1. essexpestcontrol

    has anyone here fitted a lift kit?

    did you disconnect the brakes as they are fixed to the disk/drum and suspension?
  2. essexpestcontrol

    has anyone here fitted a lift kit?

    what, an exhaust or a lift kit? if the lift kit, have you a "how to description" to follow
  3. essexpestcontrol

    has anyone here fitted a lift kit?

    cheers, so those saying my exhaust Is in the wrong place are wrong
  4. essexpestcontrol

    has anyone here fitted a lift kit?

    need the picture of rear near side wheel arch, with wheel removed, to show if the zorst goes under or over that wheels drive, as below
  5. essexpestcontrol

    has anyone here fitted a lift kit?

    can you repeat that in English please
  6. essexpestcontrol

    has anyone here fitted a lift kit?

    but.... as someone has pointed out on FB, surely if the zorst went over instead of under, and you bottom out the suspension, you'd end up with a squashed zorst pipe???? can members take a pic or two of theirs, just to ease my mind
  7. essexpestcontrol

    has anyone here fitted a lift kit?

    cheers, have put the picture up on facebook off road, and a lot of people are saying the exhaust looks wrong, and that it should pass over the driveshaft rather than under it? anyone can have a quick look at theirs are post a picture
  8. essexpestcontrol

    has anyone here fitted a lift kit?

    cheers, I did wonder bout that
  9. essexpestcontrol

    has anyone here fitted a lift kit?

    these are the lift kits rear 001 - YouTube I did wonder whether I would need to remove wheel hub, but brake lines fitted to this and the strut would mean not alot of movement gained, unless removing the brake pipes also, which as you say is looking at more and more tecno, and not a job...
  10. essexpestcontrol

    has anyone here fitted a lift kit?

    ok, call me nieve, but I thought fitting a lift kit would be easy, obviously I was wrong, I thought that if you undone the top nuts on the rear suspension, after jacking up the car and removing the wheel, that it would be a simple process of putting the spacer on top and doing everything up...
  11. essexpestcontrol

    What would you do?

    I'd stop smoking the waccy baccy
  12. essexpestcontrol

    Any tips for fitting front headlamp guards?

    there's a step by step in the how too section http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f69/how-fit-light-guards-187841.html
  13. essexpestcontrol

    Off road driving tips

    ok, maybe I read it arse about face,
  14. essexpestcontrol

    Off road driving tips

    hill decent maybe self explanatory, but watch you tube clips, says it can be used for going up or down, as does the manual Freelander 1 v6 Electronic Traction Control Demo Up Hill On Snow And Ice - YouTube
  15. essexpestcontrol

    Off road driving tips

    would not putting the traction control (yellow button) on, done the job for you? thought that was for going up icy hills etc cheers mate
  16. essexpestcontrol

    Off road driving tips

    as my freelander is sitting on the drive waiting for me to fix the front calliper and fit the rise kit that Ive ordered from ses88, we popped over our woodland in the back up vitara, a very muddy rutted private road in, used 4WDH to get us in, and we were all over the place, so on way out...
  17. essexpestcontrol

    whats the point of advisories on an mot

    ok, so firstly this aint freelander related, I got my vitara mot'd today, its been SORN for a year, no I never take any notice of advisories on the mot, but you would think, that if you had an advisory one year, then the following year it would be worst?? so 2012.... rear drum brakes on way...
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    Uh oh clunk..help

    my local garage does a pre mot inspection for around £20, always handy to ask a garage, as they will give you a definite "to do" list, rather than loads of maybe's
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    glad I kept both

    going back to when I purchased my freelander, I decided to keep the vitara, just in case, well as the freebie has calliper trouble, and the weather see's me not wanting to be out there in it, I just started a multicar policy on both, off for an m.o.t tomorrow, then 6 months tax on friday, and we...
  20. essexpestcontrol

    Flooded tool box under the rear floor

    don't worry about it, gain extra street cred, when you tell people you have a sunken bath in back of your motor