F100 November news

 Hot off the boat from the USA the MAR-K 1956 F100 tub is due to arrive at the depot today or tomorrow and with some luck it should be here by next week. Can't wait to see it and put the thing together! It has been a slower month this November and I haven't been hitting the truck quite as intensely as before. Mind you, a lot of the work has been done, and now there are just numerous "little things" to sort out.

Disappointingly, just discovered David McDog must have stolen my headlight buckets as well as my step plates for the truck. Incredibly, this low grade c*** still has a photo of my truck on his Facebook business website. I just cannot find them anywhere, and they were expensive items as well. Costing me over $300 for the pair. I don't know how scumbags like him sleep at night. 

I am going to spend more time on the blog page and less on YouTube videos as I tend to see these videos as pretentious and presumptuous and self indulgent. Let's face it, I just cannot compete with girls doing yoga stretches in skin tight shorts. Imagine me in a...no, no...we are NOT going there!  

So, I think I will just stick to the blog. Safer that way, and on the rare occasion I feel the urge to create a video, I'll let you know about it. 

A trick for young players with Jag front ends. All is not what it seems when it comes to tie rod ends. How do I know this? Trust me. The term "third time lucky" is very apt. 

The threaded rod end of the tie rod end has apparently more than one size. There appears to be two different sizes and stupid me, I ordered two of the same size thinking they were different. The third one I got right. I have the fatter rod and it takes part number JLM9726 

I picked the right ones up from Jagdaim on Ebay for around $35. 

Fortunately, I was able to return the old ones even though they had been sitting in my box for the past twelve months unbeknown that they would not fit. After a bit of grumbling, they accepted the returns.

On a related note, I was planning on hooking up the front stabiliser bar and unfortunately, the Nolathane bushings were way too large. I ended up using a hacksaw and gently trimmed them. 

When I went to fit them up discovered one of the shackle things was missing. That is a fairly common thing that happens around here, but try as I might, I couldm't find the rotten so and so thing. So the only thing left to do was cough up for a new set.  Unfortunately, the cost of these was very prohibitive for Jag ones, but being a clever dick (that is: all arse and no class) I lucked out and bought a set of D Mount Bushes + Brackets Kit for Landcruiser 78 79 Series 99~07. 

They fit absolutely perfectly. Even the fricken holes in the shackle line up. The rubber bushes are too big, as they are made for a heavier duty bar, but I had already bought a sexy red Nolathane kit that was perfect. so I will take that as a small win.