WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

its right at the rear end of the sill just in front of the rear wheel

Thought I would test out the garage today so I replaced the drivers side outer CV boot (I made sure to tighten all the bolts properly this time ;-)

) and started to drop the tank to replace the tank straps. Thats when it all went pear shaped.

While the tank was down I thought I would clean up the tank guard and knock the dent out, so I judiciously started tapping away with a hammer and chisel to knock some of the loose rust off and imagine the look on my face when the chisel went through the tank guard and out the other side :shock:

The frantic search was on, I may have found one in south Wales, luckily Im going there tomorrow anyway but wont know until the morning when they are open. Fingers crossed.

I also may have found a pair of those 5.13:1 diffs Iv been looking for.

A pic of the truck in the garage, see... plenty of space for me to make it taller ;-)

looking good sir doris

No probs Paul, just so you dont feel left out Phil

pair of gits make me sick :evil:

Well for the record I will be working on mine tomorrow under gods umbrella.... they sky :roll:

outside Andysd1's as he is fondling his car car to :lol:

tomorrow i hope to fettling some metal work :wink:

i dislike this thread as i see sooooooooooooo many mods i want to do but cannt. need a small lottery win and a garage like sir doris.

True, it doesnt have to be done all at once. Iv been doing mine now for a couple of years as funds have allowed. Springs... later on shocks etc, etc.

At least you have the tires for it john ;-)

with reference to your diff ratios, did you get the diffs from a fronty or are they special, my reson for asking is when up the wayfarer last week i got stuck tring to get up a 18" step, i was in 4 low and the clutch was all the way up and i had no drive against the obstacle coz i guess the gearbox was over geared to drive the 32" tyres, is there a fronty with low diff ratios as std that i can get out of a scrapper?

got the tyres next need jacking points and sliders then the springs and shocks

Paul has a trick or two, trooper lsd axles ( lockers yet ???) and terra low gearing in the tranny :mrgreen:

I thought the building trade was hit by the recession :mrgreen:

this was a one off, after all the ice a section of the railway slabs has become worn and theres a large step to get onto the slabs now. i tryed to get up it head on and didnt have the power to get the wheels to spin and grip a disco and mikes rangie got up it no probs as they attacked it at a slight side angle. just thought that i mite be able to swap diff inserts from an other fronty that has lower gearing. with the toyota surf i have there is loads of different diff options available from model to model ie manual/auto/lsd and so on

agree i had to much pressure in the tyres and the clutch had had some abuse previous to the obstacle, changeing my approach is what got me up it in the end.( i had no wheel spin though, i was in 4 low, foot off the clutch and no wheel movement just ended up with smoke from clutch and no drive)
lets get back to topic now as i have hijacked this one enough now with my wows