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great read, love these, thanks for posting
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mgmrw
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Awesome. Pick up trucks are a massive want for me. But then I spend 1/4 - 1/2 my week in a completely shagged L200 crew-cab (16k miles on a 12 plate).
Suddenly the appeal fades. Garden ornament perhaps.
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mexicansteve
South West
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Nice work, that's looking good. So are the new leafs the same as the original ones? (bar being knackered obviously)
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BeQuietandDrive
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Happy new year chaps. I haven't updated this for ages. ^^^ Yes they are the same (standard) but it rides so much smoother. I would like to do the front ones now. Anyway, I swapped the other side and while I was down there had a fiddle with the axle breather. The little "hat" thing on the top was solid, so I whipped it out.  There was an audible hiss of air when I removed it. How the hub seals survived I don't know, but they must be made of stern stuff. The front was the same, so I cleared them out with a bit of wire. Way back I useed to work on tipper wagons we would cut the wobbly hat things off and ram a bit of rubber hose over the pipe to make remote breathers for quarry/off road work. I will get some pipe and try that on this at some point. |
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The evening before MOT I had a last minute look over it and found a metric shed load of play in the drag link ends. I made a tool out of a bed spanner and mole grips and tightened them up.   Bodge bodged, I rammed them full of grease and she flew through the test. I celebrated by ordering a new drag link. Luckily the ball joint balls were in good nick so all was good. |
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Next up, I thought a CB would be a good idea. CBs and trucks are like apples and pie. Or something. Anyway, I dug my old Midland set out and set about fitting it in the dash. I cut about the cubby hole under the radio and spent ages making it look right. Then I fitted it and the hole wasn't deep enough. Much cursing later, Mrs Generallee wandered over and said "What's this?" while pulling out the ash tray. £20 for a new cubby hole at the main stealer and the CB looks like it was designed with a HiLux ash tray in mind. Job jobbed.  |
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This is fab. Very nice indeed!
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Scruffy looking' nerf herder.
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I must have been good this year, Father Christmas brought me presents... First up the steering wheel was pretty manky, it worked and was round but wasn't nice. So Santa's Chinese elves knocked up a Momo (Nono?) styled wheel. I had a boss kicking about which I bought ages ago.  Amazingly the horn and indicator self cancelling worked first time, never had that before. I even managed got get it almost straight. |
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Somehow missed this.
Simply put.....
Love it.
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Speaking of the horn, it was a bit pathetic. It gave a mildly embarrassed "meep meep" that was barely audible with the engine running. A PIAA "super bass tone" twin set sorted that. Not overly obnoxiously loud, but a lovely tone.  |
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i remember those midlands, werent they nicknamed bleed over boxes  |
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i remember those midlands, werent they nicknamed bleed over boxes Oi! That's Tandy's finest (cheapest) I'll have you know. It isn't amazing, but I don't have to "get out" very far. I just need to get the guy in the Land-Rover in front to come back with a tow rope when I'm stuck!  I did a quick oil/filter change, and found the air filter (old one on the left) just rattling around in the housing. FFS! If you order the wrong one, why fit it? I have had the new one for ages, I ought to have changed it ages ago. Anyway, done now.  Last week on evilbay I came across a roll bar locally. I bid on it and lost, but the seller messaged me saying the buyer decided it was too far away to pick it up. So, I made a cheeky offer. More on that later... |
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So, roll over bar. I bought it not sure if I liked it, but it was cheap enough to take a chance on and punt on if I don't like it. Plus I have some spotlights I want to put somewhere... Mrs generallee, who is my guide in all things aesthetic, and has a range from "What a knob, why would anyone think that looks good?" to "That ought to look terrible but somehow manages to pull it off" gave it her once over. "I don't hate it." Here it is plonked in rough place, it will need the tonneu amending to fit around it, I haven't figured out how yet. I'm not sure I like it, I might punt it on and wait for something nicer, but it's growing on me.  It sits a bit high maybe? It will sit down an inch or so when I remove the manky bolts in the bottom plates and sit it down properly. I'll have a google and see if thay all do that. I'm not sure about the flanges where the rear legs bolt on. They might look better if I round the corners off a bit. Better still cut the flanges off and weld them on.  Anyway, it was drizzling and we were off out so I took it apart and will sit on it a bit. I do like it, just not sure I like it enough to start drilling holes in the bed. |
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nigxl
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Cool truck
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dazcapri
North East
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Not sure about the roll bar but the trucks cool
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Mk3 Capri LS
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Carlosfandango.
Part of things
Now with added Suffix B Range Rover classic - another bucket list car acquired.
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Very cool truck generallee and you are making some nice improvements. I'm with you on the roll bar, not sure if I like it. There's a lad that goes to a local cars and coffee here in Dublin and has a minter one of these. Definitely on the bucket list for me. Keep up the good work man, looking great! CFD |
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1967 Porsche 912
1968 Fiat 124 Spider
1973 Range Rover Suffix B
1993 Series one Discovery 200TDI
1997 Jaguar XJ6 3.2 sport
2001 P38 Range Rover 2.5 TD
Brace of Triumph bikes
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roll bar looks ok in a back to the future check out that four by four Someday, Jennifer. Someday. Wouldn't it be great to take that truck up to the lake ? kind of way
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^^^That is what I was thinking. I have some yellow KC lamp covers and everything.
Thanks for the kind words chaps.
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westycapri
Club Retro Rides Member
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@westycapri
Club Retro Rides Member 105
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This is great love the back to the future vibe. There's a couple of vids on YouTube of the back to the future truck that I stumbled along the other day.
I used to use one at work at a summer job on a farm that was exactly the same. It was a good truck compared to the other heaps (it was road worthy) until the engine seized on me and it died. can't remember the reason but as was the way with vehicles on the farm it probably was run without water or oil after a leak. Great memories of that job and having fun in landrover, hiluxs and tractors!
Like the roll bar reckon it would be better a bit lower as you said and also with some spots
Cheers
Josh
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1984 Ford Capri 2.0s
1978 Ford Transit Autosleeper
1975 Landrover Series 111 Dormobile
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