hilux
Fathers Day Weekend
Last week end Zoe and myself went for a drive into the Yarra Valley to put some miles onto my new motor and run it in. We drove out to Launching place and made a left hand turn into Old Don Road. This in itself was a nice little drive. We followed the road all the way through from bitumen to an old dusty dirt road. There was some nice big houses out that way, making you wish that you too had a property out there. After getting through the windy bit we found ourselves a stones throw from Healesville and on this end of the journey we saw a sign
Bad Month
Well what can I say? I’m really hoping that September is a better month. The first thing to go wrong was my ‘Million Dollar Hilux’; The motor blow up. After a week of cursing and swearing I had it booked in to be rebuilt. On my home from dropping off Hilux I dropped my phone and the screen smashed, so here I still am using a 1940’s mobile phone (monochrome screen). Then to top matters off my PC crashed on me and I lost everything and a lot of it wasn’t backed up. Guess I only have myself to blame there. Now nearing the end of August things are starting to look up again, I have the Hilux back, my PC is up and running again and now just waiting on Optus to give me my phone back. Once I get the phone back and hopefully nothing has been deleted off it, I’ll put up the photo of my wrecked motor.
Under the Dash
Has anyone else replaced a speedo cable on a Hilux? I have and its not exactly easy. Infact I think its one of the trickiest do it myself missions. The speedo cable runs from behind the dashboard to out down under your car into the gearbox. So you have to pull the whole dash out which can be a bit scary, and in my case that included the center console where your radio and ash tray is as well, just to find out that even though the whole lot is in pieces you still have to graze your arm by putting it between the disassembled parts to disconnect the cable. Then you have to follow the cable out to the engine bay which means putting your hands between the engine and the firewall to pull the cable out from the clips and then with a spanner undo the thread from the gearbox. Ok sounds simplish, but once I got it back together with the new cable in the speedo is out, by about 20 kms (under) and for the life of me can’t figure out why. So if anyone with a hilux or has changed a hilux speedo cable and knows what they are doing happens to stumble across this post would be great to hear what I have done wrong!
