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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby woodwizzard on Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:34 pm

Found the reason most of my engine oil had mysteriously vanished, the oil filter had started to undo itself and weep oil. Ended up getting one of those special filter socket wrenches to give it a tweak. Got a ball joint squeaking somwhere so will have to sort that at some point.
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby bobbinsjob on Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:41 pm

Finally got round to mounting the spare permanently on the roofrack and removed the spare carrier from the tailgate, the truck looks mahusive now. Piccies to follow 8) 8) 8)
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby Drift on Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:49 pm

I found that out early on in 2.8 ownership Jim :lol:

Today I ordered a new tyre, got a good deal £78 for a Maxiss Buckshot Mudder delivered, coz I ripped the side wall in the other on a lane at the weekend :oops:
Some good news though it might be able to be repaired as it never burst or cut all the way through the carcass, Lee's dad is going to check it out, so Ill now have a spare :dance:
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby weave67 on Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:53 pm

Drift wrote:I found that out early on in 2.8 ownership Jim :lol:

Today I ordered a new tyre, got a good deal £78 for a Maxiss Buckshot Mudder delivered, coz I ripped the side wall in the other on a lane at the weekend :oops:
Some good news though it might be able to be repaired as it never burst or cut all the way through the carcass, Lee's dad is going to check it out, so Ill now have a spare :dance:


so there was no reason to get drunk on sat night then drift :?:
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby Postfinder on Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:54 pm

What did you dou to your truck today?
Ferkin kicked it :evil:
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby weave67 on Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:55 pm

:roll: :roll: :roll:
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby alex on Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:58 pm

I unloaded mine and gave it a clean. Nowt else.

Cheer up Graeme. :wink:
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby Drift on Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:17 pm

weave67 wrote:
Drift wrote:I found that out early on in 2.8 ownership Jim :lol:

Today I ordered a new tyre, got a good deal £78 for a Maxiss Buckshot Mudder delivered, coz I ripped the side wall in the other on a lane at the weekend :oops:
Some good news though it might be able to be repaired as it never burst or cut all the way through the carcass, Lee's dad is going to check it out, so Ill now have a spare :dance:


so there was no reason to get drunk on sat night then drift :?:


Who needs a reason :dance: :lol:

Graeme, kick it again, I swear you will feel better :D
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby weave67 on Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:18 pm

not kicking mine :wink:
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby marcsony on Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:31 pm

but of a fluid and filter change not much but all helps.
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby crabman on Tue Mar 24, 2009 1:19 pm

Removed the spare wheel carrier , much tidier now ( one of the bolts was cross threaded , off to Halfords for some rubber grommet/bungs , anyone know what size before I buy a selection pack ? )
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby Drift on Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:53 pm

I just put the bolts back in :lol:
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby FUDDY MUCKER on Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:56 pm

Drift wrote:I just put the bolts back in :lol:


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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby Drift on Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:58 pm

I did get round to painting them once........... the paint fell off :shock: :oops:
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby FUDDY MUCKER on Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:02 pm

Drift wrote:I did get round to painting them once........... the paint fell off :shock: :oops:


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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR CAR TODAY!

Postby dandan on Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:19 pm

Well I had a very successful trawl around our "local" scrappy. Got a brand new fog light, CTS, gauge sender, 2x speedo sensors and speedo gear plus a couple of little bits of trim for a paltry £25 :D
It's one of those nice yards that let ya clamber all over the vehicles too :twisted:

Fitted the fog light and now I'm gonna have to clean the other one to match so might as well do the whole car :?
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby Road Hog on Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:10 pm

Late posting :oh yer: YESTERDAY,I did a mini fuel consumption test Telford to Barking return average was 33.7 mpg.

The main purpose was to collect a roof rack from FRONTY 4X4 for a mate`s van,what a nice man (& he makes a great cuppa :wink:) had a good chat & looked at his Honda 90 it is seriously nice,anyone wanting one will go a very long way to better this one .

Darren,will drop your ratchet strap off next time I come over your way. :D Cheers bud :dance:
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby SPEEDBIRD 202 on Wed Mar 25, 2009 3:14 pm

Intreting fuel consumption figures there A friend Image. Mine is the SWB 2.2 DTI and I think the fuel consumption is very similar to yours.

I have a feeling that the Turbo might not be giving Full Boost, not sure though, it would be nice to be able to compare the Engine Performance and Pulling Power to that of anouther Frontera................ Image

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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby Road Hog on Wed Mar 25, 2009 6:05 pm

Yep it is down about 10% on figures from two years ago :shock: guess it is about nearly time to give it a service as it has not had a proper one since 72,000 it is now in excess of 118,000 :oops: ,must stop being lazy,must stop being lazy....................
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby Sir-Doris on Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:43 pm

You could probably do worse then spray a can of that carb cleaner stuff into it that drifty was waving around last weekend.
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