WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR TRUCK TODAY!

[andytats]

Jim. when rob and I replaced he's front doors we had to remove the wiring looms from his old doors because there are two different looms. Some only have one muti-plug and some have two.

[Wilberforce]

[gregster]

[Wilberforce]

Same here... Bloke was breaking a 2.5, so I guess I'll have to do the same with the wiring then

[Wilberforce]

.... and started swapping over the panels that I acquired from the donor car in Wales today.

As above, the multiplugs for wiring in the front doors are different on the newer car - probably due to having the speakers (separate woofers and tweeters) fitted in the doors rather than a 2-way installed in the dash as on pre-facelift models.

Thankfully though, the rear doors are identical, so the car is now sporting a pair of blue rear doors. The wiring loom is connected, so the windows and central locking works just fine. Swapped the weather strips for the best of each available too, but still on the lookout for better ones.

Wings and front doors next.

---Edit---
Alright, I lied about the central locking. It seems that the OSR door behaves opposite to the rest of the car. Locked when the rest of the car is unlocked, and vice versa. Central locking fuse pulled for now cos it's Sunday and I can't be arsed to go chasing wiring faults.

[martinkettering]

Fitted the wheels and tyres i got yesterday for £51 lol

[andytats]

[snapper]

Sunday...

Got the truck muddy... It looks cleaner than what it is!

[snapper]

And did this...

Anyone want to guess what it was and where it came from.....

[kees]

Front right wheel from your 3x4

[hipo1024]

Front left manual hub?

[gregster]

I thought everyone knew not to buy them crap aisen style hubs from Milners...it appears I am wrong!
Genuine Aisens on AVM's are way better (if you strip the AVM's regularly so them silly torx tapered retaining bolts dont seize up)

[snapper]

Correct on the original origin Greg, incorrect in the assumption that beer tokens were exchange for them. Came via a member on here some 2 years ago at at an annual.

Oh and it was the N/S front. I suppose I really should get round to getting some aisin hubs for it now. Have you got any sat around the yard?

Just need to get the truck running again first. It cut out going through town this morning, not fuel (although the bleed screw on the filter is stripped now...) Traced to a total lack of volts at the fuel solonoid valve on the pump.

Seems the 15A ignition fuse had blown, but why? Thinking that the truck spending 20mins sat in the middle of a mud hole/puddle on sunday may have summit to do with .

[4x4 bobby]

[pot bellied pixie]

Fitted a new clutch master cylinder , bled it thru and still clutch was not working .rang my mate to come round and pump the peddle while I did the nipple bit , all clean new fluid still no clutch ..took the peddle box back off only to find that the bush that the fixing pin goes thru was buggered.so I rednecked a bush from an idler pulley spacer and waheyy I now have a clutch

[RatCav]

[bhcalcutta]

Not so much today, but over the last week, gave the truck some much needed TLC, after 12 months of neglect.

Fixed the water leak under the turbo. What a barsteward that was to get to.



Coolant flush & new anti-freeze
Replacement timing belt kit (one of the idlers was starting to howl)
Replacement alternator
New drive belts
oil & filters
Tappets
Fitted 2 of the new door handles ( Gregster)
Repaired the upper mounts for the boot lid gas struts, using some shower cubicle door rollers
Fitted 2 new gas struts ( Robfog)
Fitted grease nipples to the rear door hinges, before they seize up again

Loads more to do to fetch it back up to scratch though

[jaybrian32]

Tank guard replacement
Moded Trooper item with new tank straps grafted on
Front to rear fuel lines including evaporation line
And finally a kick ass front bumper, it's been a busy 2 days

[hipo1024]

Filled it with derv and I'm off laning with some of the jeep owners club. Should be fun! Never met any of them before

[RatCav]

Stuff ... and more stuff tomorrow. Will enlighten when I have finished. Not too exciting, just necessary, laborious, very very messy, and long overdue.