themselves very very wet! Pepper is back safely in her garage and her dad starts exams on Friday, so there will not be to many stories in the next few weeks. Pepper might also be famous soon as her dad has just written an article for the Cape Times, so maybe that will be our next post.
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Pepper's complaints.
Pepper quietly whispered in my ear last night when I brought her her milo that this was her website, not ours. She is upset that we have hijacked it and told me in no uncertain terms. So from now on all posts about Kate and Andrew can be found on atekandy.blogspot.com and the life and tales of Pepper will remain here. I might even move a couple of posts over to atekandy, which Kate thinks is a silly name, but I rather like it.
So I hereby do apologise to Pepper and promise never to do it again.
So I hereby do apologise to Pepper and promise never to do it again.
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Bontebok Ridge
After all the excitement of the weekend it is probably now time to post a proper story of the outing.
We met at the Winelands Onestop on the N1, where about 15 Series Land Rovers invaded the parking lot.
There were two old restored VW Combi's there too which were really cool:
Kate and I got there quite early; our packing during the week helped us to leave on time for once. We could then sit down and have some coffee and breakfast with Gary (the organiser) and his daughter Nicola and Vicky who works for GQ, but used to work for SA 4x4 (all comments reserved).
Pepper packed and ready to go:
Nicola playing at the end of the weekend, she will make a mean little soccer player if she learns the hand ball rules:
We then trundled off in convoy to the farm which was about an hour away. A convoy of old Landy's arriving:
After setting up camp
and having a driver's meeting we went for a lttle drive. The little drive was lots of sun, there were log crossings, log inclines, dongs, dips and gulleys.
Buzzy in his Series 2 and the log crossing:
David brown piloting the Blue Smoker over the logs:
Dongas:
Dips
and gulleys
We all got stuck on one incline because we all decided to take the wrong line and test our incredibly flexible suspension, which was fun because none of us really have incredibly flexible suspension except Rambertus, and even he got a bit stuck, which is all part of the fun and the main purpose of some cars.
Notice the lesser spotted rock bokkie on the right hand side, perfectly camouflaged:
Pepper posing on a clay mound:
After playing for some time we all went on a game drive on a Series 2 SWB which was lots of fun, it belongs to the owners of the farm whose son decided to restore it after it had sat in a garage for ten years.
Some incredibly handsome guy pretending to drive the game viewer:
We listened to fish eagles, watched bokkies, looked at the sunset and took photo's! After that we went back to camp, started a fire, braaied, went to bed and woke up again!
Braai:
It wasn't nearly as cold as the weather report said it would be so we are all okay in the morning. We started the second part of the trail at nine, after working out why my CB radio wasn't working. The second half winds its way through a grove of wild olive trees, some over a hundred years old. There were lots of fun little obstacles, made even more fun by the fact that Pepper's starter motor has decided to pack up, making life very difficult. Whenever we stopped I couldn't turn her off, or if I stalled I had to make sure it was on an incline. I did stall once on a rocky incline, and then charged up in order not to stall again, but beat my gearbox crossmember up on the rocks:
Adam on the little rock climb, which he did with aplomb!
After all of that there was a little muddy obstacle, which Pepper didn't want to get out of, she even did it in two wheel drive but still didn't get stuck. It was fun but means that now she needs a full lube service, new wheel bearings and the starter motor needs replacing/fixing. The alternator bearing also needs replacing, all jobs for the holidays.
So we played
and played:
Adam played and sucked in water:
but that's ok because he has a T*y&t@ engine in his car so if he kills it he can put a real one in!
Yhen went to play some more while others went and did a little drive up the mountain.
Vicky piloting Rambertus over the dreaded logs, she made it look very easy:
A photo shoot was organised with Pepper and Adam's car, them being the youngest and the oldest respectively.
What is nice about all these outings is that kiddlywinks come too. There is something strange about it all because all the kiddlywinks are girls, but here is a picture of a little monkey endemic to regions that contain Land Rovers:
And that was the end of that, a good trail although quite short. Broken: starter motor. To do: service, engineering work on bumper, spare wheel carrier and other stuff. Move: aerial mount, it gets in the way. Till next time!
We met at the Winelands Onestop on the N1, where about 15 Series Land Rovers invaded the parking lot.
There were two old restored VW Combi's there too which were really cool:
Kate and I got there quite early; our packing during the week helped us to leave on time for once. We could then sit down and have some coffee and breakfast with Gary (the organiser) and his daughter Nicola and Vicky who works for GQ, but used to work for SA 4x4 (all comments reserved).
Pepper packed and ready to go:
Nicola playing at the end of the weekend, she will make a mean little soccer player if she learns the hand ball rules:
We then trundled off in convoy to the farm which was about an hour away. A convoy of old Landy's arriving:
After setting up camp
and having a driver's meeting we went for a lttle drive. The little drive was lots of sun, there were log crossings, log inclines, dongs, dips and gulleys.
Buzzy in his Series 2 and the log crossing:
David brown piloting the Blue Smoker over the logs:
Dongas:
Dips
and gulleys
We all got stuck on one incline because we all decided to take the wrong line and test our incredibly flexible suspension, which was fun because none of us really have incredibly flexible suspension except Rambertus, and even he got a bit stuck, which is all part of the fun and the main purpose of some cars.
Notice the lesser spotted rock bokkie on the right hand side, perfectly camouflaged:
Pepper posing on a clay mound:
After playing for some time we all went on a game drive on a Series 2 SWB which was lots of fun, it belongs to the owners of the farm whose son decided to restore it after it had sat in a garage for ten years.
Some incredibly handsome guy pretending to drive the game viewer:
We listened to fish eagles, watched bokkies, looked at the sunset and took photo's! After that we went back to camp, started a fire, braaied, went to bed and woke up again!
Braai:
It wasn't nearly as cold as the weather report said it would be so we are all okay in the morning. We started the second part of the trail at nine, after working out why my CB radio wasn't working. The second half winds its way through a grove of wild olive trees, some over a hundred years old. There were lots of fun little obstacles, made even more fun by the fact that Pepper's starter motor has decided to pack up, making life very difficult. Whenever we stopped I couldn't turn her off, or if I stalled I had to make sure it was on an incline. I did stall once on a rocky incline, and then charged up in order not to stall again, but beat my gearbox crossmember up on the rocks:
Adam on the little rock climb, which he did with aplomb!
After all of that there was a little muddy obstacle, which Pepper didn't want to get out of, she even did it in two wheel drive but still didn't get stuck. It was fun but means that now she needs a full lube service, new wheel bearings and the starter motor needs replacing/fixing. The alternator bearing also needs replacing, all jobs for the holidays.
So we played
and played:
Adam played and sucked in water:
but that's ok because he has a T*y&t@ engine in his car so if he kills it he can put a real one in!
Yhen went to play some more while others went and did a little drive up the mountain.
Vicky piloting Rambertus over the dreaded logs, she made it look very easy:
A photo shoot was organised with Pepper and Adam's car, them being the youngest and the oldest respectively.
What is nice about all these outings is that kiddlywinks come too. There is something strange about it all because all the kiddlywinks are girls, but here is a picture of a little monkey endemic to regions that contain Land Rovers:
And that was the end of that, a good trail although quite short. Broken: starter motor. To do: service, engineering work on bumper, spare wheel carrier and other stuff. Move: aerial mount, it gets in the way. Till next time!
Monday, May 16, 2005
We are alive! Well, only just...
We had a wonderful weekend at Bontebok Ridge and Pepper-Anne got her shoes nice and muddy. The rain and cold behaved and stayed away from us even after the warnings below. We will post a long story about it this week, but in the mean time I will post some pictures below so you can be envious of us!
These are some pictures of Pepper and her friends:
and no, this is not Pepper-Anne on steroids, this is her friend Rambertus
and as for the ..well, only just... part, we will have to put a story together about how pepper was out looking for robbers and baddies last night, but that is a whole nother post...
These are some pictures of Pepper and her friends:
and no, this is not Pepper-Anne on steroids, this is her friend Rambertus
and as for the ..well, only just... part, we will have to put a story together about how pepper was out looking for robbers and baddies last night, but that is a whole nother post...
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