WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

thought I saw a red slug last week :lol:

Good on ya Jon, you dont half stick with it

Today i have been mostly playing with front brake calipers....
Mine has suffered with the usual stickyness, due to a holed gaiter allowing crud to accumulate inside and eventually seize things up.
Ive removed, cleaned, replaced the piston 3 times in the 3 1/2 yrs ive owned my sport.
Managed to pick up a 2nd hand caliper from an M reg sport just before christmas with a view of eventualy getting round to swapping it with the sticky one.
well today was the day, and guess what......it was the wrong size caliper. :-(

Have spoken to the seller, apparently the M reg sport was an German import (Facelift). it didn't have an interior when i went to collect the calliper so it wasn't obvious.
BUT....The piston was the correct size. so removed both pistons,new one and the sticky one, using a bicycle pump! and gaiters. and swapped them over :-)

Fingers crossed that will now see me for a fair few miles :dance:

you just reminded me i hve a bolt missing on my roofbars i noticed it the other day need to put a new on in an seal it

replaced the snail horns that were fubar'd and also the rear anti-roll bar bushes and got me a nice new green piece of paper

Had to abandon the dixie horns as one of the bolts in the ARB snapped and had to drill and tap and get re-tested before picking littlun up from school. :cry:

So guess what me and Callum are doing tomorrow

Anti-roll bare bushes arrived Thursday. ordered some rear running lights and a service kit as well

Thats me home after a long day. Went to enquire about the 2.3 lwb fronties an he had scrapped them not only that he scrapped the 2.8 swb total tot, he wouldnt sell either of them for less that £500 depites sitting for 3 years but he scrapped them total madness he then wanted 100 quid for 7 wheels which was a good bargian set of 15" deep dish alloys with good wrangler tyres and few other wheels i took a set of 15" steels with crp tyres for £50 so the pajero wheels i have on mine might be up for sale.

I then collected a set of sri car seats a mate was selling to give to mate who was buying . He is making gaming chairs out them for his xbox. i then took my mum up the glasgow highlands to view an buy a passat then home after going through a monsoon now waiting for a chinese and no i havent got pictures of the steel wheels

Bought some of that good brand engine oil from large supermarket in readiness for springtime oil change of engine and gearbox.
Yesterday - the realities of older motor ownership - moving panels aside to see extent of corrossion in o/s sill - handy thing those digital cameras, enables you to see where your head don't fit. Hope to solidify the rust with chemical warfare. Entrapment of moisture not helped by those massive sponge blocks behind the panel cards.
Checking other favourite areas too like forward boltplate of roll over bar; bulkhead at clutch reservoir. Slight orange traces so hoping to have caught early.

Drinks, crazy that you can buy a runner cheaper than a goosed motor from a scrappy. Found that out last year. Since then the motor I had my eye on has gone to the destruction machine what a waste.

the guys ok but i enquired about these fronties two year back an they had been sitting for two years all ready fter been motd so they well past the running stage, he wanted 500 for each depsite him telling me he had already been paid 2000 for allof them buy a guy from africa that never collected them.time passed they got wrecked by neds windows smashed when i approached him last year he was still wanting daft money i missed him cause of winter as i fancied a conversion with one of the lwb 2.3 td into my sport turn out he has decide to move to somehwere esleso is clearing plce out an he scrapped them depsite knowing i was intrested he has other wheels an stuff an i bet he dumps them. I reckon its cause he would know i could prob fix them or cause im on here would sell them an think he didnt want me making money pure greed i think when he clears out i gonna go down see what he laeve behind im gonna ask him who took teh 2,8 an see if i can get it cheap of scrappy guy

80mph....sorry that should have read as 70mph on the dot.i never speed, well not according to my driving licence (for now, awaiting letter)....oh, what a feeling..after 2 months of driving an asthmatic giant red snail, with a top speed of 60, being able to get to the speed limit on the motorway, without a dirty great hill or a 70mph following wind, is great...overtaking, i'd forgotten what it was like..no longer will I beaten off the lights by little old biddies in micras...

I know it's not really an on topic post...but it, for me, is an achievement . a "what I done in my truck today" thread might have gone a lot further off topic..

spent the morning putting the rocker cover back on combined with fitting new plugs & sticking another icv [thanks keith] on as well. tightened everything up but i still had 2 x head screws complete with washers left in my little container

what have i missed ? dont say ive got to take the blessed thing off again to find out ?
30 minutes a cuppa & kit kat later & none the wiser i decide to start her up & take her for a test drive anyway & see what happens, if something falls off then something falls off !
starts her up, she sounds ok, no rattles or anything, jump in the drivers seat & see my front number plate in the passenger footwell [ always take it off when the spanners come out cos it gets cracked by my knees] i better put that back before the test drive cos i know my luck now where are the retaining SCREWS :oh yer:

jesus how annoying

mystery solved i attach plate & test drive my old truck, tickovers still not right but better than it was & still got oily gunk type stuff weeping from back of the head somewhere think its the gasket where the egr valve mount bolts to head ?
bloody cars

Fix a problem, find a problem!

Fixed - Squeaky suspension sorted after a liberal dosing of spray lube (I can now drive without sounding like a piece of agricultural machinery), cleaned the sump bash guard of about a kilo of sludge, cleaned off the sump. Tested out new 6T bottle jack (£15 from eBay!)

Found - an oil leak though, around the oil filter housing, hence the clean off, will run and inspect later, not too big though by the looks of things. Front brakes will need new pads and discs before long.

Rain/wind and darkness stopped play.

Guess thats the pleasure of owning a 13yr old motor. Ah well, keeps me out of the wife's hair.

Have a nice Saturday evening y'all, a few beers later for me.

awsome truck now has 32mm wheel spacers and tinted window wind deflecters,time to sit by the fire and warm up