Well been doing a few bits n bobs to the truck since last update...
Its now had New ball joints, new inner & outer track rod ends and new idler arms both sides.
As per the last update, myself and dean had replaced the shoes, drums & springs within the rear brakes but as most of you will already now they were binding / grabbing on one side and also rubbing constantly on the other.
Well over the past couple of weeks (since hastings!) me / dean have replaced the slave cyclinders in the rear drums and once i had changed the whole of the brake fluid (it was trully 'orrible) all the rear and front brakes are working spot on now
- no binding / snatching or rubbing at all
Whilst under the truck I investigated the noise coming from the rear diff - well to start with the fluid in there was like treacle - black and gooey....
then i found a load of swarf on the magnet as well, not looking good....
After completly cleaning the diff cover, magnet, gears and bottom of the diff i found that some of the teeth on the 4 little gears are worn / missing bits - the main drive one is fine .... checked on a few specialist van forums and ideally need replacing but will be ok to use so long as good quality heavy oil put back in - which i have since done and i must say it druives fine, very very little noise now so all looks good
Oh yeah and i have now (hopefulyl) done a long term / medium term repair on teh exhaust join (it kept coming apart after the hastings trip!) - it now has fire engine grade joiners and bonding cement on it
(the joys of a father in law thats a fire engine mechanic!)
So all back on the road, and 99% of problems sorted - just need to change the coil over and clean the plugs up to finally get rid of that damned misfire!!!
