Thread: What did you do on your Perentie Today.

Tried mine out in the cold today.
looks like my repair to the heater fan control was successful

Though I seem to have put a uni joint in backwards when replacing, now having issues getting the grease gun in there.

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Originally Posted by dranoweb

I added 40 watts of solar to keep battery topped up

I looked at sticking a solar panel on the roof, however I appear to have more pressing matters to attend to.

Discovered that while for the last couple of months i've been addressing the water collecting in the footwell by the use of towels and a bucket, i've overlooked the other places it has got in, there was a puddle behind the passenger seat where the seatbelt is anchored, also the plywood in the back has got wet, and the whole tarp has succumbed to mould inside and out.

Off it came last week, and after purchasing a thoroughly useless car cover and drowning the poor thing, i've thrown a decent tarp over her and occy strapped it down.

The tarp has been removed from the garage and seeing as we have a vaguely dry day my good lady has draped it over the patio table and is currently tending to it with white vinegar and bicarb of soda. Because she's awesome.

While it's off the plan is to re-waterproof it once the mould has been taken care of. Assuming it can be. All tips greatfully received.

Greatly regretting not addressing this sooner, but hindsight is a wonderful thing. Roll on October and a move to somewhere hopefully with a carport or garage...

Couple of tips,

Water in drivers footwell is possibly drips coming down the clutch pedal.

If the bonnet fittings are loose, water will leak into the channels under the bonnet and drip off on top of the clutch master cyl - from there it leaks into the footwell.

Tarp - try looking for "landybitzau" on ebay. I got a spanking new fitted canvas fot $1800.

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Is the canopy the Robco one?

110 Canopies available from Robco

Originally Posted by Chris078

The other thing you can do to reduce the mess:
1. when draining, loosen the filter slowly until you get a bit of oil coming out the thread, then quickly tighten about 1/4 turn.
Then remove the oil sump plug. while oil is draining from the sump, slowly loosen the filter until you hear it suck air. This allows the oil in the filter to be pulled out as the oil drains out.

2. When installing the new filter, just half fill it with oil instead of completely filling it. I've found I can quickly flip over and install a half full filter before it makes a mess. You do need to be careful to make sure you don't cross thread it. Just make sure the oil light goes out within 5 seconds of starting it the first time. If it does not, you have an airlock and need to re-install the filter (apparently anyway, I've changed my oil 3 times using this method and it hasn't happened to me yet).

nice to learn about the drain bung. Never looked for one, just assumed it was mess makin' time!

The filter housing has a drain plug drain it first and no mess

7 new wolf rims in protec camo green. an almost perfect match to the existing rims.

despite the dodgy picture (taken when wet) they do dry to a nice matt finish...

more runs than a cricket pitch but it's not a show car....

now to source some 255/85 bfg's for a price that doesn't make my head explode

Hi All,

I love the Narva spot lights but after running HID Hella spots on my Series III Stage One I felt that I needed a bit more light up front on the Perentie than the Narva could supply. I found this Baja lightbar for a good price. It is a nice piece of kit. I also upgraded the globes in the Narva spots to the Narva white light halogen globes. I will connect up the lightbar this week. Looking forward to seeing if the Baja light bar is as good as the reviews state.

Regards Warrick.

Since size 86 batteries are no longer widely available at a reasonable price we fitted Caterpiller 175-4390s in the RFSV - 10mm less depth and 5mm higher - 5 year prorata warranty.

I like the 1000 CCA for these frosty mornings