What have you done to your Landie today.

I've been doing a bit more work to get rid of the clunk and clatter in my transmission. I fitted new drive flanges and shafts to the back axle. Straight away I was pleased about how tight the half shafts felt in the diff and in the flanges. I'm so pleased with the results too, it's smoother than I've ever known it. I popped to Halfords to get a bottle of gear oil to top the axle up as a bit ran out of one of the hubs, and I found myself driving it hard, because the drive take-up was so incredibly smooth. I'm just having a pizza for lunch and will go back out in a few minutes to see if I can change the windscreen wiper motor. There's a lot of dashboard and fascia to dismantle to get at it, especially as I have a TD5 with air conditioning.

discomark10 said:

Have you got a multi meter? test the resistance from the wire into the back of the gauge to sender (when its removed from gauge), if its low (few ohms) then remove it at the sensor and test again, it should have no resistance. if it still reads only a few ohms its the wire

You could also test the sender by removing the wire and seeing what resistance its reads.

If there all fine then its the gauge, which can be tested by putting a resistor from ground or live (which ever goes to the sensor, which is probably ground but check) you could try a veritable resistor (twisty thing)

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Yea I have a meter. Already ruled out the wire I think as I ran a temporary one from the sender to gauge and it made no difference. Wouldn't have thought two senders would be duff? Then again they are the ones from a certain blue and white logo. Will test resistance between block and sender at different temperatures?

Cheers,

Lloyd

Resistance between sebder pin and body is around 18ohms with a fairky warm engine.

MR BFG said:

Resistance between sebder pin and body is around 18ohms with a fairky warm engine.

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What about when cold? 18ohms seems rather low

I'll check again first thing and post up when I get a chance.

had all the wheels off to check where they are loosing pressure and surprise surprise the rims were corroded and leaking so wirebrushed the hell out of them seal pasted them the nitro inflated the tyres shouldn't have any probs now also cleaned the brakes up as they were still full of yarwell and checked my battery and found it needs recharging so i might get a new one and use my current one as a secondary back up battery

Washed it at weekend

Nipped up the wheel bearings on one side, and promised her that I'd do the others over the weekend.

SWMBO has told me that we are going for drinks with friends this evening, so I ave to get cleaned up and stop smelling of oil and grease!

I love them smells!

Starting swapping the axles over and finished up for today with all the important bits swapped but the old axle casing still on the motor. Shock absorber nuts and radius arm bolts just do not wanna give up so I think its time the grinder came out

used her to take my gardening kit to the other halfs granparents and attack their garden/jungle

Found the all makes stubaxle pre fitted bush lose, decided 10 spline axle isn't worth spending money on so will look to rebuild the axles I have spare.

Started to do rattys 1.211 transfer box

the earlier t/box none q box are stronger

Got bored of a sagging headlining so pulled it out, stripped the material off and scrubbed the foam from underneath. Then I painted it and replaced all the bits back. I think it looks ok and no more sagging.
All new front wheel arches and sills welded in from YRM.
Had to refit blower and cable tie the wiring back into place.

Yesterday I popped down to see Fanatic in mine. I took my spare pto down with me ready so we can change the seals on it before fitting it to the disco transfer box.

We started modding the disco 2 transfer box ready for fitting to my defender. One of the the key differences between the disco 2 box is the lack of speedo drive so we had to add one.



Today I collected 10 sacks of coal in it cos the missus is moaning that she's cold.

Trying to undo my fill plug on the side of the transfer box and it has seized solid! It was being rather noisy so thought IDE top it up, can't open the bloody thing. Checked gearbox and it hasn't lost a bit of fluid, but think transfer box has been leaking. Worried it's got hot and the plug has seized in the hole. No idea how I'm gonna get it off :/

A big bar!!!

MaxyMan said:

A big bar!!!

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That's what I did in the end, ratchet on the plug and a fool off big breaker bar leaning against the chassis, and me hanging of the other end "crack" it started to move . Fluid was white topped it up and made a mess in the process. Tis due a services so will get more oli and do it all again

Just sanded half a modular down, ready (hopefully unless I'm persuaded) for orange paint.

Gave up on it. I really am threaders

Ordered some paper gaskets for the drive flanges.