What have you done to your Landie today.

Was at work yesterday and Saturday, but instead of working I ended up spending most of the time towing vans of site. Poor old girl got a serious work out lol

just washed my winch rope, nice n clean now, shame about the rest of the disco

BOOMER said:

Fred Dibnah stylee, propping up with sleepers then dropping a match?

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now you come to mention it, just a bit more than a mere resemblance to the mighty Fred, illegitimate son me thinks, but maybe just his long lost brother considering his old age.

well after two weeks of rough runnibg 300tdi.... i've fixed it... yay

wouldt rev past 2500rpm was slow.. did a engine service last week and no better..

so today i cleaned out the sedimenter... bit of crud but not much..

then it wouldnt run at all..

tried to prime fuel system with lever on lift pump.. no resistance so took it off.. the end of the lever inside the pump had snapped off so not pumping..

lift pump only 6 weeks old.. scratch one britpart lift pump..

we took our landy on a quick green laning trip kids loved it but the landy blew the heater matrix another job to add to the list ha ha

Nout, gonna try and get the air horn on it tomorrow then test it

i did this

Dropped it at the garage after it overheated on me, got up to just over halfway (it always sits at under) looked in the header tank and nothing so filled it with water and crawled to the garage keeping an eye on the temp.

Hoping to have it back at the start of next week, rad was hot all over, top pipe was hot and no **** in the tank so I think it might just be a split hose or cap not pressurising as there was no hiss upon opening.

One of the aux belts under the top intercooler hose was also a bit chewed up

Currently with someone who drives a Nissan Patrol What can only be described as scraping the very bottom of the barrel He's helping me sort out the oil leak though. Anyone for wasabi?

I think I've solved an intermittent electrical problem. Sometimes the starter wouldn't turn the engine over, especially when the vehicle was in remote locations of the kind which would be difficult to describe to the AA over the phone. Or indeed where there was no phone signal at all. Sometimes it responded to my rattling the wires around under the bonnet. By wobbling them about a bit more systematically, I managed to narrow it down to a spade connector on the starter motor. This has now been cleaned up and the female part squashed together a little more with pliers. So far it's been excellent. However, I'm beginning to wonder why my starter motor is awash with oil. I can't see where it's coming out. I wiped as much as I could off and will look again tomorrow to see if I can see what's oozing. It doesnt drip where it's parked, presumably because the starter motor collects it all!

Took delivery of my new MightyMig 150 welder ... right, how do you use it then?

Same way I use my 190 twist the dials and press the trigger once you've clamped it

Dr_evil said:

Same way I use my 190 twist the dials and press the trigger once you've clamped it

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That'll do for me then ... cheers Dr

I was using setting 3-4 on the 6mm plate with a mid speed but I was having to be careful not to put holes in it

Just experiment on scrap til you find the right setting

Dr_evil said:

I was using setting 3-4 on the 6mm plate with a mid speed but I was having to be careful not to put holes in it

Just experiment on scrap til you find the right setting

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so you just set about welding yours straight away then

Freelaner said:

so you just set about welding yours straight away then

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I practiced on a bit of scrap first but got bored

Listen for the sound of bacon frying and the amperage is about right. Practice and enjoy, the more you weld the better.

Dr_evil said:

I practiced on a bit of scrap first but got bored

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i went on a welding course 28 yrs ago and learned to do it with gas.

it takes less skill to point and fire these mig sets, but you do still need to practice.

if yer welding a motor it pays to have a bucket of water handy too

lost the bloody keys

Buggered my drivers seat!