'SWAMPY' MY 02 LWB 3.0 D4D GX Colorado

[sae70]

That's a good way of doing it Jon It's certainly not what my m8 did, but he did seem surprised that it didn't work as he thought it should have I'll pass on your little nougat of info to him, I'm sure he'll be very interested

 

[sae70]

I picked the sliders and the recovery point up from the painters today



They've now been Shortened and had gussets added, Blasted, Galvanized, T-Washed, Primed and Painted Should be good for at least a couple of years I hope

I decided to leave the winch tray in Galv for now






Just need to find some time to start fitting all of this lot back on now

 

[sae70]

Been doing some more towards getting the axle ready to take to Jon on Sunday

This is the half shaft tube and inside, along the bottom of the tube was a congealed line of Lincomb Sand and Gear Oil along its entire length that had almost set solid!!!

 

[sae70]

Feel as though I'm starting to make some progress

I managed to get my new rear compartment heater slider nob fitted this evening

Before


After

 

[Chris Green90]

Leaps and bounds that one matey. Lol

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[sae70]

It wasn't as easy as it may appear in the photo you know Oh no The little self seal bag that the nob came in was very fiddly to open and then I had to decide what way up the nob looked best Not a five minute job I'll have you know

 

[sae70]

OK, OK I did do more I took another photo of one of the rock sliders, so I could do a before and after comparison

 

[sae70]

I did do some real work

I put the ARB front locker/carrier back together using the new parts that Ben sent me from Australia



I replaced the PTFE bushings at either side of the carrier. If I had not had such access to spare parts I would have probably no bothered replacing these, but as the originals looked like they had been damaged by the Lincomb sand I got some replacements.

































And then the same thing on the other side












Side gear and shim back in



Then all of the planetary gears and pins
















Then dropped the diff locking mechanism back on






Then the other side gear and shim















A new hard seal This is the bit that pushes the diff locking mechanism into the back of one of the side gears and locks the diff






Cover plate back on



And the ring gear






There you have it, one ARB RD90 7.5" Toyota IFS locker / carrier

I didn't really re-fit the ring gear as I have no thread lock, it was just for the photos

 

[Trevor]

Nice photos Steve, good progress. Mind you I'm totally impressed with the sliders and how the powder coating treatment converted cardboard gussets into steel

 

[sae70]

Nice photos Steve, good progress.

Thank you

Mind you I'm totally impressed with the sliders and how the powder coating treatment converted cardboard gussets into steel

 

[sae70]

Finished cleaning up all the front axle parts ready to take to Jon tmrz






Look at these score marks inside the axle housing









There's definitely some history with this front axle! I know pretty much what happened to it having spoken to Geordie Paul on the phone for some time about the history of the truck, but what on earth caused those score marks?! Nothing that's inside the axle now that's for sure

 

[sae70]

I also fitted all the new trim clips to the flappy molding



Does anyone know why two of the clips are yellow ones I've fitted a number of these clips over the years and just can't work out why two of the clips are yellow with a slightly different base, but once fitted look the same as the white ones.



Also fitted the rock sliders



The new headlamp washer jet



And boshed the Asfir bash plate flat again

 

[sae70]

Made some more progress on Swampy and got the winch tray, winch, Asfir bash plate bar and recovery hooks re-fitted















Although the bumper that I'd spent a whole day trimming, re-fitting, trimming, re-fitting, trimming, re-fitting, trimming, re-fitting, trimming and re-fitting till I had the best fit and look now doesn't fit I did all of the original trimming and re-fitting with only the winch tray fitted, but now the winch is fitted it needs a little more trimming Luckily it only needs a little trimming from off of the inside of the bumper and will not effect how it looks

 

[chadr]

That truck already looked pretty good to begin with, but you are really making it ace.

 

[sae70]

That truck already looked pretty good to begin with........

Your not wrong there, it was already a great looking truck for sure

.....but you are really making it ace.

Thank you I wish it was less rainy and cold and dark though as I'd like to get it cracked on a bit Did manage to get some dash electrics sorted out today though, new re-routed ipad and iphone charger leads and relocated the hazard lights switch from under the CB mic

 

[sae70]

I managed to finish getting that front bumper trimmed up this evening and re-fitted Another job crossed off the list

 

[AndyCook]

Nice neat finish

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[sae70]

Nice neat finish

Cheers Andy

 

[sae70]

I used the truck today to take the staging that our kids school used for their Christmas production of 'Peace Child' back to the school that we borrowed it all from. I actually used the truck to pick it all up a couple of weeks ago, but didn't take any photos that time. I almost got stuck in the farmers field with all the sheep at my kids school. They go to a little village church school on the outskirts of town next to the church overlooking fields and woodland. The best way to access the back of the school where the hall is is through the farmers field at the back. I had her in low range with the rear wheels locked and only just got away with it!!! Missing that front axle

 

[sae70]

I had this turn up in the post today It's a 2W 31mm LED festoon lamp for the center dome light I ordered it four weeks ago when upgrading all of my interior lighting to LED and was the greatest output 31mm festoon I could find at the time, but it was from Hong Kong!!! I took a punt and paid my £6.99 thinking if it doesn't turn up it's not the end of the world and to be honest had forgotten about it till I opened the pack this morning I had in the interim bought a 1W one from a UK supplier at the same time that I'd fitted.



1W LED on the left and 2W LED on the right.


1W LED with the diffuser fitted.


1W LED without the diffuser fitted.


2W LED with the diffuser fitted.


2W LED without the diffuser fitted.


Light output that the 2W LED gives.


It's always difficult to tell from a photo how well an LED is working, but the 2W LED is a vast improvement over the 1W one and I'm very happy with the result