Roachies Heartbreak
Submitted: Friday, Aug 15, 2008 at 20:59
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Member - Pesty (SA)
Poor Poor Roachie, he has spent the week scouring through his hundreds of clients and managed to find a couple who are based in
Adelaide, just happens to be the same city where the trol is a resident patient.
So he contacts his clients and begs them to let him visit, so by lunchtime he is free to go sit bedside with the trol for a couple of hours, before visiting hrs are over.
The poor trol is strung up to the roof in traction by a couple of chains, and its butt is naked, just a couple of bits of useless tin sticking out from the cab.
All operations are at a standstill while another shipment of steel arrives to try and bring the chassis, of the 4 ton scap steel heap, to somewhere near a toyota strength, so it will handle future torture.
It was reported that tears were still staining Roachies cheeks when he arrived home some 2 hrs later.
Must be hard to admit such a massive mistake, as choosing the wrong brand of 4WD !!!
I will be spending the weekend with him at the Kadina show, where we have a display, and have prepared myself with several rolls of VIVA super absorbent towel to keep his cheeks dry.
I feel sad to have to make reports like this, but someone has to do it.
Cheers pesty
Reply By: Stephen M (NSW) - Friday, Aug 15, 2008 at 21:09
Friday, Aug 15, 2008 at 21:09
Your a cheeky buggar Pesty, LOL. Im not commenting as I just put a post about a 100 series cruiser receiving a nis nis nis nissan front diff as the standard OE diff kept on going bang. Poor Roachie. Regards Steve M
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Follow Up By: Member - Mark G (NSW) - Friday, Aug 15, 2008 at 21:28
Friday, Aug 15, 2008 at 21:28
nothing like sympathy eh?
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Reply By: Willem - Friday, Aug 15, 2008 at 21:43
Friday, Aug 15, 2008 at 21:43
Seems to me there is some sort of a desease hanging about the YP Club
Poor ole Roachie with his Chissan in traction and Lucky with his virus ridden Droopy.
Hope all you clubbies have a good chinwag over the weekend.....comparing broken bits......LOL
Cheers
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Reply By: Member - Olcoolone (S.A) - Friday, Aug 15, 2008 at 22:40
Friday, Aug 15, 2008 at 22:40
Well I did give him a genuine Nissan Patrol chassis repair kit to get it on the road quicker.
He can always borrow the Hilux....as long as he gives it back!
Pesty as you know owning a Nissan Patrol is a very powerful mind game, your always wondering whats going to brake next.
As they say "Owning a Nissan Patrol is one mans passion and another mans fortune...specially if the other mans a mechanic."
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Reply By: Member - Bucky (VIC) - Saturday, Aug 16, 2008 at 03:28
Saturday, Aug 16, 2008 at 03:28
Great read Pesty..
Gotta love the "lad".
If its gunna happen to anyone, then it will happen to Roachie..
All the best mate
Bucky
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Reply By: Member - Roachie (SA) - Saturday, Aug 16, 2008 at 08:04
Saturday, Aug 16, 2008 at 08:04
Thank you for sharing my deep-seated, profound personal grief with the whole wide world.........MR UN-CARING PESTY!!!!!
The Chev-Nissan appreciated the bunch of flowers I took her and we had a good reminice about all the adventures we'd had together in the past.
I re-assured her that there will be many more similar travels to come over the coming years, once she has had the bone-marrow transplant treatment completed.
All will be good.......still waiting on the verdict as to whether the engineers will allow her to have the traction levels ramped-up until her wheelbase is 500mm longer......some contention about how best to achieve this at the moment.
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Follow Up By: Kiwi & "Grenade" - Saturday, Aug 16, 2008 at 09:24
Saturday, Aug 16, 2008 at 09:24
More emphasis on the CHEV - Nissan maybe Roachie and they will lay off you a little more!LOL!
Good luck with the girl...!!
Laura
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Follow Up By: Sir Kev & Darkie - Saturday, Aug 16, 2008 at 09:34
Saturday, Aug 16, 2008 at 09:34
I don't see that happening Kiwi LOL
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Follow Up By: Des Lexic - Saturday, Aug 16, 2008 at 14:02
Saturday, Aug 16, 2008 at 14:02
Bill, there are a lot of uncaring types on this
forum who lack the sympathy and empathy that you so eagerly seek.
I have been searching around seeking someone who can provide the help that you require. Unfortunately I too have been unable to locate any of them.
Roachie, as a Bankie, I would have thought Bean counting would have been a vital part of your persona and I am astounded that you haven't done the sums yet and worked out that the Toyota option would have been the cheaper option in the long run.
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Follow Up By: On Patrol (Project TONI) - Saturday, Aug 16, 2008 at 14:17
Saturday, Aug 16, 2008 at 14:17
Roachie
Brother!!! your pain is my pain, is it not enough that we have to suffer the indignity of broken dreams and heart ache but those fools that don't begin to understand our type have to sink the boot in while we are down, the bast4rds!!!!!
Give my regards to the Chev-Niss.
I undertand mate, bugga those other guys.
However my lot is improving now mate.
TONI was road tested today (a couple of minor issues) and with any luck will be coming home very soon. 3 months today since the start of this project, and it's nearly over with what looks like a fab outcome, the wait is nearly over.
Er Indoors and I have been like a couple of caged animals looking for any way to get out, so it comes as a great surprise to us both that we have not torn each others heads off, in fact we have both been very supportive and serene, that's a first LOL.
Colin.
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Follow Up By: Member - Roachie (SA) - Monday, Aug 18, 2008 at 15:54
Monday, Aug 18, 2008 at 15:54
Just as an aside, it was an eye-opener to see just what sort of carnage had been visited upon various patrols, as reflected in the work in progress at Chassis-Tech in
Adelaide.
I'm sorry to say that the newer the Patrol, the more prone they seem to be to cracking either chassis and/or spring towers. It seems as though Nissan has now started using licorice for it's chassis material!!!!!
When I was there last Friday, there was a 2006 model GU which had just done a CSR and Simpson crossing. Mind you, it was loaded to the gunwalls with gear.....including a full-length home made steel roof rack with 5 steel/full gerry's of diesel and a roof top tent. The rack itself would have to have tipped the scales at 100kgs. The roof skin was cracked about 50mm long from the rear left end of the gutter, over towards the apex of the small rear door. But the real dramas were underneath.....much worse than my rig suffered. He had a ARB steel twin spare wheel carrier, long range
tank, full interior drawer system/fridge etc.
Patrol owners need to be aware that when the driver's side spring tower cracks, it WILL crush the brake lines and fuel lines, which run right over the top....just underneath the body.
The other thing I saw laying beside it on the floor were the (not so) Tough Dog Heavy Duty Adjustable shockers.....totally phar-ked after that little adventure.
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Reply By: Outa Bounds - Saturday, Aug 16, 2008 at 20:27
Reply By: Truckster (Vic) - Saturday, Aug 16, 2008 at 20:50
Saturday, Aug 16, 2008 at 20:50
Rumour has it hes going B&S on it now.. he wants Twin Stacks with flaps on em !!!
I thought he was older than that!
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Reply By: Member - Pesty (SA) - Sunday, Aug 17, 2008 at 18:03
Sunday, Aug 17, 2008 at 18:03
Well we have just spent the w/e with Roachie, and all he was able to talk about was the trol in traction.
He tried to drown some of his sorrow last night, and the viva towel wasnt needed, as he had a bath towel at the ready for the tears.
He was drooling over new tray designs late in the evening, and im sure his dreams were predictable !!!
Cheers Pesty
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Follow Up By: Member - Jeff H (QLD) - Saturday, Aug 23, 2008 at 13:13
Saturday, Aug 23, 2008 at 13:13
Crikey, I love you mob like family - go away for months at a time and the same old personalities are there to welcome you back.
One day I'll get to meet some of you buggers - one day.
Stay gentle eh.
Jeff H.
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Follow Up By: Member - Roachie (SA) - Saturday, Aug 23, 2008 at 15:06
Saturday, Aug 23, 2008 at 15:06
Hey Jeff.....
I'll give ya a tip for free..... Pesty ain't worth meeting, now or at any time in the future....;-))
Me, on the other hand......
well that's a different story....
Oooops, sorry, gotta go....some tickets just blew off me and I betta go an' pickem up......
hahahaha
Cheers mate
Roachie
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