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Hello everyone,
Moving soon to a wee hamlet in depeest darkest East Lothian so I thought I should go back to the 4x4s. I had a 110 Defender about 10 years ago but lost my shirt on it. Actually, I only paid £14
00 and sold it soon after for £700 when nobody could fix it. The new buyer called the RAC to my house who duly by-passed the fuel pump governor (small float) so he could get home to Fife. I'm not mentioning the AA. The reg was B2 WYF I think, and it broke my heart. So if you own it now send me a pic. It was jacked up on monster suspension with huge wheels and a full roofrack. It was a beast of a motor.
I bought a 2004 TD5 Pursuit a few weeks ago and have a snagging list as long as your arm. Between superglued bits of fairing and electrical dead-spots I have my work cut out but am surely not giving up again.
A few days ago I tackled the driver's window mech which had buckled, snapped and wedged itself against the glass. I could see two rotten nylon runners when I took the inside window scraper off, that's how bad it was. The reason for this post besides saying a hello was that, with the help of someone's post in Landy Zone (thanks) and a youtube clip by Rimmer Bros. I thought this might help anyone doing the same job in future.
I set about replacing the mechanism and came across a problem. Apart from the innards in the D2 'how to' clip being different from mine I was stumped by an inability to get the window into its channel. The guide is a metal piece with a rubber sleeve type thing to keep it in. What I did was took out the sleeve, cleaned it doused it with neat washing up liquid on both sides so I could a) get it back in and b) get the glass into it as it went into the guide. I had to pull the guide towards myself while lining it up with the glass luckily suspended in the small opening in the door. Once lined up I pushed down with my right hand on the top edge of the glass while pushing up with the other hand underneath the guide. Then I zipped the window up to the top to ram the whole thing as tightly together as possible. Last thing was to leave it about 16 hours hoping for the detergent to dry. The part was less than £20, and apart from £10 on a pack of trim remover tools, I'm pleased to have done a job other folk probably pay an arm and a leg for. While I'm on the subject, those trim tools will come in handy after I buy some more plastic clips and put the door card on properly because most were missing and what was there, were mangled like they'd been out and in a lot. I also lost a few screws like a pro!
As I bash through the jobs I hope to add more long-winded explanations of issues I find in the vague hope I save someone a few minutes of pointless head-scratching.
Moving soon to a wee hamlet in depeest darkest East Lothian so I thought I should go back to the 4x4s. I had a 110 Defender about 10 years ago but lost my shirt on it. Actually, I only paid £14
I bought a 2004 TD5 Pursuit a few weeks ago and have a snagging list as long as your arm. Between superglued bits of fairing and electrical dead-spots I have my work cut out but am surely not giving up again.
A few days ago I tackled the driver's window mech which had buckled, snapped and wedged itself against the glass. I could see two rotten nylon runners when I took the inside window scraper off, that's how bad it was. The reason for this post besides saying a hello was that, with the help of someone's post in Landy Zone (thanks) and a youtube clip by Rimmer Bros. I thought this might help anyone doing the same job in future.
I set about replacing the mechanism and came across a problem. Apart from the innards in the D2 'how to' clip being different from mine I was stumped by an inability to get the window into its channel. The guide is a metal piece with a rubber sleeve type thing to keep it in. What I did was took out the sleeve, cleaned it doused it with neat washing up liquid on both sides so I could a) get it back in and b) get the glass into it as it went into the guide. I had to pull the guide towards myself while lining it up with the glass luckily suspended in the small opening in the door. Once lined up I pushed down with my right hand on the top edge of the glass while pushing up with the other hand underneath the guide. Then I zipped the window up to the top to ram the whole thing as tightly together as possible. Last thing was to leave it about 16 hours hoping for the detergent to dry. The part was less than £20, and apart from £10 on a pack of trim remover tools, I'm pleased to have done a job other folk probably pay an arm and a leg for. While I'm on the subject, those trim tools will come in handy after I buy some more plastic clips and put the door card on properly because most were missing and what was there, were mangled like they'd been out and in a lot. I also lost a few screws like a pro!
As I bash through the jobs I hope to add more long-winded explanations of issues I find in the vague hope I save someone a few minutes of pointless head-scratching.
