What have you done to your Freelander today

That's a damn good idea, may have to do that myself.

Re painted my interior door handles using ford champagne gold ..... Look ok and much better than the old scratched version

Made my clock I destroyed trying to fix into something pretty.....

A REVOR DNAL badge, nice!! :bounce:

collected the Freelander from the garage after head gasket change, was getting bubbles in the expansion tank so had the new complete kit fitted with n series gasket and up rated oil ladder and bolts ( cam belt and water pump needed doing anyway so not too bad ) so good to have it back runs a dream now. last gasket lasted 10 years so hope this one does too if not longer

Fitted wiring for a leisure battery and some exterior lights above the back door
Fitted some netting to boot windows to help shade the dog
Routed CB antenna cable through gromet in back door into the boot

Repainted the hippo's ears





And cleaned the interior boot panels







Well pleased with the results

Found a hole in my intercooler pipe..a bracket has rubbed right through it !!!! Bugger

Go Go Gadget summer mode. Its hot as balls here with the forecast saying 30+ degrees for the foreseeable future...




Likely to stay that way until about mid September. I have the Escort for when it rains and its hardly a major job to re-fit it should I need to. I dont have the silly roofrack thing on mine so its just the four quick release clamps and away it goes.

In order to ease refitting and removal on my own and also to store the bloody thing out of the way I rigged a pulley to the garage roof to hoist the hard top up and allow it to be easily lowered back down.
Its a minor feck-about with the straps to support it - next time I see one in a hardware store I will buy a countersunk lashing eye for a trailer bed and fit it to the roof of the hard top so that I can just snap the carabiner onto it and hoist away.

found out the "saturation point" of the stock intercooler... and it happens after cruising along at 95mph for a few minutes it seems :lol:


Started with a bit of a light haze of smoke from the exhaust, building up (within about 20 seconds) into quite thick black smoke - due to the intercooler not being able to cool the air enough. Slowed down to 80mph, and it instantly cleared up.




Looks like a chargecooler is back on the cards then...

Set it on fire...






J/K - oil burning off after the head gasket.

Does that MGF? induction set up make a difference to power/economy in a good way?

Where's the back bit of the cam belt cover?

B34R said:

Set it on fire...

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You're not supposed to listen to the Tratterers!

When you threw water over it to put it out, did the doors fall off?

Woo Hoo - Christmas come early. My bits are here!
Guess what I'll be playing with this weekend

htr said:

Woo Hoo - Christmas come early. My bits are here!
Guess what I'll be playing with this weekend

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Well it was the southern hemisphere Christmas yesterday, so hopefully you've got over your Turkey and are now ploughing through all the cold meats and mash. So time to play with the toys at the weekend

I'm afraid (thankfully) my weekend toy list is simply a bit of hose to put on the injectors.

BTW - I popped into Canterbury Landrover Spares today to pick up my weekend 'fun' and while there asked how much they could supply a VCU for - $2,000 lol (£1,000). Hope you got yours a bit cheaper.

GrumpyGel said:

Well it was the southern hemisphere Christmas yesterday, so hopefully you've got over your Turkey and are now ploughing through all the cold meats and mash. So time to play with the toys at the weekend

I'm afraid (thankfully) my weekend toy list is simply a bit of hose to put on the injectors.

BTW - I popped into Canterbury Landrover Spares today to pick up my weekend 'fun' and while there asked how much they could supply a VCU for - $2,000 lol (£1,000). Hope you got yours a bit cheaper.

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Hi Grumpy, all those bits and freight $1061 + $206 GST.

That leak you're going to look at. It's not oil or coolant, could be fuel, not brake fluid, what about clutch fluid or PAS fluid?

htr said:

Does that MGF? induction set up make a difference to power/economy in a good way?

Where's the back bit of the cam belt cover?

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Its an MG TF 135 manifold, the only metal one that has small ports. Bought it because my plastic one had warped and wouldn't stop leaking, and these can be had for £30-50 on the bay.

Interestingly it makes it pull a *lot* better on light throttle halfway through the rev range, not really had it long enough to notice an economy difference!

Left the cam covers off for that test run, the head gasket failure was behind the cam cover where water was dribbling out, so I wanted to be sure it had sealed! All of the covers are now back on!

put tow bar on not to us. just always wanted on pretty heavy bit of kits and 8 bolts to hold it in place.
j

terr said:

put tow bar on not to us. just always wanted on pretty heavy bit of kits and 8 bolts to hold it in place.
j

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If you don't use it - it best not to have it - that way your shins remain intact!

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I really like that 3 door in that color w/o the hardtop. Its really good looking.