What have you done to your Landie today.

Hold....
BUT Take the back box section off so if it does break you don't do more damage

Hicap phill said:

Hold....
BUT Take the back box section off so if it does break you don't do more damage

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I'm thinking it'll hold anorl, just wasn't sure how the through pipe worked so thought I'd ask. Showered and sat in front of log fire now. Don't fancy lying in the snow again in the pitch black.

^^^^Hold

doriz said:

^^^^Hold

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Yeah, well that's three of us who think the same. That's good enough for me. TBH, by the size of that hole, it must have been like that for a while, but the Mrs mustn't have noticed it as it gradually got worse. (It's her daily drive for work) Not being in it for a week or more, it was more noticeable for me.

Al2O3 said:

it must have been like that for a while

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Int that what regular maintenance is for

Al2O3 said:

Not being in it for a week or more, it was more noticeable for me.

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She probably thought you had done something to it to make more Rorty and Sporty....LOL.

Cheers

doriz said:

Int that what regular maintenance is for

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I knew the box was rusting quite badly, creating big flakes. They must have been worse than I thought, cos when those flakes have fallen off they've left a cavernous hole. Can't remember a box going like that before, they pipe usually goes just before or after the box.

neilly said:

She probably thought you had done something to it to make more Rorty and Sporty....LOL.

Cheers

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Nah, she knows she's not allowed to drive it like she stole it.

Only teasing. I hate going under mine as it throws up a new repair every time.

Al2O3 said:

Nah, she knows she's not allowed to drive it like she stole it.

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But when you are not in the car,.....................LOL.

Cheers

neilly said:

But when you are not in the car,.....................LOL.

Cheers

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Might explain the tyre wear on the outer edges

I've bought some polybush ones. Give those a try and save faffing on with the big vice and sockets

Loaded up 10 bags of horse feed & delivered to the yard.
Nice to be out

Fitted a new battery last week. The cold spell saw off the old one. Except the new one, which had been sitting in my garage for 15 months was much the same as the old one in terms of starting ability!

Knappster said:

Fitted a new battery last week. The cold spell saw off the old one. Except the new one, which had been sitting in my garage for 15 months was much the same as the old one in terms of starting ability!

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Bad news, but you can't just leave a battery standing. Did you charge it regularly over the 15 months?

Sadly not. Looks like I’ll take the hit on this one and buy another one...

Knappster said:

Sadly not. Looks like I’ll take the hit on this one and buy another one...

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Not sure if one of the new type battery chargers could resurrect it. Be cheaper to buy a new battery probably, unless you know someone with one of those chargers.

I’ve got a normal charger which does fast and trickle charging. I’ll try it on the current (no pun!) battery on trickle then if it’s still dead, I’ll shop for a new one.

Replaced the panhard rod bushes

The exhaust box managed to last the week
Bought a new box and rear pipe off Paddocks. Only took two days to come. Got that fitted

The rear pipe had the expected Britpart sticker on it. The box is made by GT exhausts
Interestingly, the two local motor factors could not provide me with an exhaust. Their listings only showed the system for the 300Tdi that has the rear box perpendicular to the chassis rails at the back. Mine runs parallel and the box is just behind passenger seat.
The end of the box is very close to the hanger bracket.

I'll have to keep an ear on that

Finally fitted the Clutch Spring Mod to reduce the titanic effort needed to depress the pedal - 5min job, but taking the soundproofing out and all the carpet, then removing all the crud in the footwell (grommet missing from foot box right in front of the wheel) took an age. Anyway, much better now....but the ominous groan from the bellhousing when clutch down isn’t getting any quieter!