Tramps Truck,

[SlimGrim]

Haha that's cool!

[Anton]

Love it - it's going on the SJ?

[Jordi]

At this rate you'll be making the Muddy Good Weekend in May.

[Tramp]

So look what happened today? I got an hour or so so I changed the zook around so I can do the drivers side rear brake hose



'The kraken awakes'

I then delved into my hazard/indicator not working issue, I quickly narrowed it down to the hazard warning switch repeated operation had it working in a fashion, but no where near reliable enough to send it for an MOT so I pulled it out and started the strip,



Full of old dried up grease, I cleaned it out and put some Vaseline in to repleace the tar I removed (Vaseline because it's non conductive)



I was feeling rather smug as it all went back together, I refitted the switch and...... It didn't work, I thought I'd try swapping the direction of the carriage (as it has long nose on one side) I reassembled it and it only latches in one direction now, i think I may have lost a spring in the disassembly process,

So does anyone have a spare hazard warning switch?

[SlimGrim]

Is it me or does the carriage look like a car :') anyway hope it all works out! Can't wait to see it on the road

[dan_2k_uk]

Mine was the same. I filled it with electrical maintenance spray and rolled the dice. Must have worked for the MOT man as it passed.

[Tramp]

Well Andy sent me a replacement switch, and we have success! Hazards and indicators both work,

So today, I got a couple of hours (same as always!) I replaced the drivers side wheel drum brake studs for new, it was easier than I thought, as I was anticipating pulling the half shaft again, but luckily I could do it all in situ,



I also replaced my drivers side rear copper brake hose, another job I wasn't looking forward to but was surprisingly easy.

[Jordi]

Shiny!

It's coming along well bud.

[Tramp]

Thanks, yeah!!! Not much left to do now,

I fitted my wheel on the back today so that's good now. I also had a look at my drivers seat, it really struggled to push backwards on its runners, I noticed that when the bolts were a tightened the rear of the runners were a little splayed indicating the runners were too far apart on the seat base, I removed the runners, opened up the bolt holes and reattached them, it was better but not perfect, so I got them off again



I noticed one of the plastic slides was damaged



Although you can't see it very well, has anyone got any spare seat runners (of this style) going spare?

[Tramp]

So today this happened



I wanted to add some braces to the chassis where the calmini kit fastens to it, I intended to do this with some suitably sized bits of tube, a by product of this means I have plenty of bits to go to the powdercoaters,

This much stuff



The bumper had a couple of holes in which I filled with weld and ground back, hopefully it will be all smooth and virtually invisible after its paint,

I had to remove the bushes from my anti roll bar which was a pain



I guess I'll be looking for some new bushings for them then!

I was also a little worried about the ahackle,



It has more bushes in and I don't really want to replace them, I'll have to see if I can blast it with the bushes in situ and paint it so I don't have to replace them, this is a shame because if I sent it away with the other bits I would probably be able to get them galvanised too,