Well, my truck looks like I parked it overnight in a seedy part of town.
While I had the gear box off the winch, I pulled all the clusters out and cleaned and serviced them.
There was no way I was going to be able to get it back onto the winch drum while the bash plate was on, so I dropped that.
Then I remembered that I still needed to fit a couple of hard to reach bolts on my new grill, so spent half an hour trying to fit 2 bolts. Dam it would be nice to have access to a TA at these times.
Got that done, got the winch gear box back on, but my battery is playing up so on charge before I can unspool the winch and fit the Dynema and new hawser. (It pulled in past the roller a bit so difficult to unspool at present).
Ill seal around the various parts of the winch tomorrow with silastic, just to improve water tightness.
I might buy a Mud Stuff right hand wing safe and relocate the winch control box into that. That'll open the air flow to the intercooler/ radiator right up which is a plus.
That all and the relocation of the brake controller switch, I've had enough for the day.
Constructive though.
Easter weekend spent fitting the new gullwing doors by Frontrunner and lining the roof with Dynamat, is good to be able to start putting stuff back in. Roof lining went back in easy, and I remembered to get a bunch of the Fir-tree trim studs to replace the mangled ones I pulled out. Now to fit Dynamat and Dynaliner to the rear tub. I will complete the job with 3 packs of Dynaliner and I have covered almost every bit of white panel I can find..
You won't know your car after the Dynamat and Dynalyner. Great stuff.
Hows your sense of humour after removing the bonded windows? A mongrel of a job.
Ken
Hi Ken, yep, first one took all day of swearing, sweating and worrying about damaging the surrounding bodywork. Second one done before lunch the next day, so am getting faster at it. Thankfully I don't have to do this again (I hope,,). As for the sound insulation, even without the rear floor covered I can notice the difference, engine and tyre noise frequency seems to have dropped quite a bit, which is more pleasant than the constant whining of the MT tyres. Not sure it will ever be Range Rover quiet, just more comfortable would be nice.
I removed the wire cable and roller fair lead from my Warn Magnum 10K today and it's good to see that I reassembled the winch correctly with no gears or springs left over😉
For those who have wondered, 15kg weight saving by removing the winch wire (10kg) and heavy fairlead (5kg).
Ill refit the 30m of Dynema and solid aluminium billet hawse once they arrive.
Please excuse the state of the floor in the garage, it blew a gale here last night and there's leaves and rubbish everywhere.
Had the front and rear dashcams fitted, including a box that monitors the draw on your battery when in parking mode and will switch it off if needed.
Comes with an app for your phone and computer so which you can adjust settings remotely, view what the camera is seeing, download files etc.
They did a tidy job, the main issue being that there's not much on the rear door to hide the wire behind.
Hope I never need them
Interested to see how the units go and the adhesive holds on rough roads
From the outside I don't think 99% of people ould know they were there
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Front cam - now it's in I can decide where to put the GoVia tag
There's a 3" thick foam mattress from Clarke's Rubber that fits the 110 space almost perfectly - no modifications needed.
It folds into three sections in a few seconds for stowing too.
Seeing as the head lining is still out while I await my Dynamat Extreme to arrive to finish insulating the ceiling, I thought I'd take the opportunity to fit an interior light into the middle passenger area.
These lights are fantastic, so I now have one in each area of the cabin. Should be very bright now.
That, and purchase a Mud Stuff Heater vent diffuser. Channels the warm-hot air into the foot well, as opposed to your shin.
Now just to await the post from the Mother country.
Ken IMG_5314.jpg IMG_5315.jpg
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