Arkansas Disco Revival

New To the Land Rover world, never even ridden in one til the day a 1998 Woodcote Green 4.0 LSE called “That SOB” by my buddy and lawyer gave me, and after some fuel, air and master cylinder. It came out of the blue I merely asked him what’s that in your garage. I’m fairly handy I suppose, I was in the midst of leaving a job i have had for 15 +/- years transitioning to an office job. Previous line of work had me welding, maintenance, building homes, bars and restaurants so not much having to do with mechanic work but cars have always been something I loved but my dream ride was never a 4x4. A month after I got the “green one” I saw “a black one” 1998 Beluga Black D1 flats window down with trash bag taped over it so after a week I saw paper taped to the window from the city saying move it or we will and bill you, so I moved the window (trash bag) and reached In to grab a paper that had an address on it around the corner so I went and knocked. The young man answered the door with the lock chain still attached, I asked if he owned the black Land Rover to which he immediately said “YES I wish someone would haul the SOB off” so more fuel, air no master cylinder but it started ok and ran ok but I had it towed.
This thread will be entertaining for myself and a log book of the things I have done to keep “the green one” going by many hours and so much money it’s gross. Parts from “the black one”, NAPA, autozone, RovahFarm, and some dead D1’s and D2’s laying dead at the mechanics, who I met calling around looking for someone to fix the green one when the master cylinder wasn’t the one thing wrong of course. The first few posts will be from a book I have kept of the things done and materials used over the last 4 months except I am starting a complete undercarriage bushing, tie rod, ball joint undertaking Saturday morning. I am makin a shop press tonight and tomorrow night til Santa (Trevor at RovahFarm) Deliver the presents tomorrow evening. Sorry if it sucks and sorry if I do something I shouldn’t, I do care about this vehicle or I wouldn’t have sold my new 3/4 ton 4 door 4 wheel drive truck. Not sure who I’m talking to, nobody will read all this crap about a red neck fixing up a Land Rover. I’ll try to learn how to load up pictures.

Hi..I have read it... Best of luck with your project.
Regards

I read it too

I read it twice

Can’t wait to see pics, of the homemade tools too.
Keeping a book of parts and work is always great, but try not look at the cost cos 1 day you will be tempted to add it up and then .

Enjoy your project

J

Hello and welcome,
As above, try not to track the costs

Well, I read your post too @RBS Disco .... and I've watched the thread too

Three D1's here - two on the road, and one for bits

We NEED some piccies - easy to upload them to the forum server in the reply to thread box - no need for any third party hosting

I live in Colorado so I can relate to the need to source parts for old cars with the green oval badge. I have 3 RRCs, one for parts.

When I need new parts, I buy from Atlantic British and Rovers North.

And I'm a redneck too.

I'm having a good chuckle

This is what it's all about Lolz

Not sure why but there are zero LR’s in the pick and pull guess they figure no one here knows what they are or can afford to keep them on the road. This things breaks just enough parts for me spend exactly 100% of my time on it but never enough for me to leave the keys in it running (hopefully) in the bad part of town. Did I mention the one I drive had 75k on it when I got it, I can imagine trying to keep one that has rice that I’m the road god bless you all divorced and broke folks. I’m about there myself with “the green one”. Pray for me tonight starts the bushing replacement or the insurance claim.

Another watcher here. Good luck with it. Steve.

Well days 1 1/2 went by in about 10 seconds, up til 3 Friday night welding up the bearing press (it’s better than nothing but not as good as my buddies 20 ton shop press) I got tired of building the tool and started in on the bushings and other little things. I thought that since my Lawyers wife was the only other person to own this vehicle it certainly didn’t go off road so bolts should be good with little rust. Hahaha does LR hahahah sorry every single bolt was rusted and only half broke off which I actually am happy with. I know on someone’s post somewhere someone a lot smarter than I said “make sure you replace all the hardware” well I would have if I didn’t want to replace all the bushing it’s an either or deal when you have a certain amount of money. Luckily I have “the black one” throwing up parts for me on call (except they are a rusty too, Damn the luck). After the bearings I plan on replacing the blower motor (anyone else’s rattle the whole dash)? Is it question mark before or after the )? Damn there it is again someone help me. Rear wiper arm
(mine skips on the way back to be starting point) I saw someone’s answer to that question “it just does that live with it” I’m thinking we all spend so much creaking time and moola fixing these and I’m going to stop at the 9$ item that lets me see when a cop gets behind me?! No Sir. Well I apologize for not doing a better job with pictures and real time stuff, every time my wife comes outside to me on the phone I get the “does that phone help you get that thing out of the garage?” Ugh there is is again, surely there is someone with an 8 th grade education to clear this up for me. I’m gonna try to upload a few pics. Again sorry if this sucks and you wasted your time but what did you expect with a title like that. Thank you all for looking at this it really made me get up early to get started, I didn’t want to let anyone down. Ok ok I’ll get back to work. Sh** where’s the dog?

RBS Disco said:

bolts should be good with little rust

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I feel for you - been there and done it ..... several times

LR corrosion, er, "prevention" is better termed Corrosion Promotion IMHO

Most jobs I do now have to include new fasteners - and destroy the old ones any which way to get the job moving

Watch your knuckles though - but I'm guessing you know this

Disco1BFG said:

I feel for you - been there and done it ..... several times

LR corrosion, er, "prevention" is better termed Corrosion Promotion IMHO

Most jobs I do now have to include new fasteners - and destroy the old ones any which way to get the job moving

Watch your knuckles though - but I'm guessing you know this

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Yep. Sawsall and grinder are essential kit.

I read it too. Best of luck.

All rednecks here. Yee-hah!

Ok I found the dog. So I am going to start in with wha I have done so far so there might not be much fun stuff but I need to get this information down before the napkin I wrote it on for cleaning off the dipstick. Not sure how others do this but I’m gonna have the date, what I did and the materials used. This will be the hard part (Marksman) I have to look at the receipts, I can hardly type that word. Money spent it’s gone, I would have spent it on something huh might as well be a decent running and looking 20 year old British 4x4.

Good luck. Hope the wife sticks it out.

They can be quite tricky conversations when you say to your wife that you want to spend a couple of hundred quid on paint. She gets all excited because she thinks you're getting round to that decorating you promised to do two years ago and then you break it to her that it's for the Land Rover.

That sounds exactly like something that would happen around here. It’s 7 am and she has asked two times “are you coming home like inside the house tonight or spending it in the garage with your girlfriend?” All I could say was “how do you know it’s a she?” On the way home I did notice the steering was way loose I could turn from 9 o’clock to 3 o’clock and stay on my lane, so after work under the rover and found that the Panhard Rod was not tightened down at all. Also the PO must have installed it with the Radius Arms off because the bolts could not come out from hittting them. So they got air sawed quick and I used smaller bolts so there was plenty of movement. Quick question, are the mounts on the suspension supposed to be tightened down all the way to where they are smashed against the metal inside the bushing? I can’t believe they would be torqued to the right number but the were when I removed them all and have to bend them all back out the get new bushings in. All while 8 degrees out. I’m going to try to swap blower motors after work don’t tell the wife.

RBS Disco said:

Quick question, are the mounts on the suspension supposed to be tightened down all the way to where they are smashed against the metal inside the bushing?

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Yep. Not sure "smashed" is the word I'd use , but from the inference, still yes - torque settings are in RAVE

How cold is it there? are your nuts frozen yet?