WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

they never made a Haynes manual for the B series mate, you will need the TIS discs

Last edited by Stuart69 on Sun Jan 24, 2010 6:41 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Washed the truck taken front nugbar of for new 1OO Wat Falcon lights which i will put on next week :lol:

Had to pay a farmer to pull me out of the sticky stuff......suppose £20 to get my truck back is pretty cheap.
Good fun though. :dance:

Not strictly today but yesterday:

Changed the oil and filter.
Replaced my rather bent and out of shape looking crossmember and bashplate with fancy new ones and by new I mean used but new to me ;-)

Nipped up a wheel bearing.
Changed the steering idler. Not for the faint hearted. Lots of swearing, a crow bar and a big hammer required.

Had a good nosey underneath and reckon it may be time for new control arm bushes and a centre tie rod.

Start to finish I reckon about an hour. Although I probably could have saved myself about 45 minutes by going straight in with the big hammer and the crowbar.

Initially tried using a puller and hammer and some shock & unlock and then a bigger hammer. All to no avail.

For future ref: Slacken the Idler arm to idler Nut. Insert a crowbar through the wheel arch so it hooks over the top of the idler arm and jack the other end until its taking the weight of the vehicle. You are using the chassis as the fulcrum point. Now bash the idler arm with a lump hammer. Took about 5 good hits and it separated with a big bang.

Told ya, mini ball joint jobby, good to get it out of the way though :lol:

Oh yeah, used a large ball joint fork as well.

Today....shoved some grotty wheels on the 2.4 and put the pepper pots with the camac a/t's on the 2.8lwb...
Will refurb the 8x16 bk racing 5 spokes off the 2.8 before cloaking them in a nice set of insa turbo special tracks me thinks...

Fixed the headlight on the 2.8....broken wire in the harness between the loom and bulb holder socket thing...
Stopped some annoying rattles on the 2.8 by adjusting bonnet, tightening the bumper and refitting the grill...

Took it for a rumble....and rumble it did...osf wheel bearing needs doing :oh yer:

Its getting there though... :wink:

Spent today chasing parts for Tessie, My local Vxstealers had cancelled my order for some reason and didnt bother telling me.

so i have been waiting since the begining of December for these parts.

Ordered some new front brake hoses as my braided ones supplied by Calmini have sprung a leak, yep both of them :shock:

fitted new front fogs

i did a cambelt & waterpump on the cosa had to get a new waterpump spanner as mine went walkabout :twisted:

yesterday i fitted the side step took it for several laps of the block get it losened up for the mot seen as it been idle for 7 months. im going to get a new battery today for a reasonible price, and book an mot, now im going to bed as im getting up soon and im sleepy finally

changed my aircon unit, and a load of goodys turned up today, water and vac pipes, conectors, more led's, big air pipes, but the one pipe i wanted never, its stoping the rebuild

Andy I may be free to give you a hand either one day this weekend and Thursday or Friday as Im off those days.

Oh beers here tomorrow if your interested :party:

Well I patted my car and thanked her for behaving this week