What have you done to your Freelander today

htr said:

I had to laugh! I went for my WoF today, in UK your MoT - failed due to my day light running lamps being on with the headlights - sigh. There was a switch whereby I can have them on or off, but no that wasn't good enough! Yes I wiped them off and got the said WoF. Hardly a road safety issue!

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Here DRLs can't be on with the headlights either. Most DRLs go off when side lights are on, for that very reason.
You could have a relay shut off your DRLs when the side light bulbs are active, so as to avoid a repeat performance next Wof

Rimini-Scott said:

Refitted the painted scuttle, it made the wipers look drab so they had a quick re paint too

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I might paint mine too as it seems to have faded. I'll do my faded mirror shells at the same time.

Rimini-Scott said:

Refitted the painted scuttle, it made the wipers look drab so they had a quick re paint too

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Looking great, did you reuse the plastic scrivets or buy new. Mine almost all broke when taking them off.

Today I had a nightmare learning how to fill and bleed a hydraulic clutch.
I bought some 8 quid "easy bleed kit" and after some buggering around i just cut the non return valve off and did it the way I do brakes with an old glass tonic bottle and an inch of fluid in the bottom.
Hasn't solved my problem, and now it's started raining I've given up.
Next time I'll get photos

Marko Washington said:

Today I had a nightmare learning how to fill and bleed a hydraulic clutch.
I bought some 8 quid "easy bleed kit" and after some buggering around i just cut the non return valve off and did it the way I do brakes with an old glass tonic bottle and an inch of fluid in the bottom.
Hasn't solved my problem, and now it's started raining I've given up.
Next time I'll get photos

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Hope it's not a slave cylinder problem, assuming it's a TD4 that would be a gearbox out job.

Alibro said:

Hope it's not a slave cylinder problem, assuming it's a TD4 that would be a gearbox out job.

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It has just had new master and slave cylinders, pressure plate and clutch disc. It's a long story, but the fella that did it turned out to be very unreliable, and dumped it back on my drive with no fluid in the clutch at all.
I've got it going, but it has a super low bite point and I'm at a bit of a loss and on the beers hiding from the rain. I've posted in the freelander but for advice and will probably spend some time looking around the forum for advice.

Quick search on Google threw up this
https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/td4-clutch-bleed-tutorial.137699/

Yeah, I used that to walk me through the process with bored wife being shouted at sat in the seat "up, down, up, down wait...wait...wait...up, down"
From what I've found I think that maybe I haven't bled it fully. Or the fella that has done it has done a crap job. I'm hoping the former.

Marko Washington said:

Yeah, I used that to walk me through the process with bored wife being shouted at sat in the seat "up, down, up, down wait...wait...wait...up, down"
From what I've found I think that maybe I haven't bled it fully. Or the fella that has done it has done a crap job. I'm hoping the former.

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Good luck with it. Had a lot of difficulty bleeding my MGF clutch.

Thanks mate. Yeah, I get the impression the air can be hard to shift. I'll sort it hopefully.

Alibro said:

Good luck with it. Had a lot of difficulty bleeding my MGF clutch.

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Marko Washington said:

Thanks mate. Yeah, I get the impression the air can be hard to shift. I'll sort it hopefully.

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Keep the end of the bleed pipe in old fluid and don't stop bleeding until the pipe is full. Don't want air in the pipe going back in.

Replaced all the vacuum pipes today. As well as scrape out all the gunk from the intake system. I also tested the resistance and doused the glow plugs with WD40 in preparation for there replacement next weekend. I tried to crack them off too.

TD4 Changed the Fuel filter at last,
The Missus said her car was running lumpy in the morning so I thought I'd give it a bit of a service, checked when I last did it was over a year and 11000 miles ago,
Done the oil and air and struggled getting oil filter housing to undo as always but at least I have the right socket now, also struggled to get the awkward bolt done up at the back of air filter housing, again as usual,
Then I thought it's about time I fitted the new fuel filter I bought 3 years ago but didn't fancy fitting,
A quick search of the shed and I found it.
Also had a quick look on here to remember what I found out 3 years ago
It wasn't such an ordeal after all, not easy by any means and made a few mistakes but got it done in about an hour,
Mistakes I made were not giving it a good hose down first of all, loads of **** in my eyes and about 3 dustpans full on the floor,
I drilled the plastic grommet things that hold the small piece of wheel arch trim thinking they were rivets( should of cleaned it first)
Replaced these with some plasterboard rawl plugs I found in the shed, not ideal but does the job.
I tried to unbolt the handbrake cable bracket to get a better angle on the 10mm bolts but snapped the bolt so had to drill it out.
Didn't take a before picture so had to guess how it all went back, not rocket science but still got me scratching my head for a minute.
I couldn't find the Phillips screw that's been mentioned but the old filter came out quite easy , just a few taps with the hammer and a good yank, getting the new one in was more difficult and ended up hammering it in distorting the new filter a bit, God knows how it's coming out next time, think I'll have to sell it before then.

I was left with a stainless steel clip of some sorts, don't know where it came from so couldn't put it back but it's running fine now,
Any ideas on what it's for?

Ordered some bits & pieces of the 'net last week and they're starting to turn up! Fitted some Osram Night Breaker H4 bulbs [ex UK] - good aren't they! Dust plugs for the external power sockets [Aus'] - they ask $19 each here [£9 about!] I got a pair from Aus' for less that $15. Oil temp gauge [Aus'] and I'll fit that on Saturday - it's all wired up ready to go, just have to fit the probe and mount the gauge. A set of torque wrenches coming from the US to add to the w'shop tool kit.

After a few years of ownership and some warm weather, decided to take the detachable roof off for the first time. That allowed me to clean out all the gunk and grit that had built up between the roof seal and bodywork. Then went off for a spin ( I still think it's ugly without a roof).

Colonial said:

After a few years of ownership and some warm weather, decided to take the detachable roof off for the first time. That allowed me to clean out all the gunk and grit that had built up between the roof seal and bodywork. Then went off for a spin ( I still think it's ugly without a roof).

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It is strange how 'awkward' they look with the roof off - lovely pics though

Booked it into the workshop next door for a new driver's side front wishbone. Yeah, yeah, I could do it myself but I'm working tomorrow and I go on holiday on Saturday morning. What I want to know is: how do cars KNOW when to spring a fault on you?

GrumpyGel said:

It is strange how 'awkward' they look with the roof off - lovely pics though

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Vale of Llangollen in North Wales. The entire history of transport is laid out in the field in the foreground in the first photo. Firstly, Prehistoric Man walked; The second stage; the row of trees on the left cover the river Dee when a stone-age man decided that a coracle would do. Thirdly, the row of trees to the right hide the Llangollen Branch Canal and over to the left the two hedgerows show the route of the old (long since defunct) railway line. Obviously, to the right of that is our modern tarmac.

I think they would look better if the c pillar didn't exsist and it was straight down from the roof line. That said though as it stands if the rear bed was longer it would be a good looking pick up.

Rimini-Scott said:

I think they would look better if the c pillar didn't exsist and it was straight down from the roof line. That said though as it stands if the rear bed was longer it would be a good looking pick up.

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Agreed.