my latest ebay bargain arrived last week.
bought a 110v Hilti impact wrench.
wanted to test it so decided to change my wheels, which i wanted to do anyway as ive got some big trips coming up with lots of road miles.
worked faultlessly.
just need some impact sockets now.
thinking of selling the other tyres, while theyve still got some life left in them.
theres a guy selling an almost new set of 35" simex's, and hes only 20 mins up the road from me. is a lot of money though.
decided my truck really needed cleaning, having not been cleaned since before Lincomb, and ive done a laning trip since then aswell.
cleaning my truck has always been hassle for me, but i think ive finally found a solution.
i cant wash it on the drive, as the mud is impossible to get out of the gravel.
if i do it in the road then the road ends up being filthy and i dont think the neighbours like that.
so normally i take it to the local car wash and end up using 3 economy washes, which totals £6. thats if im lucky, if they see on the CCTV that its a dirty 4x4 then they switch the jet wash off.
so non of these options are very good.
so yesterday i decided to take it to the Polish guys at one of the hand car washes ive seen.
they wanted £10 to jet wash it and wash it, and £15 if i wanted all the mud jet washing off from underneath.
so i took the £15 option and they did a bloody great job.
they washed underneath and they were climbing on the rock sliders and bumpers, cleaning the roof and every where. really did do an excellent job, going to take it there in future, saves me getting covered in crap!
decided to sort one of the steering bars out yesterday afternoon.
when i took it to be tracked a month or 2 ago, they said they couldnt do it because the track rod ends on the rear bar were seized.
so after wrestling to get the ball joints un done, it was off and on the bench.
plenty of WD40 and a big wrench and i got one side undone.
and other side done.
new track rod ends.
this is the milner supplied tiny steering damper, compared to a genuine one.
re-fitted the steering bar and the good second hand, genuine steering damper.
going to take it to get it tracked next saturday.
got a list of bits to do on the truck, but i dont think im going to be achieving anything today, due to far too much beer last night!
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