What have you done to your Landie today.

replaced my clutch master cylinder and bled it

fitted a noo indicator switch and self cancelling bits to the "green machine"

Sorted out my speaker prob , changed the O/S mirror head , greesed my prop , fixed a side light prob .
Stripped my donor rad/intercooler frame and cleaned it all up ready for the conversion .

Ok here goes, it went to a mechanic friend on Saturday

New :
Timing belt, idler pulley, tensioner, crankshaft pulley etc
Oil & filter
Air filter
Fuel filter
Gearbox, diif, transfer box, swivel oils all replaced
Anti freeze drained & replaced
Greased nipples

Also
A full inspection, front to back including brakes, bushes, suspension, steering etc

The only thing the mechanic could find it needed was a donut rubber

He reckons its all good, A1 as it should be
And hes very thorough

The regular service i would have done myself, but been as it was due a cambelt i let him do the lot

£120 labour & £150 parts - not worth gettin me hands dirty
And as its due for an MOT next month it should go through ok

Just glad i didnt buy a lemon

Also the cam belt cover had a lot of black dust, so it may have been at the end of its life, hence the modified kit with the better cranshaft pulley went on

Fingers crossed for trouble free motoring then

welded up the broken middle section of exhaust pikey put it back on and bugger me there is a tiny little hole still in it !!!!!
fitted secondhand 2nd row door which someone had repaired badly had to grind down all there bird **** welding ,

robint said:

welded up the broken middle section of exhaust pikey put it back on and bugger me there is a tiny little hole still in it !!!!!
fitted secondhand 2nd row door which someone had repaired badly had to grind down all there bird **** welding ,

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robin made coffee and watched while pikey did all of the above

Series71 said:

robin made coffee and watched while pikey did all of the above

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oi i done all the welding as his didnt hold :doh:

Series71 said:

robin made coffee and watched while pikey did all of the above

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Well Robin did the welding I did all the donkey work.

robint said:

oi i done all the welding as his didnt hold :doh: and bugger me there is a tiny little hole still in it !!!!!

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now now you two calm down

bloody pipe had completely seperated from the centre box. I had to make a tophat section so we could join the 2 of em back together again.

Also fitted a defender cd player i won off e bay

And relaced the bulb in the clock, fed up of lookin at me watch when its dark

tried starting mine today after an hour or so of cussing swearing and losing the plot realised it was out of fuel:doh::doh::doh::doh::doh::doh::doh::doh:
also had some info on wheel arches (thanks buckshot )

Washed mine...... and changed the clock to summer time

found more rust and holes, in the drivers footwell this time..woop-de-fookin-doo.... must crack out the welder later this week...

pressure washed the ****e of the under side of my defender

went to put new rear wiper blade on mine, only to discover the rear wiper motor has stopped working, at the exact time i touched it, took the motor unit apart, all looked good cleaned the commutator on the motor, then had to make up a new brush as i mangled the existing one putting the motor back together....put it all back then realised that it was exactly the same, seems the vibrations/pot holes, are keeping it going


...fun

Cursed and swore and still utterly failed to remove the nearside rear hub/halfshaft!

Looks like a new axle assembly ... so if anyone has a spare 300Tdi non-abs rear axle with hubs, i have a good diff and all else .. I'm looking for one ...

baggyjim said:

tried starting mine today after an hour or so of cussing swearing and losing the plot realised it was out of fuel:doh::doh::doh::doh::doh::doh::doh::doh:
also had some info on wheel arches (thanks buckshot )

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:hysterically_laughi
probably would have been stale even if it had not evaperated
no probs bud

after much procrastination i have just done the dreaded p gasket repair!!

and, do you know, didn't hurt that much.