What have you done to your Landie today.

Parked it next to the village fountain, and pressure washed it and the fountain. Both were filthy.

Pressure washed the engine bay, and let it dry in the sun before wading into electrics. Found the water had made the LH indicator repeater start working! Still can't find the oil leak, but hopefully the control technique guy on Thursday can't either...

As far as I can see, all the legally required electrics are now working. I'm not going to dare disturb them by trying to get the radio working, or the USB charger until after it the paperwork and wife are out the way...

Reinstated the polythene water deflectors behind the door cards in a final attempt to get rid of the small lake in drivers footwell after heavy rain!

Birdbrain said:

Reinstated the polythene water deflectors behind the door cards in a final attempt to get rid of the small lake in drivers footwell after heavy rain!

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Did you close the windows? My old gaffa found that the be the cause of his wet front seat and lake in driver's footwell.
We took the 'piece' a bit the first time but when he did it again about three weeks later we were relentless for some time!

As a result of being stranded on the A74 the other day I drained the gearbox oil today to confirm me fears that the 5th gear layshaft bearing is caput. The drain plug had a very big glob of stuff on it and the oil had a lovely metalic sheen, especially when I stired it. No big lumps though. The current dilema is do I risk driving 250miles in 4th to my prefered specialist to get it fixed of have it recovered there.

Took it to the mountains for the weekend and saw this lovely pair in the 'Vinmonopolet' (booze store) car park...

Wish they were on my driveway

Fixed the heater on my 88". I can now see where I am going without having to wipe the condensation off the screen every couple of minutes. It still only has 2 heat settings though, hot and very hot.

Dorset_dumpling said:

Fixed the heater on my 88". I can now see where I am going without having to wipe the condensation off the screen every couple of minutes. It still only has 2 heat settings though, hot and very hot.

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Nice with winter coming on ...

Dorset_dumpling said:

Fixed the heater on my 88". I can now see where I am going without having to wipe the condensation off the screen every couple of minutes. It still only has 2 heat settings though, hot and very hot.

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How did you get it very hot? I think you must have cheated by re routing the exhaust pipe into the cab under the windscreen!

CohPC said:

How did you get it very hot? I think you must have cheated by re routing the exhaust pipe into the cab under the windscreen!

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Take the blower unit out, clean and reseal the casing, oil the fan or fit new bearings, clear or replace the heater matrix core

CohPC said:

How did you get it very hot? I think you must have cheated by re routing the exhaust pipe into the cab under the windscreen!

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Easy, just flush the blocked heater matrix, unblock the valve on top of the engine and replace the wiring to the blower.

Fitted a new injector harness and frees off the turbo wastegate

The started getting right into the chassis and bodywork
Then after ****ting myself and having three breakdowns I walked the dogs

Some big choices ahead and I’m glad I didn’t sell it.

I put my bike in the back and dropped my 90 off for MOT, rode 4 miles home, (first time I have rode a bike in 20 years, my body was actually steaming when I got home) it's terrifying riding a bike on the roads now. got the phone call to say MOT was done and happily it passed with no advisories. Happy days.
4 mile bike ride back to pick the Landy up did not seem as bad.

Took the back wheels off the series to repaint, whilst both sides jacked up noticed the hub turned even though the hand brake was on, shouldn't be able to with prop shaft hand brake on.

Spent ten minutes checking things before remembering that's how a diff works

I went to see a friend who had done a similar thing with his car.
He had turned one wheel and was honestly concerned that the other wheel turned in the opposite direction ...

Sorted out my indicator issue (on another thread). Hazards working but no indicators. After renewing every earth back & front as a precaution attention turned to the hazard switch (apparently a known issue). Still nothing doing. Out of desperation I pulled every fuse & found the fuel gauge fuse (I think thats what picture portrays) had blown. Replaced that and unbelievably all the indicators now work! In retrospect the low fuel light on the dash was glowing so that might have been a clue. No idea why though.

Birdbrain said:

Sorted out my indicator issue (on another thread). Hazards working but no indicators. After renewing every earth back & front as a precaution attention turned to the hazard switch (apparently a known issue). Still nothing doing. Out of desperation I pulled every fuse & found the fuel gauge fuse (I think thats what picture portrays) had blown. Replaced that and unbelievably all the indicators now work! In retrospect the low fuel light on the dash was glowing so that might have been a clue. No idea why though.

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Earth leakage in the dash or fuse box?

J

Put in through MOT and it passed albeit with a couple small advisories, nowt special but in January it’s it’s 40th birthday and then it transforms into an historic vehicle ☺

Getting shot of a load of crap timber on the local bonfire.
Saved many £££ not taking it to the local dump as they charge plenty, for anything non household or garden.

Finished the last corner of replacing the brake shoes on my 101. Still quite depressed as even with all the adjusters still fully backed off they are binding as soon as i got pressure back on the pedal.

Does your brake brakeplate have the adjuster post to square up the shoe, may be worth checking the squareness of shoes to hub, also mine was binding after putting on new adjusters which where making hard contact with shoe web when wheel was on, they needed to be removed and a washer put on outside of backplate to give some clearance, brakes hit hot now