What have you done to your Landie today.

Drove it to the chip shop, not had fish and chips for ages, they were really nice.

Had to replace a faulty jubilee clip which was allowing a hose to seep so I drained it flushed it through and replaced with fresh anti freeze .

Just replaced N/S/F airbag, such an easy job. Hardest part was waiting for it to build pressure again while crapping myself thinking 'It's taking a long time, hope I haven't f***ed something'.

Old bag was proper knackered, perished right through the cords. Cut it open for a noisy to find at was even cracked inside. Surprissed it hadn't burst.

Replaced the rear brake discs and pads, like yesterday but I did the fronts yesterday
Also my dad welded the new spring mounts onto the chassis because the N/S one had a hole in it, so thought it best to change both both, so thanks for that dad
Had a hell of a lot of steel to grind down so 1/4 of the chassis ended up as swarf in my hair painted them and I'm probably going to wire brush the corrosion on the chequer plates sills and rear quarters later and then re-spray them with etching primer then a coat of black :biggrin1:

Swore at it more than yesterday.

Took top off gearbox. Unable to move selector

plugged into my new , yes you heard it right, my new hawkeye electrickery machine and turned of my three amigos , all by myself , arent i clever

Fitted lightbar then got rear worklights working again also fitted adjustable panhard rod

got it a little bit muddy

Started measuring up the inside to get some ideas of how to fit it out as a bit of a camper

Sirus said:

Started it up after the battery had died over the winter. Looks like my 2nd battery is dead too. Wondered what the rattly sound was and remembered it only has half an exhaust fitted. Might move it tomorrow so I can cut the grass thats growing over it.

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If you want me to get you a battery cheap from work let me know. It's summit like £35 +vat for a genuine GM 075 battery.

baggyjim said:

got it a little bit muddy

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I wuz driving along minding my own business and suddenly found myself all in the dark.....






















Then I realised that there was some mud on Salisbury plain after all.



Cheers for the muffins BaggyJim. Can you pass mine and the ballasts compliments on to the chef.

ratty said:

If you want me to get you a battery cheap from work let me know. It's summit like £35 +vat for a genuine GM 075 battery.

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but how long is delivery:brick:

Sirus said:

but how long is delivery:brick:

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LZ courier?

Bristol and West 4x4 show?

Collection in person?

gave it a bit of a blow out , and thorough off-road testing .
thought i was going to hold up our group and probably not do the full day, but she went the full distance (if a bit under powered tbh still have fuel starvation issues hopefully sort it soon)
need some rain now to fill my water barrel up so i can get the preassure washer out

Swore at it, threatened it, bodged it, hit it, cursed the day I 1st set eyes on it :suspicious::censored::frusty::frusty::frusty:

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Fell in love with it all over again :love:

Popped the headless engine back in all by myself, went in like a dream. Just head back on tomorrow and pipe it all up and see if she runs

Cleaned it out, washed it, filled it up with doozel and fitted the Safari snorkel



Tomorrow's job, strip off the head in preparation for engine rebuild

Made a new chequer plate floor for the driver's side and real purdy it looks too.

buckshot said:

gave it a bit of a blow out , and thorough off-road testing .
thought i was going to hold up our group and probably not do the full day, but she went the full distance (if a bit under powered tbh still have fuel starvation issues hopefully sort it soon)
need some rain now to fill my water barrel up so i can get the preassure washer out

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We have a huge oak tree in the garden so garden dries up in the summer. We fitted a cess tank in the garden and modifed an old pump. All the rainwater from the house goes in there. No problems now

Spent the afternoon valeting it inside and out