Frontera Technical Support

by **Trugga** on Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:24 pm

Started it up (fired on 2nd turn of the key after 2 weeks parked up) and went for a drive round the block to warm up the fluids.

Went to check out a possible urban location for a photo shoot - was put off by it being staked out by a police patrol car and a burnt out moped. I've got a great idea for a Fronty Foto, but just need to find a location.

At least the Sport seems to be working ok (touch wood)

Lawrence

by **Drift** on Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:36 pm

Simo you cheeky sod :lol:

by **andysd1** on Sun Feb 13, 2011 8:08 pm

no more bum love for you simo,

i have just got back out of bed, and no i have not the brake lines,

oh well, i will have to walk to work

by **Big Dav** on Sun Feb 13, 2011 9:54 pm

by **adyclemo** on Sun Feb 13, 2011 10:04 pm

Well this last week has been quite a trauma for the fronty.

On Tuesday i finally found my fuel leak back problem the metal pipes up near the tank had been rubbing on the chassis and developed a nice hole, in truth the car should not have run never mind last till 2 weeks ago when i broke down :shock:

. The o/s rear panel also had new panel clips fitted instead of a bungie cord holding it on

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On Thursday the glass bottom on the new filter assembly broke, i probably did it up too tight :oops:

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Today has seen the removal of the side steps and the rear o/s arch trim this morning in preperation for my brother to weld some patches to the sills and arch this afternoon. Sills were as expected but after a few minuets on the arch i had lost half of it, to rotten to patch

so this afternoon has seen the arch on the scrapper cut out and welded to mine

. This morning also saw the replacment of one the front wheel studs that has had no nut on for the last 6 months due to the end being damaged and not being able to get the nut on :oops:

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Next task before the end of the month is to get it through its MOT and re-tax it

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by **Alfie** on Sun Feb 13, 2011 11:29 pm

Fitted new front brake calipers
Repaired drivers side interior light switch(has been broken ever since I bought the truck) :oops:

Lights now come on when the door is opened
Sealed the windscreen where the water was getting in
Stripped out the sound proofing and dried it and the carpet out(found £3.50 so all in all not a bad days work

by **Trotter** on Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:07 am

I have to admit, I didn't do very much myself.
Huggy came over and sorted out one of my front bearings and replaced the propshaft Jurid coupling. :dance:

That seemed to cure the rumbling noise I was getting.
We both got soaked but, it was worth it.

What a guy :!:

Turns up in the pouring rain and crawls under his mates car and starts fixing things :!:

Top Bloke!

Well, now I know how the hub and bearing come apart, I can have a go at the other side in the morning myself!
(All part of the learning curve, I guess) :lol:

Then it's just a case of new brake pads and replace the suspension bushes. :dance:

by **James Bass** on Mon Feb 14, 2011 1:30 pm

Started the pick-up conversion on Chugga. Removed the rear seats, rear section of carpet, and most of the bolts for the roll bar (the rest are siezed so sprayed with WD40 and will tackle again tomorrow)...then it started raining. Bloody British weather. :evil:

by **dave1966** on Mon Feb 14, 2011 1:58 pm

I got the carpet hoovered today while the sun is shining and while Ive got the seats out :lol:

next job to do is shampoo the carpet before putting the seats back in,hopefully get it done this afternoon once Ive been shopping,gggrrrr. :twisted:

by **drinksoptional** on Mon Feb 14, 2011 2:35 pm

Cant decide after been on holiday all weekend using lwb i have few faults needing sorted but i also have a un motd swb needing faults sorted, i also still ha e the garage demolished an fence put up
Decisions decisions

by **rancidrich** on Mon Feb 14, 2011 6:49 pm

Went out and bought 4 new tie-rod ends for the truck today,im fed up with the sloppy steering so weather permiting they will get fitted tomorrow

by **4x4 bobby** on Mon Feb 14, 2011 7:22 pm

by **Trotter** on Mon Feb 14, 2011 11:27 pm

Nipped up the bearing and put new brake pads in the offside front. :dance:

Went to fit new pads in the nearside front but, top pin on the caliper is sheared in half. :butt:

Swore a lot!!
Will be picking up a second hand caliper in the morning and fitting it along with new pads (can't afford a new one).
Bushes will probably have to wait until after the MOT (just hope they are only an advisory again).

As long as I can get the brakes working again, I stand a fair chance of getting it through the dreaded MOT.

by **Big Dav** on Mon Feb 14, 2011 11:30 pm

by **Sir-Doris** on Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:28 am

Pottered about with the snorkel stuff again today.

Air box modded and fibreglassed.

Cut the oval inlet off and blanked it off with the fibreglass. The top section of the air filter housing has an opening for the Secondary Air Injection system (only found on early 2.2i's and removable) so thats capped as well.

Then a quick coat of satin black to roughly hide the fibreglass.

Items roughly in position.

Im still waiting on a 45 degree stainless tube and the lying gits told me the ID of the snorkel top was 70mm. Well its not, its 76.3 so Im going to have to use some self amalgamating tape to make up the 3.15mm. No biggy but it would have been nice to have everything fit straight out of the box.

Reminder to self, pick up a roll of stainless MIG wire.

by **drinksoptional** on Tue Feb 15, 2011 10:23 am

Fixed radio ariel connector fell out
Found a massive pile of bitten of finger nails in the door pocket least i got asteerin wheel less sticky it need a seriose wash and hoover inside, the nails are not mine previose owner

by **James Bass** on Tue Feb 15, 2011 3:18 pm

Just been out to buy engine and diff oil, air and fuel filters (oil filter on order as none in stock) and coolant ready for service on Sunday. Good old Robbie's coming down to give Beasty a good old service. Grand total £92.95, and I still have to pay for the oil filter..... :shock:

Still...will keep the old goat running for a while. :wink:

EDIT...Then on the way home, I adjusted the tyre pressures. The fronts were a bit high, so dropped them to about 28psi (front doesn't seem to skip over bumps now) and the rears were low, so now have about 32psi. Feels much better on the road now. RESULT

by **dave1966** on Tue Feb 15, 2011 6:18 pm

Ive just finished cleaning the carpet in the fronty & put the rear seats back in,then I siliconed (white) the rubber above the windscreen,then cleaned the rubber on the sunroof with soapy water and an old toothbrush and hopefully this may stop it from leaking. :lol:

by **bigdazz** on Tue Feb 15, 2011 6:24 pm

got home last night fonty looked ok snorkel has bent wing a wee bit they stole my light coversnot the snorkel top

so i have been working on here all day