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Well for the sake of completeness, I wanted to give a wrap up on everything I did... I finished putting my LR2 back together on the 22nd of April, which was almost exactly a month after getting it towed into the driveway. The reason it took so...

Looks like fun. The FL2 parking brake will also seize if parked up wet (the roads were flooded). I had that issue this morning, after leaving the parking brake applied for a week while we were away. Pulling away made a sequence of bangs as the...

A Land Rover must be your perfect vehicle then if you like working on cars :) Its been a while since we had a boat, but I just looked back at some pics and it does look like the ramp you use is pretty bad! This is launching at Waikawa in the...

The rated wading depth is with the vehicle moving, not stationery, there is a difference in how the water effects the vehicle when standing still in water. The unofficial rule is half the official wading depth for a stationery vehicle, so about...

Well as I said to Grumpy, the rated depth of immersion for the LR2 is about 20 inches. The sills on my LR2 are about 21 to 21.5 inches off the ground, so when the water came in last fall, I was pushing it past the rated height. But even at the...

Thanks Grumpy... "enthralling" at this end, too! It really is "all good", as bad as it is. I've always loved working on cars... while fraught with inconvenience, cost, and sometimes blood and tears... there is still something satisfying about it...

A small update, for anyone who might be curious: I've been working on my LR2 for the last week or so, but bad weather slowed me down a bit. Nonetheless I did pick up a transfer case, and today finally took out the old one. I got a great deal on...

Thanks much, Nodge! Everything you say makes perfect sense, and certainly fits what has happened, and what I have observed. I confess that this is of course my own fault, as I did neglect the PTU. Nobody gets away with this, and I am no...

Hi Grumpy! All true, and as the "smoke clears", it seems more like this is the proper path for me. If I replace it, at worst it will be about a $350/one day mistake (PTU's are luckily far less expensive than the diff units). If I don't, then...

Hi all, and thank you for approving my registration to your forums. I have a perplexing (to me) issue, and thought this would be a great forum to ask about it. One reason is because of Nodge68, and the excellent post, with pictures, about...