WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

[vauxsqueeks]

Oil and Filter change today..
Nothing special just routine maintenance...

[RatCav]

Kicked it when I saw the puddle of oil under the engine.


Fingers crossed it is just the rocker gasket which I have a spare of in the garage.

[Dales]

Got a new towing eye welded on mine today, well its more like a mooring for a boat , real heavy duty, not that Im expecting to break down or anything, but I tend to go into stupid places when Im off road, origonal towing eye didnt look too good so thats the reason I got it changed,

[Wilberforce]

You want OTT towing point? Have a shufti at what I have welded to the arse end of my truck, a pair of truck tie downs that are rated for a fair few tons

[snapper]

Took it through a local ford and filled it with water, the truck not the ford!

[paul01]

eventually fitted my cb
and ordered a pipercross air filter
and new wiper blades
even washed it

[andytats]

With the help from Ian ( bobbinsjob ) we finished the axle rebuild so after 3 days of replacing bits. I have a work truck again. with brakes that work Ian had abit of a moment when I tested the brakes. Doing about 20mph towards a fence I had faith in the work we done but Ian wasn't to sure

[Frenchfarmer]

Pumped up the (*µù£££°) front left tyre and delivered a trailer of wood.
No point me posting here cos she just keeps going.
Got stuff to do on her.
Not in this weather but.

[crash_ndie]

come off the motor way temp in the red no heaters checked water nice and full water pump died nipped to genral traffic after it cooled down, £60 lighter on the way back "bang" lots of steam and rusty water fooking rad split at the bottom so fitted new water pump went very well just need a rad for 2.3 td by sunday night

[snapper]

Truck

Managed to wash the insides of the air vents, heater matrix, carpets, seats etc etc... tis now drying out. Sadly no fish.

O-no

Finished the welding, and promptly ran out of mig wire! Gonna give the patches a clean up and some paint on tommorrow. MOT next week me thinks.

[LFF64]

Since Friday I have
Fitted bullbar
Replaced lamps in the switches they are now all working
Went searching scrap yards yesterday found one place with four fronteras in
Removed switches for spares and a few handy bits inc bumper lights all in good condition just got to do some tidying off bits before swapping and fitting too mine

[crash_ndie]

been to 4 scrappys and no rad 5th time lucky got a almost new one for 30 quid fitted and whooo i have a car

[RatCav]

Sourced the oil leak. Not the rocker gasket. Changed it anyway.

looked underneath and saw this:



Oil drain from the alternator had rubbed against the steering box mount, and wore a hole. Pulled off the pipe, cleaned it and found this:



Had a rummage in the garage ... 10 mins later, ended up with this:



Anyways while I had the bonnet open I replaced a couple of fuel hose clips, and replaced the o'ring on the dipstick tube.

[Gazeddy]

fitted a new starter and a modified inlet to allow the lpg conversion to take place.
fixed the cooling fan and replaced the top hose.

[hipo1024]

Did some man shopping....
10 litres of 15w40 mineral oil - £24
a oil filter - £6.99
5 litres of green antifreeze - £15.74
and seeing as the chap gave me some discount some distilled water too - £2.96
some rad flush - £4.04
a new oil catcher tray because I cant for the life of me find my old one.....shame because my old 1 was a container tyre oil catcher....the new 1 is just a cat litter type tray means ill have to get creative with milk bottles to get rid of the old oil....or just paint the chassis with it lol. - £3.86

Grand total of £57.59 on the old girl....tomorrow evening is the fun part of actually putting the above to use, ill change my turbo over for my new to me turbo thats apparently only 6 months old.....well we'll see huh...but for £50 its gota be worth a try...plus anythings gota be better than whats on it atm lol.

Oh and walked away from dominos with a application form as a delivery driver....aha should be a laugh lol

[fudge]

errrm dan
dont you want semi synthetic oil? not mineral oil?

[Gazeddy]

he got a 2.8 now

[fudge]

in was under the impression the 2.8 was semi as well....
may be wrong.... but it isnt the first time he would have gotten the wrong oil

[RatCav]

Mineral can be used ... less leakage on older engines.

[BlueBikerNut]

Went to garage to pre book for MOT.. at 9 this morning.. They Had a space there and then.. BY 10 my Fronty was all done will M O T pass.. only two advisory items.. nothing major. can wait until better weather here.. Thats the way I like it.. Having a GREAT DAY so Far... go baby go . and only 70500 miles on clock.. at 15 yr old too....Regards Fred..