WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Due to the recent water ingress to the rear area of the truck I finally took the rapidly drying carpet out of the rear section.
The musty smell has now gone :dance:

Have checked the rear floor and no corrosion - really good nick which is a relief.

Moved half a ton of slate chippings in it, drives nice when full

Now to finish prep'ing and lay down the slate :roll:

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may help as its hot out there :wink:

i took mine in for the dreaded TEST :shifty:

and it failed :oh yer:

but on only a few little things,
number plate bulbs, satnav in way (yes i didnt remove it) rear brake hose clip, front (both sides) wheel bearings rough, and lack of brake for hand braking

so i am still waiting on my rear brake shoes and then i will have this all sorted next week with ease

Stood on the drive looking at them both while our lass was mumbleing sumat about me selling one!?? :shock:

Chose not to listen after that!! :lol:

Not the truck, but the OiC HF's wee run-about town MX5 Go-Kart.... She's gonna kill me.

We've had it off the road for a few weeks 'resting' okay to be honest I didnt want to tax it quite yet, well this morning the sun was out, nice and warm and really a bit on the hot side for running around in the truck. So I went and taxed the go-kart while she went in to work for the day.

I took the youngest to work, roof down, posing avaiators on etc... Going well, nipped into swindon for a new caravan tyre and the go-kart starts making like a 1930's steam engine or is it a 2.0 ltr fronty?

Pulled over once I'd free-wheeled to a halt (they go for ages lol) and I reckon the very wobbly fan belt wheel is sort of telling me the water pump don't want to play any more. That and the fact that most of the water is now sat on the wrong side of the radiator :shock:

I now have like an hour to source a new pump, rip the old one off, fit the new one and top up with coolant before she gets home and I can deny it all..... I'm just not going to manage it am I :cry:

""NO"" Thats from a 2.0ltr Frontera owner!!!! :thumbup:

I took my Beasty for a nice run to a restaurant for a meal for my wife's birthday. On the way back gave her (the car NOT the wife :wink:

) a bit of a blast out.....at a nice steady 80mph. WAY faster than I normally drive. :lol:

was you on a promise James driving that quick :lol:

LOL!!! Nah mate...had that this morning. :wink:

Change the same tyre twice :oh yer:

- Had a slow puncture for a while now in the only tyre on the truck with an inner tube. Got the gear together to do DIY tyre changing so I thought I'd give in a bash. Bought a replacement inner tube for £12 + VAT. Tried breaking the bead with my DIY manual tyres changing gizmo. No luck, so I used the high lift jack utilising the towing bar on the Fronty. Couple of attempts and it did the job. Got the tyre off one side only because I didn't want to break the other bead. Got old tube out OK and inserted the new one. Got the tyre back on OK and progressed to pump up with my 12 volt pump. Happy days until it got to 20psi. Bead popped back on but still it wouldn't go above 20psi. Then I felt the air escaping around the tube valve. Off comes the tyre and out comes the tube and I couldn't have got it aligned properly because there is a split at the base of the valve.
Nothing to lose, and no chance of getting another tube today, so I put a normal valve in and struggled like nobody's business to get the tyre back on. Sussed what I was doing wrong, and push the tyre right down off the bead, on it pops with no more dramas - until I came to pump it up. Again, it got to 20psi and struggled to go any higher. Then I felt a small amount of air escaping on the side wall - that's the reason it had a tube in the first place. Left it pumping for a bit and up it goes to the required 32psi. Decided to leave it as the spare until I can get another tube and continue the same story next weekend. :roll:

Weird thing was that I pumped up the original tube and it seems to hold air. Didn't risk pumping up to anything near the 30psi so I guess it must be a very small leak that only allows air to escape at the higher normal loaded pressure.

Was gonna do I tomorrow but had a spare hour so I did my passenger side top and bottom ball joint cv joint and a shiny gaiter, also did the fuel filter

It drives and handles like a new car with no knocking and sooo much more power it's completely shocking and soo satisfying.

Tomorrows the day to add the cb, rear work lights and power cable :dance:

fitted my new wing, rust treated and painted the area behind the removed bumper, de-rusted battery tray and painted ready for new battery, tried to work out best place for winch solenoid.....

Done about 30miles since changing oil and filter with the head gaskit so decided to do an oil change again, will try and do another one again next weekend. At least i will know that it is well flushed :lol:

Well today I picked up my hammer and attacked the truck :twisted:

Now the front has enough room in the arches to fit my new muds

I rolled them up aganst the truck to get a idea a few days ago...

They are quite abit bigger :shock:

- New muds are about 32" tall and my old 31's are 29.7" O.o

I also found a hidden garden :shock:

god only knows how they managed to grow because no light at all could get in there

But this is what they look like

Then I desided to give them a little test....*fudge turns his phone off* lol

There really isnt much clearence left in the rear arches :lol:

Then I found this....normally I wouldnt try it but thought may as well....wasnt as bad as I 1st thought because it made it thru in 2wd with next to no slip

Then I found this.... dosent look like much but what I didnt really consider was how soft the peat had become and urm quickly ground to a halt in 2wd, tryed 4wd forwards, nothing...just alot of mud everywere, I gulp and try reverse, and it started to coat the windscreen with mud, then started to move.....yipee until I stoped again....oh....tryed forwards....2nd 4low about 4k rpm and it slowly crowled out, dam farmers spreding peat on the lane :evil:

but it did make the truck look well used

I have to say I have refound the love for the truck again

. Only 2 things I dont like about the muds so far....it doesnt pull of the line like it used to

and due to the offset and lack of body lift when I go over a lump in the road (both rear wheel go up together as apposed to flexing while offroading) the rear wheels catch on the body work

and make an almight crunch sound

Looking good Dan. Well done mate. :drink:

Certainly looks a bit more manly Dan :thumbup:

Deffo needs a little more lift though, especially at the back.

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Sold the 2.0 Sport today :thumbup:

Happy days

(Just hoping he doesn't bring it back

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Yeah it does, just a shame I cant keep them on there full time. I do way to many on road miles

drove it from Nottingham to mattock to pick up rob to stoke on trent to telford to matlock to drop rib back off and then back to nottingham 201 mile round trip on £45

now just got to get robs finger nails :dance:

out my dash lol