Offroad-Express

Well, Saturday I dropped off the rear bumper, replaced 4x m/s bolts with 4x M12 8.8 on centre recovery point, protected rear tyre inflation airline with hose armour, as it was chafing on fuel tank mount, refitted bumper.......oh, I mowed the lawn too
Sunday, made "sandwich" reinforcing plates for rear of chassis out of 5mm plate, bought 2x new rated hooks, dropped rear bumper, again, drilled chassis and fitted hooks, so now I have 2x rated hooks on the rear, and one LTSA certified recovery point, rated higher than the hooks, so now I have all bases covered.
Found UNI foam filter for truck in shed after loosing it for a year, washed it, and just need to oil it and fit it, removed "sock type" UNI filter from top of snorkel, cleaned it, and now it just needs oiling, and reinstalling.
Moved numberplate off top of winch bar to the front of it, hopefully top improve airflow to radiator.

Fitted coils and tyres today, just need to order snorkel, shocks and brake hoses in the morning

well I managed to shue horn some 35"x 12.5"x15s under my new truck. went with the Goodyear Wranglers as I see Davem has also cannot complain at the price I got them for that is for sure. also tidied workshop enough to actually get a truck in it. (no samll feat I asure you) so have got some rust to cut out of my old club truck this week the going to have to go hard on the new one if I am to have it ready for Easter trip to Whirinaki.

Finally got the rolled truck to the panelbeater's, should be some time under repair, which will give me a chance to do something with the engine for it. Went out to a club on Saturday night and just happened to meet a guy who knew a guy....to cut a long story short I picked up another truck which was going to be for parts, but the only thing wrong was a cracked head and the body/running gear is straight as. I picked it up for $100 so now I've got the shortblock to fix number two truck, and at long last a number three truck for me!! All I need now is an engine for it.

Best night clubbing I've ever had, and I wasn't even drinking!