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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby Road Hog on Sat Mar 13, 2010 10:54 pm

Changed blown headlamp bulb,changed blown brakelight bulb,wiggled the wire on the non working fog light :wink: proper job
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby gregster on Sat Mar 13, 2010 11:11 pm

Today....popped the 33-12.50-15 BFG mud off the beads on the fronty A star alloys, as they kept going down....then applied loads of bead sealer, and re inflated and then balanced em up...took a fair amount of weights to get em right...the worst one wanting 300grames on the inside and 250 on the outside...hit my fingers loads of times putting the weights on...the tyres are real awkward to get round to get the weights on when they are on the balancer...
Tyres now stay inflated which is good and they sit quite nice on the mere 7j fronty alleys...the sidewalls nicely protected as the tyre pulls round well...
Might drop the pressure on long road runs down to 20-25ish psi to give a flatter tyre profile so it doesnt kill the tyre centre tread...

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The 2.8lwb is booked in for its test wednesday...need to sort the front wheel bearings and the "bird and plane spotting" headlight...I am kinda a bit more apprehensive about this one passing..... :oh yer: Washed it today...so the tester doesnt get half a ton of mud from the woods fall on him!!! Nice I am, he's gotta pass it now! 8)
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby andysd1 on Sat Mar 13, 2010 11:44 pm

i stroked her under body with my belly many many many times, and she got excited, drift has the picture, lol
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby Drift on Sun Mar 14, 2010 12:06 am

And here is Andy's belly rubber, rear seems to be lifted a tad, the rest to follow :lol:

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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby jontera on Sun Mar 14, 2010 6:53 pm

Finally got around to replacing my exhaust center pipe. Sheard a couple of bolts, had to cut the bolts off the rear/ tail pipe section. But all good, thanks to the bottom of my tool box and the odds and sods tin of bolts.

thats another one off the MOT to do list, only 5 more to do..
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby Drift on Sun Mar 14, 2010 7:59 pm

Never did a think to my truck today, but I pinched some paving slabs from Andy then pinched his trailer and Furballs car to take them to my house and laid them in the garden for the shed base, got back to Andys and as Andy was fettling his suspension I got on to changing Furballs glow plugs and stripping down a hub ....but thats another story, flipping ebay eh Chris :wink: :lol: :lol:

However the big result of the day is shown in the picture on Andys truck :wink:

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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby rancidrich on Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:23 pm

MOT on monday,(they couldnt fit it in on friday :( ).
Booked in for 11 am,
Jobs to do still :
1.Waterpump Gasket (sprung a leek this morning, thats what you get for reusing the old gasket with gasket sealer :oops: )
2.yet another hose pipe has given up the ghost. :(
3. Exhaust has started to blow (found a small hole just by the join, will gob it up with exhaust paste just before it goes in :lol: )
4.belly pan to be refitted.

Looks like an early start for me in the morning :lol: :lol:

Gave it a good clean inside and out (made the scratches and dents even more visible now )
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby andysd1 on Mon Mar 15, 2010 1:00 am

Drift wrote:Never did a think to my truck today, but I pinched some paving slabs from Andy then pinched his trailer and Furballs car to take them to my house and laid them in the garden for the shed base, got back to Andys and as Andy was fettling his suspension I got on to changing Furballs glow plugs and stripping down a hub ....but thats another story, flipping ebay eh Chris :wink: :lol: :lol:

However the big result of the day is shown in the picture on Andys truck :wink:

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hehehehehhe, arrrwww look at the second picture, you can just see the new edition to the family,


good god its tall, 4" on the bsck, and as much as we could on the front to bring it as level to the back as we could,
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby john (smifffy) on Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:17 am

looks good andy :drink: :drink:

just need some bigger tyres to fill all that space :drink: :drink:
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby colley on Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:32 am

Looking good Andy 8)
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby 4x4 bobby on Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:01 am

Nice truck just a shame about the nut behind the wheel!!!!!!!!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby rancidrich on Mon Mar 15, 2010 2:16 pm

Took her for her MOT today.
She failed :( 1. side repeater not working,2. n/s rear shock bush,3. sharp egde on bonnet,4. hand brake not quite up to scratch and 5. front number plate is obscured by the A-frame.
Hopefully retest this after noon :D
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby andysd1 on Mon Mar 15, 2010 4:48 pm

john (smifffy) wrote:looks good andy :drink: :drink:

just need some bigger tyres to fill all that space :drink: :drink:

that would require a body lift, but that will be after bala,
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby Rich on Mon Mar 15, 2010 6:12 pm

not really what i did to my truck more what i did in it :D :D

moved this lot

7 3x2 slabs

8 concrete block

1 6ft gravel board wasnt in when i took the pic

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and did the suspension move much :D

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nah not a lot it must be them springs postfinder had made for this fronty :D :D
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby Drift on Mon Mar 15, 2010 8:08 pm

:lol: :lol: Rich I moved a similar amount on Sunday but used Andys trailer as my boot box was in the back of mine, even used Furball and his car to tow it as he has a tow bar :rotfl: :rotfl:
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby 4x4 bobby on Tue Mar 16, 2010 8:01 am

Drift wrote::lol: :lol: Rich I moved a similar amount on Sunday but used Andys trailer as my boot box was in the back of mine, even used Furball and his car to tow it as he has a tow bar :rotfl: :rotfl:


Typical Scouser!!!!!!!!!! :mrgreen:
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby jontera on Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:37 am

Last night spent 1 hour undoing the bottom bolts on my lower ball joints, and that was after a week of WD40'ing!!
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Spent another hour whacking, but it wouldn't budge..broke a spliter..so bolted it back up replaced split pin.

going to buy new pickle fork and a give em a proper beating tonight.

need to get this little job done as MOT is friday at 10am
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby Road Hog on Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:45 pm

Replaced door mirror :oops: had a bit of a "coming together" yesterday,bet they cost more for shiny X5`s :lol:
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby jontera on Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:54 pm

A friend wrote:Replaced door mirror :oops: had a bit of a "coming together" yesterday,bet they cost more for shiny X5`s :lol:


And I bet that the X5 owner doesn't own the tools to replace it themselves, so it's going to cost them a whole load more.
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Re: WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

Postby rancidrich on Tue Mar 16, 2010 4:38 pm

Took Tessie for her retest.
12 months motoring ahead :party: , Now it's time to get her dirty again :dance:
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