Our fridge is more like a menagerie than ever before. Its full of chocolate spiders, hedgehogs, a turkey, a chicken, half a pig and a hunka beef.
Our fridge is more like a menagerie than ever before. Its full of chocolate spiders, hedgehogs, a turkey, a chicken, half a pig and a hunka beef.
MB (24th December 2020), MudRunnerTD (16th January 2021), mudski (24th December 2020), PeeBee (24th December 2020)
Success, bonnet issue resolved. The pressed channel that runs from guard to guard and holds up a host of things, was deformed where the catch sat. I ended up cutting down a metal 'square' I had and then pulled out the protractor and compared the angle of the front pressing in other spots and it was out about 2 deg!!!! So I packed up the bottom of the new catch and the bonnet closes with a light push instead of the 200mm drop as before. I am guessing the extra scoop weight as @MB mentioned has pushed the bracket downwards - happy days
Also hooked into the passenger side BOSS rear spring support - still took me 2 hrs, and my spring seat must have some minor distortion as the new unit would not seat without taking a sander to a couple of bits to linish the edges off. One hell of a lot easier to install than the drivers side. I did destroy a set of heavy spring compressors, so borrowed the neighbors and destroyed them as well - those Dobinson 300kg coils are a bastard to compress.
So, under bonnet temps with a 10mm packer at the rear of the bonnet, removed the rubber seal and 2 x 100cfm bilge fans flowing over the exhaust manifolds - what was 90 deg+, now 67 degC, happy with that result. Fans run all the time the engine is running.
Next is the 5th overdrive gears on Jan 12, then sometime later this next year the Willwood Brake upgrade.
MB (24th December 2020), NissanGQ4.2 (25th December 2020), Winnie (24th December 2020), Yeti's Beast (26th December 2020)
One more sleep then those damn, annoying lights should come down.
Hip, Hip, Horray. No pun intended MR. lol
Winner of 'Best 4 x 4 ' at the 2017 Albany Agricultural Society Inc - Town n Country Ute Muster.
Ex Telstra - 2005, 4.2 TDi ute -with pod and more fruit than a grocery shop.
MB (25th December 2020)
MB (25th December 2020)
Some 100 proof after a long day of work, yes I worked today. Nom nom.
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Avo (26th December 2020), MB (25th December 2020), TPC (29th December 2020), Yeti's Beast (26th December 2020)
First day of "some" time off ...
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2005 TD42TI
If anyone out there deserves some time truly off it’s you Hodgey, Merry Christmas & hope you have a bettterer 2021 Mate!
Thanks also on behalf of us Mexicans for keeping the power lines running for all our cold beer & prawns yesterday Legend ⚡️
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Hodge (27th December 2020), jay see (26th December 2020), mudski (27th December 2020), Rossco (27th December 2020), rusty_nail (26th December 2020)
mudnutette gave me some modelling clay for Christmas. End Result: A new avatar pic.
Not only for today, but happy for a few more weeks I reckon..
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12/97 GEE YOU
4.5lt Gas blower. Lots of mods to come.....all in good time.