What did you do with your Range Rover today

roythebus said:

Out and about for a couple of short motorway trips, Ashford to Broadstairs (sounds a bit posher than Margate) and before that Ashord to Folkestone and back. On the way back from Marstairs approaching folkeston the "brake worn" light came on. Got home and checked things out, offside rear very "warm", too warm to touch, noffside front warm, I'd freed off that caliper a few months ago. It seems like a new set of pads will be required, hopefully th discs won't be too worn, I'll check them in the morning. what pads do people recommend? It's the 60 reg TDV8 4.4. What else will I need for pad replacement? Sensors? Also what sort of cost?

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EBC are my preferred option.

Well this is weird. Just checked this page and as I get to the bottom this was in draft form to be posted but the pictures are missing! See below!

Water, water effing everywhere...

Got back from town and noticed coolant dripping from the front. Looked underneath and the drain plug on the rad is weeping and weeping fast.

Went inside, walked back out and noticed water dripping from the passenger sill. Opened the door and carpet wet. Looked at the OBD plug and it is dripping water! From where?! We've had no rain. Must be air-con drain?

Grrrrrr said:

Well this is weird. Just checked this page and as I get to the bottom this was in draft form to be posted but the pictures are missing! See below!

Water, water effing everywhere...

Got back from town and noticed coolant dripping from the front. Looked underneath and the drain plug on the rad is weeping and weeping fast.

Went inside, walked back out and noticed water dripping from the passenger sill. Opened the door and carpet wet. Looked at the OBD plug and it is dripping water! From where?! We've had no rain. Must be air-con drain?

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We have an echo The photo's are there I saw them

That was yesterday's sunrise, one of many photos I took. I had to sleep in today!

Edit: Image is too big... so after breakfast then...

New air con condenser in yesterday. Much cleaner than the exhaust the previous day.

Sadly has highlighted a leak of some description between the intercooler and the oil cooler as the radiator (which I replaced 6 months ago) has gotten a few patches gummed up. Need to find a solvent I can use to clean that off and figure out where the oils coming from - intercooler looks fine, no major oil on it, the cooler below that is likely the culprit - another messy job!

Datatek said:

We have an echo The photo's are there I saw them

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Other thread.

A bit of PTFE tape seems to have sorted the drain plug.

Aircon drains were dripping but dripped a lot more after I jammed a screwdriver in there. Oddly the driver's side was worse than the passenger side. I can confirm the exhaust catalyst gets very hot and it is best not to touch it with your forearm as you reach up.

Grrrrrr said:

Well this is weird. Just checked this page and as I get to the bottom this was in draft form to be posted but the pictures are missing! See below!

Water, water effing everywhere...

Got back from town and noticed coolant dripping from the front. Looked underneath and the drain plug on the rad is weeping and weeping fast.

Went inside, walked back out and noticed water dripping from the passenger sill. Opened the door and carpet wet. Looked at the OBD plug and it is dripping water! From where?! We've had no rain. Must be air-con drain?

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You posted it in some random guys thread. I saw the photos can see the red coolant

So, today, I looked at her. Following that, I send my technical inspector a message for a test appointment.

Then I irdered some starter spray, those SUs are great, but way too lean for the new camshaft. The resulting cold start problems require some help.

THEN I looked how much heat shielding I still had lying around to cover the transmission tunnel. Not enough, it turned out. This resulted in a basket of 300 bucks for various heat and sound dampening stuff to be put in before the new carpets.

THEN I looked at the "new", green hood, remebered I have a full set of green Vogue rims, and almost decided to keep the green hood (polished, maybe repainted) to go with the green rims and the orange roof (to be repainted).

THEN I looked at the engine bay, remebered how the heat in Tunesia cooked the cheap fuel lines, and to make longer story short decided to replace all the lines and hoses, which are all old anyway, with decent ones. Bad luck for me, the site that sells steel braided fuel lones from Goodrige does motor racing equipment. So obviously, all the lines and such will be replaced in due time with racing grade stuff in, well, British Racing Green. Oh, and the new exhaust manifolds and the exshaust itself will get some heat wrapping.

Good news, this racing gear site has, or should have, everything I need to connect my old snorkel to the Weber / Edelbrock carb, from 90° pre-bent connections to heat shielding to a 120m, reinforced aire hose.

I am all set now! But did I forget how costly those cars can be as a hobby. Almost as if they conspire with your wallet to suck deposable income up!

And I might even buy a roof top tent... And did I mention that I also need winter tires for the upcoming Tunesia trip in January, Italy requires those and frabkly going over the Alps with MTs in the dead of winter sounds like a really bad idea anyway.