Time to fix the truck

After driving over the washboard roads at some speed. I finally manged to break something on the truck... An exhaust mounting point. Which caused a loud bang and rattling.
I was worried all night what it was. Was it something in the gear box, the transfer case or even the drive shaft? I couldn't see anything underneath last night.
Whilst driving towards Cabo today we figured it was coming from Laura's side rather than the middle of the truck. So I pulled over and instantly found the broken mounting bracket.

Into Cabo and we found a garage who fixed it up in a few minutes. It's not the prettiest welding job, but it'll hold the exhaust off the frame and the annoying banging.
They wanted 400 pesos and didn't give me change from a 500 pesos note. But that's £23 for some of the ugliest welding I've seen.
I'd rather have it welded up for £23 than banging around on the frame of the truck.

Thankfully when I got the truck a new MOT before coming out here. They noticed one of the exhaust brackets on the back was snapped. So that was fixed before coming out. Otherwise I may have been dragging my exhaust for a while.

I've now got a tube of JB Weld in case something similar happens in the future.Leer más