What have you done to your Landie today.

Think I'm going to have to go out in the rain to tighten my power steering belt, or I put up with half-arsed power steering tomorrow?

fitted new suspension kin ballache getting the old stuff off though.







im a little concerned about the length of the bottom pins on these terrafirma shocks though,soo close to the axle

bizy day fitted h\d diff guards front\rear also new front prop,,,,no more clunk..

Fitted new rear prop to try and cure clunk ... not test driven yet though as off to London ... fingers crossed

Caught my hand in the grablock :hurt:

Contemplating going to fix the cruise control if theres no rain

Acquired some off road tyres and wheels and a 2.5" lift kit for the disco, ready for fitting on saturday, along with some home made rock sliders

here are some pics

got the wood frame and tyvec felt and a couple of runs of steel sheet on the roof of the "shed" , nice to have somehere to work on the landy in bad weather

moved rear seats forward and started constucting a drawer/locker in rear tub to store tools/strops etc will post some pics as it takes shape ..... also broke washer pump removing it to clean it now need to replace it hey ho !!!!....

Moved it forward 10ft and then emptied some coal out of it.

ratty said:

Moved it forward 10ft and then emptied some coal out of it.

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I knew you could run them on veg oil, but didn't know they could run on coal too

Does mrs ratty stoke the fire whilst you drive or visa versa

ratty said:

Moved it forward 10ft and then emptied some coal out of it.

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Steam powered landy's, now that's progress

ratty said:

Moved it forward 10ft and then emptied some coal out of it.

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dont forget to tell yer insurance company about the excess miles you are doing will ya.:cool2:

Today the Green Meanie got its first steam clean in - oh, I don't know, probably first one ever! I never imagined so much **** could live under a vehicle! It took the guy almost two hours to remove the crap and old weatherproofing from the underbody and engine bay. It uncovered some hidden problems, but nothing too scarey. Now I won't mind getting underneath, as it's almost squeaky clean!
Two hours of filthy work underneath the Meanie, and it cost less than a half decent meal for two! (£35, YMMV) Not a job you'd find me doing, ugh!

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Subjected it to school run.

Lots of kids shouting whoa thatsa big truck.

son shouts" its not a truck its a landy dumbass"

chunkymunky said:

Subjected it to school run.

Lots of kids shouting whoa thats big.

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Boaster

Meanwhile; I made and fitted a pair of light protectors on the front today, looks great, I'll try and make some for the back tomorrow...

moved mine backwards by 10 ft and then emptied some more coal out of it.

110woman said:

I knew you could run them on veg oil, but didn't know they could run on coal too

Does mrs ratty stoke the fire whilst you drive or visa versa

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No but if I've been a good boy I get to stoke the ballast.

+Quite a few things! Found that the alternator mount rear bolt had snapped but was still biting, my dad drilled out the old one and ran a tap down it to sort that out

Heard a funny chat sound from one of the injectors, found that the copper washer was blowing and had built up with carbon, made it run badly when cold, pulled out the injector and replaced it with one of the spare ones off the old engine, now runs well

Also the turbo actuator boost pipe had broken off, due to the rubber going brittle, changed that for some temporary pipe, going to buy some silicone pipe to make a proper job of it, the current pipe will be ok for now

Also my dad tweaked the timing slightly sounds better now

Finally I put on my new stickers, the landyzone sticker was like this 'www.landyzone.co uk' it was missing the '.' between 'co' and 'uk' must have been me when trying to get it off the application paper sorted that out by cutting a dot out of a rock oil sticker good day all in all :biggrin1:

fitted new steering damper and new intercooler pipes,looks a bit bling now though also put a straight through centre pipe and new rear pipe but couldnt be arsed taking any pics of that coz the camera on my phone is shat,sounds a bit fruitty now though and revs more freely