Off-Roaders Unlimited

[Ranger_ofthe_North]

Dear Friends,


"Off-Roaders unlimited" is an Abbottabad based, group of soft-core off-roaders. It mainly organizes relatively softish off-road activities, with lots of fun. Most of our 13 'executive members' are professionals, like myself being a Consltant Surgeon and Associate Professor of Surgery. For the present, I very humbly present myself as Life-time Chairperson of Off-Roaders unlimited, Abbottabad. This is a position of service and responsibility entrusted to me (rather thrusted upon me) by all my colleagues. Usually only some of the members are able to join, however, on each trip, we also encourage friends and guests, so we have quite a few vehicles.


Based at Abbottabad, we feel lucky that we are at the gateway to nice hilly areas. In the winters, snow gives good fun drives and during the summer, the North is just around the corner.


This year we did manage quite a few activities. We are also very happy to announce that on our very first inaugural activity, quite some time back, we cleaned up an area voluntarily and distributed some cloth bags as a 'jihad' against shopping bags.


In future, we intend to include a lot more of social good in our off-road trips.


One member of our team, Irshad Miskeen, has inherited this position of prestige, because of the death of his father, Baba Miskeen, who was one of our executive members and a very effective off-roader: one of the best that I have seen. And Irshad is following in his footsteps.


Hope to be in touch and if the Abbottabad off-roaders could be of service to anyone, please do not hesitate to contact us.


Irfan U Khattak


Abbottabad


0314-5035888

[aamir567]

Welcome to World of Offroading
On behalf of IJC I would like to extend all our support to your club.

[Janj]

Dear Sir,


Welcome at PW, posting one of your action pic we will be waiting for more.


Regards


Janj

[fihsak]

Welcome to the PW
We hope u will Share ur vast off-road experience with newbies like us

Regards

[julyseventysix]

Nice to see representation from Abotabad as well.

Welcome sir.

[Basharatu]

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spanArial","sans-serif";"Doctor Sb. welcome to PW, we have only been able to talk over the phone since Doctor Javaid introduced me to U. Great to see the club forming in Abbotabad & U have the technical expertise of Mr. Irshad the gypsy guy in the club as well. Did U took any pictures of your Unimog during the Doka conversion project? It would be great If U can share your experience on the Unimog thread:



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[sarmadqureshi]

Welcome Doc,
Please tell us more about your rig. What all have you done to it & what all is stock ?

Yes, it would be great to see pictures of the conversion process.

[Libra]

@Off-Roaders Unlimited
PakWheels welcomes you, i hope you enjoy your stay here.

Wish you best of luck on your future events.

[veitnam]

thanks guys

[PuNk]

Welcome to Pakwheels.com

[Ranger_ofthe_North]

Dear Friends,


Salam


It is heartening to feel at home almost immediately. It was not in my wildest of dreams that we were actually joining a family of great friends.


Thanks for all your replies.


I have in person met, probably, Aamir Saheb at one event of Islamabad Jeep Club. I have spoken to Basharat Saheb on Phone, but I also feel, already, that I am a welcome member of a big community of friends.


This year, we are planning a winter trip to Naran. I do not know, how far we will be able to go, but we do hope to enjoy. This will be somewhere in January, when the snow is at its peak. Once the details are worked out, we will definitely share it on the forum, and welcome all your presence.


About the UNIMOG, we actually did it, sort of like sailing through uncharted seas. We did not have any clue as to what we were doing, or whether it will turn out interesting.


We started with the rear end, and actually sliced off around 6 inches from the two sides. Then we trimmed the back, to balance the approach and departure angles. The tail gate was converted from a dropping down type to a side opening type, only for convenience. We moved the flat, curved fenders in, just for streamlining the looks, and finally added the third door on the back side on left. There is no rear door on the right (for kids' safety).


However, interesting is the Engine swap. The original 4 cylinder Mercedes Engine of series 116 is a low rpm, low out put engine. I am not sure, but looks like it is in the region of 60+ horsepower. When we looked at our use, less than 100 horsepower did not suite us, mainly because the unimog is already at 4500 feet above sea level, and regularly visits or was expected to visit higher altitudes. So, we looked at various available options. There was a very good option, a Mercedes Benz 364 & a 314 engine, one being turbo-charged. The main draw back was in the typical 'kar-kar-sound', and a dearth of mechanics willing to tackle a Mercedes Benz engine problem.


Our natural choice was a TOYOTA. But, we were stuck up with the idea of inserting a 3 L engine, 2.8 Litres with normal aspiration. This, is a very flexible engine. I believe we did a mistake by not using this one. This 3L has horse power in the range of 80+. We rather settled on 14 B, a normally aspirated engine, 3660 cc, and with easy availability of spare parts. It produces 120 or horses, and is a beautiful piece of TOYOTA technology.


It was a great effort shoeing in the bigger engine, and we had to do some very cruel surgical interventions. Eventually all went well. I am happy with the outcome, except that the torque is too much even for the UNIMOG gears to handle. It is regularly burning rubber on tarmac, even when I shift from the 3rd to the 4th gear. I intend to add some weight to the back to help this problem.


I do not have many pictures. As all my friends can gauge from my picture in the mog, I am a relatively older version, myself, and am not much into the digital technology. However, next time, I will add some pictures from our first meeting of Off-Roaders Unlimited. Quite some time back actually.


see you again.


Irfan

[Sojourn]

Welcome Sir....hope to see more action from your club in pictorial and narrative form. Would love to join you someday as well.

hassan

[fobak]

welcome in the world of off-roading from all MJC members, hope to see u soon in action

[LRDefender]

@Off-Roaders Unlimited.... Welcome and Congrats on formation of Off-Road Club in beautiful city Abbotabad.


Is there any Land Rover in you group so far??

[Ranger_ofthe_North]

Salam All.


LRDefender: yep, we have a beautiful LandRover among our permanent members. 90, model 1990. Beautiful Blue colour, and white roof. You can see it on pakwheels in another string started by the name of CHAIRMAN OFF ROADER. Owned by Irshad.


We have other landrovers as 'off-and-on' guest members.


some day we may post some other pictures.


Irfan Khattak

[Ranger_ofthe_North]

Dear Friends


A few more pics from Banda Qazi track, near Abbottabad

[sarmadqureshi]

Sir, nothing got posted..... try again.

[veitnam]

[veitnam]

[veitnam]