WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Had to use it for shopping as the astra would have drowned in the floods. Getting some serious rain down here at the moment.

Bought another one. 2.8 lwb, soon to be appearing in a puddle / lane ....

Tis in pretty good nick as far as I can see, bit of welding req for MoT so that will be attended to over the Christmas break. It survived the drive home!

fitted my new alternator -nightmare job!

best thing i can now see in the dark - i have headlights and not candles!!

Steve, you fought the bottom bolt then :lol:

I will be doing mine again shortly :oh yer:

fitted some new pads on the truck omg how stuck were them slide bolts took me 40 mins a side to get the fookers to slide but all good now just need to sort some thing out for a brake peddal in traffic :roll:

changed leak off pipes today.
bought a priming pump to bleed the system,
didnt need it.
cracked off injector pipes 3 and 4,
diesel there straight away.
tightened them up while the missus cranked it over,
started up no problem.
after reading all the posts about bleeding the system ive been putting it off for ages.
no trouble at all
cheers mel :party:

]well red good news you're mpg sounds good . and hand brake cables i had a night mare getting them your ebay price sounds ok

Left the drivers window open all night and came to a soaked seat this morning :axe:

Truck:
Nothing. It works.

O-no:
1. Bled the brakes (stuff that came out looked more like water/coolant/brake fluid mix than brake fluid), their not bad, still a bit squishy so I will change the hoses, got a set in the shed.

2. Checked the bottom ball joints, both sides the rubbers have split. Local factors had one in stock and the other is on order for the 27th so that's boxing day sorted, do 1, prep the other and fit on the 27th.

3. Fixed poor connection in N/S Front Indicator.

4. Replaced the broken Aerial, using the spare out of the shed.

5. Fixed the central locking on the tail gate. Three squirts of WD40 did for that one.

Fitted and hard wired my CB into my truck, then got my blower working on all four speeds.

Pete

Well...

The day started off with rain, oh brilliant one thought... And heres me planning on doing the bottom ball joints on O-no.

Managed to get the wheel nuts and auto locker nuts loose and started to jack it up. That went well until the jack got all jack like and stopped lifting (lack of oil it seems) so that involved a quick trip out for some Hyd oil. Got some eventually (co-op do not sell it, don't know why, they should). Once filled the truck was quickly jacked up and on it's axle stands.

Next job, wheel off. Auto locker off (no need to clean the grease off

well not much of it anyway) circlip came out easy as well... Bottom ball joint next....

I now know why the truck has, in previous ownership been carrying split bottom ball joint covers for the last 3 MoT's as an advisery... N/S (not even looked at the other one yet) Once the split pin had come out I had the 2' breaker bar on it and the nut was having none of it. Breaker bar + 3' of scaffold pole... Nothing, fast running out of extensions to the bar I tried an old MG Midget axle case I had kicking around in the shed as it was empty it served as a breaker bar extention well and the nut was finally loose after some sever leaning and pulling... Proper banana shape in the bar there was before the nut gave and came loose.

Next fun item is going to be getting the thing split off the arm... So looking forward to that, not.

Thought about washing them all....and then decided against it, even though it is self rinsing weather. :lol:

Went to start it but the battery is flat after sitting a few weeks, so went back in and got some beer :drink:

(2.2 petrol LWB 2001) fitted a second hand o/s rear calliper, changed gearbox oil, fitted under trays back on and took her for a drive there was a bit of surface rust on the discs but are fine now. still loads to do though. today the dreaded speedo stopped working, need to change ht leads, could do with a new exhaust all the way through but keep welding the holes up for now.must change diff oils at some point

jobs done so far( not today lol)

head skimmed, valves ground in.
new valve steam seals ,complete head seal kit .
new cam belt
new water pump
new thermostat and housing
bigger wheels and tyres 255/75/15 had to adapt the front arches
changed vac pipes all round
cleaned out egr valve (stinking)
new exhaust manifold old one cracked.

wayne.

Topped up the oil n stuck some fuel in on the way home after work. Really like this 2.5

Truck:
Started it, drove it, parked it.

O-no:
N/S Lower Ball Joint finally done. Killed a new ball joint splitter while doing it (it broke in half), then attacked it with the old joint splitter, lump hammer wouldnt touch it, but the sledge hammer got it in the end... Funny old thing, it went back together much easier!

Also adjusted the front N/S wheel bearing while the auto-locker was off. Now just got to change the O/S Lower Ball Joint, clean up the chassie a bit (surface rust stuff and the odd field), bit of welding and it's in for the MoT.

Spent three hours trying to bleed the fuel system on my 2.2, after replacing all leak off and vacuum pipes

The Laser tool sucks! or not!

Will try some extra diesel today, as the fuel gauge lies to me, and I may not have sufficient in the tank.

Big Blue Ornament sitting in the barn, and going nowhere...... :oops: