WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Washed it!!!! (it did squeal a bit)

I thought better of you greg tut tut

Went to have a look at clean SWB B Series that some bloke called Jezza had in his private collection.

Think it's a bit beyond my skill set to make it roadworthy again though so thought I'd leave it

Sorted out tHe exhaust system. Thought I'd go the route of taking the paddle out of the QWS unit and put the spacer section back in rather than risk over stretching the spring. After successfully removing the paddle blanking off the shaft hole, god back under the motor for reassemble only to find that I had bought the wrong bolts. Needed 75mm rather than the 50mm the I had bought. Ended up stretching the spring season in effect wasted 3 hours flaffing about getting the paddle out and breaking a few drills for nothing.

Finally got round to getting the old bush's out of the spare trailing arms and panhard rod, the arms and rod all cleaned up and painted and then fitting the sparkly new thermoplastic polyurethane polyester based bush kit from Milner's.

Apparently they come in their trademark orange ya knows. The bushes are renowned for their high tensile strength compression memory set and abrasion resistance. And they locate in the lower and upper trailing arms and panhard rod which join the rear axle to the chassis. Also come with bolts and nuts too!

The new ones were somewhat easier to fit than the old un's were to get out which took a 20 tonne press to shift!

The shiny newly re-furbished bits will be on the Truck by Sat, then the process starts all over again to get a set ready to go onto O-no.

Replaced all of the rear trailing arms and the panhard rod on Truck with the newly re-bushed ones and taken it for a test drive. Much better. Just got the front end to re-bush now. Oh and the old trailing arms and Panhard rod to de-bush, clean up and re-bush ready to go onto the other 2.8.

Swapped the stereo from my Corsa to my 2.2 Sport called Bug

Oh yeah, changed the center interior bulb for a green LED one.

Put new pads on the front, she's been pulling to the left and seemed a bit sluggish lately, passenger side was all the way down to the mettle and the piston was stuck out all freed up and running smoothe. She's had a new lease of life.

New tyres arrive tomorrow.

Today I've skinned my knuckles, elbow and got covered in oil replacing the alternator, which was OK, apart from trying to get the damn 14mm nut on the back again! It pinged off a few times, then hid. Now I need to find a spare, as I'm sure the pixies have stolen this one....

Apart from that, it all works fine, is charging and that makes me happy :dance:

Fitted 33s on -32 offset steal rims, trimmed front bumper.
Still catchin so the grinder will becoming out tomorrow.

Worked out fuel consumption for my dti, on a recent 700 mile mission, dragging an 800kg ifor, delivering an engine on the way out, and collecting another frontera, then a journey 350 mile back through snowdonia, and hillyness of the west midlands...
And the old girl did 33mpg overall...not bad for a 185,000 y22dth dti!!!

Attacked my wheel arches with a death wheel no more tyre rubbing, surprised at how well she drives with 33s on and the noise ain't to bad either nothing a bit of Toby Keith can't drowned out any way.

Wow! Found this group on Facebook ! So posted sum pics up - this a bit easier than photo bucketing...

Can't see what you did!!!!

Or is it me just missing the point here

it was time to bring the caravan back again and this time after all the work thats been done to her the car pulled brilliantly ....so pleased

Cleaned up my oil filler cap !!!

Got it back from the storage yard after a bump

Truck. Not much, just a few small jobs. Front end, both sides. Changed the upper wishbones. Front brake hoses. Replaced the last 200mm of the brake lines on both sides (had to cut it to get the pipe out of the way to replace the wishbones). Brake callipers. Brake pads. Top ball joints. Bottom ball joints. Front wheel bearings and seals. Steering knuckle support bearing, shim and seal. Drive shaft CV joint boots.

Drove it

And it didnt play up........ apart from coming close to losing the exhaust as ive lost a one of the bolts holding it on