Hi Sam,

I do like those tyres, very you lol.

The light mod is a good tip and as usual done exceptionally well.

Interesting point on the brakes and calipers. I too have looked at changing to vented discs but would rather understand why my rear pads wear out far quicker than. My fronts when the braking system is working spot on. Weird.

Looking forward to your next mod 'widening and rebuild arches' lol.
 
GreenHornet said:
Interesting point on the brakes and calipers. I too have looked at changing to vented discs but would rather understand why my rear pads wear out far quicker than. My fronts when the braking system is working spot on. Weird.
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Might be that they are dragging, check the wheel spins nice and easy
 
Yes i have checked the wheels spins freely. I have come to the conclusion that there is more free play in the fronts due to the sphere arrangement. I have even made up my own tool so I can accurately torque up the hub bearings, not the usual swing on an extension bar lol.

Anyhow, arches ummm I have 75mm on mine and any bigger and they would get ripped off regularly I'm sure.

Although a wide body arch kit sounds like a good project lol.
 
I do my bearings like this:

Fit hub etc and first nut, tighten first nut with box wrench as tight as possible BY HAND ONLY (don't use a bar through the box wrench)

Then fit lock washer and second nut and do up second but as tight as possible with 52mm socket and breaker bar.

This works very well for me and always seems to be just the correct torque.

Also takes a long time for any play to develop, usually it's apart again for greasing or leaks etc before there is even a whisper of any play.

Got my NSF to do actually, just a smidge of play noticed the other day, that was a good year ago perhaps more I last did that one.

Also yeah, arches are a problem. Too large they get ripped off, too small they get rubbed.

I'm gonna see how it goes but I'm thinking I'll have to kinda hollow out my flexi arches, remove the arch return part so you just have the outer part, then cut the Ali panel right back to where the screws are.

Gonna take some serious bodging to get right :p
 
Hi Mr Noisy,

As said before, lovely truck.

Hopefully our one will be similar in design...... I have some of your pics on my desktop for motivation!

I am sure you have been asked this before, but whereabouts did you get your seat covers. I seem to remember you said there were from ebay but with so much out there, just wondering exactly the type.

I also noticed you have a spacer on the front prop. Is that due to your 3" lift?

Thanks for the vision.
 
Sam - re the front calipers I supplied you with, is it your intention to change to a single line brake pipe at the calipers?
If not, I can get them changed for the twin line versions if needs be. :)
 
rathomas said:
Hi Mr Noisy,

As said before, lovely truck.

Hopefully our one will be similar in design...... I have some of your pics on my desktop for motivation!

I am sure you have been asked this before, but whereabouts did you get your seat covers. I seem to remember you said there were from ebay but with so much out there, just wondering exactly the type.

I also noticed you have a spacer on the front prop. Is that due to your 3" lift?

Thanks for the vision.
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Hello!

Wow, you are looking deep into the past!

The seat covers were from eBay but seem to be no longer available from the particular seller I got mine from.

However, these look like what you need:

http://bit.ly/1eiVvKq

Regards the prop spacer, again this has now been replaced with a longer prop shaft, but yes it was fitted because the vehicle is lifted and it has longer radius arms fitted.

Hope that helps :)
 
Mark L said:
Sam - re the front calipers I supplied you with, is it your intention to change to a single line brake pipe at the calipers?
If not, I can get them changed for the twin line versions if needs be. :)
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Absolutely no doubt about it mark, plan is to run a single hose down the radius arms and up to the chassis so yes single line is very much required!

Thanks though! :D
 
Mr Noisy said:
Absolutely no doubt about it mark, plan is to run a single hose down the radius arms and up to the chassis so yes single line is very much required!

Thanks though! :D
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This is my plan too to stop risk of snagging on anything and negating need for extended lines
 
Correctickle, seems to be the best plan for unlimited/uninterrupted travel etc :)

Dave @ Llama4x4 will be my new best friend before too long, plan is no copper brake pipe in the vehicle at all :D
 
Mr Noisy said:
Absolutely no doubt about it mark, plan is to run a single hose down the radius arms and up to the chassis so yes single line is very much required!

Thanks though! :D
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Mr Noisy said:
Correctickle, seems to be the best plan for unlimited/uninterrupted travel etc :)

Dave @ Llama4x4 will be my new best friend before too long, plan is no copper brake pipe in the vehicle at all :D
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Well that's not going to be expensive :p :D :p
 
You may be surprised but Dave estimated £150 when on the phone to Mark L, who he has made front and rear axle complete flexis for.

As such, I was happy enough around that figure.

Dearer than hard pipe granted but sexualness can normally be calculated by multiplying neatness by expensiveness! :p
 
200tdi ayre said:
This is my plan too to stop risk of snagging on anything and negating need for extended lines
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Stop steeling my bloomin ideas! Thiefs! :p :high5:

Still need to get round to doing mine!

I got the fronts down the radius arms, and back up the aframe. it came to £101
 
Mr Noisy said:
You may be surprised but Dave estimated £150 when on the phone to Mark L, who he has made front and rear axle complete flexis for.

As such, I was happy enough around that figure.

Dearer than hard pipe granted but sexualness can normally be calculated by multiplying neatness by expensiveness! :p
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That's not bad :) copper pipes are fairly expensive anyway. I'm gonna do flexi's at moving joints, around the swivels and joints to radius arms etc and then copper in between as its tough and ridgid but not quite as sexy as braided :D
 
Dave said £5 metre of braided and £5 a fitting, approx

So what you save going back into copper you pay for in fittings.

Braided all the way :D

Copper is only £9 a roll or thereabouts though so it does work out cheap stuff!
 
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