Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2005 No Comments »
I installed the rear-door ladder on the ‘Rover last night. The installation was pretty painless. They provided very large screws, but, I’ve never had good luck using self-tapping screws into sheet metal aluminum so I wanted to go with rivets instead. I found the biggest ones I could, which were perfect, and then just riveted [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 25th, 2005 No Comments »
Photos It probably won’t be said that Alex’s body shop is quick, but, let it not be said that we didn’t get the job done. With a little spurt of warm weather, we put the final trim piece and turn signal in, and now everything is back to pre-deer condition.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 9th, 2005 No Comments »
I did some tests with the winch today to make sure everything is working properly, which it is, but I also discovered that the battery that came with the truck is entirely inadequate. It’s been replaced with a new heavy-duty marine Optima battery.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 6th, 2005 No Comments »
Photos My Masterpull synthetic winch line came today. I went with 3/8″ rather than 5/16″; mostly for a little more piece of mind and hopefully for a little easier handling. I got 100 feet, the same length as the wire line superwinch gave me, and was a little worried about the thicker size fitting but [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 5th, 2005 No Comments »
Victoria is out in the cold carefully sanding, spraying adhesion promoter, and finally spraypainting the replacement trim panel for the front of the truck. In the meantime I replaced the headlight. The new bulb I put in made me realize how yellow and awful the other one was, so I had to replace that one [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 4th, 2005 No Comments »
Photos I figured it would take two hours, so of course it had to take five, and it didn’t help that it was 2° outside, but we got it all installed.