WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

A blown turbo will cause excessive oil usage and smoke, not sure about the rough running though, would imagine it would effect it.

No wonder you have been silent on here if rebuilding a RR Yaki ... thats a life time vocation

As for your issues I would say rings and bores. Fortunatly you can buy new liners and rings for little money. Replacement turbo you seem to have already found. Personally I would go for the rebuild. Not a big job to do for a man of your calibre.

Gearbox was a bit whiny and notchy after the weekends under water exploits, so I dropped the oil out of the box.

Yoghurt anyone ?

Bleeding heck boxy :shock:

You might want to change the transfer box oil while your at it considering that.

Boxy:

That rear axle whine has been there a while now. I thought you solved it. Shame you realise now, Drifty had one on his driveway with an LSD not long ago.

Yaki:

The 3.1 is not much more powerful than the 2.8 (in the Vauxhall guise) but much more torquey. That would be a good thing in my book. I would slap the 3.1 in and run with that, or an ideal solution is to refurb the 3.1 and use that long term.

As for me I changed the oil again. Every 3 months at my mileage :evil:

after a 13 hour day at work i decided to fit my new springs

the start with saggy springs and every bolt seized to the max

one side done then got all confussed as to why the axle wouldnt drop on the passenger side

then spotted the top link bar needed disconnecting cos it fouled on the tank :oh yer:

2 nice shiny trooper h/ds fitted

then tackle the front torsion bars easy a hot knife through butter on both sides :shock:

only sprayed them once on sunday and the finished job about 45 mm taller

so just a ride to work tomorrow and re check the front for level and order some new roll bar bushes asap as these are all worn and loose :thumbdown:

now time for beer :lol:

Found a upper control arm bush bolt had worked itself loose and had almost dropped off the end of the thread. Not cool so got the breaker bar on that...was rather hoping that would solve a clunk I have when lifting off the loud pedal when in 1st gear...but predictably it didn't. Infact it didn't help anything o.O. sounds like a prop uj but I know the rear prop is fine and the front 1 isn't driven in 2wd so cant be that. Blooody thing. And I need to find out what's gone wrong on the steering now as it has a fair amount of play again. Think its the ball joint on the tie rod itself now :/

But whatever it is I'm giving it a week to fix itself while I'm in Tenerife

after that if its still there then I'm guna have to get the tool box back out of the boot again

Haven't dun anything to the truck today but I did get my insurance renewal in the post
I am happy with the quote aswel £90 cheaper then last year £415.46 plus £47.72 for paying in instalments.

Thats cos your an old man now Andy

Thanks Neal :lol:

"c0ck"

Must mean im old as mine is 410 this year :roll:

if your insurance at 400+ makes you old what have i done wrong 325 inc second driver

Nah Fudge ... yours is based on the value of the truck. They sneaked over to look at it and saw all the dents and mismatched wheels

Bloody hell I must be ancient mine was £168. Foggy, don't say a thing. :butt:

my lips are sealed :silent:

apart from that makes me feel kind of young in comparrison :wink:

£250 for a 2nd vehicle.
oh and checked all the levels incase i go to the weekender :shock: