WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

so far today i have aquired another winch(superwinch for £10)
and went to an autojumble and found a LED work/flood light for £5
:lol:

a good tidy up inside and fixed a crack in the back bumper

Have bled the brakes hoping it wil cure my brake issue afater doing an emegenct stop cause some dickhead paramedic jumped the light with no siren i slammed the breaks on and it took nearly two car lengths to stop at 30mph.

Now to test drive while im out today

well that will then be my 3rd one
i have
a rep8000 ramsey (cost 130)
a rep5000 ramsey (cost 56)
and now a 2500superwinch for 10er

oh and some winch webbing (insted of rope) this weekend for £50

Tried brakes still wont do an emergency stop

During the week I have brush applied waxoyl to most of the accessible parts underneath. Hopefully this dry hot weather will continue and with the aid of the compressor I can inject more of the stuff into the hollows of the chassis rails and hard to get areas.

Re-did all the back windows Limo Black. :mrgreen:

Drove it to the petrol station and treated him to £50 of fuel!!! Oh he did smile, i could tell! :lol:

Well I finally decided to clean all the scratches off from strata :oops:

One of the better jobs I have done if I do say so myself

Gotta put more oil in it today as I forgot to do the drain plug up the other day :oops:

This one's a hangover from Saturday, as I've not been on the forum since; the timing belt & tensioners, plus alternator and PAS belts were changed on Sophie.
Definitely worth doing, too, quite aside from the service book stamp saying it was done 10 years ago, when the rollers came off for replacement they were making some nasty noises :shock:

For this though, HUGE THANKS are due to Snapper for his time and energies on the project.
Frank very kindly offered the use of his drive for the job as he was planning on doing his too, so I could watch and ask stupid questions as required while doing mine.
As it turned out though, his bits didn't arrive in time so it was just mine done, with Frank doing the bulk and me playing apprentice / tool passer.
Thanks for Saturday bud, the truck is running just lovely and at least one odd noise from under the bonnet has gone (still sounds like a sack of spanners though, really must work out why at some point :lol:

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Proof of the pudding was in going back to Southampton via Gloucester and Salisbury when I visited CheekyChick and didnt fancy the motorway on the way back.

took my truck into get the air con re-gassed after fitting a new air con pump to find the pipe from the condensor down to the rad had been rubbing on the chassis and it had sawn half way through the pipe. so had to pull the grill forward to get to the pipe and them pull it out and get it welded. then put it all back together and tested it re-gassed and running cold as ice now an only cost £60 including the re-gas and pipe welded.

cracking job by http://www.autosupplies-nottingham.co.uk/air-conditioning

No problem Jim, it was a good day and I'm glad it actually made it all the way home!

Roxy helped too.... Just look at those spanners, spankers they were, no sign of any grease, muck, use.... at all :lol:

In true FOG tradition, some red-neck engineering was carried out, a technically weighed stack of bricks and a ratchet strap was used to tension it all up.

i found out my oil leak has returned wishing could same for my brakes

Driving down my grove and one of the misfits drove a mini moto in to the front left wheel of my truck..
Damage to truck..... Nothing

Damage to mini moto..... Fooked, snapped forks split frame and a broken wheel

Look on the kids face....priceless :lol:

its near as i could see lol shame no pics

Sorry I forgot, at the time I was worried about damage-to the truck obviously.

New power steering belt and alternator belt. Was no where near as difficult as the one we did at the annual on Bobbinsjobs 2.8 funnily. Belt just slipped straight on. Also meant I have the right length belt on the power steering pump as the one I had was for an air-con version. They are longer so had to redneck a fix for it. Now its all back to how it should be.

Talking to the guy at the parts shop he pointed out the belts for these engines are extra heavy duty bringing them to agricultural/commercial standard.

Also noticed the fitting for the power steering pump hose was leaking (well it has been for ages, but thought I should do something about it today)

This is the fella:

Took it out and changed the o'rings. Looks like problem solved. Well done cheap Rolson o'ring set I got years ago "just-in-case".

got mine through it's MOT , might put him up for sale now not sure yet, don't want to but needs must.

con grats on the mot chap

went out and gave mine another wash today and then got ot the autoglym and gave it a polish
starting at the front

finishing like this at the back

before i got carried away and did this

some times the truth is hard to hide lol