Bit more progress

how did you fit the rear spots ? I have a pair read to mount but no idea how. Could you take a close up pic of the mount ?

Forgot all about this thread :doh:

So this is how she looks at the moment, yes i know its a Marmite Truck





I have cleaned it since

Next plan is a 2" lift and some bigger tyres as I was some more ground clearance. This is now 100% my offroad toy as I bought a 530d as my daily driver.

I also removed the rear ARB last weekend and it drives no differently. Might be because one of the drop links had broken !!!!!!!!

I like it alot!
Off roading this sunday in Chelmsford if your about

Bah, got my mates wedding :doh:

Got bored so did a 90min makeover







Removed the bullbar and bumper end caps, trimmed the bumper back at the ends and then hammerited it. Looks much better IMO.

Don't wanna highjack this thread... but if there is a problem with fitting steel wheels on with alloy nuts, then why did Landrover decide to put a steel spare on my 2003 D2 ?

The ends of the alloy nuts are flat so can handle a steel perfectly well, its just the tapered bits don't disappear into the wheel so they do look like c@$P

you can hold spare on that way but not road wheel steel wheels rely on the taper,alloys with dowel fit and clamping

In my opoinon, for the cost of steel wheel nuts its not worth the bother of all the comments if you use alloy wheels nuts ...............

there are differnt schools of thought on this and there will always be it just they way things are......

They alloy nuts I have do have a taper that macthes the steel wheels.

PS I have got steel wheel nuts, did use alloy for a week or so while I got me new ones from ebay, think they were only about £12 a set anyway.

Moving on from wheel nut chat


fitted my 2" lift kit






The old shocks were so fooked, it now actually handles better on the road and isnt as bangy and crashy off road


Well happy

its looking good there

So a bit more work done

Fitted some seats out of a Rover GSi
Fitted 2" Arches
Fitted 30mm Spacers

How difficult were the seats to fit? Looks good by the way

Rear spots , fitting and wiring ?

just the orrible rear bumper to sort then

iwantone said:

How difficult were the seats to fit? Looks good by the way

Click to expand...

Not terrible, cut the runners off them and made some plates up and bolted them in.

shocker said:

Rear spots , fitting and wiring ?

Click to expand...

Just got them wired off a switch on the dash via a relay

wiltshire landyman said:

just the orrible rear bumper to sort then

Click to expand...

Yer, ripped the original off whilst out playing. Will sort something eventually

Yesterday I took all the stickers off

wiltshire landyman said:

just the orrible rear bumper to sort then

Click to expand...

As requested




As you can see the spare wheel mount was looking a bit worse for wear so i gave it a lick of Hammerite



and on went a decent usuable spare at last



The chrome spots were going rusty and looked crap so decided to fit the 2 off the old bullbar plus take the 2 off the back



Fitted 2 rectangle spots i had to the back (as seen here after a very dirty day)



I also binned the decals so this is pretty much how she looks at the moment

Looking good,

Wheres the rear bumper from?

Tuskenraider said:

So a bit more work done

Fitted some seats out of a Rover GSi
Fitted 2" Arches
Fitted 30mm Spacers

Click to expand...

same seats as mine


my rear bumper

got a feeling I will be doing something similar with the rear bumper, when I find some 200 series lights

Well i have sort of been busy, well more I started to be busy and had big plans then the weather came along follwed by me doing my back in. Then to top it off I cut a tendon in my hand so the last 3 or 4 months have been hell

Anyway fitted an uprated steering damper which was a bit of a mare as my steering guard got in the way :annoyed: so I had to take the guard off, drill some holes into for the relocation plate and then bolt it to that.

Got another passenger side wing as i wanted to make a neeter job of my snorkel and get rid of the hole that i made when doing the first version.

Ripped the old wiing off




Found a whole at the top of the inner wing which was letting water inside by the glovebox




'welded' it up :wack:




New wing on




Close up of the mod for the snorkel



I then proceeded to drive through a Ford too quick and rip the whole wong off :doh:

I now have another wing at home waiting to go on

Did another P&P day late June and it was mainly faultless except the brakes went off, pedal was rock solid and it just never wanted to stop Thought it was just the mud in the brakes but the drive home wasnt any better. So thats either the servo or the vac pump, so got both off a breaker.
Noticed another whole in the floor just starting to appear by the driver seat so decided to rip the interior out so i could weld it up and then paint the whole floor inside black to hopefully protect it some more.






The hole



So i finally gave in and went out and bought a welder

I also noticed the steering box had finally given up and dumped all the PAS fluid on my drive and the rear diff saw this and though 'top idea' and did the same with the diff fluid out the front seal :wack:

So jobs to do to get it back up and running were
Weld up hole
Paint inside
Fit new diff seal
Fit replacement steering box
Fit new fuel sender
Fit servo and see if it fixes brake problem.
Change all fluids except coolant.