What have you done to your Landie today.

Changed the air, oil and fuel filter and whilst I was at it I changed the radiator due to big stones making holes in my old one. Just the turbo drain pipe and reversing light unit to replace.

Started painting the 90 satin black until we had an attack of the flying antsDam things, spent all afternoon trying to keep em off the wet paint

Found that the oil cooler pipes on the 200tdi engine wont screw into a 300 tdi radiator

I know the hoses are different as well but I can get round that.

Any way the 78k 200 I bought for 150 quid STARTED FIRST TIME and ticked over for a few seconds before I switched off ..RESULT

Might be on the road next week , only front calipers and some wiring and cosmetics to get done.

Removed the under passenger seat tool box in my Series III, so I can fit a YRM double battery size one. The old one didn't want to come out, copious use of drill and angle grinder required.
Twin batteries and split charge here I come.

Re-applied waxoyl to the chassis on my defender

well tried to get c pillar external plastic covers of today i know there on three clips but i cant get the buggers off,i thought they just pulled off,stuffed if i know give it up as bad job ive split one of them,better get pricing new ones up before i smash em to bits,unless theres another way lol:doh:

decided that turbo goosed and swapping it tomorrow

No end to problems after ten months off the road, no light at end of tunnel yet

landowner said:

decided that turbo goosed and swapping it tomorrow

No end to problems after ten months off the road, no light at end of tunnel yet

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That makes me feel a whole lot better.......thanks

Needed cheerin up

landowner said:

That makes me feel a whole lot better.......thanks

Needed cheerin up

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When they hit rock bottom, Some people will climb out. The others will begin to dig.


You're luck can't be that bad...... It just seems that way when you're awake.

washed it and waxed it after servicing it ready for the run to the Isle of Wight .......................2 weeks of vacation vacation vacation

spent 12 hours today getting light weight ready for mot ,luckily hes a mate so i did most of the prep after ,so i could swap it for td5 disco auto,everything went wrong

jamesmartin said:

spent 12 hours today getting light weight ready for mot ,luckily hes a mate so i did most of the prep after ,so i could swap it for td5 disco auto,everything went wrong

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with the td5?

cleaned rear 2/3`s of chassis with wire brush, 2 coats of zinc oxide primer, then lastly sprayied with shultz.
What a long winded job. Didnt think it would take anywhere near as long but looks great.

3.5 efi said:

with the td5?

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no getting light wieght driveable and legal today was last day,without it getting hassely

Changed the P gasket as it had starte to leak a bit

New track rod
Poly Bushed the Panhard rod

OOOh it really made a difference.
Its amazing how you don't really notice the issues creeping up.
Its like a new machine now.

MOT in the morning (Hope it doesn't fail on the WATTS linkeage !!!!!)

Painted the roof rack and what a ****ty job I did.

I took the front wheels off- did some scrapey things with the brakes, sprayed some wd40 on some bits underneath and changed a brake light bulb........




well when I said " I " actually ..................................


Cheers cake boy

Well.. kai has been working on his series today. Doing a few bits on the axle-

To start with he decided that he should strip the hubs out:



He was careful about removing bearings and component parts... not because he intends reusing them but he figures any apparent damage may indicate deeper problems. Don't know whether he is right but I can't fault his reasoning!

Proper hub nut spanner and the hub nut looks fine by all accounts... he will still use a new one later though!

The hub is pretty well rusted and is reluctant to come off easily



Bearings looked ok... not too much play...



hub off... and the inside is just as rusted as the outside... spiders webs and all sorts!


Then it is off to the little welding hut in the garden for the building of some tool he has in mind...



weld it all together...



(the result of the practise weld he did before going on to the real thing... not perfect but not bad for a 12 year old!



Clean it up



And after all that it turned out he was making some brackets to hold a fence together for his mum! that bit weren't landy at all!



Skyving git. Still at least he weren't playing x-box like half his mates will have been!