What did you do with your Range Rover today

Pulled bits off of mine today..



Had to get creative with the carrier bolts!!



And this is the reason why, the useless dust shields had rotted out and were annoying the disk..



gone!!



and back together..

Henry_b said:

The oddity of the RV8 is human error, poor casting on certain blocks
However i can change a set of headgaskets on a V8 in 3hrs, or less depending, i'd like to see someone do that on an M51 he he Data

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So much practice makes perfect. Takes me a weekend.

Henry_b said:

Pulled bits off of mine today..

Had to get creative with the carrier bolts!!

And this is the reason why, the useless dust shields had rotted out and were annoying the disk..

gone!!

and back together..

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That'll be the salt on the roads up there.

Grrrrrr said:

That'll be the salt on the roads up there.

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What... "up there"... in Buckinghamshire? That's WAAAAAY "dahn sahf". They don't know what salt on roads is "up there" in the tropics...

Grrrrrr said:

That'll be the salt on the roads up there.

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It used to be a Swansea and pembroke car so yes

Jon Dor said:

What... "up there"... in Buckinghamshire? That's WAAAAAY "dahn sahf". They don't know what salt on roads is "up there" in the tropics...

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Henry is somewhat further north.

I think they have gritted the roads twice this winter and I think that was because they wanted the overtime more than anything else. We've had a few frosty mornings and that is it. Once saw some sleet.

Henry_b said:

It used to be a Swansea and pembroke car so yes

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Sea air!

Grrrrrr said:

Henry is somewhat further north.

I think they have gritted the roads twice this winter and I think that was because they wanted the overtime more than anything else. We've had a few frosty mornings and that is it. Once saw some sleet.

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Sleet...as in "blink and you've missed it" sleet? I followed a couple of gritters a couple of of nights ago and it didn't even drop below 2°C! They must've been after the overtime bonus too! That was on the Yorkshire Wolds. I remembered the days when we used to have PROPER, cold and long winters in this country and not that long ago really.

Very windy out today... wife won't stop farting

Grrrrrr said:

Correct.

There was a rumour going around that the 4.6s were better blocks as they picked the best ones out because most were heading for American market and they knew they had to dissipate more heat.

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They did send half arsed versions for the North American market I have read
Like test subjects

RangeRoller dt said:

They did send half arsed versions for the North American market I have read
Like test subjects

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Americans for some reason make crap transmissions, don't know why that is, and seems they make thin panels as well, and don't tend to treat them for rust, same as break pipes

RangeRoller dt said:

They did send half arsed versions for the North American market I have read
Like test subjects

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Your not talking about @Dopey 's missus are you?

No.... she has no passport

Dopey said:

Americans for some reason make crap transmissions, don't know why that is, and seems they make thin panels as well, and don't tend to treat them for rust, same as break pipes

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Yanks use steel brake pipes. I'm guessing because the US steel lobby bought enough politicians.

tomcat59alan said:

Your not talking about @Dopey 's missus are you?

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No she’s lovely and well built

Dopey said:

Very windy out today... wife won't stop farting

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Can feel it here ten miles north of Hull Dopey. She's a "keeper"...

Dopey said:

Americans for some reason make crap transmissions, don't know why that is, and seems they make thin panels as well, and don't tend to treat them for rust, same as break pipes

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It's called "planned obsolescence" to encourage the purchase of a new car every 3 years Another Yank invention we could do without.

Tenebreaux said:

Yanks use steel brake pipes. I'm guessing because the US steel lobby bought enough politicians.

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Land Rover use steel brake pipe too, it's 1 cent per metre cheaper than cupro nickel.

Datatek said:

It's called "planned obsolescence" to encourage the purchase of a new car every 3 years Another Yank invention we could do without.

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Thought the Japanese came up with that bit of ****tery?

Datatek said:

Land Rover use steel brake pipe too, it's 1 cent per metre cheaper than cupro nickel.

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FFS. I haven't scraped the crap off mine to see.

Tenebreaux said:

Thought the Japanese came up with that bit of ****tery?

FFS. I haven't scraped the crap off mine to see.

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No, it was the yanks, there was a very interesting TV program about it some time ago
Do not whatever you do scrape the crap off your brake pipes, that will be all that is stopping them leaking
My mate had a brake pipe let go on the MOT when they did the brake test on his L322 and I had the one that goes across the back axle on my P38 let go when I did an emergency stop