The Firetruck, noise in the front. what to check?

[oldcourier]

Thought I'd finally start up a thread about my Little Firetruck. It's an 87 Ford Courier, which I bought about 3 years ago. It is fairly stock at the moment, but next year I will hopefully be doing a V6 conversion.

For the amount of crap the Courier's/Bravo's cop, they are suprisingly a pretty good bus.

Here she is all cleaned up just after I painted the Sunny's.


Doing a little flex, I did say little!

[oldcourier]

This is the new Towbar that I made up for it.

The box section and the plates that I had plasma cut to my template shape.


the side plates all linished and grinded into shape.


The bar notched for the towball tongue.

[oldcourier]

The side plates drilled, deburred and cleaned up.


The side plates, support bracket and gusstes all tacked to the bar.


My dodgey welding, lets hope it holds together!

[oldcourier]

The new compared to the pissy old thing that used to be on there.


Giving it a lick of paint!


underside view of the towbar all fitted.

[oldcourier]

The old bar only used two bolts on the side to hold it on. The new one also has the bottom plate and a bolt right thru the chassis as extra support.


The bar with the towball and shackles all fitted!

[oldcourier]

Here's a few pics of the what I did today. I removed the front Diff and dropped it off to get a custom front diff-locker made.

To remove the diff, the hubs and CV's had to come out first!


Look Mar, no diff!


Looking empty!!!

[oldcourier]

All the right side had to come out to give me room to take out the diff.


All the bits after I took them out.


And all the suspension hooked back up so that I can still drive it while the diff lock is getting made!

[cruza driver]

looks good old c you have been busy

[oldcourier]

Originally Posted by cruza driver

looks good old c you have been busy

Certainly have Mate! Still got plenty more to do though!!!

In a couple weeks I'll be fitting the new suspension. Hopefully that will give me an extra inch or two over how it sits now.

After that the list goes something like this.

Dual Batteries,
V6 conversion,
Steel winch bar,
Winch,
Sliders,
Snorkel,
33's,
2" Body lift,
UHF, and
Maybe a rear locker down the track.

[toy yoda]

at least its a little list!!

[4.2GUst]

looks good adam!!
ill have to post up some pics of my patrol @!

[oldcourier]

Originally Posted by toy yoda

at least its a little list!!

Hehe! Ya gotta start somewhere Ben!

Originally Posted by hj47/80series

looks good adam!!
ill have to post up some pics of my patrol @!

Cheers Michael! Yeah, get those pics up mate!

[4.2GUst]

its in the buildups !!

http://www.4wdmonthly.com.au/forum/f...-patrol-32740/

[4.2GUst]

adam where did you do most of the work ??
looks like you hae a pit !

[oldcourier]

Originally Posted by hj47/80series

adam where did you do most of the work ??
looks like you hae a pit !

Yeah mate! I used the pit at work to fit the towbar! Makes it easier than doing it your back! Wish the pit was in my shed!

[clinton l]

looking good there hillman. you'll have to come out for a drive with me!

[toy yoda]

I aquired a new 7x7 shed to go up soon gotta do some stormwater plumbing first. Gotta get a hoist somehow mad one for too long, guess im a little spoilt. OR ive got enough kids hoew long can it take them to dig me a pit!!!

[oldcourier]

Originally Posted by clinton l

looking good there hillman. you'll have to come out for a drive with me!

Yeah, for sure mate! I'll try and get to the next loveday or Morgan run. I've been out with some of the guys for a few runs to junktree already!

Originally Posted by toy yoda

OR ive got enough kids hoew long can it take them to dig me a pit!!!

hmmm, trick them!!! Tell them you are gonna put in a pool. They'll dig like champions. When it's big enough for a pit, just tell em' you changed your mind!

[toy yoda]

sold,

[steelo]

Good shots & well done so far! Are you with the Engineers or a Support group? Just complimenting your work as it looks professional.