What did you do with your Range Rover today

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Found 2 rear Lockheed RRC calipers, remnants of my dads escapade with a 1989 Diesel 20yr ago.
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I'm sure a coat of paint and they'd be fine ;)
 
Replaced the bushes on the front radius arms today.
I had a look at them yesterday as I was packing up, and I thought they looked in good order, that and the fact they were metalastic type made me think I didn't need the hastel of getting the old ones out. Had another look this morning and although there was no movement in them thought I might just as well do them and finish the whole job off properly.
I really have no idea how long they had been on, but once I started taking them off it was obvious they were well past it, the rubber had become rock hard. To get the bushes out of the axle end it was just a case of stitch drilling all round and then cutting the outer tube of the bush and folding in on itself with a small cold chisel. The rubber was that hard I was getting chips out as if I was drilling wood, actually made things easy. Knackered again now, could have finished today but I'd had enough.
Anyway, that's the spanner arms done, final job tomorrow is re-fit the steering arm and re-bush the panhard rod.
 
Did the panhard rod bushes this morning, the gorrila that done the bolts up must have struggled a bit, (a long spanner with another linked on it finally cracked the nuts). Finally found a use for the huge "F-off" G clamp I bought from a boot sale a few years ago.
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To give you an idea of size, the nut on the end is 38mm, and that's a proper engineers vice.
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The doris gave me a hand to hold a couple of sockets and the bar in place and I wound the bushes out easy, was a big spanner though.
Anyway, new polys and everything bolted back in place. Test drive and there is a real difference to the ride and handling, so jobs a good un.
Downside is the steering damper feels rather soft when refitting, so looks like I've found something else to spend time and money on.
 
frog hopper said:
Did the panhard rod bushes this morning, the gorrila that done the bolts up must have struggled a bit, (a long spanner with another linked on it finally cracked the nuts). Finally found a use for the huge "F-off" G clamp I bought from a boot sale a few years ago.View attachment 213585
To give you an idea of size, the nut on the end is 38mm, and that's a proper engineers vice.View attachment 213586
The doris gave me a hand to hold a couple of sockets and the bar in place and I wound the bushes out easy, was a big spanner though.
Anyway, new polys and everything bolted back in place. Test drive and there is a real difference to the ride and handling, so jobs a good un.
Downside is the steering damper feels rather soft when refitting, so looks like I've found something else to spend time and money on.
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I remember doing the rear radius arms on my 3.9 manual, it started to make a nice noise when i bought it home, turned out she had towed so much the bolts securing it to the axle had bent a good 30 degrees which destroyed the bush, this made for fun removal. :eek:
 
Speaking of which ;)

A year ago today I owned a 1991 Range Rover Classic Vogue MANUAL ;)

I had it around 3 months, and in that time I did head gaskets and all the suspension bushes..

Also a set of police spec springs to replace the stock softies and the dead Boge..

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I miss it to a degree, i'll never own another but it was nice to scratch the itch..

An interesting tidbit was her first owner was William Hague I have the old V5 somewhere!o_O:D
 
Henry_b said:
I remember doing the rear radius arms on my 3.9 manual, it started to make a nice noise when i bought it home, turned out she had towed so much the bolts securing it to the axle had bent a good 30 degrees which destroyed the bush, this made for fun removal. :eek:
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:eek::eek::eek: Glad I don't have that problem to go with the rest.
To be fair, in comparisome with a lot of vehicles I've owned Buttercup is quite easy, she is in very good order generally and I cant remember having a seized/rusty bolt so far.
 
frog hopper said:
Did the panhard rod bushes this morning, the gorrila that done the bolts up must have struggled a bit, (a long spanner with another linked on it finally cracked the nuts). Finally found a use for the huge "F-off" G clamp I bought from a boot sale a few years ago.View attachment 213585
To give you an idea of size, the nut on the end is 38mm, and that's a proper engineers vice.View attachment 213586
The doris gave me a hand to hold a couple of sockets and the bar in place and I wound the bushes out easy, was a big spanner though.
Anyway, new polys and everything bolted back in place. Test drive and there is a real difference to the ride and handling, so jobs a good un.
Downside is the steering damper feels rather soft when refitting, so looks like I've found something else to spend time and money on.
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Are you sure thats a G clamp and not an axle ball joint removal tool :p looks like it would do the job nicely :D
 
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