What have you done to your Landie today.

well spent the weekend, fitting all this!! two new shocks/mounts and cones( just in case it pops out) and new extended rear brake hose!



NOTE :: this isnt at full articulation!! just to show off the shocks and mounts!!!



also sorted out the front prop after this happened



changed the output bearing on the transfer box and also fitting a outerunitthingy, that the bit nut hold on (very technical talk there i know!) and also fitted the new front prop! oo and new 265/75/16 ATs on modulars are now fitted for "every day" use!

then gave it a full service, including front and back diff oil change, transfer box oil change, and new upper and lower steering UJs!! and fitted new rear HD steering Rod!




and then finally had a full hardcore clean today in side and out, no pics of that though!!!

discobill said:

M' ... what paint are you using?

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As it is Galvo, i used this primer



with a top coat of this (1 and a half cans, but i need to do a little more. Where the strops are ect) -



Most Motorfactors sell it. However if you are spraying it you will need a Schutz gun. They are about £10 on E-bay

I am officially fed up of 10mm nut and bolts

I am fed up of 9/16th bolts

Just got in from finally fitting the front hubs/seals/bearings/pads/oil ...... and then found both hardlines to the calipers have split. Fapping hell

Sirus said:

I am officially fed up of 10mm nut and bolts

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shudnt eat em then

Mseries3 said:

I am fed up of 9/16th bolts

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UNF or Whitworth

sold another spare i had for the disco, the header tank,
still got loads of parts left





oh and i still have clean hands with no oil on them and its sunday night



but i've been bored ****less all day, the slitty has nothing wrong with it

redhand said:

UNF or Whitworth

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UNF, Those Whitworth ones taste funny

All I did was fit diff guards....

But for me, that was quite an achievement. It's years since I took a spanner anywhere near a car - and then it was a Metro with the old A Series engine

I did see more than I like of fresh oil underneath - not sure where from, but around the wading plug hole I think. Still, it's not a Landrover if there isn't oil coming out

Spent 3 hours pressure washing the State Forest out from under my Disco, inspected the newly shaped front diff (oops) and the other collateral damage...then wrote a list of things to fix before I go out again.

hung a little mighty duck duck in the top corner of the rear screen that tells boy racers they can go fast but i can go anywhere

Washed mucky, then started re-undersealing - 80% on the truck, 10% on the drive, 10% all over me

discovered my steering pump has developed an annoying whine, too

Washed it and fitted a new remote central locking kit... complete with flashing indicators and authentic 'bleep bleep' sound!! now all I gotsta do is fit the actuators for the back doors and she's away

Undid me swivel drain plugs......would have drained them but there wernt nuffin in them.

Sirus said:

Undid me swivel drain plugs......would have drained them but there wernt nuffin in them.

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Lol

Done nothing today except drive it - it was raining!!!!!

Maybe tomorrow

Tim.C said:

Done nothing today except drive it - it was raining!!!!!

Maybe tomorrow

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Raining?????

Sirus said:

Raining?????

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Yeah - that wet stuff that falls out of the sky:doh:


Though that may have been last night......why didn't I do anything tonight then???

Hmmm

After starting the V8 today and one carb flooding (stuck valve) again, and then it deciding not to run propper on gas when it got warm (again), I decided that as good an engine as it is (barely run in) that it's coming out asap (when I've done me Clio cambelt).
Not had a day this week when the fooking thing hasn't broken down and left me stranded without wheels so enough is bloody enough and it has to go.
The whole lot is coming out, V8 , lt85 , and worn disco box to be replaced with a 300 tdi + boxes from a 95 Disco as long as it's good when I hear it running etc at weekend.
When the V8 is running it is superb on petrol or gas but the niggling little problems with carbs, gas, and wires shorting out through crap wiring are doin my ead in.:doh:
Need to use the 110 and need to know that it will run all day without letting me down so as I've no time to fix all the problems with the V8 then it's goin.
Decided....definate....goin.