WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Thats Strange Muddy Duck it must be the weather for Horse Box's, ive started to do mine.

I did a bit more work on Chugga.

Cleaned away the rusty buts on the passenger door, sill and on the bonnet, and painted with smooth black Hammerite. Not a great finish, but if she passes her MOT, I'm, not gonna be too fussy...

FINALLY got the knackered driver's seat out (only been meaning to do it since I bought her last June). Will leave it out for now, to improve access for the conversion...

Replaced the throttle potentiometer then when nothing changed panicked :shock:

but after 20 mins of driving the ECU managed to remap itself to accept the new component and now runs sweet as a nut no more hunting and runs nice and steady no more fighting to keep it at 30mph :dance:

just got the front of the engine to do next weekend, now time to sit down enjoy the sunshine and have a few large vodkas before i go to work tonight :drink:

Is that the issue you had since having the head done livewire ... I did suggest doing that to Fogman as he has a similar issue after his head gasket work.

i took the fog lights out to do some modifications to them, then took her for a drive, (well i went to macy's got a rumble from the front wheel, then noticed the rear Axel was moving about a bit, enough where three or four inches of tyre was visible then disappeared the other side,

Its the weight in it!!!! :lol:

Waved goodbye to the Li'll white leafer as it went off on a tilt n slide to the frag yard enroute to fronty heaven.... :shock:

Was kinda sad to see it go...have had some memorable moments in that little car...

RIP Li'll white leafer :wink:

Then sorted the workshop out...(kinda) and got the landcruiser going, and then started on the 2.8lwb...

RIP Lil white leafer... She was a real trooper!! :lol:

No, it was a frontera Kel...

i'm having one of those weeks
I've have a clunk/bang every now and then from the offside front of truck.
i was having a look and found the o/s body mount (2+ lift) in front wheel arch was loose. so out come
the tool box to tighten the bolt up. then the bolt sheared. i will have to find a new bolt tomorrow now

Sorted out an annoying oil leak on the Turbo oil return pipe flange to sump.

Once I got to it (had to take the main bash plate and oil filter off) I found that the top stud had come loose because the thread was stripped in the casting. Luckily the studs do not bottom out in the holes so there was enough retrievable thread in the hole to save the day if I put a longer stud in.

New, longer stud hot off the lathe sat next to the old shorter one.

New stud in position, ready for the pipe flange, which was a proper ***** to get back on.

All done and bolted up. Went for test run, no oil leaks

I bought waxoil n sprayer kit. Going gubb some piankillers an do some work

changed the oil & filter after do head and i think i might have timing 1 tooth out on inlet cam
as it sounds a bit rattle on top end will check it out during week :drink:

Last edited by fogman on Sun Apr 10, 2011 6:13 pm, edited 2 times in total.

waxoyled the truck today lots of hidden bits to get into not to bad really only took about 4 hours now its time for :drink:

I got the bulkhead on Chugga almost finished. Looks pretty good (even if the sealer doesn't), but needs a couple of more brackets to make sure the top half is nice and sturdy.

Re-mounted the spare wheel and carrier...

Looks a bit of a dog's dinner, but not quite finished yet...

Inside view...

I also got the replacement driver's seat fitted. She's booked into the local garage on Tuesday to have the rear shocks done, as the top nut on the N.S. is seized.

Started it up (fired up first turn of the key after being sat for two weeks) and went for short run - thankfully, seems to have restored my interest again.

Looking great james
I split the tank guard from fuel tank.

THE BASH PLATE i made survived the year shame i cant say same for the tank guard spoke to a mate who said he will weld the bash plate to the tankguard for me. The tank has a dent under neath dont know how to get that out was done offroading i had to straighten the bash plate.

I also sorted a tempory fix to my corner bumper that got damaged that time the front wheel came off last year its was corroded anyway. I cut away most of the corroded stuff an fitted a plate not a great job needs some work

. I used a L bracket and pop riveted the lower skirt part to theL bracket an the bumper , Agian will pick up some thin sheet metal shape an get it welded on.

Replaced the off-side indicator and failed miserably to solder on a replacement headlamp connector (viewtopic.php?f=7&t=42517) :oops:

At least the indicator works.

Lawrence