What did you do with your Range Rover today

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myfirstl322 said:
Reminds me of 'Cloot', a deodorant made entirely out of herbs n spices found only on a Caithness midden, the juices are 'tramped' oot o them by bare feeted wimmin whilst singing the traditional tramping song,,,,,,,"Hurry on, Hurry on, these nettles are killing me":p
"When yir going oot, lash on the Cloot"

Did you see my message re. Quell?
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Yes, but promptly forgot about it :confused:

Wife has no idea what happened to the torture device :rolleyes:

I'll look into your suggestion. I'm having right agony in my foot and lower leg/ankle.

I can't be sure what exactly happened to my foot, but think the fact it was pushed back against my shin (which is where the bones displaced at my ankle) the small tendons and membranes got ripped, torn, stretched and generally fucked up. Anyhoo, it aches like toothache some days, that nagging always full on just enough to be in the way, but not so much you can't actually use it fashion :(

My shoulder is getting worse and worse to the extent it even hurts when I steer :eek: So basically, the whole left side is ruined o_O

Still, I get to swim with the grannies tomorrow :D Then my sis & bro in law popping up for a visit. She needs her car window put back on the runner. It's a Suzuki something or other I think. So I'll pop it in the glove box and take it to my mate :D:p
 
All I will say is my friend was on the last stage of oral pain management, which is Morphine, brilliant for a few days light relief but fooks any chance of sleeping through future medical operations!!!!!!! Next stage was aural, as in "deal with it, we can do no more."
She opened the box, fitted it to her knee, downloaded the app and has had months of relative bliss. Her particular condition is not injury but she is 80% meds free. She's done the swimmin, the hyperbaric chamber, the drugs, Quell is where she's at. What's to think about?
 
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First of all, undistilled admiration to DOO for managing to consistently supply photos of his RR when it's not raining - quite remarkable for Scotland, I'm led to believe.;)

Anyhooo, liberated my BeCM this afternoon - my cars lengthy sojourn at the local indies (a month) got nowhere with brake fluid warning light problem - so the box of tricks is going off to a Specialist.
There's no voltage at the pin-out to the level switch which there should be because it wouldn't be able to sense the power going to ground. Tbh I think I've done more with a multimeter in the last few days than the so called RR specialists did who incidentally told me that it was the ABS modulator (which I replaced before it went in). Then they said that it was "definitely" the level switch which I thought was a bit unlikely to have two fail but got them another one anyway and guess what.......they were wrong.:eek:
So after them not bothering to return my calls etc, I just rang them and told them I was collecting the car that day and could they get it ready for release. The utter flannel (polite way of saying bollocks) that they tried to fob me off with was simply outstanding when I stood in their reception with my trade plates ready for the off. Eventually the reasons and excuses diatribe faltered to a standstill and I paid up and got the old crate back home - where it belongs and I'll sort it:)
On a lighter note, the car has always been damp ever since I got it 3 years ago - not squelchy damp but enough to mist the windows a little on the inside. After a LOT of faffing about (it was coming in in the passenger footwell area) removing the heater blower, scuttle grilles etc etc I eventually found the problem. It was a faulty body pressing in a seam just in front of the intake to the blower - ran a bead of silicone along it and thats it job done. Car is nice and dry no musty damp atmosphere anymore. This again was something that had been taken apart before - somebody had put what looked like three full tubes of sealant around the intake housing and then smoothed it off with a bit of paving slab by the look of it. Nice to have it neat and tidy again and leak free.
What with that and getting rid of the annoying battery drain by fitting a new drivers door lock actuator...........
 
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Fergie46 said:
First of all, undistilled admiration to DOO for managing to consistently supply photos of his RR when it's not raining - quite remarkable for Scotland, I'm led to believe.;)

Anyhooo, liberated my BeCM this afternoon - my cars lengthy sojourn at the local indies (a month) got nowhere with brake fluid warning light problem - so the box of tricks is going off to a Specialist.
There's no voltage at the pin-out to the level switch which there should be because it wouldn't be able to sense the power going to ground. Tbh I think I've done more with a multimeter in the last few days than the so called RR specialists did who incidentally told me that it was the ABS modulator (which I replaced before it went in). Then they said that it was "definitely" the level switch which I thought was a bit unlikely to have two fail but got them another one anyway and guess what.......they were wrong.:eek:
So after them not bothering to return my calls etc, I just rang them and told them I was collecting the car that day and could they get it ready for release. The utter flannel (polite way of saying bollocks) that they tried to fob me off with was simply outstanding when I stood in their reception with my trade plates ready for the off. Eventually the reasons and excuses diatribe faltered to a standstill and I paid up and got the old crate back home - where it belongs and I'll sort it:)
On a lighter note, the car has always been damp ever since I got it 3 years ago - not squelchy damp but enough to mist the windows a little on the inside. After a LOT of faffing about (it was coming in in the passenger footwell area) removing the heater blower, scuttle grilles etc etc I eventually found the problem. It was a faulty body pressing in a seam just in front of the intake to the blower - ran a bead of silicone along it and thats it job done. Car is nice and dry no musty damp atmosphere anymore. This again was something that had been taken apart before - somebody had put what looked like three full tubes of sealant around the intake housing and then smoothed it off with a bit of paving slab by the look of it. Nice to have it neat and tidy again and leak free.
What with that and getting rid of the annoying battery drain by fitting a new drivers door lock actuator...........
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Ha ha ha, I'll take your admiration and wear it with pride :p

May I just say that instead of sillicone, try Tiger Seal. It can even be applied when it's raining. I used it to "glue" my DRL's on, then took a photo when it stopped raining for fifteen seconds :D
 
Started stripping the engine down to source my pressurising. Got as far as taking lower intake off & it looks like it was leaking / sucking in air to the water galleries - gasket not sealing. strangely the bolts were very loose & I definitely torqued them up to 51nm?
Will check my stud torques too. All going well I don't have to face pulling the heads....again. Will run some RTV round the water galleries this time.
 
martynv8 said:
Started stripping the engine down to source my pressurising. Got as far as taking lower intake off & it looks like it was leaking / sucking in air to the water galleries - gasket not sealing. strangely the bolts were very loose & I definitely torqued them up to 51nm?
Will check my stud torques too. All going well I don't have to face pulling the heads....again. Will run some RTV round the water galleries this time.
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Perhaps use some thread glue on the bolts. I use Loctite, awesome stuff

https://www.bearing-king.co.uk/bearing/loctite-638-high-strength-fast-cure-10ml/16252
 
martynv8 said:
Started stripping the engine down to source my pressurising. Got as far as taking lower intake off & it looks like it was leaking / sucking in air to the water galleries - gasket not sealing. strangely the bolts were very loose & I definitely torqued them up to 51nm?
Will check my stud torques too. All going well I don't have to face pulling the heads....again. Will run some RTV round the water galleries this time.
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That's a result martyn, I always run a bit of gasket sealer around thing like that every little bit helps to keep it sealed up also after you have tightend down all your bolts go away have a brew then come back and recheck you will be surprised how many need redoing as the gasket settles
 
biketeacherdave said:
That's a result martyn, I always run a bit of gasket sealer around thing like that every little bit helps to keep it sealed up also after you have tightend down all your bolts go away have a brew then come back and recheck you will be surprised how many need redoing as the gasket settles
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...or after a few heat/cool cycles :eek:
 
biketeacherdave said:
That's a result martyn, I always run a bit of gasket sealer around thing like that every little bit helps to keep it sealed up also after you have tightend down all your bolts go away have a brew then come back and recheck you will be surprised how many need redoing as the gasket settles
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Hi Dave, I've always let the head bolts / studs settle for a while before going over them all again but not the intake bolts - stupid really. I could have wound them out by hand!
RTV round the water ports & permatex on the threads it is.

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...or after a few heat/cool cycles :eek:
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Ideally, It's not the quickest thing to get to though.

At least i get the chance the renew all my coolant hoses. You realize how old their getting when your watching them like a hawk.
PS, checked my ARP studs & all good there.
 
changed my fuel tank support bracket today. easy job really ,just my age makes it a lot slower than it should have been. old bracket was well rotten.Might be worth a quick look, mine looked fine but the MOT lad noticed it and told me
 
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Today I mostly cruised slowly round the town letting the peasants soak up the awesome sight of a P38 not broken in any fashion :p

Yesterday was bit more interesting. Saw a girlie's Corsa being pushed to the side of the road, so on way back I offered help. She said her dad was coming with petrol, but thanked me for stopping :)

Few hundred yards round the corner, a huge mini bus broken down in the outside lane opposit KFC, so I go round the roundabout, come back down and pull in front offering help. I attached the strop, and put the ON TOW sign on the back window when the police appeared. They see I have a well able vehicle so offer to sit behind the mini bus to slow the exuberant fannies who think tooting helps the broken down bus :mad:

Anyway, I get him to the Peugeot garage (where he was a technician who had simply collected the bus to do some diag on it when it broke down) and he is so relieved... But his colleagues were not so kind as me and the cops and rattled him relentlessly :D
 
All I've done so far is replace a tail light and free off the right hand catch on the tailgate so it actually functions again. Got new gearbox oil cooler and pipes going to put on on Monday. So many jobs I want to get done over leave, but we were warned it was getting cancelled after Wednesday, so I don't really have anything ordered. Really need to get the roof lining squared as it is like a Poundland boudoir right now.
 
Bix said:
So many jobs I want to get done over leave, but we were warned it was getting cancelled after Wednesday, so I don't really have anything ordered. Really need to get the roof lining squared as it is like a Poundland boudoir right now.
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It'll calm down again soon enough when they've run around enough to convince everyone they're in control.
 
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