As mentioned on another thread The Jeeperific has been replaced by Henry, a 2020 PX3 Ranger XL to be precise, a poverty pack with 81,000km on the clock and its just magic to drive and work on, today is Day 6 so its been modified and bits pulled off to have a look, given a full service, new tyres and today a Tow Bar was fitted, truly a pleasure to work on, very few annoying sensors and other rubbish to cover people who can't drive ......................
It was a clean skin rig, no tow bar and the only extra a CB and a hard lid on the tub, first up was a service, the gods were smiling and I landed the specials so $200 covered it, of course it said in the book it had been serviced about 150 odd kms ago, yet the air, fuel and oil filters looked more like 15,000km ago following the earlier stamp, notice the difference and it would have been a sad affair if Id let it go longer ............ Ford says 15K km for a service, it will get 10K km and the tranny will soon get done, 150K or 200K km is just BS in the extreme, get done in a couple of weeks then every 40K, this one will get a Thermo valve changed so it won't cook.....
New rubber yesterday and I picked up a tow bar today and spent all afternoon fitting it and wiring it up, proved the brain is still functioning as even though I knew by looking underneath the bumper had to come off and be adjusted nothing in the instructions but you expect these things, really needed 2 people to do it but my mates older than me so I just had to use cunning, probably quicker anyway ........
Wiring was so easy, it would want to be for the price of the plug and play harness and being a poverty pack no annoying computer resetting rubbish ............. and it all worked first go............................
Next up is run the fridge power cable and power for the brake controller along with a short run to the box under the seat to connect up to tow plug...... Steps, Mirrors and a Scangauge are in the mail so more shed fun next week............ might even get to hook up Big Mal to see how it all sits, I hope good as I don't want to do the springs.
Henry is evolving into a magic tow rig ...........................
PS: in my service check over , I found some bugga had swapped out the spare and replaced it with a unused earlier version, dated 2012, mongrels so at the tyre change got the best mangy one fitted as a spare also someone had chewed the wheel nuts, probably used a 21mm socket when should have been 19mm, I manage dto reshape them so I could replace with new ones ............ never take anything for granted always check for your self and save a surprise....
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It was a clean skin rig, no tow bar and the only extra a CB and a hard lid on the tub, first up was a service, the gods were smiling and I landed the specials so $200 covered it, of course it said in the book it had been serviced about 150 odd kms ago, yet the air, fuel and oil filters looked more like 15,000km ago following the earlier stamp, notice the difference and it would have been a sad affair if Id let it go longer ............ Ford says 15K km for a service, it will get 10K km and the tranny will soon get done, 150K or 200K km is just BS in the extreme, get done in a couple of weeks then every 40K, this one will get a Thermo valve changed so it won't cook.....
New rubber yesterday and I picked up a tow bar today and spent all afternoon fitting it and wiring it up, proved the brain is still functioning as even though I knew by looking underneath the bumper had to come off and be adjusted nothing in the instructions but you expect these things, really needed 2 people to do it but my mates older than me so I just had to use cunning, probably quicker anyway ........
Wiring was so easy, it would want to be for the price of the plug and play harness and being a poverty pack no annoying computer resetting rubbish ............. and it all worked first go............................
Next up is run the fridge power cable and power for the brake controller along with a short run to the box under the seat to connect up to tow plug...... Steps, Mirrors and a Scangauge are in the mail so more shed fun next week............ might even get to hook up Big Mal to see how it all sits, I hope good as I don't want to do the springs.
Henry is evolving into a magic tow rig ...........................
PS: in my service check over , I found some bugga had swapped out the spare and replaced it with a unused earlier version, dated 2012, mongrels so at the tyre change got the best mangy one fitted as a spare also someone had chewed the wheel nuts, probably used a 21mm socket when should have been 19mm, I manage dto reshape them so I could replace with new ones ............ never take anything for granted always check for your self and save a surprise....
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