WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Realised my truck run out of MOT on the 22nd of February I thought it didn't run out until the 22nd March. :shock:

looks like it will be a very busy day tomorrow did all the repairs it needs for the mot

Looked at the new 2.8 lwb I have here...will break pretty well as its mint, but part of me wants a jacked up one again, but its too good to butcher...Last owner 17 years, still mot'ed, just dmf gone....Brand new leather interior 4 years ago, yep brand spanking new from Vauxhall and its spotless!
Head says break it, heart says not, export man is even interested in it for his brother and prepared to pay a reasonable price....dilemmas....

Every now and then you have to listen to your heart .. Digby will love his new limo.

Well that was a good day working on the car With help from a good friend Robfog. Thank you buddy and thanks to Lisa for keeping us feed and watered
Replaced front ABR bushes
Fitted two 2" body lift pucks ( they have been missing for almost a year )
Adjusted the handbrake
Replaced one of the cv boots
Replaced the blacked out side indicators
Topped up all the fluids
Checked that all the lights work.
Just needs an mot now.

P.S Greg keep the car or sell it but DONT cut any more 2.8 up

So took the truck for its MOT and it past with not one advisory not bad for a 20 year old car. I'm now laughing at people that mock the frontera My boss is one of them.

Took off the Special Tracks and fitted the Coopers as next outing is a green lane session

While it was over the pit had a quick check over for damage after the P&P and besides the steering idler it also needs an O/S driveshaft and CV joint, hoping the cup in the halfshaft is OK otherwise I am going to have to drop the diff :roll:

Boring but necessary, engine oil change and filter + air filter.

Is there an easy way of getting the dregs of dirty oil out of the oil filter holder? I see there's a torx type bolt on each side of the filter holder, are they drains?

Cheers people.

Tissue paper/blue roll/rags

Place mattress on the drive, roll truck onto it's roof with the mattress underneath. Place can under the oil filter holder and let the oil drain out then roll truck back on it's feet... Job done

Silly old me, I used the blue paper stuff but that mattress system must be the way to go.

I replaced the glow plugs this morning on our 2.2 dti. Looks like to me that they have never been replaced.

took a little detour when picking something up for the missus through the local wash road.... it was only 6 inch deep according to the signs..... yeah right 6 inch at the beginning but then got deeper....it was over the front auto hubs.... got half way through and landy coming the other way had a bow wave of sorts ( couldn't reverse due to indiots in landrovers right up my bum) and bloody engine cuts out.... landrovers all laughing as they pass...... not one of them stopped to help..... tried to start but starter wouldn't turn..... got out rather reluctantly took air filter out which was soaked got back in and prayed to wwhoever would listen and spun the starter and luckally it fired on 2 kept it ticking over for a few seconds and eventually all 4 fired in and I managed to get out the other end...... what idiot thought it was a good idea to put a air intake in the wheel arch...... one thing tho noticed how nice the turbo sounds without an airfilter on a tds...... maybe time for a snorkel.....

Was that the Welney road? I'm surprised it's still open. They normally close it as soon as it clouds over. It's a good ford tho! Must have been some bow wave tho to flood your engine! I've had water well over my bonnet without a modded in take when I had fronteras

yeah welney was on the deep side due to the landy on the other side which didn't help..... its now dring out..... air box had a puddle in It when I took the air filter out.... whoops.... anyway next problem is testing the front diff as never had it in 4wd and tried it on a muddy field and couldn't get the front to give me any power...... just had all 4 wheels up in air and chucked it in 4 low and rear prop and wheels are turning like they should but front only the prop is turning..... the driveshafts aren't turning..... only had the truck for 3 month and its been a pain from day one... wish I had never brought it now.... wish I had just kept with the ol Volvo estate I had.

Fixed my driver's seat witch broke last year, new radio, fixed the winch, fitted the wheel arch spats I got last year ready for the annual...........

And decided that the annual maybe my trucks last trip

it's going to need a tank guard, inner and outer sill, rear arches welding, roof welding....

So unless some fog members don't mind a day with a mig (in the spirit of fog) as I'm pot less and can't weld then I may have to sell up

I have had a coolant leak off and on for a couple of years now. Never been able to trace it. Came to light when I parked up the other day and a small lake appeared. Heater matrix hose. Looked a bit stretched after the 3" body lift and finally gave out.

Anyways out came the trusty Transit hose. Cut another bit off and managed to contort it enough to fit. Even used genuine Jubilee clips to hold it on there :shock:

Finally found time to finish refurbing one of the sets of wheels i picked up last autumn
From this

To this

Not bad, even if I do say so myself, but the 31s look a little lost in the arches

I replaced a CV on the front prop (yes it has CV's on the front prop) that has been making noises of imminent failure for a few weeks. Not a hard job just abit greasey lol

Opened the box that my new steering idler was delivered in

More a case of what I've done over the past week really in preparation for MOT and the new laning season.

All CV boots, yep up-rights off and shafts removed, none of this split boots and glue.
Both bottom ball joints, not worn out but had no resistance to the pin movement.
All shock absorber bushes.
Steering idler.
Both hand brake cables, only had one cable clip securing bolt shear, even managed to get the broken bit out so I could reuse the mounting point.
Changed the rear discs and pads while I was at it.

Set up the O/S/F wheel bearings as prescribed in the Haynes book of lies, bought myself an electronic spring balance, you use this to check the preload on the bearings. Basically you adjust the bearing up until it takes 1.2 kg of force to rotate the hub at a wheel stud. Must say it seems awfully tight, I'll let you all know ho it gets on (got a couple sets of new bearings in case it all goes puppies up).

Has anybody on here tried this method.... successfully or otherwise.... opinions welcomed.

All I got to do now is book and pass the MOT early next month and service the winch.

Laters

Stuart