WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Not to mine but to Brian & gems had a look to see if Tara needs a head gasket.
Brian thought it did because it was using water and over heating plus loss of power. From what I could tell it was loosing water from a leak to the water pump and the turbo hoses were ballooning out.
A New water pump and turbo hoses should sort the problem out :thumbup:

So it looks like a spanner party is on the cards before this months weekender.

A new tax disc has gone on it for another year.

Put two coats of wax oil on the chassis and any exposed floor pan I could get to along with the rear diff and trailing arms. Had to paint it on by hand though as the spray gun that I'd used with the kit before decided to pack up within the first minute of using it :roll:

used it to help move house...

Stripped all the interior out of the Bighorn. Then beat, hoovered, scrubbed and fabreezed the seats and carpet. While they dried I pulled all the trim and door cards off and hoovered a ton of dog hair, dust, and 20 years of mank. Then washed and wiped all the plastics down, and hoovered the insides. Put everything back together and now she smells and looms like a new car inside. No more arriving smelling of wet dog. Things of interest I found were a load of Japanese coins, also about 30 spent .22 cartridges.

Sunday...

Fitted a (new to me) Snorkel to Truck

Then took it for a drive to our local Ford at Shilton Dip to test it...

It passed with flying colours

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Took the 2.8 for its mot and it
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it passed with not one single advisory

Took it for an mot, found out last night that it expires on the 11th of last month :oops:

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Commented that the emissions are a bit high but passed with a clean sheet :crazy:

starter died so got a recon today and fitted it

fitted the shorter belt to bypass the aircon ... no more screeching pulley :dance:

i can hear the burble of the exhaust again ... living the dream :thumbup:

Flushed the coolant system of the Bighorn again. Also traced the lack of central locking on the LH rear door to a broken lock actuator.

not really today but over the last couple of weeks.
full oil and fluids change and a bit of work agains the rust monster

As I'm off work tomorrow. I'll be doing a couple of jobs to the shorty.
Replace the fuel tank & guard (well once I've removed the good one from the pickup )
Then do my suspension lift +2 spacers

today i have droped the tow bar and put my road wheels back ok...

and tomorrow i will be doing about 400 miles to get a cabinet

The 2.5td rad arrived today for the trooper fits snuggly just needs a wee base mounts made

SORNed the Trooper. Tax ran out and its dangerous to drive with only the gearbox mount and one perished engine mount that is about to give out. The other engine mount is no longer able to attach to the engine as the stud has sheared. Will tax it once I have fixed that, and the centre bearing, and leaking rear crank seal.

After the starter giving up on me without warning yesterday, today I took it off, stripped it down and inspected it. The pinion had seized up on its worm thread, so lots of WD40, copper slip, leverage, hammering, very strong language and 3 hours later, and heypresto, a fully functioning starter again :party:

As for what caused it, well it could have been me accidentally filling my bell housing with water earlier in the week :think:

I used the truck to venture to a clearing in the nearby forest to locate the best local bit of "dark sky" to see the meteor shower.
Managed to see about 15, two of which were slow moving with bright tail traces that lasted a few seconds.

Drove the Frontera to work. She is going to be my daily drive for the next few weeks.