WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Not exactly today, but I aint had tinterweb connection, but on thursday i replaced the turbo waistgate regulator valve and she lives again (you cant kill a tomb raider) :dance:

Also replaced the 2 u/j's on the prop and now she doesn't feel like a landrover any more :lol:

just fitted some more alloy wheels & tyres to the sports 265x70x15 got all 5 for a good price with tyres on
there slight smaller than what i had on 255x75x15

but there ok for the mrs to get in as the others made it slighty to high for her to get in easily

this pattern on front

these tread pattern on the rear

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Today I have mostly been removing the side steps and rear light guards from my Frontera . Just out of interest , are there any easy jobs on Fronteras that do not develop into something far more complicated ?

Well I finally started working on the Rover to get it ready to get me up to Bala!

First things first and I put the battery on charge.
This, rather fortuitously, gave me better access to the speed sensor which needed looking at due to a lack of indication in the cabin. I think I found the problem. Someone has sliced a new connector into the loom using a choc block! No tape or anything to keep the elements out. Just gotta hope that the cruise control circuit isn't hasn't been damaged too :axe:

Next it was onto the temp sender. Again doesn't seem to be any indication in the cabin. Tried to earth it off against the block but nothing happened. Then remembered that the ignition wasn't on............... Then remembered the battery was on charge :oops:

My last job of the day was to take off the aux drive belt. This had been damaged due to being incorrectly fitted. It was out by an entire grove and had been rubbing on the block causing some smoke and a horrible smell.

Wont be able to play now till Tuesday, but at least I've made a start

Are they Shogun alloys Smiffy ?

Yes they are Shogun alloys, they look good and its handy to know they fit over the calipers and front hubs.

the only difference is the center caps from fronty dont fit as no screw holes in these ones

i think i can find the ones that fit on front with a few wheelnuts holding them on

got them at a bargain price as well

Result

Had fun in the sunshine and took a trip along the beach road,played in the sand and through the holes excellant

removed sidesteps and bull bars

then fitted a snorkel looks rough as if a pikey has moved in :shock:

the gaffer tape round the base is due my ..ahem enthusiastic cutting :oops:

just swapped a few mods over from the 2.l swb onto the 2.8 swb including wheels etc seems to be a better offset on the 2.8 ??? i presume the axles are longer so the wheels come further out from the arches!! if i ever work out how to successively post pics i'll put some up when swapped winch etc!

Today was a fettling session, fitting a snorkel to mine and Bobby's truck, and dropping the fuel tank on mine and replacing the fuel pump

Some piccies:

Wing off:

4x4 Bobby struggling with his nuts:

Mark (Frontycustoms) playing with the air saw

Hole cut ...

Bobby's wing off and hole cut

Jase and Lawrence helping as usual ...

Bobby thinking of turning his truck into a submarine:

Thanks to Mark and Bobby today for helping out, and to Jase and Lawrence for supervising ... :lol:

Wotcha
Today fitted my truckman top "properly" and changed the wheels,
Then drove it over the fields at my mates farm to see if the roof would fall off...which it didnt,
Ended up at another mates farm where they were lambing, so went home and got sally, wound her up by telling her that we were going to look at another 4x4 (she was not impressed) but took her up the farminstead so she was really suprised when greeted by loads of newborn lambs. So cute...some of them only 1/2 hr old...
In sally's good books again!!
Washed and polished sals purple fronty when we got back... :axe:

(she's washed it ONCE since I repainted it over a year ago! It gets washed every week without fail...guess who does it!)
Laters
Gregster

Today I used mine to do a random object combined parking accuracy & compression test :wink: