What have you done to your Landie today.

Passed the mot :5bparty:

2 advisories, slight oil leak and pas seepage

2.25 engine and 0.85 on the emissions

bankz5152 said:

Fitted some lovley 54watt Cree LED spot lights! 3700lumens and peice

However did manage to stab myself in the eye with pliers...

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Heheheh, hard luck, that looks sore .. GWS ..

Any idea's what size the nut is for the radius/trailing arm for a d1, rrc or fender are?

Raised rear axle breather to behind the tail light as previously when changing the diff oil it was 'orrible!!!!

DaveDisco2 said:

Raised rear axle breather to behind the tail light as previously when changing the diff oil it was 'orrible!!!!

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make sure your breather actually works, try blowing though it.

Dropped the pinion off to be machined

Drove it

Took mine for a spin to visit fanatic yesterday. Spent the afternoon tinkering with his 90 and then pegged it back home to start work.

discomark10 said:

Any idea's what size the nut is for the radius/trailing arm for a d1, rrc or fender are?

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I've just bought some for mine. M20 nylocks, both front and rear. That's for a defender, but I think it's common to all the Land Rover products with that kind of suspension setup.

At risk of sounding like James Martin, NY120041L

I've been tinkering with my handbrake this afternoon before it got dark. It's been squeaking a lot lately. I spent ages looking for the squeak and narrowed it down by a process of elimination. I took the old shoes and springs off and put new shoes and expander, and new springs on. Very fiddly, especially as my gearbox has one of those weights on the back that I think is supposed to reduce vibration. That means you can't get at the pins that hold the shoes against the back plate. In the end I had to take the backplate off the gearbox (that was a saga as it seemed to have glued itself on and had to be hammered quite a bit before it came off) and assemble the shoes and springs and then bolt it back up. So far so good. A quick run to the shops this evening revealed no squeaking at all. I put a new propshaft on too, and the vibration that had been increasing over the last couple of weeks has gone as well. The old one will go in the shed for now and I'll replace the spiders at my leisure so as to have a spare.

Got a phone call fae the garage. Head aint cracked but needs skimming. More money, been a expensive 4 weeks wea the beast!

Managed to wire up two 8 inch spotlights. Not bad for someone who took 21 years to remember how to wire a 3 pin plug!

Brown said:

I've just bought some for mine. M20 nylocks, both front and rear. That's for a defender, but I think it's common to all the Land Rover products with that kind of suspension setup.

At risk of sounding like James Martin, NY120041L

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Perfect cheers!

Just looked out the window and it's cold,-5 last night!! Going to give the defenders a scrape and warm up.

fitted a rrc nudge bar n bumper to my disco then used it to move scrap cars round the yard lol

Wired my Voltmeter in and found that the alternator is only charging a little bit. that'll be the reason for the battery going flat then

The road outside my house has been looking pretty grim for a while now, and its not getting any better, that would be the missus' 300tdi auto causing that then;



One of several leaky culprits would be the auto box oil cooler pipes;



So we set about sorting them out. An early start saw the exhaust and cross member off & the gearbox supported on a jack.



An ideal opportunity to fit the auto box filter which I bought a while ago but never changed, what with the cross member obscuring a bolt. So after a light but warm shower of ATF, we get the auto box drained and the cover off. Some struggles with the rather odd fasteners holding the filter in place and the new filter is on.



Since the exhaust was off my mate Fabio took the opportunity to de-cat it and to replace the knackered flexible joint which was in the process of falling apart.



As I had already taken a refreshing Dextron shower I managed to smear muck on the camera lens ruining what was a excellent photo of Fabio's bespoke exhaust, as well as knacking up any further photos.



One of the connections to the oil cooler was particularly troublesome, utterly rusted, needing an hour plus of time, a vice, a grinder and a huge pipe wrench before it eventually surrendered. It all went back together pretty well, despite the rain and after a bit of a battle getting the cross member back on and some messing about refilling the box (empty, empty, empty, FULL) it were done. 6 hours and a bit from start to finish.

A big thank you to Fabio, without whom this would not have happened.

Yesterday, terrific day out.

rdx rear led stop tails
interior ambient lighting
smoke tested for leaks

Got in it, went from A to B, did some shooting, went from B back to A - No snags - Result!!