WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

I have done nothing to the truck due to commitments

However went to get a pair of headlight bulbs for the other halfs civic. Nearly fell over with shock when they said that will be £186 sir :shock:

I would send her to get them next time Colley... :lol:

I didn't get them, they are still in the bloody shop :lol:

£186 is a lot of money!!! I could buy loads of stuff for that.
For example If I added another £14 I could buy drift's truck for that :butt:

Yesterday:

Emptied the boot and rear passenger seats off all the rubbish and remains of old brake parts, boxes, frontera gearbox tunnels etc etc. Then pushed the bung out of the front passenger footwell and got a face of stagnant water as the Atlantic Ocean poured out. Took all the carpets and foam padding and resigned them to the bin. Once I am certain the windscreen is properly sealed (Autoglass wanted £45 for the privaledge ... B&Q wanted £5 for guttering sealant) I will "adjust the tunnel so that is sealed around the gearsticks and replace the foam padding and carpet with new stuff.

I haven't done anything to the truck today. But yesterday someone on Facebook was giving away a kids slide for free so had to pick it up :lol:

M.O.T today and ....... it passed whoooooo few advisorys but :mrgreen:

it passed

Ooh, been a busy(ish) boy this week.
Sophie's had an engine and rear diff oil change, oil/air/fuel filter change, and rather annoyingly today I've swapped the spare and NSF wheels after I went out to walk the dog and noticed the car canted over at that "You've got a flat tyre" angle.

Still, 20 minutes to swap the wheels then nip round the garage to make use of the airline, and all is right with the world once more. The tyre monkey is coming to do our works vehicles in the morning, so I'll get him to have a shufti for me.

Replaced the temporary auto-box oil cooler pipes that I fitted the other day for the correct ones. Fitted the new air-con and power steering belts and tensioned the altenator belt and tightened ALL the altenator bolts that the garage had obviously been too busy to do up :roll:

Used it to tow a 2.2i from Chippenham to Swindon.

slapped in a new air filter and then tested the 4wd system as not been used for a while before doing some donuts with all 4 wheel spinning in the car park near me in virgin snow lol

Re-timed the fuel pump. Was a tad too advanced so a bit too clattery, so adjusted it to the other timing mark on the crank pulley. Once that was done I removed the inlet flappy paddle and associated gubbins on the intercooler inlet. Then tapped and bolted the holes to seal them. After all that i cleaned up all the mank and oil that was caked down that side of the engine after leaking out of the mechanism. Might treat the engine bay to a steam clean now I think I have cauterised all the bleeding. Hell after that i might actually consider going to town and getting it back to showroom.

Sold one of the 2.8's :dance:

and bought a Pajero :roll:

(and its an auto :sick:

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Test drove it to work to see if the new timing adjustments worked ... and so far I am happy with the results. Feels a bit more pokey, and noise levels are acceptable.

In my ongoing issue of open holes around the gearstick levers after the 3" body lift I struck it lucky today. I have two holes (one around each gearstick). On the way to work this morning I worked out the issue is the amount of swing on each stick causing the rubber boot to interfere with the raised hole. A light bulb lit (albeit a 5 watt one powered by 5 Volt battery) and I experimented with taking the original boot (this is on the 4wd selector) and flipping it upside down so the cone was underneath. The amount of swing where the stick meets the box is minimal. This meant that the stick now moves inside the cone and the boot stays put sealing the hole with full operational capability. WINNER. Now for the main gearstick ... though the original one fell apart ages ago so I will have to do the same with a modified Frontera one.

After that I will design and build a nice leather gator to around both of them (probably stolen from a 3.1 manual Trooper to make it flashy, then I can re-soundproof and carpet the front interior.

good thinking Neal

I thought it was a genius idea and true Redneck.

Best thing is it involves minimal effort to sort out ... no need to angle grind (sorry Andy) tunnels apart, and then weld bits together (sorry Greg).

Will probably run some of that guttering sealant around it all just to be sure though.

Job for wednesday night after work me thinks to sort out the main stick .. if it doesn't snow.

Will take a photo later to show what I did.