WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Saturday refilled the rear diff with oil in Halfords car park in Newcastle as for somereason it spat it out all over the trailer, yeaterday i stripped down a seized brake caliper cleaned and rebuilt it.

For the life of me i cant work out how the diff oil came out, the seals are all ok the breather is clear and goes to the engine bay???

Refitted rear mudflaps (not as straight forward as it sounds)
Checked box + diff levels
removed the other mashed front FOG light
piddled around with the aerial and got nowhere
Replaced 2 missing gearbox bolts and tightened the rest that were finger tight :shock:

Removed 3 yards of cable that started at the glowplug relays and didnt actually connect to anything at the other end

Repaired one of the inner wings (rust holes) on the Landy with part of christine's roof that I cut off before I scraped her :lol:

then repaired the dashboard part of the top had lifted. Then fitted the DVD headunit

Having woken up around 1ish after a weekend of watching Dan throw some wicked trappin's under both his trucks, I FINALLY got chance to do something on mine - a much needed oil change! Runs majestically smooth now, making me want to look after it even more! Timed it nicely as not 3mins after I finished did the heavens open - not seen a 'grey' out from rain in years :shock:

Oh, and with a newly acquired/working CB, tomorrow I'll be planning a wiring plan for some additional ideas as well as the CB! But now, sleep!

Trucks been sitting idle for over a week, one of the tyres had gone soggy so that got refilled with air. I have had the solar trickle-feeder wired in whilst the cars been laid up - first turn of the key and it fired up up, a couple of seconds later the oil found its way around the engine and it was ticking over a treat. Phew!

Tomorrow, the new road tax.

(Also introduced a Fronty owner to the existence of FOG, seems keen to join up).

Well this past weekend me and mrpete fought long and hard with both Angelina and the black one

Angelina seemed to be playing ball in terms of the bell housing bolts, party due to the 2" body lift making access much better, but after that she was being a right bench with Pro. Grinder having to come into play :twisted:

. The black truck was almost exactly the oposite, the bell housing bolts were a right bench because they were so tight (thank you Neal :wink:

lol) but all the other bolts were either finger tight or the breaker bar made light work of them...

Then things got exiting

just as I thought the release bearing has collapsed...

On the left what it's ment to look like....ie in 1 piece

Close up carnage

Ironically this is the 1st time Ive had to use my front recovery shackle..... :evil:

(as a anchor point for the ratchet trap to keep the engine from falling back against the bulk head)

And some other mildly amusing pics taken over the weekend

Dragged the swb trooper out of the garage tent fitted a clear plastic sheet with the help of duct tape to stop it blowing away where windscreen should be this will keep the water out. It will be moving to a new home so tents coming down again.

Got First dibs on a running isuzu trooper 3.1 what ever partsi want /need before it gets scrapped soi can do a 3.1 engine conversion on the swb i did want to have a go off the 2.6 engine but means forking out £50 quid for an alternator which would be a waste of money for an engine that gonna be shoved in the shed .

Dog just spilled my can of lager

Washed her ... or rather found some keen polish guys down the road from work to wash her. The look of surprise on their faces as the thick layer of mud came off and they found paint and no rust. "She is very good condition my friend!!" was one comment. Then watching them scramble and lift each other up to clean the roof along with using the wheels as steps to get to other bits. Lastly they were so impressed they even jetwashed the entire chassis and underside as they could get the lance in. Stopped afterwards for a coffee and chatted to the guy in charge about her and he said he loves older 4x4's and he hates modern vehicles that have too many electronics.

fitted by rear brake shoes and cylinder and handbrake cables and booked in for mot first thing in morn fingers crossed

Good luck fronteramac!

I'm not trying to insinuate anything here, but it sure is getting cosy under Dan's black truck once more, now with Dan, myself AND fudge! Anyone else care to lend a hand?! :shock:

(ie. hopefully getting back together and running tonight!)

fitted a leather interior .....just needs a good clean and it'll be sorted

Used mine to go to work, removed spare wheel carrier, steam cleaned all the trees n mud off and found the reason that i get a mis-fire first thing n when i hit big puddles.... as i was spraying GT85 around my nice clean engine bay the truck was mis-firing due to the water so thought id check the ht leads again whilst they were wet, only to get a nice shock off the number 4 lead, tried to push it further onto the plug but it was well on already so followed cable to the dizzy and it came off in my hand :shock:

, the terminal was covered in green chalk so there mustve been water in there for a while :oops:

. anyhow, cleaned it up n stuck it back on n shes purring again! :thumbup:

Also very supprised at how quiet the 33"s are on the tarmac and how well she goes with them on, got to get used to the handling tho :lol:

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Next job: Get it ready for wales!! :dance:

Fitted new front discs and pads to the truck to rectify the botch up job that some previous owner had done :shock:

Everything came apart and went bact together great,
But,
I now need to change the o/s wheel bearing, as the race is pitted

Changed oil, oil filter, fuel filter and air filter.

Would have done it 4 hours sooner had I realised the numpty delivery guy had dumped everything by the front door without ringing the bell . :evil: