WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

today. i ...
removed the rear drive sharft, undid the front one.
removed the gear leavers, and undid 6, out of ths 8 gear box support bolts (didnt mean to, so now on axal stands)

and i am now ready for tomorrow, to get the gear box out

Fitted 2 inch body lift , now ready to fit 33's this week , can't wait to see how they look once fitted

Changed all the gearbox, and axle oils, greased prop UJ's and fuel filter changed too. Have to be honest i dont think any had been done since it was new!! Tipped the fuel fliter back on itself and it was full of a fine silt, probably why it struggled to start ocassionally. Rear axle oil was like sludge, front wasn't too bad but with it only working in 4wd i'd expect it to be cleaner, gearbox oil was black as hell too. Took it for a run to McD's and it seems to have a new lease of life and everything seems just that little bit quieter. All in all worth the work involved.

See how it fairs down the strip at Santa Pod in a couple of weeks!! Not going to be blistering the strip but will see how it fairs. Every other car i've had/got has gone down so dont see that Frogmala should be left out lol.

Went to chipping steam fair to pick up the misses who had a stall there and ended up pulling many a car off the rain soaked fields :lol:

Oh the joy of having mud tyres on a fronty :wink:

Down side I will have to get the jetwash out again :oh yer:

Off I go to the MOT station!!

Fingers crossed for you

Good luck

Gregster and Sally

Managed to sort the anti roll link bushes today but couldn't get them anywhere so made my own out of 19mm thick industrial rubber matting and bored them out using a hole cutter and must say it works a treat. I intend to do the same for the front shock top mount rubbers seeing as these can't be purchased on there own....Front Wheel bearings adjusted whilst the wheels were off

Perhaps the bush idea i used could be used in the how to section seeing as you can't get them other than through vx dealers and at whopping prices

started to rip every thing off my old engine ready for taking i out just the air con pump, starter motor, alternator, power stearing pump and then finish off removing 2 of the ruddy exhaust down bolts left as they refuse to budge and forgot to get the xxxl long arm out the shed. kin 3.2 lumps are bigger than first think he he he :dance:

Another Red MOT :evil:

Failed once more. f£$king p1SS1ing s&%ing Mk.I handbrakes. Working fine when I adjusted them. Seems 2 days of sitting idle knocks them out.

Nearside is fine. Offside isn't. He says its probably the cable ... he says its "crunchy".

At a loss and bleeding annoyed ... got petrol and a match. Need to get to Northampton tonight. No chance of finding a place for a test tomorrow and no time to fix it.

v5 arrived at last

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Changed the bell housing on the 2.2dti box for a 2.8/3.1 trooper ready to fit into the 2.2i B series that i'm converting to a diesel. pic's to follow
i hope this link works http://s1138.photobucket.com/albums/n53 ... 20trooper/

today i swore at it alot wile me and fogman removed the gearbox and then replaced the rear crank sharft seal.

all back together and now a few little things to do tomorrow. and then i am happy

Reversed into a neighbours car today :oops:

No Damage to the truck but the poor little Pug 306 must have been made of papermache :lol:

Swore at it Fudge? That doesn't sound nice, it might get angry with you and will probably bite back at you at a later stage...

The gearbox dropping is a treat of a job. Once you've done it a couple of times it's not that bad. A good air wrench, ramps and a good trolley jack makes all the difference.

well i dont have a compressor so no air tools.
but will defo get a battrey nut runner soon.
but a 1ton hi lif pallet truck i borrowed from work, did really work a treat

continued with the heart surgery

and found a nice hoist to rip this wrotten heart out with and gently lower my lovely new one in with

broke the engine free of the gearbox to find one of the sumps on the engine wont clear the axle and working on my own having a whale of a time swearing at it as i lower it this way then that and then up and down side to sde but it seems to be about half a centimeter shy and i can lift turn and pry all at the same time. :evil:

was hoping to have this piece of junk out ready for horse coming over tomorrow to get the new one so i could drop it striaght in off the trailer.

had five and a cuppa now going back out with a bigger stick and see if it wants to play ball

finally after refreshments starte work again

then after some major swearing

sump stuck on front diff

some more swearing later

then on to some open air heart surgery not quite sure this is what they meant

the question is haow do i get the big gold thing of the fly whell if the new one doesnt have it or is it on all of these as nevr had a fronty lump out before???

now just waiting for tomorrow to get new lump to go back in.

Big gold thing .. I assume you have an automatic gearbox ... in that case its your torque converter. Should unbolt.

As for me I stripped the brakes again for the third time this month. Mainly concentrated on the cable runs. Pulled both rear most cables off and found they were sticky. Filled the sleeves with WD40 and then gave them the biggun to get them moving freely again. Then filled them with some spray grease. Its nice and thin so shouldn't gunk up. Put everything back on again awaiting the new caliper that should be arriving tomorrow for adjusting and fitting. Once its on I have to yet again adjust everything to suit the new parts and then in for another (third time in a week) MOT.

Yep torque convertor been under the thing for 11 hours today getting the thing stripped and out starting to loose the plot

the only nuts i can see are behind it and i dont know how you would get them out as there is no room

only just get a spanner behind it no room i think for the nuts to undo into

but will have to see if it will come off in a minute as look like it has been welded on