Tinkering Corner & Member's Builds » Alan G's truck

#1 by Alan G , Sat Aug 11, 2012 11:47 pm

Well the last couple off weeks have been busy, started Fri 27 july, done a full service, welded a bracket on the A bar for the CB arial, recharged the aircon & fitted the snorkel, followng fri replaced the brake shoes then today I finaly got round to fitting the 2" bodylift & re positioning the front bumper. Still to sort the brackets under the wheel arch, sort the gear selectors (gaitors are off at the moment & fit the extended brake hosed ( origionals are badly stretched. Once thats done I'll replace the alternator, power stearing & aircon belts. then Im gonna fix the dent in the tub ( happened over a year ago )

so still loads to do

#2 by skotl , Sat Aug 11, 2012 11:51 pm

A busy holiday, then?

#3 by Alan G , Sat Aug 11, 2012 11:52 pm

ha, just managed to fit it all in between Louise's days out

#4 by Louise , Sun Aug 12, 2012 12:02 am

Family days out I hasten to add..........

#5 by skotl , Sun Aug 12, 2012 12:11 am

I knows it. Had snorkel-saturday and then the waxoyl-festival but had to keep my quota of family-days-out up

#6 by Alan G , Sun Aug 12, 2012 12:12 am

Quote: Louise wrote in post #4

Family days out I hasten to add..........

& I would like to point out that I got wet every time.

went to Crammond Island which is over a tidal causway, bloody tide came in so we had to walk back through the water, luckely it was only about 2" at that point but never made it to the Island,

Tried again the following weekend, got to the island & it started p!ssing it down with no where to shelter & a 1 mile walk back to the mainland.

Went to the zoo, had to park in the bus lanes as the carpark was full but we only had till 4pm, I went at 3pm to move both the truck & the inlaws car to the carpark & yep it started pissing down again.

Now, on those 3 occasions we had louise's mum with us, however we went to Almond valley country park on Fri without Louise's mother & guess what.................

GLORIOUS SUNSHINE

moral of the story. if you dont want it to rain then dont take the mother inlaw

ps Louise will kill me for putting that up so its been nice knowing you all

Alan

#7 by skotl , Sun Aug 12, 2012 12:15 am

Ssshhh... I don't think Louise noticed....

#8 by Louise , Sun Aug 12, 2012 12:27 am

Poor Truck...

#9 by Louise , Sun Aug 12, 2012 12:30 am

Quote: skotl wrote in post #7
Ssshhh... I don't think Louise noticed....

Oh Louise noticed..........

I shall take time to have my revenge...it freaks him out more that way.......

#10 by Alan G , Sun Aug 12, 2012 12:31 am

Quote: Louise wrote in post #9
Quote: skotl wrote in post #7
Ssshhh... I don't think Louise noticed....

Oh Louise noticed..........

I shall take time to have my revenge...it freaks him out more that way.......

#11 by skotl , Sun Aug 12, 2012 12:35 am

Quote: Louise wrote in post #9
Quote: skotl wrote in post #7
Ssshhh... I don't think Louise noticed....

Oh Louise noticed..........

I shall take time to have my revenge...it freaks him out more that way.......

EEEK! Sinbin!

#12 by LezT , Sun Aug 12, 2012 6:31 am

Don't bin him Lou, remember, "revenge is a dish best served cold...."

#13 by Greigboy , Sun Aug 12, 2012 7:43 am

How long did it take to do the lift?
Any issues with the bolts etc

#14 by Yoda , Sun Aug 12, 2012 8:34 am

Great stuff. So how high is it now? Pics of job complete?

#15 by stormforce , Sun Aug 12, 2012 8:43 am

Looking good Al

#16 by Bootsie , Sun Aug 12, 2012 9:45 am

Looking good Al

#17 by Stick , Sun Aug 12, 2012 10:26 am

Get that front end cleaned and tidied up with some hammeright/bitumen undersealer.

#18 by Alan G , Sun Aug 12, 2012 1:50 pm

Quote: Greigboy wrote in post #13
How long did it take to do the lift?
Any issues with the bolts etc

tub took about 1hr with no probs, cab took about 2hrs, had some trouble getting the nearside bolts to line up ( cab had moved slightly) I used the bottle jack on the chassis & sill to push back inline but the bolts came out easy enough.

Bumper took about 2hrs as alot of the bolts snapped, what I did find out though is there is no impact protection on the front of these trucks, if something hits bang in the middle then there is nothing to stop it till it gets to the engine.

I drilled a hole between the existing ones on the bumper brackets & mounted them in the existing top hole on the chassis, only mounted using 1 bolt each side, as I say about the protection, if something hits then 2 bolts aint gonna help anyway.

Still to sort the brackets under the wheel arch as they are just cable tied together at the moment with heavy duty ties.

#19 by Alan G , Sun Aug 12, 2012 1:52 pm

Quote: Yoda wrote in post #14
Great stuff. So how high is it now? Pics of job complete?

Back end sits 27.5" between the wheel centre & arch, I recon the truck is about 6ft3 at highest point

#20 by Alan G , Sun Aug 12, 2012 1:54 pm

Quote: Stick wrote in post #17
Get that front end cleaned and tidied up with some hammeright/bitumen undersealer.

front end is already fecked bud, the x member the rad sits on is totaly knackered but will have to wait for repair.

#21 by stormforce , Sun Aug 12, 2012 1:55 pm

Quote: Greigy wrote in post #20
Quote: Stick wrote in post #17
Get that front end cleaned and tidied up with some hammeright/bitumen undersealer.

front end is already fecked bud, the x member the rad sits on is totaly knackered but will have to wait for repair.

Mine is the same aswell Al but that will have to wait aswell

#22 by krutly , Sun Aug 12, 2012 3:58 pm

Blimey thats about 2 years worth of work if it was my truck , and you did it in a day

#23 by Basil , Sun Aug 12, 2012 10:33 pm

I hope you didn`t run over that gate... (snigger) hey, thats a really nice looking fence!

#24 by Alan G , Sun Aug 12, 2012 10:35 pm

Quote: Basil wrote in post #23
I hope you didn`t run over that gate... (snigger) hey, thats a really nice looking fence!

you like the fence, cool, I built it all by myself

#25 by Louise , Sun Aug 12, 2012 10:48 pm

Quote: Greigy wrote in post #24
Quote: Basil wrote in post #23
I hope you didn`t run over that gate... (snigger) hey, thats a really nice looking fence!

you like the fence, cool, I built it all by myself

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