What have you done on your 90/110/130 today?

@frog hopper Did you smear it with vasoline?

I have now replaced the rear exhaust that fell off whilst green laning with @Hicap phill

Swore at it, had a coffee and swore at it some more... broken AGAIN!!

I've taken the cylinder head off. I've put some pics on my engine rebuild thread. Would be interested in people's thoughts about my honing, turbo and oil consumption.

With the nights drawing in and Lucy living outside with only a storm cover I thought it useful to treat the old girl to her very own pied-a-terre. Started at 9am, finished at 7pm. Quite a struggle building alone...this was made worse in that, despite being a 'professional grade' tent, the 39 page manual was completely in German...not a word of the Queen's lingua to be seen. Plus the manual BOM had no correlation to the actual components. Luckily, I can decipher/translate tent assembly speak. Finally, once frame was finished, I open the cover box only to find a multi-lingual pamphlet with even worse instructions [!!] The good news is that the quality of materials are very good and uber importantly, the roof line is high enough to allow a Landy with external roll cage to drive in and out with ease...

for anyone else interested in a properly good car tent, see here https://www.houseoftents.co.uk/Portable-Garage/58449.html

Hicap phill said:

@frog hopper Did you smear it with vasoline?

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Funny you should say that, yes I did.
Just goes to show, after a day playing in mud and water it's a good blast with the pressure washer and job done. You tend to forget all the other little crooks and nannies that get filled with crud.
One reason I've seriously gone off deep wading.

A bit of a bump to the thread.
Well, alright I've a question for all you teckky minded souls out there.
Sometime in the future I will fit a winch to my 200Tdi 90, it's a Superwinch S9 that I took off a disco I got rid of.
Amongst the wireing was this on the power side, what is it ? do I need to fit it ?

frog hopper said:

A bit of a bump to the thread.
Well, alright I've a question for all you teckky minded souls out there.
Sometime in the future I will fit a winch to my 200Tdi 90, it's a Superwinch S9 that I took off a disco I got rid of.
Amongst the wireing was this on the power side, what is it ? do I need to fit it ?
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Looks like a non resettable circuit breaker/fuse. Presumably 160amps

My transfer box was getting very noisy, jangling like something was loose on gear changes and grinding on decelleration, getting worse over the last 3 weeks. I went to top up the oil only to find it emply. It took 2.5 liters! Now working fine. Talk about bullit proof..... I'm going through all the fluids now, rather than trust it's serrvice history.

Just completed the bi-annual oil change and checks prior to the MoT - first year ever I couldn't find anything that needs done! Just in case I have jinxed myself I'm going to treat the old girl to a new main lighting switch, as sometimes it needs a wiggle for the sidelights to come on.

I have greased all the UJs and prop slides. Checked all the fluids ready for tomorrow

I took it to it's natural habitat

No breakages?

j

marjon said:

No breakages?

j

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Not this time, the real challenge will be tomorrow when the Mrs is driving the course

That’s good have fun tomorrow
Looks wet.

j

marjon said:

That’s good have fun tomorrow
Looks wet.

j

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Cheers, it is wet and muddy, just how I like it

My Old Landy said:

Cheers, it is wet and muddy, just how I like it

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I trust you are going to be the one connecting up tow straps etc, may be needed....LOL

Cheers

neilly said:

I trust you are going to be the one connecting up tow straps etc, may be needed....LOL

Cheers

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I am planning on being the one who comes to the rescue.... makes a change

Decided I might want to swap the 90 for a 110 van.

My Old Landy said:

I am planning on being the one who comes to the rescue.... makes a change

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I put in a few special stages for you to play in.

Cheers