Thread: Mudhog get's closer to going back on the Road!!

I was hoping that one of the Guy's with a Comp truck might have something like this on there trucks and be able to help .

Mudhog has been of the road for two years with some repair work needed.

Here's a list of the things I've done:

New front body mounts we made( old ones had a 60mm rust hole in them)
New rear body mount cross member( the one the back door hinges on)
New sills both sides made by a friend( he own's a truck body building company)
Removed the Lpg plumbing and regulator( including a large 85ltr tank)
Replaced the front brake calipers (1 pistons seized on each side)
Fitted new brake pads and bleed the system
Fitted a 50mm body lift ( From Rovertym in the USA- I would make my own next time!!!)
Replaced both doors with second hand ones ( old doors had rust around the hinges)
Replace the rear lower tailgate with a second hand one ( old one was full of rust)
Fitted rubber flares and cut more away in the guards to fit the 35 inch Silverstone MT-117 Xtremes.( replaced the LRA Fibreglass ones as I kept breaking them!!)
Rebuilt the front passenger side corner after hitting a tree on a club run( this was the final damage that started the repairs)
Replaced rear passenger side corner panel.( had been damaged at sometime)
Replaced the front seat's with second hand one's( I have no back seat)
Rewired the rear lights and tided up the wire at the same time.
I had to panel beat the floor around the hand brake, with the 50mm lift this was the easiest way to get the hand brake handle sitting in the right place.
Low and High lever needs to be lengthened- this didn't come in the kit!!

I'm going to be going for a WOF ( Warrant of Fitness over here) tomorrow, so I'm checking over everything that might be a problem!!!

Thing's still to do once I have a WOF:

Make up rock sliders
Remake the front and rear bumpers
Fit my winch (mid mounted Twin motor job!!)
Work out what sort of rollcage I need
Make up inner door panels and change the inside handles to something smaller(looking at using Disco 1 inside door handles)
Get the truck painted as it is 3 different colours

It will be Great to be able to go out in the Hog again, my almost 3 year old daughter can't wait. I told here that I couldn't drive Mudhog because he didn't have a WOF and she has been reminding me constantly about the fact!!

Don't you just love Kid's

She now call's Mudhog her and Dad's truck!!

Cheers
Brett

Well I took my daughter Jenifer out in Mudhog for her first trip in him and Mudhog's first club run in 2yr's.

We had an early start Sunday morning and Jenifer was really excited about our Mudhog adventure with the Landrover Club. It was a club working bee at a ARC farm up South Head.

Fulled up the tank and headed off to the meeting point, I could smell petrol but thought it was because of the full tank.

We headed of for South Head and I could still smell that petrol, but because I was following another petrol truck I didn't worry about the smell.

Half way up to the farm a car behind me started to flash there lights at us and I pulled over and stopped straight away. The couple (on there way to golf) said I had petrol pouring out the gas cap when we went around corners and up hills. I checked the cap and it was down, but it was not sealing and had a 1 to 2mm gap!!!! Bugger

We were just about at the farm and about a quarter of a tank was gone. I had swoped filler caps from my spare truck and had never checked to see if it sealed properly. I remember adjusting the original cap on Mudhog but wasn't sure if this one could be adjusted. Once we got to the camp site I pulled the rubber seal of and found that you could adjust the pressure on it and 2 minutes later it was fixed

We had a great day and Jenifer loved being around the other trucks.

Cheers
Brett