What did you do with your truck this week?

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Trollhole said:
sweet. That is cold pimping. G
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Yeah.... it may or may not make it out to the event this weekend.... new tires were supposed to be here yesterday but now "might" be here on friday :mad:


That and I have no time to wire up the lockers or fix the brakes "4 Lo" easily over powers them backing up right now.

It might make it out there to just look pretty.
 
installed a tach my dad had laying around since his days of drag racing (some 30 years ago)

worked great for 10-20 min then started smoking, shorted out inside.

now i have no tach.
 
New u-joints for the rear drive shaft, new glow plugs, got the interior light working (only when the door is open though, during to the actual light itself being rusty.) Also gave all grease nipples a good injection of grease. Got my number plate lights working as well.

Last week was new coolant, new (second hand) front bar, new fan, rear lights, passenger side mirror.
 
Pig42 said:
New u-joints for the rear drive shaft, new glow plugs, got the interior light working (only when the door is open though, during to the actual light itself being rusty.) Also gave all grease nipples a good injection of grease. Got my number plate lights working as well.

Last week was new coolant, new (second hand) front bar, new fan, rear lights, passenger side mirror.
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Welcome mate. I wish I had glow plugs to change.:beer:
 
Pig42 said:
New u-joints for the rear drive shaft, new glow plugs, got the interior light working (only when the door is open though, during to the actual light itself being rusty.) Also gave all grease nipples a good injection of grease. Got my number plate lights working as well.

Last week was new coolant, new (second hand) front bar, new fan, rear lights, passenger side mirror.
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WOW, first post on MUD and you found us all the way from Oz!:D
 
Finally got all my front suspension slop under control. The new bushings I installed at Chuck's HAMOM never really set properly because the ID was too great. The bushings were supposed to fit so tight that you'd need a press to properly install them. So they were sliding back and forth inside the A-arms about 1/4" and causing a clunking noise whenever I loaded or unloaded the weight of the truck from front to back (reverse and then going forward & braking).
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Was going to install set screws by welding a nut to the outside, but decided to play it safe and just run a 1" weld on the top and bottom of each bushing.
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Not the best looking welds, but they'll work for as long as these A-arms will last.
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That's still strange how they were lose after the old ones came out. I wonder if somehow they were stretched from the old ones rusting inside. I don't think what we did to get the old ones out could have stretched those out.

I wonder if anyone else has had this problem.
 
Wheeled at Beasley Knob and Snowbird. Traction was great at Beasley. I ran pretty much everything except the Hillclimb and the last climb on Rattlesnake. Had to pull a rear driveshaft and LCA on a Disco 1 that broke, and towed a Series II Rover back to camp. Pics to come.
 
Trollhole said:
That's still strange how they were lose after the old ones came out. I wonder if somehow they were stretched from the old ones rusting inside. I don't think what we did to get the old ones out could have stretched those out.

I wonder if anyone else has had this problem.
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Not sure how wide of an issue it is, but I did have one friend on FB say he had the same thing going on and wanted feedback on whether my fix worked or not. I'm glad it did, because I was not looking forward to buying new A-arms. TEQ or aftermarket are steep. The big downside to the TEQ arms is that the lower ball joint is not replaceable. TEQ only sells the whole assembly. Once my lower balls go, its upgrade time.;)
 
Bent ARB, bent slider, bent control arm, sheared swaybar bolt........finally made a line at URE thats denied me for years. Had a blast :D
 
jfz80 said:
Bent ARB, bent slider, bent control arm, sheared swaybar bolt........finally made a line at URE thats denied me for years. Had a blast :D
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Nice!! any pics of the destruction in action?? :beer:
 
replaced 10 year old shock bushings, she rides with a whole lot less clunks and better handling..

on the 60, I am trying to figure out why I cannot get past 35 mph and yes I have it in 2 wheel high,,it seems either the vacuum advance is not working right or the second venturi in the carb is not opening up and giving fuel...stock carb, semi desmogged... PO issues abound...

the 40 gets a new MC in under 12 hours... I sure was glad I have a great working e brake when it crapped out..... Monday I am getting the rear frame cross member straightened so the rear doors close properly,, I dropped off a rock ledge at tellico 9 years ago and bent the drivers side tail light section up about 2"...so it kooked the door alignment...
 
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