What did you do with your Range Rover today

[kermit_rr]

Packed myself up for my overnighter holiday.. put in all the tools and fluid etc i think i might need, only i haven't got room for my tent!! Or sleeping bag!! Or any food!!

 

[MacMan6107]

Mate of mine showed us his sockets and torque wrench from his works many years ago. He worked at a firm that did control valves and stuff for oil and nuclear installations, and production line automation equipment. Their biggest socket was about 8 inches, I think a 2" square drive, the wrench used was rated to just over 400lb/ft and was used with a 4:1 gearing multiplier as it had to be tightened to 1600lb/ft!

Should be ok for spark plugs and oil filters then

Might not be enough. May need to go bigger, much bigger.

 

[MacMan6107]

Packed myself up for my overnighter holiday.. put in all the tools and fluid etc i think i might need, only i haven't got room for my tent!! Or sleeping bag!! Or any food!!

That's why I have a caravan. No not for us, for all the tools and spares I need to take. We sleep in a 2 man tent.........well, the dog sleeps in the tent, we sleep in the car.

 

[gold rover]

Just fixed the CD player, yet again. One of the CD slides had stuck. Tried everything to,get it to go back to right place, tweezers, screwdrivers, etc. Then tried playing around with fuses. Nothing. Decided to take all CD and radio related fuses out, switch all power off, then back in and power on.
Tada! It moved. However, unit wouldn't eject I faffed and I fuffed, and I faffed again. Nothing! Motor was whirring but no joy. During all of this I was also messing with cassette as it kept throwing up an error.
So , I gave the CD unit a break whilst I went to deal with the tape. 4 or 5 rejections later , suddenly the tape is working. Yaaay.
Back to the CD unit. I press eject and out it comes like it had never refused to, glaring at me balefully.
I now have a working CD unit and tape player. These vehicles are buggers

 

[kermit_rr]

Just fixed the CD player, yet again. One of the CD slides had stuck. Tried everything to,get it to go back to right place, tweezers, screwdrivers, etc. Then tried playing around with fuses. Nothing. Decided to take all CD and radio related fuses out, switch all power off, then back in and power on.
Tada! It moved. However, unit wouldn't eject I faffed and I fuffed, and I faffed again. Nothing! Motor was whirring but no joy. During all of this I was also messing with cassette as it kept throwing up an error.
So , I gave the CD unit a break whilst I went to deal with the tape. 4 or 5 rejections later , suddenly the tape is working. Yaaay.
Back to the CD unit. I press eject and out it comes like it had never refused to, glaring at me balefully.
I now have a working CD unit and tape player. These vehicles are buggers

Now you just need a museum to lend you some sea-dee's and some 'tape'

 

[Rubberknees]

Just fixed the CD player, yet again. One of the CD slides had stuck. Tried everything to,get it to go back to right place, tweezers, screwdrivers, etc. Then tried playing around with fuses. Nothing. Decided to take all CD and radio related fuses out, switch all power off, then back in and power on.
Tada! It moved. However, unit wouldn't eject I faffed and I fuffed, and I faffed again. Nothing! Motor was whirring but no joy. During all of this I was also messing with cassette as it kept throwing up an error.
So , I gave the CD unit a break whilst I went to deal with the tape. 4 or 5 rejections later , suddenly the tape is working. Yaaay.
Back to the CD unit. I press eject and out it comes like it had never refused to, glaring at me balefully.
I now have a working CD unit and tape player. These vehicles are buggers

My cd cartridge often sticks, probably from lack of use, but do find with gentle tap with a soft hammer as pressing button works well

 

[Scotiawhiskers]

CD drawers (if like a PC one) should have a tiny hole on / near the drawer which releases a latch and forces eject if you shove a stiff length of wire in. But not sure ones which slide a disc in and out work the same.

 

[Rubberknees]

CD drawers (if like a PC one) should have a tiny hole on / near the drawer which releases a latch and forces eject if you shove a stiff length of wire in. But not sure ones which slide a disc in and out work the same.

Awe come on we're talking Land Rover here

 

[RangeRoller dt]

I I do need to get a pneumatic grease gun.

Shave the end of the connector down for P38 makes it 3x easier

Packed myself up for my overnighter holiday.. put in all the tools and fluid etc i think i might need, only i haven't got room for my tent!! Or sleeping bag!! Or any food!!

Lived in mine for bit. Is plenty room once you get organised. Didn’t have tent either put the double seats down and slide liner up.

Sills been rubbed down, red leaded and painted black. Light unit got fixed in true RR fashion - turned up with the threat of a new bulb and it miraculously started working again! Can’t complain really have spare bulb now?
So I’m all done just have to book In for MOT, cut the garden fence down and away to go

 

[kermit_rr]

Shave the end of the connector down for P38 makes it 3x easier


Lived in mine for bit. Is plenty room once you get organised. Didn’t have tent either put the double seats down and slide liner up.

Sills been rubbed down, red leaded and painted black. Light unit got fixed in true RR fashion - turned up with the threat of a new bulb and it miraculously started working again! Can’t complain really have spare bulb now?
So I’m all done just have to book In for MOT, cut the garden fence down and away to go

My LPG tank is across the boot behind the seats.. not a huge issue until you do the seats down

 

[gold rover]

Now you just need a museum to lend you some sea-dee's and some 'tape'

I haz hundreds of both

 

[gold rover]

My cd cartridge often sticks, probably from lack of use, but do find with gentle tap with a soft hammer as pressing button works well

I was cursing the designer upside down. They have to be some special kind of idiot, to put a CD multi-changer in the glove compartment, unable to be removed unless you take the dash out. Who, the $&%*, thought that was clever!

 

[gold rover]

Awe come on we're talking Land Rover here

Not just Land Rover but L322.
If I remember I will check tomorrow, but I don't expect to see any such thing for a CD cassette unit on an L322. It would be too easy.

 

[MacMan6107]

Shave the end of the connector down for P38 makes it 3x easier

That's not actually the issue. My hands are the issue. So pneumatic tools, albeit expensive, are my best friends. It is what it is.

 

[stuu]

Oh yes couple of wiper blades and headlight alignment while it was in, anxiety is over today.

 

[Rubberknees]

I was cursing the designer upside down. They have to be some special kind of idiot, to put a CD multi-changer in the glove compartment, unable to be removed unless you take the dash out. Who, the $&%*, thought that was clever!

At least the idiot put mine in the boot and quite easy to access Sorry

 

[Rubberknees]

Oh yes couple of wiper blades and headlight alignment while it was in, anxiety is over today.View attachment 242958

Oh happy days Oh happy days

 

[gold rover]

At least the idiot put mine in the boot and quite easy to access Sorry

 

[stuu]

I was cursing the designer upside down. They have to be some special kind of idiot, to put a CD multi-changer in the glove compartment, unable to be removed unless you take the dash out. Who, the $&%*, thought that was clever!

I never found mine that bad.... the most annoying point of mine is it was an alpine unit and i cant figure how to wire a non alpine one in.

 

[stuu]

Oh happy days Oh happy days

Its a relief i do have a thing about not putting up with rattles or clonks or squeeks or anything but its always judgment time mot time is it