WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

[woodwizzard]

Took the old gal for mot, flew through, no advisories

[Krusher]

Great news that Jim, always a good feeling when that happens

[cheekychick]

[Spike]

I picked up Frontera No 2 tonight (Y reg 2.2i RS Sport) , stuck her on the back of a Transit and trailer...

brought her near home so I can strip the engine out and put it in mine, so I can get up and running...Hope everything goes to plan..

Will try and take pics as I go along.. Hopefully then I will strip down the donor car for spares...

[Krusher]

Got your work cut out there mate, hope it all goes well for you

[leee7196]

last night i started to clean and polish the new alloys,finished the job at 1am.
they do look better for it

[horses45]

last night picked ria up from band practice and had all her friends looking at the frontera then she said i'm going to be driving that soon so i brought it to work today for a bit play so strol on 6pm then play on the way home.tommorrow i shall be mostly using the LWB

[alex]

I just picked a fight with the top control arm and nearly lost... Damn theyre tighter than Drifty

In the end Ive done complete bearing swap front pas, clean and re-grease drivers front, then added 3mm shims to the control arms.

I ended up with 2x12"extension bars with a 22mm socket on to a T breaker bar which had a 4ft scaffold pipe on each end. The Mrs helped and it took some breaking, then needed the 4ft bars all the way on one bolt to undo and tighten. Ive been wd40'ing for over a month, didnt believe it could be that tight. Even had to call the Bernie monster for a pep talk half way through when I was out of ideas. Ta old un, amazing the difference a moment to think makes.

[Drift]

Ta mate

Bernie was here when you rang, you set off some funny memories from when we did mine, both hanging on the bar then the nut cracked and we ended up in a heap on the floor thinking we sheared the nut. but we hadnt.

Well today I checked my rear diff oil as the seal has a very slight leak, been meaning to do it for ages and was pretty sure it would need topping up but took the filler out and oil flowed out so alls good there, Ill live with the tiny leak a bit longer as I have plans for the axle

[Alchamist]

Strange you should say that Ste ... I finally got round to mine today. I must have caught it on one of the offroad days, and it slightly bent the bottom of the plate, causing a slight leak. I thought from the mess around the diff that I had lost most of the oil, but strangely enough it was still mostly full.

Drained the diff, cracked the rear plate, refitted with hematite and tightened back up. Hopefully that will sort it.

Even better ... very very little metal in the old oil ... hopefully the diff will last a bit longer!

[Drift]

I think thats how I did my leak

I wonder if a piece of flat metal welded flush to the bottom of the diff housing then curved/turned up around the diff pan could protect the lip on the diff pan?

[andysd1]

[Alchamist]

It certainly needs something ... the diff plate is an easy target, being the bit that's likely to get scraped ...

Where are the fabricators!?

[alex]

Ideas, good ideas, its a weak point. Fortunately not on the Trooper diffs. Good job as mines weeping now might push me to the diff swap.

[Drift]

A bit crappy but you get the idea.

[andysd1]

they are on ebay, but they are for the lr's, and they are round, could give a few ideas, but i did see them some where,

[Drift]

Looked into that a long while ago, they wont fit as the diff is a complete different shape, they bolt on using a tension method.

[andysd1]

got some metal there will have a look, hold on, you have it, DOH, will locate some more

[Drift]

, to be honest I think you need something thicker.

[andysd1]

might be easyer just to shave the bottom of the diff plate, just so it sits just slightly higher than the diff bottom