Recent content by oddbob

Today, I as mostly been changing the hedgehog, cursing and swearing a lot, and the top intercooler hoses. Before I go to bed tonight, I needs to put the battery charger on, bit of a drain and thought it was down to the HVAC. Yesterday I cleaned all the fluff out of the HVAC fan in the dash.

That's the way I had them, was worried I'd put them the wrong way round, hence the failure. Had a quick look at the other link, and it seems fine, so must be just a bad one.

Mmm, the new drop links I fitted just a few months ago, don't look so new now. Perished rubber on the top boot, split on the bottom, not impressed, fleabay tat. Question, should the bottom bolt go from the inside out (with the nut on the wheel side of the rollbar) or the other way (with the nut...

I fitted an egr delete kit (which is just a tube with all the right bits welded on which replaces the original egr valve) on my previous TD4, and the mpg improved, it did get 41 mpg once or twice when it was running in front wheel drive mode, lost 1 or 2 mpg when the vcu was replaced. Got a...

But don't tell our cat Merlin that, will you, or the vet who will be doing the operation

Thanks Mike, will have a look, I was tempted to leave it until something broke, but as the brakes seemed a tad heavier than usual it may be better to look into it sooner than that :)

Searching for unusual noises using the search function isn't easy, neither is describing an engine noise. My TD4 decides to make a noise every now and then (which by it's random nature, is hard to record) which I can only describe as sounding like a dove call played at high speed. It seems to...

I did mine recently, they were both facing opposite directions (so one had been fitted wrongly in the past), and they had different size nuts on top. An angle grinder is a good idea though, in hindsight, trying to unthread a nut up a rusty thread which wants to turn (despite finding a spanner...

Just over 15 minutes to change one side? I'd say it'll be 15 minutes to remove the first rusty, seized-up bolt when I start doing mine (once the rain stops)....

I like to think that once they're over the 100,000 mile point, they've either been totally rebuilt, or have had it through neglect. Freelanders seem to be a bit of a labour of love, and just like love, it often ends in tears.....

I've often wondered what they'd be like with the 1.8 VVC 160 engine?

If only I could find the brackets for it, found a set on ebay italy for a mere £125.....

It's my second TD4, my first one went through every fault in the book (apart from the heater coil thing that is). I enjoyed fixing it almost as much as driving it, and I have a shed full of bits, including one of those parcel shelf things that must have been made of gold and a soft top.....

I'm probably too old to get excited about it, but hopefully, sometime in the next few days, my second Freelander will be dropped off on my drive, hopefully by van, not parachute. What can possibly go wrong?

There's some good photos on here of how to replace the thermostat with a Renault one....it explains all about half way down the page.