What have you done to your Landie today.

davcud said:

Just sorting me new shed out god i have a lot of crap lol

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Nice job, I've been meaning to do mine, but every time I clear a space the wife fills it with her stuff. I now have a 8 place dinning table and chairs, coffee table, carpets, dishwasher, oven, kitchen air extractor, an induction hob, a gas hob and that's just some of the stuff that I can remember. Plus a load of vegetables given to us by varies farmer friend's.Doesn't inspire me to clear another space.

Removed the full size roof rack, bull bars, front bumper, spare wheel which was mounted on the back door, broke the wheel support so removed that, remove all the spots, and roof bar spots, removed the stainless steel front wing thingy's, power washed it. It's now ready to go in for its respray.

Finally got the seized bolt out of my radius arm, radius arm off, bushes knocked out and gave me track rod a lick of paint for good measure.

Been to the shops and filled up with Sainsbury's £1.05.9 a litre diesel which seems to be the best value round here at the moment.

Got hoover out! cleanea air filter box, had a bit of water in it, got a list ready to get a service kit, new injector harness and prop doughnut, xmas break job'

Got the DA and cutting paste out and the paint is now looking loads better and all the milky bits (which was ALL the paint) are now shiny blue - looking good. Drove it home and got mud all over the place - still...be easy to clean off now

Fitted my newly refurbished injector pump, charged up the battery, started it up.
Now it's only firing on 2 cylinders

after suffering three days of it i've just started the whats that smell investigation. I would describe it as a kind of wet dead mouldy animal sock type smell. thinking it must be some carpet somewhere but nothing seems to be wet? Any ideas?

Put an aerial in for the DAB radio, seems to work OK hidden behind the A pillar trim.

(yesterday) Changed oil and filter, replaced broken down pipe with a new one that arrived at last and replaced one of the lights in the bumper that showed orange for side lights and an indicator bulb holder that had burnt its contacts out, today I am going to replace the rear pads nip up a rear bearing, hopefully fix the speedo, grease her up and probably wash it.

Drove the 90 through the ford on the way to work...it was 2.5 foot deep and there was a car drowned in the middle of it. Managed to drive round it and check there was no one in it then left the car for dead... Another one for the recovery boys some time later today...happens most days - why can't these people read the sign the very clearly states how deep the ford is in both English and metric...

I treated myself to a new brake pipe tool off Amazon. I already have a cheap Machine Mart one whose serrated clamp tends to chew up the surface of the pipe. Here's the new one:

and here's what it does:

Quite a nice professional looking little pip. No surface scoring of the pipe either.

ThreeTwo said:

Drove the 90 through the ford on the way to work...it was 2.5 foot deep and there was a car drowned in the middle of it. Managed to drive round it and check there was no one in it then left the car for dead... Another one for the recovery boys some time later today...happens most days - why can't these people read the sign the very clearly states how deep the ford is in both English and metric...

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...ditto!! I could probably post this most days. This morning a guy had gone in to the ford way too fast in his brand new BMW and drowned it... I offered to tow him out but it was auto and stuck in gear!!! Yet another one for the recovery boys...

Jet washed the 90 after trying to recover the owner of the estate after he tried to drive across the boggiest field on the estate at the bottom of a valley in a disco 3 on road tyres. Couldn't budge him so used the tractor instead!!

Took the intercooler off and gave it a good flush out, changed the pipes as well as the previous owner had made a steel pipe between the turbo and intercooler from an old exhaust pipe which didn't fit - so he hammered the crap out of it with a lump hammer until it would fit passed the alternator.

Clean intercooler, nice straight pipes that don't strangle the turbo... Goes like a dream .

Replaced my burnt out light stalk with one that actually turns the lights on! Well, almost, apart from the lights were just the nearside sides..... until I found the melted fuse too

Prepared my series ready to take my wife to Lunch tomorrow PROVIDING theres no rain and the roads are dry should be a very pleasant drive if not it stays in its heated Garage and we take the Vauxhall ASTRAnomically DULL LOL

I've been out lying on my back in the rain this afternoon. I renewed a couple of brake pipes; the one that goes from the brake balance valve to the back axle, and the little curly one that goes from the passenger side front flexible hose to the calliper. The old ones weren't quite as bad as I thought, but at least they're nice and fresh now and it was an opportunity to run some new brake fluid through. Interestingly it wasn't such a long job bleeding them as I've experienced previously. The bubbles came through pretty much first time and I have a nice firm pedal. Maybe because the front to rear pipe is now more direct with smooth curves rather than kinks and right angle bends. I also tackled a little job with the windscreen wipers. The driver's side one describes a really small arc and sometimes it decides to wipe the A pillar rather than the glass. Seeing as the passenger side one is OK, I think it is a wheelbox problem. The gear wheel is slipping on the shaft, especially after the snow on my trip to Scotland a couple of weeks ago overloaded them I think. I managed to get the old wheelbox out and a new one in, and I think it's better. Now the lights on the speedometer don't work. The other instruments are OK though. Pulling the bulbs and giving them a quick continuity test suggests they're blown. I wonder why they both went at once? No photos, because the light was so appalling all afternoon.

The BF Goodrich All Terrains are actually starting to look worn now, after nearly 50000 miles. Not bald yet by any means, but down to the last 6mm or so. I hope to be able to save up and get some more in the new year.

Fitted my other radius arm with newly fitted poly bushes.
Tried to get the rear trailing arms off and came up against a next level of seized bolts. Heat, hammer, WD40, 2 foot breaker bar and nothing would budge. Looks like its time to buy a (cordless) grinder... *sigh*

madfrank said:

Ive pressure washed the underside of mine after a play in a local quarry .

what jobs have you done on yours ?

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Little more serious than that this morning It was missfiring below 2k revs cleared and ran ok when you gave it some welly, looking on forum pointed at cable loom between injectors and ECU, so stripped it all out, cleaned all connectors, particularly the one that exits the rocker cover front left hand side, amazed when I put it all back together it is back to full performance again! no buying looms or any other expensive bits ....Brilliant