Dave Smith's Freelander

Skinny Mike said:

I have a 1.5m breaker bar and an extremely fat friend, he makes Jeff Capes look like he's got anorexia.
As yet, this combo has never failed. All it costs me is a bag of Donuts. Bargain

Mike

Click to expand...

Sounds like the donuts are an investment in case of future fat-requirement.

davidsmith1307 said:

Get a Freelander they said..... Everything is a reasonable size and easy to work with..

Click to expand...

Yeah i fell for that one too!

Have you tried putting an old socket on the nut then smacking the socket with a large hammer to shock it free?

LUKBENPHI said:

Yeah i fell for that one too!

Have you tried putting an old socket on the nut then smacking the socket with a large hammer to shock it free?

Click to expand...

Sounds satisfying. I'm in!

LUKBENPHI said:

Yeah i fell for that one too!

Have you tried putting an old socket on the nut then smacking the socket with a large hammer to shock it free?

Click to expand...

Ouch! Sounds painful to me.







Right nut or left nut?

Just to let you know I'm not dead!
What with working notice at my old company and then starting at the new one I have hardly been near the car for months (apart from clambering around it in the garage).
Decided that to get things moving again I'm going to get a local mobile tech to do the pump/belts and then I can MOT and actually drive it. That'll get my mojo up and I'll be up and at it again.

davidsmith1307 said:

Just to let you know I'm not dead!
What with working notice at my old company and then starting at the new one I have hardly been near the car for months (apart from clambering around it in the garage).
Decided that to get things moving again I'm going to get a local mobile tech to do the pump/belts and then I can MOT and actually drive it. That'll get my mojo up and I'll be up and at it again.

Click to expand...

Hello there.
I know the feeling, after replacing the chimney etc, the wife's now got me decorating, replacing radiators, building wardrobes and working down a very long list.
The Freelander keeps giving me dirty looks through the dirt that's all over it.
Ah well, I'm sure we'll find some time in the new year
Mike
P.s merry Christmas and all that

Skinny Mike said:

Hello there.
I know the feeling, after replacing the chimney etc, the wife's now got me decorating, replacing radiators, building wardrobes and working down a very long list.
The Freelander keeps giving me dirty looks through the dirt that's all over it.
Ah well, I'm sure we'll find some time in the new year
Mike
P.s merry Christmas and all that

Click to expand...

You too. Work really does get in the way sometimes!

davidsmith1307 said:

Just to let you know I'm not dead!
What with working notice at my old company and then starting at the new one I have hardly been near the car for months (apart from clambering around it in the garage).
Decided that to get things moving again I'm going to get a local mobile tech to do the pump/belts and then I can MOT and actually drive it. That'll get my mojo up and I'll be up and at it again.

Click to expand...

Take a look here for recommendations if you don't know any mobile techs. They'd have a job like that done in no time.
http://www.mg-rover.org/

There's a guy local to me who seems to know his beans but I'll certainly have a look on the mg site first. Cheers @Alibro

http://www.mg-rovermobilemechanics.com/

Dave give these guys a ring very knowledgeable about MGR and K series, will travel and all the mg forver forums and fb groups highly rate em £150 for cambelt + travel costs from their website

LUKBENPHI said:

http://www.mg-rovermobilemechanics.com/

Dave give these guys a ring very knowledgeable about MGR and K series, will travel and all the mg forver forums and fb groups highly rate em £150 for cambelt + travel costs from their website

Click to expand...

I saw them come up. A simple belt & pump change looks a bit trivial for them
It'll come down to the cost of going so far off-piste.

i follow them of fb and regularly see simple belt changes and the thank you messages they receive

Well, after getting stuck and then being out of action due to work I am back on it.
Getting the engine mount bots out was a PITA and to this day only one has come out. The other snapped my breaker bar and has not budged.
I'm going to take the whole mount off (both halves) and split them in comfort - having to use an extension to get on the big top bolt makes it hard to apply adequate thrudge without the socket coming off the head.
So I'm moving again - metaphorically if not literally, and glad to be back.

Hello
Now stop making excuses
Mike

Skinny Mike said:

Hello
Now stop making excuses
Mike

Click to expand...

Sorry Mike

keep up the good work Dave you'll get there eventually

So...

I got the whole thing off but still can't shift the bolt as I don't have a suitable vice (just alcohol and Land Rovers).


Other PITA is that the plug cap on cylinder 4 has slightly disintegrated leaving loads of bits of plastic around the plug and wedged at the bottom of the plug well.

davidsmith1307 said:

So...

I got the whole thing off but still can't shift the bolt as I don't have a suitable vice (just alcohol and Land Rovers).

Other PITA is that the plug cap on cylinder 4 has slightly disintegrated leaving loads of bits of plastic around the plug and wedged at the bottom of the plug well.

Click to expand...

That hand is far to clean for a LR owner.

See the glove in the first picture. That is my "mustn't get ****e on the posh phone" hand.

davidsmith1307 said:

See the glove in the first picture. That is my "mustn't get ****e on the posh phone" hand.

Click to expand...

I wear similar gloves all the time but the cotton bits get soaked in oil and grease in short order so that my hands get dirty just putting them on.
And of course I'm too tight to chuck them out.