Suspension and fluids done

[AlexD333]

Big thanks to solarman for helping me sort out all my diff and box fluids today aswell as sorting out the spring spacers and suspension lift. I learnt a great deal of information and watching rick work his magic when normal procedures just dont work was interesting! We also discovered leaking veg oil from the injector leak off hoses. As a spacer thing on my clutch pedal was also knackered (found whilst changing the master cylinder) rock managed to fabricate one out of something we found :thumb2

All in all a great day! Thanks again rick :cool:

[AlexD333]

A few fluids

[AlexD333]

Some fire to ease off some of those pesky bolts

[AlexD333]

The plastic thing we found, not sure what it's from?

[AlexD333]

Internal shape

[AlexD333]

After some she nipping!!! :naughty

[solarman216]

was getting worried that you had not got home, about to ring you to find out, how did the clutch perform? Rick

[AlexD333]

Lifted the rear with a block of wood and a jack :cool:

Taking time to line it up right and make sure it didn't kick out

[AlexD333]

Make sure the spacer fits in the spring

[AlexD333]

I'm not a light guy but I was hanging on this bar and rick still had to crowbar the spring with spacer in :doh

[AlexD333]

How we chose to sit the spacer

[AlexD333]

Still jacked up :lol if only

[AlexD333]

After the right hand side was fitted. Good clearance!!

[AlexD333]

On the new 2.7 facelift molds, the exhaust was in the way to jack up on the left, so rick with his quick thinking came up with this idea :thumbs

[AlexD333]

was getting worried that you had not got home, about to ring you to find out, how did the clutch perform? Rick

Clutch was all ok actually, I think it may have always been this way just more evident with tinkering

[solarman216]

just looking at the pics, realised we did not refit your splash guard, it is still on the the ground where we put it, :doh , Rick

[Lazy-Ferret]

Big thanks to solarman for helping me sort out all my diff and box fluids today aswell as sorting out the spring spacers and suspension lift. I learnt a great deal of information and watching rick work his magic when normal procedures just dont work was interesting! We also discovered leaking veg oil from the injector leak off hoses. As a spacer thing on my clutch pedal was also knackered (found whilst changing the master cylinder) rock managed to fabricate one out of something we found :thumb2

All in all a great day! Thanks again rick :cool:

That bit made me grin, I thought I was pretty ingenious at doing work arounds, but Rick is in a different league.

Truck looks good.

Did you lift the front as well, if so, did you just wind the torsion bars up. Once you have run it for a bit on the lift, I would be interested in your thoughts on how it feels and handles on the road, oh and a link to those lifters.

[AlexD333]

That bit made me grin, I thought I was pretty ingenious at doing work arounds, but Rick is in a different league.

Truck looks good.

Did you lift the front as well, if so, did you just wind the torsion bars up. Once you have run it for a bit on the lift, I would be interested in your thoughts on how it feels and handles on the road, oh and a link to those lifters.

Yes I was surprised just how good he was with a spanner :lol you can see wood jacking up the truck too. Yes we did lift the front, pretty much as far as it will go without removing something from its splines and setting lower (time was tight)

The drive home was interesting, pitch black roads full of occasional deep water, I may have hit a few quite hard :augie

Motorway work she feels great, still threw her into some corners and all is ok.
Will snap some pics when I can get her in the light.

Might wanna loose the side steps too.

[AlexD333]

Here is the link for the company, in the end they actually knocked a fiver off for me? Dunno why

I said i would spread the news on e forum here.

I went for the 50mm, the 75 would be bonkers (you'd never get it in)

http://www.wellspacedout.co.uk/4x4-rock-and-tree-slides

[AlexD333]

just looking at the pics, realised we did not refit your splash guard, it is still on the the ground where we put it, :doh , Rick

Damn I need that, are the bolts still there?

Mabye I could organise courier? Do you have a printer :nenau

[R1cho]

:cool: nice work, them spacers would have gone in a lot easier if you had have took the arb off the rear and dropped the wheel off, the hub would have gone straight down to the floor no messing and springs would have just slid back in with out having to play seesaw on the metal pole :lol

[Banshee]

:cool: nice work, them spacers would have gone in a lot easier if you had have took the arb off the rear and dropped the wheel off, the hub would have gone straight down to the floor no messing and springs would have just slid back in with out having to play seesaw on the metal pole :lol

:thumb2 and don't refit :sly

[solarman216]

Damn I need that, are the bolts still there?

Mabye I could organise courier? Do you have a printer :nenau

yes all still here, and I have a printer, what you thinking? Rick

[solarman216]

:cool: nice work, them spacers would have gone in a lot easier if you had have took the arb off the rear and dropped the wheel off, the hub would have gone straight down to the floor no messing and springs would have just slid back in with out having to play seesaw on the metal pole :lol

You are right, had my high lift workshop trolley jack been working I would have simply jacked the entire rear up high and sat the chassis on my tall axle stands and as you say dropped the axle down, but doing it with the baby jacks threw my thought process, Rick

[AlexD333]

yes all still here, and I have a printer, what you thinking? Rick

Possible organising courier if you could print off the ticket? No rush

[zippy656]

All looking good there boys

[davenclaire]

so did a new master cylinder fixs your clutch problems ? how bad was the leak once rick took the old one out

[solarman216]

Possible organising courier if you could print off the ticket? No rush

OK no problems, Rick

[solarman216]

so did a new master cylinder fixs your clutch problems ? how bad was the leak once rick took the old one out

unfortunately I did not drive or test the clutch before removing the master cyl which was clearly leaking to the inside of the car, but was not really happy with the job after fitting, on pushing pedal down and meeting pressure and then pumping gently up and down the pedal was slowly dropping to the floor, so I expected the slave to be leaking, but no all dry and no other leaks evident or fluid level drop, so only other cause can be master cyl but it is new? so have to assume new one not good, shame I could not find a spare that is in my barn, would have swapped it to prove the issue, as it is cannot say one way or the other Rick

[davenclaire]

unfortunately I did not drive or test the clutch before removing the master cyl which was clearly leaking to the inside of the car, but was not really happy with the job after fitting, on pushing pedal down and meeting pressure and then pumping gently up and down the pedal was slowly dropping to the floor, so I expected the slave to be leaking, but no all dry and no other leaks evident or fluid level drop, so only other cause can be master cyl but it is new? so have to assume new one not good, shame I could not find a spare that is in my barn, would have swapped it to prove the issue, as it is cannot say one way or the other Rick

thats very especially as the damper pipe has been blanked off already

[exosteve]

rick you are deffo THE man!:thumbs

alex you are a lucky man having rick local and as a friend.And the 486 posts you have contributed have all been good and interesting to the members.

so can exeed 500 posts per month before I come bump you off:lol

glad your so into your terry mate:thumbs

[AlexD333]

rick you are deffo THE man!:thumbs

alex you are a lucky man having rick local and as a friend.And the 486 posts you have contributed have all been good and interesting to the members.

so can exeed 500 posts per month before I come bump you off:lol

glad your so into your terry mate:thumbs


Local.... Hah.... :doh

I'm glad my posts have entertained (or words to that effect) :lol

And yeah i love my terry, yes she needs some tlc but she doesn't stop running.

She is spluttering bad on cold mornings engine misfiring and light white smoke until she warms for 4/5 mins i am running on pure veg tho. Also can't be filter as its fine once it gets warm? Also as rick discovered she's leaking from injector leak off hoses. :doh easy fix tho. Got the hose delivered at work today for 2.50 :thumb2 inter cooler off and that's it.

[R1cho]

good luck with the one near the front of the engine :roflol:

[Sweety]

good luck with the one near the front of the engine :roflol:

The front one from injector 1 to 2 is easy mate:thumb2 but the one from injector 1 back to the pump now that's fun to do just make sure there are no young kids or old people around whilst you do it as you'll prob end up swearing like a goodun:lol:lol:augie saying that using a small pair of vice grips on the hose clip made the job a lot easier which I could have said the same about the pipes between the injectors as the clips smashed & the old pipe tore off flush on the nipples so out came the stanle:py knife & cable ties

[AlexD333]

The front one from injector 1 to 2 is easy mate:thumb2 but the one from injector 1 back to the pump now that's fun to do just make sure there are no young kids or old people around whilst you do it as you'll prob end up swearing like a goodun:lol:lol:augie saying that using a small pair of vice grips on the hose clip made the job a lot easier which I could have said the same about the pipes between the injectors as the clips smashed & the old pipe tore off flush on the nipples so out came the stanle:py knife & cable ties

Ut oh. I got told there are 5 pipes? One foot long pipe and 4 shortish ones, 4 inches or so?

[R1cho]

Ut oh. I got told there are 5 pipes? One foot long pipe and 4 shortish ones, 4 inches or so?

Yep thats right but the one that goes to the ip is a barsteward to get to. You need exra long double jointed fingers and a double jointed wrist :lol :lol

[davenclaire]

Yep thats right but the one that goes to the ip is a barsteward to get to. You need exra long double jointed fingers and a double jointed wrist :lol :lol

just unbolt and move the power steering pump out of the way sooooo much easier

[R1cho]

just unbolt and move the power steering pump out of the way sooooo much easier

you are supposed to let him figure these fun facts out on his own :lol

[AlexD333]

you are supposed to let him figure these fun facts out on his own :lol

:eek::eek::eek:

5 weeka later...

Oh and btw my clutch is fully sorted. Jag bled the crap out of it. Wuite a bit of air was trapped. Never felt so good with ricks fixing and jags bleeding! !! :D

[Sweety]

just unbolt and move the power steering pump out of the way sooooo much easier

Never thought of that:doh saying that the way I did it this time it was pretty quick & taking the pump off might have made the job longer to do. Next time they go i'm thinking of fitting some silicon hose:rolleyes: