What have you done to your truck today..? THE BLOG

#326 by WelshMart , Tue Apr 01, 2014 2:05 pm

Cleaned the mud out of drivers foot well from Sundays green lane trip and tried to T-cut the passenger side in an attempt to hide the scratches from a particularly scratchy lane... Trying to avoid the daggers from the missus everytime she gets in...

#327 by stormforce , Tue Apr 01, 2014 2:25 pm

got the truck filthy and ready for mot today

#328 by Lemmy , Tue Apr 01, 2014 4:02 pm

I'm going to kit out my bed and canopy as a search and rescue storage, workshop and emergency shelter. Stage 1 today, got some carpet for the floor.

#329 by Fielder , Tue Apr 01, 2014 4:13 pm

Quote: 123hotchef wrote in post #325
will you have a truck each for the over landing

No but it would be great if she is some what useful should anything go wrong, Nothing worse then being stuck in the middle of a Moroccan Desert with someone else who is no use, It's happened before when I took my motorbike overlanding and the other person I was with was less than useless when it all went wrong in the middle of a Desert.

#330 by ColinTheCop , Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:31 pm

Quote: Lemmy wrote in post #328
I'm going to kit out my bed and canopy as a search and rescue storage, workshop and emergency shelter. Stage 1 today, got some carpet for the floor.

@Lemmy that's got to worthy of its own thread. Ideas materials etc.

I keep thinking a couple of rows of this in the back of my truck would secure most things -

#331 by surfer , Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:38 pm

@Lemmy am with c c on this start ya thread fella I will chuck a couple of ideas in a good thread for all buddy

#332 by yanto , Tue Apr 01, 2014 11:13 pm

Changed the heater panel and center rear window switch put my new jack and tool kit in its place behind the rear seat.
Then drove about 80 miles listening to 80s rock to get my little lad to sleep.

#333 by Lemmy , Tue Apr 01, 2014 11:18 pm

Quote: surfer wrote in post #331
@Lemmy am with c c on this start ya thread fella I will chuck a couple of ideas in a good thread for all buddy

Ok, I'll start a thread when I start the job.

#334 by dazmanf , Wed Apr 02, 2014 6:21 am

Colin do you have a link to those rails?

#335 by krutly , Wed Apr 02, 2014 9:25 am

Quote: dazmanf wrote in post #334
Colin do you have a link to those rails?

usually @ColinTheCop does a clever linky thing that you just click on the picture but seems he hasn't this time

#336 by dazmanf , Wed Apr 02, 2014 9:32 am

I know, I was pushing away at the pic and thought my phone was shot

#337 by ColinTheCop , Wed Apr 02, 2014 12:54 pm

Apologies, I was on my tablet and it's a pain to do it here.

http://www.mudstuff.co.uk/products/cargo-control.html

You can pick it up on Ebay, it's got a variety of names, either tie down strips or aircraft tracking.

#338 by birdie , Fri Apr 11, 2014 8:23 pm

Gave it a clean

#339 by Warriorbez , Fri Apr 11, 2014 8:26 pm

#340 by birdie , Fri Apr 11, 2014 8:32 pm

I only did that one side

#341 by Warriorbez , Fri Apr 11, 2014 8:35 pm

Half gay

#342 by birdie , Fri Apr 11, 2014 8:45 pm

I cleaned the dash too, but left all the mud in the footwell

#343 by Hound Dog , Fri Apr 11, 2014 8:59 pm

Fitted my birthday present to my truck (wind deflector's)
Still waiting for the head gasket to be done. Miss driving her.

#344 by Fielder , Mon Apr 14, 2014 10:22 am

Changed both alternator belts, the PAS belt and the Air con Belt. Also spent a lot of time removing hte bits of skin left around the engine bay from my knuckles, EVERYTHING UNDER THESE TRUCKS IS SHARP!

#345 by krutly , Mon Apr 14, 2014 10:26 am

I've washed all the Cornish turkey poo off the truck from Stormforce's allotment the other week

#346 by nickhammond121 , Mon Apr 14, 2014 12:46 pm

Washed the outside:

#347 by 4life greg , Mon Apr 14, 2014 11:01 pm

The truck passed the MOT on Saturday, and I fitted these today,

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Should also stop the CV boots splitting from now on, which will be a bonus

#348 by robl200 , Tue Apr 15, 2014 1:52 am

Gave it a wash to get rid of the graffiti that had been drawn in the mud!
Fitted the K&N Apollo that I got and finally fitted and tested the winch
Will put more details in the build thread.

#349 by 4life greg , Sat Apr 26, 2014 8:00 pm

I made a spare wheel mount for the back of the truck, I had another design in mind, but in the end just went for a 24mm bolt through the centre of the wheel, and a 12mm bolt that goes through the wheel nut hole. The 24mm bolt holds a plate against the wheel which takes the weight and it also has a 10mm hole drilled through it for a padlock. The 12mm bolt isn't load bearing at all it just has a wheel locking nut on it as another layer of security from thieving scum.

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I didn't realise I had ordered a stainless steel 24mm bolt, but I attempted to drill the 10mm hole with a HSS bit anyway, 1 hour later and about 5mm into the bolt I gave up went and bought a cobalt bit and it went through in a few minutes

#350 by robert3040 , Sat Apr 26, 2014 8:04 pm

Good job Greg ,does what it's meant.Im looking at something similar to get the spare out from underneath.

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