East Midlands Meet 15Th May 2011 venue changed

[AskDean]

hi all midlanders

any one took a 3,2 v6 apart as mine is being a night mare to get the bottom exhaust manifold bolts off as they are hidden underneath and me nor the spanner monkey could shift them so ended up with the beasty being left due to being rained off with 2 out of the 3 exhaust manifold bolts loose from the bottom and third you cant get at with the prop in the way and on the other end of the manifond i can get my hand to get under neath because of the steering rod thing.

so anyone round here who has some idea who fancys comeing over to nottingham to help the spanner monkey and me tomorrow as this is my only ride and i have only been carless for a few hours and it is killing me. if i dont get it done tomorrow the spanner monkey cant come back till monday.

so if any one can help i am offer endless sply of tea and coffee and free chippy dinner at some point in the day and the endless gratitude of a new member

[horses45]

try pming andysd1 i think he took one apart but im not 100 % if i had read this before i had started mine i would of come over and lent a hand not that i know much butmines now up in the air with no oil in it brakes to check next.et me know how you go on!!.

[horses45]

Oh Yes Bump for tomorrow

[AskDean]

looking better today no rain as of yet and i managed to get a long reach socket on the third down pipe bolt so just waiting for the spanner monkey and the a big long arm and then try again. will let you know how i get on when i venture into the warm later on today

[horses45]

good luck dean keeps raining here in matlock while im trying to ge some jobs on the truck done,but let me know how it goes as it is looking like me and daz (snugstella ) are gonna be the only ones thier oh well!!!! same o same o

[AskDean]

got the heads off and hecked them and can see where the gasket has been leaking on between 3 and 5 and 6 has been venting striaght aout the back. checked the heads one had been skimmed before recently so not much i can do with it checked it is true so sealed it back up and with new gaskets all round and then took the other side off and cleaned it and looked ok but this one had not been skimmed but when checked was ok and so sealed it all back up and just got to sort out connecting it all back on monday as the spanner monkey cant make tomorrow. gutted

i took lots of pics just got to up load them and then sort out a link to go on here.

so will update this in a minue when i have uploaded the pics with a link ok

[AskDean]

the big blue beastys photo gallery

http://tinyurl.com/deansfronty

[horses45]

well hope you get it sorted dean keep us informed

[AskDean]

should have it back on the road by monday night or the spanner monkey is getting his ankle cuffed to the car till it is running right he he he

will let you know once it is up and running

[horses45]

As only 2 coming including me this has been changed to my house at 1 any probs pm me for my address

[horses45]

Well me Aurora and Snugsstella (daz) had a great meet few drinks and chat about our trucks daz fitted some bits on his truck and started to look at a few other mods me i just tried the 2 different sets of roof lights on the truck so i will post a poll on here to see which you lot prefer then put on which ones i like
well here are all the trucks parked up


heres my arty one of daz's truck with Riber Castle in the background

daz taking pics of the roof lights on his truck to see which looks best

Round roof lights


and now the square roof lights


and just a big thanks o daz for coming and who knows where we can get some of theses from

as daz wants a couple and so do i aswell as a frontera owners winscreen sticker aswell

[4x4 bobby]

Could posibly speak to our man with the vynil stickers place Rob???

[horses45]

That would be great Bobby will have to see what he can do andneed to get a couple of big stckers for font and back

[AskDean]

go on you flash git two different racks of lights square look meaner and less drag. like drag means diddy squat on a fronty

gutted i am a mexcian at the momment