WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Been getting a bit of a rumble from the front when cornering of late and then there was that occasional 'banging' from the front end when in 4WD that appeared at the annual so I ordered up a set of front wheel bearings and seals for Truck.

Job for Sat will be having a good look at the front drive shafts and CV's. Changing the top ball joints and I'll replace the wheel bearings as well while it's in bits... Thats the plan... :thumbup:

Probably end up in some supermarket somewhere driving a trolley while she fills it though :lol:

Today been sorting out the new truck,oil leak on crank breather pipe,coolant and stat change,new cat back exhaust,hope thats it for now

Spent 4 hours last night ripping the braking system apart on the Frontera.

So that will be the Master Cylinder changed for one I had knocking around the garage for the last 5 years. Took me an hour alone to take it apart and clean and flush all the gunge out of it (looks brand new now)
New brakes lines from the Master to the splitter unions.
New brake lines at the back.
Bias valve removed (wasn't connected to the axle anyway as the bushes there had retired many years ago it seems, so it wasn't doing anything).

Coupled with the following I did over the last 2 weeks:

Reconditioned front brake calipers
New front brake pads.

Now have more of a pedal than ever before, but still spongy on the first pedal press. Light doesn't come on with repeated pumping of the pedal (came on after the second press before I changed the Cylinder). Must be a bit of air still trapped inside somewhere so more bleeding necessary. Either way its looking good.

Sticking it up for sale.

Got told the path in the back garden needs sorting.... So we went to B&Q in O-no and bought a pallet of 600 x 600 concrete slabs (20 slabs), tossed the lot into the back and drove home. Soooo looking forward to laying the ****** things.

Decided as the weather has been rather nice to investigate the reason why a previous owner had decided to silicon around the sunroofs on my SWB 2.2dti.

Starting with the front sunroof i gently applied even pressure on the glass and the silicon creaked and finally popped. Took the sunroof out, carefully peeled off all the remaining silicon both from the sunroof and the aperture. There were some splits on the seal on the sunroof itself. I fixed this with Sugru (i bloody LOVE that stuff!)

I got a length of tubing (surplus from my fish tank air pump system) poked it down each drainage hole in turn. Took a BIG gob full of water and blew it down the drainage. Everything was unblocked and running lovely.

Then went to the rear sunroof. Repeated the process. When i blew water down the drivers side channels i heard a gurgling but no water dripped onto the floor.. I tried again.. gurgling.. no water.

Took the rear drivers side jack cover trim off and came face to face with the drainage tube with grommet still attached which had been pouring water under the plastic trim into the boot and rear footwell.

Removed the jack and the associated bars and gubbins and felt around for the hole for the drainage. Found a square box. A tow bar electrics relay, gave it a tug and lo and behold the chopped wires of a tow bar loom pulled through a hole where the drainage pipe and grommet might be.

What kind of moron pulls out a drainage pipe to use the hole for tow bar electrics?

So hopefully, the reason why everything was siliconed up was because of that one stupid action. It's nice to have sunroofs in this lovely weather.

And that.. was my day in a nutshell.

Got a flu or something worther - knocked out yesterday with fever.
Today prepared a change-of-wheels job I will start on work Tuesday. The Mrs has declared to go on vacation with GodZilla, but wants the shoes of Grünstreifen :lolno:

So got the M+S from storage (haven't used them this winter) and packed the truck with big jack, cleaning stuff and torquewrench. Hope all will be healthy on Tuesday...

Btw here some pics from last week - Fulda EMS Expo

The Sprinter would do - but will have to replace the "U" by "JA" :wink:

Got my tyres changed onto my new Olympus alloys, changed the broken headlight all before it rained

Well after my safety assessment at work I came home and helped Audra :wink:

to put my new Frontera owners stickers on and with getting the wheels changed yesterday I took it to the hand wash in Matlock then put my new wind deflectors on after them sitting in the back room for about 5 month

Just the front screen when time permits

Looking nice little bro!!!!! :thumbup:

Best self portrait since VanGogh.

I know autograph is in the post Ian lol :wink:

gregster I got out of them films :wink:

Taxed the Frontera. Might drive her for the first time in 5 months tomorrow .. if only to get some diesel.

So after winning a 700w amp in the raffle at the 2012 frontera annual I've finally fitted it today along with the sub that has sat in the garage for 4 years lol

Back in Frontera mode

Took out the roof console to sort out CB and interior light wiring

Did some more work on modifying the front wings

Center console out and dash pod fitting underway

Hoping to get it sorted in time for the Bristol Off Road Show

today this happened to the duck

Whilst i was very sad to see my old type 3 vw go the other month, it has at least allowed me to get the truck back in the workshop and do some work out of the rain on Saturday!

So over two days, i have replaced the following on both sides;

Top ball joints
Bottom ball joints
Track rods and both ball joints
Inner and outer cv boots
Decreased and repacked wheel bearings (should last another year)
Painted stub axles, wishbones
Readjusted ride height

Thank the lord for 3/4 socket set and grinder!!!!!

Now just got to adjust steering box and then work on the rear end including attend to a pinion seal leak or replace back axle - leaking badly but want to wait until i fit my new bits from US for the transfer box

i went out playing in mine, no pictures though. i was having too much fun driving