WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

fitted and flipped new top ball joints , now need to have tracking set up tomorrow morning

Last edited by lurchy666 on Thu Feb 10, 2011 9:04 pm, edited 1 time in total.

went through a ford last night and a bit of 4x4ing in a mates dads woods (part of his dads farm) with vitra as well as fronty .

mmm fronty (2.8 tdi) with no snorkel and hardly any mods don't like water lapping over the bonnet, after the ford had to take the soaked air filter out (it was a lot deeper than it looked) drove it for 20-25 mile all was fine,

went to mcdonalds and would the bloody fronty start again, got it started after a lot of cranking left it idling for an hour and it is fine now, (mental note never go through a ford in a frontera again without a snorkel,)

vitra in the forest was great, the bloody thing just kept going and going, a lwb frontera was a bit to big for the tight turns and steep hills and decents, shame cause in the vitra it was a nice little course through my mates dads woods

nothing yet but picking it up tomorrow to start brake rebuild major service ALL fluids even the headlamp fluid

The wet dog smell in my car was starting to drive me nuts, so I unbolted the carpet from the boot and back of the seats, pressure washed it , vacuumed off excess water and hung it up to dry. Had a niff earlier and it seems much better

Got my drivers seat out,at last,ready for the replacement one to go in once it has been cleaned. :dance:

Not today but i got the v6 valeted

And i sold the engine out the 2.8

Happy days

Well i washed and polished it,got my fog lights to work again after the 10th time :evil:

fitted my fog stickers that i got last year :oops:

All so got some brake pads all round for £50 :drink:

just need to fit them on a nice day,like to day :lol:

Changed the N/S lower balljoint and cured the infernal squeak. Cut my finger to the bone whilst applying copper slip in the ball joint shaft housing on the hub. Also swore a lot trying to dismantle the Auto Hub, the little bloody "C" spring clip thingy. GRR. Squeak cured though so happy man, and everything that was dismantled was cleaned and greased ready for next time.

We did all four of Simo's Ball Joints, and lots of farting

Having emptied the water out of the rear wiper control box for about the 3rd time in as many years I thought enough was enough so drilled a 2mm hole in the bottom of the cover so the box cover is now self draining. Checked the axle oil - hasn't lost any during the winter despite increased use of the car due to the weather.

lauraput her in garage at home as someone tried to steal snorkel

blimey thats not a good start with the new truck mate

Give 'em a slap Dazz.

drilled out both sides of the nudge bar bracket in readiness for the insertion of 2 nice & shiney new recovery shackles that should arrive sometime in the week :wink:

but what a sod of a job the offside [ the 1 with the towing loop] was ! took me 3 hours in total & i had the nearside 1 done in 15 minutes :roll:

overhauled the front brakes. back brakes next weekend pads all round 42 quid cant grumble

first off managed to get the laptop off the other half for 5 minutes to log on, YESTERDAY all ball joints done top joints flipped,
twas a long day but wanna thank DRIFT for passing the tool when i needed them and andysd1 for getting the tea in

. top blokes who you can have a good laugh (and fart) with, cheers boys