WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

what

, she's in the hospital at the minute, just a few bits to be done then have to start a bit of spending

Took the old girl in for an mot this morning, got a call back at 15.30 to say she had failed. Oddly enough it didnt fail on emissions which I thought it would given that the CAT is fubared.

Failed on uneven braking on the front wheels and excessive play in the drivers side ball joint.
Got a new ball joint on order and Im fairly sure that the brakes are down to dodgy brake pads and may need bleeding.

Did nothing to mine but in my lunch break I fitted a new temp sender unit to my mates citreon

Fitted a new stereo as the other one was packing up from being full of woodchips, mud and dog hair, Sounds like your kinda friday night that Ste :wink:

Thought about washing it as going to a 4x4 response induction day on sunday and need to try and get in and out of it in "normal" clothes without getting filthy, do it tomorrow if I can be bothered.

I Driftyfied (new word :wink:

) my air intake

Sober tonight

Funny when I took the temp sender off the block the water flew out like a fountain, I forgot to de pressurise the system by taking the rad cap off, my mates face was a picture, he loves the car, he thought it was bleeding to death :lol:

Bernie has been Drifted :dance:

Finished sorting out me water entrys :lol:

sealed the front screen and adjusted the doors and tailgate and sealed the roof aerial and tweaked the rear windows :shock:

now its time to let it dry out and refit the carpets back in.i must be getting old can't do with noise with the carpets out :lol:

oh and found where the sun roof seal has a split so i don't get a wet neck from the drain hole on left hand bends :lol:

I know what you mean John, like the rugged approach, but gotta get to the lanes and back in a bit of comfort.

I today, had a quick squint under to check all is well and emptied the boot. Thats enough today.

i gave mine a quick wash and emptied the boot,thats as far as it goes today :wink:

I fitted my new trip meter

And it even works :lol:

I fixed my heated electric mirror swicth on mine.

Got a new [linkurl=http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=6451]micro switch[/linkurl] from maplins this morning unsoldered the old one and soldered the new one on and now works properley
Cost me £1.29 to fix. Vx robbers wanted £40 something for a complete new mirror switch
Will post a repair thread in the week

This is for a B series Truck

well today i started replacing my viscus fan for an electric one, but while i had the radiator out, i thought i might as well give the inter cooler a clean out, but on removing the cooler it made a funny clicking noise, oh i wounded, what is that, well to my surprise and shock, i turned the cooler up side down, and this fell out,
:shock:

at least you didnot find a spanner down there remember drifter pulling that 13mm out my engine bay yesterday :oops:

that was funny :lol:

I removed the gear lever gaiter from the trim panel and re-fitted further towards the hand brake - now the trim panel stays in place when reverse is engaged

Lawrence

washed and scrubed mine yesterday then went out and got it dirty today.

Changed the front brake pads and bled the front brakes for the MOT retest.

For future reference I had EBC greenstuff pads on the front and ever since they have been fitted I felt they just werent gripping the disc well enough.
After changing the pads (regular £20 jobbies) I went for a drive, this was before bleeding the brakes dont forget and even without the pads bedding in yet braking is substantially improved.

This is a shame as the Greenstuff pads are around £40 a set and they arent even a 1/4 worn. They have gone straight into the bin and I will never be buying them again.
A previous post on the forum had suggested Greenstuff pads should only be used with new discs, tried that, still rubbish. I suggest everyone sticks to regular brake pads.

Did nuffin to it today cos I went laning :dance:

But yesterday swapped the oil pressure sender unit in an attempt to fix a wildly fluctuating oil pressure gauge and it did :shock:

easy fix for a change :dance:

Swapped back onto my muds ready for today and took off one of my Hi Lift mounts, redrilled the holes and refitted so I could attach my new HiLift jack

General tidy up, check fluids and she was ready to go

i gave

mine a dirty look and a kick on the way down the drive as i had to drive the wifes volvo to Aberdeen as my truck is still broken