WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Had the rear bumper I made for my LWB sand blasted and primered, will give it a few coats of satin black this week and then boot it on the SWB

Fitted my front propshaft transfer box end UJ on the Mk.II. Against all adds weather wise. Got it done but was frozen to the cor and soaking wet. Weather was fine when I started. Had to finish as I was across town at a friends. Feckin' bolts transfer box end are a nightmare to get to. Just above the gearbox cross member so cannot get a spanner onto it. Heads of the bolts are so close to the UJ yoke you can only get a socket onto it using black magic.

Wound up the torsion bars to just over 2 inches & tightened up one of the front wheel bearings then went and had the tracking done. It now feels like a new car after all the work it's had this weekend

Coolio ... bet it feels like a wobbly one though.

Cor just a bit Neal, i get tipped about in it just going round corners and roundabouts lol

It is one of the main reasons why I went wider when I did all my lifts.

Spent half an hour reassembling the auxillery pulley set up and serpentine belt after diagnosing knackered cam belt tensioner. I swore at it a bit. Huffed. Logged onto Rock Auto and proceded to try and suss which bits I need to fix the beast. Yesterday I dropped the engine oil and swapped it out with some 5w40 fully synthetic Gulf stuff courtesy of Opie Oils.

Went off on a tangent and searched out inlet manifold gasket, rocker cover gaskets, rear shock absorbers, etc. Probably all for the wrong car but at least I can navigate their (Rock Auto) site a bit quicker now. Naturally, if Vauxhall were reasonably priced I wouldn't have to do it but if you can buy a timing belt kit with water pump for £150 inc import duty and postage from America when it's £570+ from Vauxhall.........what can you do?!

Freed off two sized rear calipers, fit new rear pads nd passed it's MOT.

Fixed serious oil leak,replaced cam cover gasket,front cam shaft seals,and did oil/filter change,seems to be leak free again

Thought about removing the pile of junk out of the engine bay and dropping the 3.1 lump in.... Then made a brew and thought about it again :lol:

Swapped the drivers door lock barrel over for the one for the car, I also fixed the drivers side rear doors central locking as it wouldn't unlock. And then repaired the boots central locking motor by replacing one of its diodes as it wouldn't lock. Now all 5 doors lock and unlock as they should

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Today i gave the Frontera a 2 inch lift and made the wheels poke out a bit more than they used to

Converted the Mk.II single speed intermittent wiper to a variable speed intermittent wiper.

Fitted a new exhaust tail pipe brand new of eblag 17 quid delivered free

Washed it for the first time in 6 months.

Painted the rear bumper

Put some more paint on the rear bumper

Gonna be more paint than bumper at this rate Yaki

This arrived today from down under:

So I took the old seized bonnet release cable off the Mk.I this evening before rain stopped play.

I wouldn't mind but it was quicker and cheaper to buy one from Australia Eblag and have it shipped from the opposite side of the world than through the dealer

Looked at it, considered attacking the tracking but then washed the cav. Haven't washed it since this time last year and my God had I forgotten what a metalic paint job looks like. Not bad for a 22year old ex-taxi work horse that's let's face it, has had nothing but abuse all its life. Despite all the break in damage on the doors, melted back bumper, slightly wrong coloured front wing where a taxi driver parked it in a ditch (I wasn't lieing about getting abuse all its life) it still shines up to an impressive level with nothing more than some turtle wax wash and wax and a bucket and sponge

All of which add to the sadness that it's time is probably nearly over come 15th of April when the mot man fails it on having a crack on the windscreen that's best part of a foot long

and costing £120 for a new screen plus the other issues that are poking their nose in I don't think it's got long :'(